Luck

For the Invention perk, see Lucky.

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Luck is a mechanic that determines the chance for receiving certain rare or special drops and rewards from various sources. Luck was significantly reworked on 27 March 2017 (update) to categorize affected drops and rewards into 4 tiers of luck, each corresponding to one or more luck enhancing items.

Luck enhancers

The following items will increase the chances of receiving drops and rewards affected by luck. While enhancers for tiers 1–3 only affect the rewards specific to their tier, a tier-4 luck enhancer will increase chances for rewards in all 4 tiers.

Tier	Items
1	Ring of luck, strung rabbit foot
2	Ring of wealth, collector's insignia, leprechaun hat, luck potion
3	Ring of fortune, charged collector's insignia, enhanced luck potion
4	Luck of the dwarves

Drops and rewards affected by luck

The luck mechanic affects various rewards, including drops from slayer monsters and bosses, rewards from certain skilling activities, and clue scroll rewards. Using luck enhancers increases the chance to receive these rewards, as outlined below.

Slayer monsters

Increased chance of unique drops such as dark bows and abyssal whips, as well as parts of the crystal key and crystal triskelion key. However pets, sirenic scales, Ascension keystones and signets, and Champion's scrolls are not affected by luck.

Tier	Monsters
1	Level 1–50 Slayer monsters: Crawling hand, Banshee, Rock slug, Cockatrice, Basilisk, Infernal mage, Desert lizard
2	Level 51–80 Slayer monsters: Turoth, Aberrant spectre, Dust devil, Kurask, Gargoyle, Nechryael, Cave horror, Muspah, Nihil, Aquanite, Jungle strykewyrm, Desert strykewyrm
3	Level 80–99 Slayer monsters: Abyssal demon, Mutated jadinko, Ascension creature, Ganodermic beast, Spiritual mage, Airut, Lava strykewyrm, Camel warrior, Mammoths, Ripper demon, Living wyvern, Edimmu, Dark beast, Ice strykewyrm, Chaos giant, Tormented demon, Glacor, Nightmare creature
4	All of the above

Bosses

Increased chance to receive a unique drop, such as an Armadyl chestplate or clingy mole. The chances to receive boss pets are not affected by luck.

Tier	Bosses
1	Giant Mole and King Black Dragon
2	Barrows, Chaos Elemental, Commander Zilyana, Dagannoth Kings, exiled Kalphite Queen, General Graardor, K'ril Tsutsaroth, Kalphite Queen, and Kree'arra
3	Abomination, Corporeal Beast, Gregorovic, Helwyr, Kalphite King, Nex, Queen Black Dragon, Twin Furies, Vindicta, and WildyWyrm
4	All of the above plus Araxxi, Barrows: Rise of the Six, Beastmaster Durzag, Nex: Angel of Death, Telos, the Warden, Vorago, and Yakamaru

Skilling activities

Certain skilling activities benefit from luck enhancers.

Tier	Increased chance of receiving
1	N/A
2	Gems while mining Jewelled golden/diamond statuettes and pharaoh's sceptres from Pyramid Plunder Rogue Outfit parts from the Flash Powder Factory Improved loot from opening shade chests
3	Black ibis outfit pieces and the Sceptre of the gods from Pyramid Plunder Seren's symbol pieces and other rare items from Prifddinas pickpocketing Improved loot from kingly implings
4	All of the above.

Clue scrolls

Luck enhancers provide a +1% chance for rarer clue-specific loot, such as god pages and third-age armour, on the corresponding tier of clue scroll. Each tier of luck gives a 1% increased drop bonus for their respective clue types from monsters.

Tier	Clue scroll levels
1	Easy clue scrolls
2	Medium clue scrolls
3	Hard clue scrolls
4	All clue scrolls, including elite

Rare drop table

Luck enhancers can affect chances to access the rare drop table, as well as improve loot obtained from the rare drop table.

Tier	Effect
1	Increased chance to access to the rare drop table
2	Increased chance to access the rare drop table and receive improved loot from it
3	Further increased chance to access to the rare drop table and receive improved loot from it
4	Still further increased chance to access the rare drop table and receive improved loot from it, and the ability to receive the vecna skull and Hazelmere's signet ring

Crystal chest and Triskelion Treasures

The crystal chest and Triskelion Treasures benefit from luck enhancers.

Tier	Effect
1	No effect.
2	1% increased chance to get rare drops
3	2% increased chance to get rare drops
4	3% increased chance to get rare drops

History

Prior to the luck rework of 27 March 2017, luck was only improved by the ring of wealth, Collector's insignia, leprechaun hat and luck potion, all of which:

• Slightly improved unique drops from some monsters (but not many bosses)
• Improved the rare drop table access chance and clue scroll drop chance
• Increased the chance of mining gems

All of these items’ effects were identical (charging the insignia doubled its effect) and did not stack.

The 2017 update added tiers to luck, and rings to fill those tiers with the existing ring of wealth being moved into tier 2.

References

• Mod Timbo. Game Jam 2017 - Luck Rework. Google Documents. 18 February 2017.*
• The Month Ahead - March. twitch.tv/runescape. 7 March 2017.*
• The RuneScape Game Jam!. twitch.tv/runescape. 19 February 2017.*
• Mod Shauny. [RS3] Luck Rework & Patch Notes teaser with Mod Shauny - 9PM UTC. twitch.tv/runescape. 24 March 2017.*