The Ring of Wealth, Jagexly Explained

[Dima]

Long ago they promised an article about it, and here it is. I don't know how long it's been there, since I didn't check it regularly, but there it is:

The Ring of Wealth

The ring of wealth's magical power can sometimes have an effect on the drops that you receive from defeated NPCs. To understand how it works, we first need to define some terms.

* 100% drop - Most creatures have what is called a '100% drop' which they will drop every time they are defeated (e.g. bones or ashes).
* Main drop - This will be an item drawn from an NPC's 'drop table' based upon a random 'roll' (imagine a dice roll or roulette wheel).
* Drop table - This is a list of all items that an NPC could possibly drop. The percentage chance of receiving each item varies depending upon the item's relative value.
* Secondary drop - Some creatures also have a secondary drop. So far, this only consists of charms used in Summoning.
* Quest drops - in some instances, an NPC will drop a quest-specific item (e.g. the unique bones required for the Rag and Bone Man or Fur 'n' Seek quests).


On most NPCs' drop tables, there is a small chance that instead of receiving an item from its own drop table, you will instead get a roll again on the 'rare drop table'. The rare drop table contains some of the more exclusive items in the game, including, but not limited to, dragon items, certain rune items, shield halves, key parts and uncut gems. The rare table also contains 'empty slots' - the end result of landing on these empty slots is often referred to as receiving 'no drop' or 'bone drop'. We keep these slots empty for any future drops that we want to add to this table.

The rare drop table is shared between a variety of NPCs - e.g. goblins, fire giants, most Slayer creatures. A good way to tell is that if an NPC is known to drop a half key, then it will drop other items from the rare drop table. There are, however, certain very rare drops that are not on the rare drop table, because they are specific to certain NPCs or NPC types (e.g. the draconic visage is only ever dropped by dragons; godsword pieces only by the God Wars Dungeon bosses) and it would not make sense for these items to be dropped by, say, a fire giant.

The ring of wealth comes into play whenever you are rolling on the rare drop table, its ability effectively removing most of the empty slots, drastically increasing your chances of receiving an item from the rare drop table. The actual percentage increase differs between NPCs. Adventurers who make regular use of a ring of wealth should find that they receive fewer 'no drops' than adventurers who do not, and, therefore, receive more rare drops and, in the long run, gain more wealth.

Taken from this page: http://www.runescape.com/kbase/guid/mag ... mbat_magic

[slashdojo]

Always wondered just what the ROW did, explaination helped-thx for the info.

[Dave]

So if I'm reading this right a ROW will increase the chance of a dmed from fire giants or black demons, but won't have any effect on items such as the god hilts, visage, whips, dboots, etc? If thats the case my ROW will be used alot less.

[Ewsentinel]

There are, however, certain very rare drops that are not on the rare drop table, because they are specific to certain NPCs or NPC types (e.g. the draconic visage is only ever dropped by dragons; godsword pieces only by the God Wars Dungeon bosses) and it would not make sense for these items to be dropped by, say, a fire giant.

They talk about NPC specific drops like visage and GWD sword pieces not being on the shared rare drop table, but they don't address how they are handled or whether or not the ROW affects them. Their explination leaves more questions than answers in relation to NPC specific rare drops.

[Dima]

Ewsentinel 'bout summed it up. Took them half a year to think about it, and that what they came up with.

[PhelimReagh]

The Ring of Wealth
* Main drop - This will be an item drawn from an NPC's 'drop table' based upon a random 'roll' (imagine a dice roll or roulette wheel).
* Drop table - This is a list of all items that an NPC could possibly drop. The percentage chance of receiving each item varies depending upon the item's relative value.

On most NPCs' drop tables, there is a small chance that instead of receiving an item from its own drop table, you will instead get a roll again on the 'rare drop table'...

There are, however, certain very rare drops that are not on the rare drop table, because they are specific to certain NPCs or NPC types (e.g. the draconic visage is only ever dropped by dragons; godsword pieces only by the God Wars Dungeon bosses) ...

The ring of wealth comes into play whenever you are rolling on the rare drop table...

Although they probably could have worded it far better, it would appear that NPC-specific drops are found on a very narrow sliver of the NPC's 'drop table', and not the 'rare drop table'.

As such, a RoW does nothing for things like Abyssal Whips, Dark Bows, Draconic Visages, Godsword Hilts, etc., although it does increase the chances of getting better 'rare loot' if / when you land on the 'rare loot' slot. Like you won't have better chance of getting a Dark Bow with a RoW, but you will get more Rune/Dragon drops from Dark Beasts if you do wear a Ring of Wealth.

[TrixStar]

basically confirmed what we already knew, ROW is junk

[PhelimReagh]

basically confirmed what we already knew, ROW is junk

In all fairness, the RoW is a rather old item, released long before these days of uber-drops.

Still, though, over the long-term wearing it gets you more "wealth". Maybe 100K every few Slayer tasks. Again, in the long term that could translate into quite a bit of coin.

[Dima]

basically confirmed what we already knew, ROW is junk

Combat rings add as little either, mind. What's another damage point out of 40, or puny 4 attack points when you already have over a 100?

[Mjoltiny]

Slayer ring ftw
I used to *always* wear the ROW, but I've long since stopped the practice as I've found that I seem to hit the rare NPC specific drops more often (black mask etc).
This is pretty subjective and the statistics are questionable at best so I stopped worrying about it as well.

[axie]

I'm a forever ROL person, even while RC'ing (:
I dc'ed at ZMI today, ROL tele'd me out with 7 hp lol saved my pouches!
I love my ROL <3

[curanir]

as I understand it, you should always still wear ROW (except when in kuradels dungeon). It won't change the probability of getting say a whip, because if you are on the second drop table where the row kicks in (as that is on the first drop table), you have already lost the chance of getting a whip drop, so you might as well wear it to improve the chances of getting something better on the second drop table. So, I dont think that it is junk at all, and definitely worth wearing long term.

[Darth Kaz2]

I agree with Curinair...Wear the Wealth when killing, except in Kuradel's dungeon.