Broomstick

Not to be confused with Broom Staff or Broom.

Broomstick
Release																				28 October 2008 (Update)
Members																				No
Quest item																				Swept Away
Properties
Tradeable																				No
Equipable																				Yes
Stackable																				No
Disassembly																				Yes
Destroy																				You can obtain another by talking to Maggie the witch.
Actions
Backpack																				Sweep, Wield, Teleport, Destroy
Equipped																				Sweep, Sorceress's Garden
Values
Value																				25 coins
High alch																				15 coins
Low alch																				10 coins
On death																				Always kept outside dangerous area
Weight																				1.814 kg
Examine
A threat to dusty corners everywhere.
Advanced data
Item ID																				14057
Links																				MRID • recipe

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A player flying with a Broomstick

A player sweeping with a broomstick

The broomstick is an item rewarded by Maggie after the completion of Swept Away. During the quest, she asks players to enchant it by bringing it to three witches: Hetty in Rimmington, Aggie in Draynor Village, and Betty in Port Sarim. Note that Hetty does not enchant the broom, but provides broom ointment so that players can enchant it themselves. If destroyed, it can be reclaimed by talking to Maggie west of Draynor's lodestone.

After completing Swept Away, the broom can be presented to a number of other prominent witches across Gielinor for a new teleport option to the Sorceress's Garden and one-time Magic experience rewards. Presenting the broomstick to each witch is a requirement for the Advanced Sweeping achievement, trimmed completionist cape, and master quest cape.

The broomstick can be wielded in the weapon slot. Its attack options are the same as if a player was unarmed. In addition, the broomstick may be used in a "sweep" emote. To do this, there is a left-click option on the broom called "Sweep".

Combat stats

Requirements
None
Class			Slot
Melee
Tier
1
		Auto		Ability
Damage		74.5		48
Accuracy		110
Style		Crush
Range		1
Speed		Average (3.6s)
Attributes						Damage reduction
Armour				0.0		PvM: 0%			PvP: 0%
Life points				0		Style bonuses
Prayer				0		0.0		0.0		0.0
FAQ • docs

Flight to the Sorceress's Garden

Players who have completed the Diamond in the Rough quest can upgrade the broomstick. Players must talk to Maggie about further broom enchantment, and Osman (Ali Mirza after Our Man in the North) about the Sorceress and sq'irks, before taking it to the Sorceress's Apprentice in south-east Al Kharid. After this, they may use the broomstick to fly to the Sorceress's Garden with a right-click option. Like most teleports, it does not work past level 20 Wilderness. The broomstick does not have charges or a daily use limit, so players can use it as a fast and free way to reach Al Kharid by flying to the Sorceress's Garden and then clicking on the fountain there to exit.

Followers cannot be taken on a broomstick flight.

Trying to teleport to the Sorceress's Garden in free-to-play worlds gives a message of "You need to be on a members' world to use this item." instead.

You can teleport to the garden without wielding the broomstick, by right-clicking on your broomstick in your inventory and clicking "teleport".

Bonus Magic experience

With the indicated minimum Magic level, talking to Maysa the Hag in Pollnivneach, the Old Crone near the Slayer Tower, Baba Yaga on Lunar Isle, and Kardia in the Underground Pass will give a one-time Magic experience bonus when the broomstick is wielded. To get into Kardia's house, you will need to pick-up her cat located to the north of her house and use it on the door. Once she is distracted, open the door and use the broom on her. Check the quest section for more detailed instructions.

NPC	Magic level	Reward
Sorceress' Apprentice in Al Kharid	1+	Ability to operate the broom to teleport to the Sorceress's Garden.
Maysa the Hag in Pollnivneach	33+	1,997 Magic experience
The Old Crone east of the Slayer Tower	53+	7,139 Magic experience
Baba Yaga on Lunar Isle	73+	10,338 Magic experience
Kardia in the Underground Pass	93+	14,979 Magic experience

It is possible to use a Magic level boost to get the Magic experience from each person. The God Emissary banner boost does not count as a boost for this content.

The ring of slaying can teleport very close to Maysa the Hag via the Sumona teleport, very close to the Old Crone via the Slayer Tower teleport, and somewhat close to Baba Yaga via the Slayer Caves teleport (alternatively, use the Lunar Isles lodestone).

Disassembly

Broomstick
Disassembly category	Maces
Disassembly XP	0.3
Item quantity required	1
Material count	8
Base junk chance	?  98.9% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 98.9% 1 34 98.0 2 49 96.0 3 64 94.0 4 69 92.0 5 78 90.0 6 83 87.1 7 91 85.1 8 95 82.1 9 105 79.2
Common materials
Base parts	35/100
Head parts	30/100
Smooth parts	30/100
Rare materials
Heavy components	3/100
Dextrous components	2/100

Achievements

• Advanced Sweeping ( 15) – Fully enchant your broomstick after the 'Swept Away' quest.

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included—see here for how to help out!

• patch 19 November 2013 (Update):
  • Sweeping using a broomstick can now be done whilst walking.

• patch 7 February 2012 (Update):
  • A "Sweep" option has been added to the Broomstick when wielded.

• patch 9 November 2010 (Update):
  • Players can now teleport using the broomstick without equipping it first.

• patch 26 October 2009 (Update):
  • Prevented the use of the Swept Away broom in certain places.

• patch 26 November 2008 (Update):
  • Wendy will send free players who started Swept Away but misplaced their broomstick to Maggie, who will replace it.

• update 28 October 2008 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Players were able to take boxing gloves and other POH combat items out of their house by operating the broomstick with the boxing gloves in their inventory, flying them out of the house and to the Sorceress's Garden minigame, with the items still in their inventories. Also, pugels were non-equippable using this method, but if a player were to look at their combat item bonuses, they could "Wear" the pugel, but to no avail.
• After the 2008 Halloween event was over, the Swept Away quest was made members only and non-member players were unable to retrieve their broomstick if they lost it. However, this was fixed on 26 November 2008 by allowing Wendy to teleport players to Maggie in the magical area visited during the quest.
• It was a very close second in the guaranteed content poll (started on 18 June 2007) for the 2007 Halloween event. The winning choice at that time was the grim reaper hood with 85,619 votes, but "a broom that can sweep or be hovered on" had 85,354 votes. The broomstick was subsequently made the following year, with no similar poll in the interim.
• When using the broomstick with a keepsake key, it will not be consumed or stored in the keepsake box and will instead remain in player's inventory. A replica will be created and placed in the keepsake box instead and attempting to reclaim it will destroy the replica version and consume the key as normal.