Charms

"Charm" redirects here. For other uses, see Charm (disambiguation).

Charms are items used mainly in the Summoning skill as a requirement to create Summoning pouches. They are obtained primarily as drops from any of hundreds of different monsters. Charms are usually dropped independently from the monster drop list. Most of the time, they are dropped one at a time, making them slow to collect; however, some stronger monsters can drop multiple charms at once.

Other methods of obtaining charms include stealing them from chests in Dorgesh-Kaan (at Thieving level 52), looting them from a spirit impling (at Hunter level 54), receiving them as a reward from fire spirits whilst burning logs on a bonfire, getting them from charm sprites, or buying them from Soul Wars using zeal points.

Charms cannot be traded between players, either directly or through the Grand Exchange, but it is possible to sell charms to the Smuggler inside Daemonheim.

Types

There are several different charm types:

Primary Summoning charms

There are five types of primary Summoning charms used in the creation of Summoning pouches, all of which are stackable, and none of which are tradeable with other players. In general, gold, green, crimson, and blue charms are the most commonly-used when training the skill, as elder charms are used in the creation of specialized pouches and familiars.

The 4 Major Primary Charms:

• Gold charm - Level 1 (Most common)
• Green charm - Level 18
• Crimson charm - Level 19
• Blue charm - Level 19 (Least common)

The Specialized Primary Charm:

• Elder charm - Level 81 (Specialized)

Tertiary Summoning charms

Tertiary Summoning charms are not stackable, and are used as the tertiary ingredient in the creation of several Summoning pouches. Like ordinary charms, they are not tradeable with other players.

• Abyssal charm
• Obsidian charm
• Talon beast charm

Void Knight charms:

• Ravager charm
• Shifter charm
• Spinner charm
• Torcher charm

Quest charms

Quest charms are quest items, used only in their respective quests (quest listed in parentheses).

• Amlodd charm (Plague's End)
• Dragonkin protection charm (Hero's Welcome)
• Rare summoning items (Wolf Whistle)

Miscellaneous charms

With the exception of charm slices, the following charms are unrelated to Summoning:

Summoning

• Charm slice - Obtained from charm sprites, five charm slices may be combined to form a regular Summoning charm.

Slayer

• Spirit dragon charm

Goebie burial charms

Special monster drops that may be buried in the Graveyard on Mazcab for Reputation among the Goebie people.

• Small goebie burial charm
• Goebie burial charm
• Large goebie burial charm

Obtaining charms

Main article: Summoning training/Obtaining charms (P2P)

This section is designed to aid in deciding what to attack while trying to obtain as many charms as possible. The sections are divided not based on combat, but the average of the level of the skill the player is using: their Constitution, their Defence, and their Prayer on the higher numbers. It is highly recommended if you will be farming for charms to use a Charming potion to increase the amount of charms received by 1 per drop.

Image	Charm	3-29	30-49	50-69	70-100	100+
	Gold	Goblin, Bear, Guard, Giant bat, Crawling hand (level 5 Slayer), Adolescent White wolf, Dwarves, Young grotworm	Moss giant, Deadly red spider, Jogre	Fire giant, Werewolf, Ice warrior	Fire giant, Hellhound, Ice warrior, Ice giant	Giant rock crab, Hellhound
	Green	Abyssal leech, Cows, Scorpions, Dwarves	Moss giant	Ice giant	Bloodveld, Basilisk, Green dragon, Turoth, Cave bug (level 96)	Blue dragon, Iron dragon, Red dragon, Black dragon, Bork*
	Crimson	Icefiend, Barbarian	Moss giant, Ice giant	Dust devil, Earth warrior, Shadow warrior	Greater demon, Cockroach soldier	Rock lobster, Black demon, Waterfiend, Bork*
	Blue	Dorgesh-Kaan chests (level 52 Thieving required)	Dorgesh-Kaan chests (level 52 Thieving required), Zombie	Dorgesh-Kaan chests (level 52 Thieving required), Kalphite Worker, Ice giant	Aberrant spectres, Kalphite soldiers, Fire giants, Chaos dwarf hand cannoneers	Bork*, Tormented demons, Tormented wraith, Glacors
	Elder	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Force muspah, Bladed muspah, Throwing muspah

* Bork will always drop at least 5 blue charms, 2 green charms and 7 crimson charms, and can only be fought once within a 24-hour period. This requires the completion of What Lies Below and The Hunt for Surok. Upon completion of the Hard Varrock tasks his charm drops will be doubled.

Drop quantities

Gold, green, crimson and blue charms

275 gold charms are part of the reward for the Wolf Whistle quest.

With a few exceptions, monsters will only drop one charm at a time.

Single charm droppers

Aberrant spectres	Barbarians	Basilisks	Black Knights	Bloodveld	Bloodworms	Blue dragons
Brine rats	Bronze dragons	Chaos dwarves	Cockatrice	Cows	Deadly red spiders	Earth warriors
Fire giants	Flesh Crawler	Gargoyles	Giant crypt rats	Goblins	Greater demons	Green dragons
Guards	Hellhounds	Hill giants	Infernal Magi	Icefiends	Ice giants	Ice warriors
Jellies	Jogres	Kalphites	Kurasks	Moss giants	Nechryael	Ogres
Red dragons	Rock crabs	Scorpions	Shadow warriors	Suqah	Turoths	Wall beasts
Wallasalkis	Wild dogs	Wolves	Werewolves	Zamorak mages	Zamorak warriors

Multiple charm droppers

Note that all of the monsters which drop multiple charms (excluding Bork; see the following section) drop the same amount of each charm.

Bork

Bork and his Ork legions are the only monsters with a 100% drop rate of charms. Bork will always drop 2 Green, 7 Crimson, and 5 Blue charms. Wearing a ring of Wealth adds 3 crimson and 1 green to the base total, and completing all of the Varrock Tasks leads to the base charm drop being doubled. However he can be fought only once a day. The legions will each drop one Gold, Green, or Crimson charm.

Bork drop quantity

Icon	Name	Default
	Blue charm	5	5	10	10	20
	Crimson charm	7	10	14	17	23
	Green charm	2	3	4	5	11

Other charms

Image	Charm	Obtained From	Location	Amount
	Abyssal charm	Abyssal leeches, abyssal guardians and abyssal walkers	Abyssal Area (fairy ring code ALR), Abyss	Abyssal walkers drop 2, Abyssal leeches and guardians drop 1
	Obsidian charm	TzHaar-Hur, TzHaar-Mej, TzHaar-Xil and TzHaar-Ket	TzHaar city	TzHaar-Ket and TzHaar-Xil drop 2, TzHaar-Hur and TzHaar-Mej drop 1
	Talon beast charm	Nail beast	Temple Trekking	100% drops 1
	Ravager charm	Void Knights	Void Knights' Outpost	2 Pest Control points each, and can be purchased in amounts of 1, 14, or 28 (costing 2, 28, and 56 points respectively).
	Shifter charm	Void Knights	Void Knights' Outpost	2 Pest Control points each, and can be purchased in amounts of 1, 14, or 28 (costing 2, 28, and 56 points respectively).
	Spinner charm	Void Knights	Void Knights' Outpost	2 Pest Control points each, and can be purchased in amounts of 1, 14, or 28 (costing 2, 28, and 56 points respectively).
	Torcher charm	Void Knights	Void Knights' Outpost	2 Pest Control points each, and can be purchased in amounts of 1, 14, or 28 (costing 2, 28, and 56 points respectively).
	Charm slice	Charm sprite	South-west of Tree Gnome Stronghold	Dependent on which charm and NPC
	Spirit dragon charm	All monsters found on Aminishi	Aminishi	Always 1 from any of the monsters
	Burial charms	Beastmaster Durzag and Yakamaru	Liberation of Mazcab	Always 1 from either monster

Drop rates

The table below shows the approximate drop chance of a charm from a large selection of monsters. For example: a monster with a 50% blue charm drop rate will, on average, yield blue charms every other kill. This list is by no means inclusive of all charm droppers.

Information rarely reflects the information gathered by one person killing a particular monster type, but instead combines averages of two or more players each killing 50 or more and then extrapolating based on those numbers.

Note that the sum of all the drop chances for one monster can be less than 100% because a charm is not always dropped. The only monster to have a 100% drop rate on charms is Bork.

Monster	Kills logged	Gold	Green	Crimson	Blue	Charms per monster
Aberrant spectre	647890	12%	6%	4%	5%	1
Abyssal demon	241502	9%	4%	33%	1%	1
Abyssal guardian	42299	4%	12%	3%	0.5–0.7%	1
Abyssal leech	27211	0.6–0.8%	3%	0.2–0.3%	0–0.1%	1
Abyssal walker	131690	5%	18%	3%	0.5–0.6%	1
Animated spade	4955	7–8%	4–5%	1–2%	0.8–1.3%	1
Ankou	37112	23–24%	2%	2%	0.3–0.5%	1
Aquanite	39037	10%	5%	5%	6–7%	1
Armoured zombie	39194	7–8%	4%	3%	3%	1
Baby black dragon	5990	9–10%	21–23%	10–12%	2%	1
Banshee	83610	2–3%	7%	1%	0.3–0.4%	1
Barbarian	1875	4–5%	0.8–1.7%	0.1–0.5%	0.1–0.5%	1
Basilisk	121660	7%	19–20%	5%	1%	1
Bat	5199	15–17%	1–2%	0.3–0.7%	0.5–0.8%	1
Black Guard	734	4–6%	8–11%	1–3%	9–13%	1
Black Knight	16186	3%	1%	0.6–0.8%	0.6–0.8%	1
Black Knight Titan	8080	12–13%	16–17%	18–19%	14–16%	1
Black bear	1131	15–18%	0.2–0.9%	0.3–1%	0.2–0.8%	1
Black demon	210317	21%	11%	44%	2%	1
Black dragon	30118	8–9%	26–27%	7%	1%	3
Black unicorn	4364	4–6%	9–10%	0.4–0.8%	0.2–0.5%	1
Bloodveld	277137	9%	31%	5%	1%	1
Bloodworm	2005	4–5%	12–14%	2–3%	0.5–1.1%	1
Blue dragon	100670	11%	27%	11%	2%	1
Brine rat	31271	22–23%	2%	1–2%	0.4–0.5%	1
Bronze dragon	5263	13–14%	30–32%	12–13%	3–4%	1
Brutal green dragon	643	13–17%	10–15%	6–10%	0.8–2.4%	2
Catablepon	6267	18–20%	1–2%	2–3%	0.2–0.5%	1
Cave bug	2354	6–7%	35–38%	3–4%	0.6–1.2%	1
Cave goblin	3756	6–7%	2–3%	2–3%	0.9–1.5%	1
Cave horror	48435	4–5%	2%	14%	0.5–0.6%	1
Chaos dwarf	3718	9–10%	4–5%	2–3%	2–3%	1
Chaos dwarf hand cannoneer	5122	27–29%	10–12%	6–7%	3–4%	1
Chaos dwogre	19880	30–31%	1–2%	2%	0.7–0.9%	1
Cockatrice	61854	2%	7–8%	1%	0.2–0.3%	1
Cockroach drone	2834	1–2%	0.7–1.3%	3–5%	0.2–0.6%	1
Cockroach soldier	39015	8%	6%	26–27%	1%	1
Cockroach worker	6764	6–7%	3–4%	16–18%	0.9–1.3%	1
Corporeal Beast	4699	21–23%	11–13%	21–23%	39–42%	13
Cow	69963	0.8–0.9%	4%	0.2–0.3%	0–0.1%	1
Cow calf	620	2–4%	2–4%	0.5–1.9%	0.2–1.2%	1
Crawling hand	65045	9–10%	0.6–0.7%	0.6–0.7%	0.1–0.2%	1
Dagannoth (Waterbirth Island)	154329	13%	6%	25%	0.8–0.9%	1
Dagannoth (Lighthouse)	69214	29–30%	5%	5%	0.9–1%	1
Dagannoth (Chaos Tunnels)	14406	12–13%	5–6%	17–18%	0.9–1.2%	1
Dark beast	147293	9%	4%	8%	14%	1
Deadly red spider	15453	24–26%	0.8–1.1%	1–2%	0.1–0.2%	1
Dust devil	280209	12%	6%	26%	0.9–1%	1
Earth warrior	39505	9%	4–5%	11%	0.6–0.7%	1
Exiled kalphite guardian	52550	9%	9%	22–23%	25–26%	1
Exiled kalphite marauder	18526	10%	10–11%	24–25%	27–28%	1
Exiled kalphite paragon	1000	8–12%	9–12%	23–27%	10–14%	1
Exiled kalphite soldier	902	8–11%	5–8%	22–27%	8–12%	1
Fire giant	311577	55–56%	7%	5%	1–2%	1
Flesh Crawler	36022	4%	6%	0.7–0.8%	0.2–0.3%	1
Gargoyle	213424	9–10%	5%	5%	7%	1
Giant Rock Crab	6372	78–80%	9–10%	6–7%	2%	3
Gladius	14417	2–3%	6–7%	75–76%	4–5%	1
Greater demon	208220	7%	4%	26%	0.9–1%	1
Green dragon	19077	8–9%	16–17%	7–8%	1–2%	1
Harpie Bug Swarm	69471	2%	6%	0.5%	0.2%	1
Hellhound	398262	69%	5%	5%	1%	1
Hill giant	85573	14–15%	0.9–1%	1%	0.1–0.2%	1
Ice giant	18175	44–45%	4%	4–5%	0.6–0.8%	1
Ice warrior	26908	41–42%	1–2%	2–3%	0.4–0.5%	1
Infernal Mage	61789	33%	3%	2–3%	0.6–0.7%	1
Iron dragon	42794	12–13%	32–33%	13%	3%	2
Jelly	86107	7–8%	22%	3–4%	0.9–1%	1
Jungle horror	18745	3–4%	12–13%	2%	0.4–0.5%	1
Kalphite Soldier	8245	8%	5–6%	6–7%	6–7%	1
Mithril dragon	11868	19–20%	48–50%	19–20%	3–4%	4
Moss giant (40)	11245	32–33%	3%	2–3%	0.4–0.7%	1
Moss giant (72)	4069	34–36%	2–3%	2–3%	0.4–0.7%	1
Moss giant (84)	4414	14–16%	6–7%	3–4%	2–3%	1
Nechryael	100320	9%	4%	30–31%	1–1.1%	1
Ogre	10772	13–14%	2%	1–2%	0.3–0.5%	1
Rock lobster	3831	15–17%	8–10%	23–25%	3–4%	2
Steel dragon	39858	14%	35–36%	14–15%	3%	3
Shadow warrior	39236	10–11%	5–6%	13%	0.5–0.7%	1
Tormented demon	12970	20–21%	10–11%	20–21%	36–37%	3
Turoth	182775	7%	22%	5%	1%	1
Wallasalki	15747	15–16%	7–8%	8–9%	11–12%	1
Waterfiend	113480	9–10%	5%	79%	2%	1
Werewolf	24895	44–45%	4%	4%	1–1.2%	1
White wolf	1351	9–11%	3–5%	11–14%	0.2–0.8%	1
Wolf (level 25)	502	2–5%	1–3%	4–8%	0–0.9%	1
Wolf (level 60)	1031	30–34%	2–4%	3–4%	0.2–0.9%	1

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 14 October 2019 (Update):
  • Exchanging more than 69 zeal on any xp with trader Zanik, now works correctly with the player being informed "you may only spend another 69 zeal on XP or charms rewards in Ironman mode" and no zeal being deducted.

• patch 10 August 2010 (Update):
  • Charms have had their config cost reduced to prevent them being kept over other more useful items.