Ironman Mode/Strategies/Necromancy

Useful equipment for rituals

Item		Effect	Slot	Description	Requirements
	Alteration necklace	Improves alteration glyphs power by 20%		Increases the power of alteration glyphs by 20% multiplicatively during rituals (e.g. Multiply III's 60% ritual output increase becomes 72% instead). Increased soul attraction means more frequent and higher level disturbances, which in turn increases experience earned from rituals.	68 for the Lvl-5 Enchant spell, 77 to make a moonstone necklace, an ensouled bar, and a moonstone
	Underworld Grimoire	+3 to 12% XP from disturbances, +5 to 15% necroplasm from rituals		Increases experience gained from completing ritual disturbances by 3%, 6%, 9%, or 12% with the Underworld Grimoire 1, 2, 3, and 4, respectively. Additionally, the Underworld Grimoire 2 increases necroplasm obtained from rituals by 5%, the 3rd by 10%, and the 4th by 15%.	Underworld achievements
	Modified ritualist's mask	5% chance to not use up the ritual focus object upon ritual completion.		Saves resources when performing rituals. Can buy for the ritualist's mask and the ritualist mask add on for a total of 4000 ectoplasm. Not recommended to buy until you have access to an easy supply of ectoplasm.	68 , Ghost impling jar to access Austin's Place, and capturing 70 deathshead moths (only the add-on requires the moth catches)
	Necromancy cape	Provides the effect of an alteration glyph		Provides the effect of an alteration glyph during rituals. The glyph can be changed at will, but boosts cannot be used to select a glyph above the player's base level.	99

Training Outline

The following table summarizes the optimal experience methods for Necromancy. Undead are suggested for most tasks, because of various damage-boosting effects against them. At every 10th level, players should always complete Kili's task and craft the highest tier death guard and skull lantern that are available to them.

Level	Method	Notes
1-5	Complete the Necromancy! quest	Start next to Draynor lodestone
5-60	Rituals and Combat	Perform Lesser communion rituals until 50 souls. Perform 3 lesser necroplasm rituals for enough regular ink to make 14 lesser ensouled bars (for weapon upgrades up to level 50). Train via combat until level 20; afterwards, complete the Kili Row quest. Ensoul all 14 bars to prepare for future weapon upgrades. Continue training via combat until level 24 for the Rune Mythos quest. Afterwards, continue training via combat until level 60. Upgrade weapons every 10th level.
60-90	Rituals and Combat	Perform Lesser and greater necroplasm rituals to create a stock of regular and greater ink. Once you have regular and greater ink, necromancy potion/overload potion boost to level 66 necromancy in order to use the Multiply II glyph. Using multiple Multiply II glyphs, perform communion rituals until 4,500 souls. Afterwards, perform lesser ensoul and ensoul rituals until you have enough materials to upgrade to level 60 armour/weapons. Continue training via combat until level 65 for the The Spirit of War quest. Afterwards, continue training via combat until level 90. Upgrading your weapons every 10th level. Save the hermodic plates you obtain from Hermod, the Spirit of War and do not upgrade your armour past level 70 until you have reached at least level 90 Necromancy and can boost to 103.
90-120	Rituals and Combat	Perform necroplasm rituals to create a stock of regular, greater, and powerful ink. Once you have obtained the ink, necromancy potion/overload potion boost to level 103 necromancy in order to use the Multiply III glyph. Using multiple Multiply III glyphs, perform communion rituals until 35,000 souls. Perform greater ensoul rituals to convert your subjugation pieces into greater ensouled cloths while using multiple Multiply III glyphs, this will allow you to obtain 4 cloths for every 1 piece of subjugation armour (before level 99), and 5 cloths for every 1 piece (after level 99, using the Necromancy Cape perk as an additional Multiply glyph). Upgrade your armour to level 90 with your previously obtained hermodic plates. Continue training via Combat or Rituals. If performing Rituals, maintain at least 501% soul attraction on powerful rituals (no lower-tier rituals) for maximum XP

Material Acquisition

The following table will give suggestions on how to gain ritual components and combat resources.

Item	Method
Ashes	Ashes can be obtained through various means. The most popular method is either the abyss with the Underworld Grimoire equipped from the Underworld achievements or The Haunted Mine mushroom method. A great high level alternative is Chest (City of Um). This method will provide you with Bucket of slime and ashes as well as various other supplies, but requires 112 Thieving.
Bucket of slime	Buckets of slime can be obtained via the Ectofuntus, claiming daily buckets from the Morytania achievements, or by doing the aforementioned method of thieving from chests. Buckets of slime are required for high level rituals for creating Ectoplasm.
Ectoplasm	Obtaining Ectoplasm has been made relatively easier thanks to the inclusion of it as drops both from chests in the City of Um and the Vault of Hereditas heist. On average player can expect somewhere between 300-1000 Ectoplasm per hour doing the above method.
Pure essence	Pure essence is dropped by a variety of monsters, notable sources are Abyssal creatures and pick pocketing Wizards' Tower mage or Wizards' Tower master mage for large quantities of pure essence. Players who choose the thieving method also will get large quantities of talismans good for Summoning and Manufactured components for Invention, as well as a large variety of runes. Pure essence is used in the creation of Impure Essence.
Impure essence	Players can obtain Impure essence from doing rituals at the Um ritual site or Ungael ritual site. A high level alternative method that can be done for a decent amount of impure essence and necromatic runes is Chest (Rasial's Citadel) provided the player has 119 Thieving.

Suggested Enemies for Combat Training

From level 5, players should train Necromancy in the troll cave located in the City of Um. The area features numerous low-level trolls, and serves as a good area to learn the skill and start unlocking further abilities. Focus on Area of Effect (AoE) abilities whenever possible.

Monster		Location	Level	Life points	Experience	Notes
	Ghostly troll bruiser Ghostly troll thrower	City of Um troll cave	7	1,800	90 29.7	Advantages Susceptible to Undead slayer effects. Drop bones which can be used for low level rituals. Area limited to three players at most.

It is possible to deal high damage to undead creatures through a combination of damage-boosting effects:

• Salve amulet (e)
• Aggression flask
• Ghost hunter equipment
• Undead Slayer perk on a piece of augmentable hybrid armour (e.g. Anima core of Sliske armour, High Armour of Hanto cuirass, or Akrisae's robe top)

Putting the monster's souls in the Sunken Pyramid is an effective way to kill the monsters with no player contention.

Level	Monster
10-20	Crawling hands, Ghosts in Taverley dungeon.
20-70	Skeletons in Lumbridge Catacombs (focus on AoE abilities)
30-60	Banshees, Fetid zombies, Flesh crawlers, Ghosts.
50-70	Ankous, Shadow warriors, Jungle horrors, Shades, Ghouls
70-80	Bound skeletons, Armoured zombies
80-90	Bound skeletons, Abyssal demons, Abyssal savages, Edimmu
90-120	Armoured phantoms, Abyssal demons, Abyssal savages, Abyssal beasts, The Shadow Reef Bridge Runs

At level 70, players can do combat training in the Abyss. The south-west and south-east corners are best for unobstructed area-of-effect ability casting. It is recommended to take at least level 70 Deathwarden robe armour (tank) or Deathdealer robe armour (power). To make the trips more efficient, consider using:

• Underworld Grimoire 1 to transport ashes to the bank for free, for use in crafting ritual materials like necroplasm later. Abyss monsters drop ashes in abundance.
  • Alternatively, magic notepaper and sign of porters can be used.
• A method of leeching health, such as blood amulet of fury, or the Vampyrism aura (unlocked for free for Group Ironmen) for longer sustain.

Thalmund's Wares

Every week on Wednesday at reset Thalmund will appear in the City of Um next to Kili, offering a selection of goods that are used in necromancy. It is recommend players check the stock every week in order to grab hard to obtain items like Greater ensouled cloth, Powerful ghostly ink, Impure essence, and Uncut moonstone. This will help save players a lot of time in the future having to obtain these goods, if the stock is bought each week early on in account progression.

Most recent stock

This is the stock for 1 April 2026.

Item		Number in stock	Price sold at	GE price	Resale value
	Greater ensouled cloth	1	1,000,000	N/A	N/A
	Spirit rune	100	100	72	−2,800
	Greater necroplasm	50	100	388	14,400
	Uncut moonstone	1	4,000	106,819	102,819

Notable quests/tasks

Main article: Quests/Experience rewards § Necromancy

Quest	Members	XP reward	Necromancy requirement	Other requirements
Necromancy!		200	N/A	N/A
Rune Mythos		1,500	24	N/A
That Old Black Magic		45,000	32	Full completion requires: 65 Necromancy 51 Archaeology (b)
Vessel of the Harbinger		10,000	46	40 Prayer
Ancient Awakening		15,000	50	N/A
Housing of Parliament		20,000	54	N/A
Battle of Forinthry		30,000	60	N/A
The Spirit of War		45,000	65	3,000 City of Um vessel souls
Tomes of the Warlock		60,000	75	66 Magic 86 Archaeology
Requiem for a Dragon		100,000	75	86 Archaeology
Remains of the Necrolord		100,000	85	77 Dungeoneering
Alpha vs Omega		150,000	95	30,000 City of Um vessel souls
	Total	576,700

Kili's tasks

Kili assigns the player tasks at each tier. The tasks only have a Necromancy level requirement; the player doesn't need to have the previous tasks completed to unlock the ability to upgrade the equipment from the previous tier. However, to receive the previous tier equipment without trading, the player needs to complete the corresponding task. An equipment upgrade task list will given to the player that lists different requirements for each tier. The required Necromancy level is not boostable.

Cancelling a task does not automatically remove the required items from the bank; players are free to cancel a task and return to finish it later.

Completing tasks for either deathwarden or deathdealer robe armour will automatically unlock the relevant tier upgrades for Death Skull equipment.

The player must carry the soul urn in their backpack to gather the souls required by the tasks.

Tier 20 to 60

Tier	Walkthrough	Task list
		Tank armour
20	Kili Row	5 chicken souls or 1 lesser communion ritual
30	Kili's Knowledge I	25 troll souls or 3 lesser communion rituals
40	Kili's Knowledge II	Meat pie 50 undead souls or 5 lesser communion rituals
50	Kili's Knowledge III	Apple pie Necromancer's flippers (Mogres) 75 demon souls or 10 lesser communion rituals
60	Kili's Knowledge IV	Garden pie Ankou residue (Ankou) 50 souls from monsters of at least level 70 or 10 greater communion rituals

Tier 70 to 90

Tier 70 to 90 upgrades require the completion of the quest The Spirit of War.

Tier	Walkthrough	Task list
		Tank armour	Power armour
70	Kili's Knowledge V (tank) Kili's Knowledge V (power)	Fish pie United Barrows necroplasm (The Barrows Brothers) 100 dragon souls or 20 greater communion rituals	5 hideous moleskin (Giant mole) 5 royal chitin (Kalphite Queen)
80	Kili's Knowledge VI (tank) Kili's Knowledge VI (power)	Redberry pie Spiritbound hammer (charged) (Graardor, Kree'arra, K'ril Tsutsaroth, and Zilyana) 150 Slayer assignment souls or 30 greater communion rituals	5 Zaryte fragments (Nex) 5 tortured soul essence (Queen Black Dragon)
90	Kili's Knowledge VII (tank) Kili's Knowledge VII (power)	Blueberry pie 10 powered necromantic seal of the Cywir (Helwyr) 10 powered necromantic seal of the Dragon Riders (Vindicta & Gorvek) 10 powered necromantic seal of the Faceless (Gregorovic) 10 powered necromantic seal of the Furies (The Twin Furies) Pulsating onyx (TzTok-Jad) 1 soul from completing a Soul Reaper task or 50 powerful communion rituals	Fragment of anima (Vorago, Telos, the Warden, or Solak, Guardian of the Grove) Ulthven necroplasm (The Ambassador) Venomous greater ensouled cloth (Araxxi)