# Summoning pouches

## Contents

Summoning pouches are used to summon familiars using the Summoning skill. A Summoning pouch is created by infusing the essence of a creature known as a familiar:

Note that pouches that use Elder charms don't use spirit shards, but Elder energy instead.

The High Level Alchemy value is usually directly related to the number of shards: ${\displaystyle H=15S+254}$

Certain newer pouches and pouches that don't use spirit shards do not follow this formula.

The Bogrog shard swap column shows the cost of the shards swapped for comparison with Hi-alch or GE Price; it is usually better to Hi-alch or sell on GE with lower amounts of shard except for some of the higher levels where a player can save money by swapping with Bogrog. Players can swap pouches with Bogrog at a set percentage of the shards used to create the pouch in the first place. See the article on Bogrog for more information. The number of shards swapped is 70% of the number used in creation. The value is 25 coins per shard saved by swapping with Bogrog instead of buying new shards.

## Ancient Summoning

Summoning level Familiar Materials [a 1] Material cost Create XP GE Price Binding profit
45 Hellhound 23,661 38 56,100 32,439
50 Waterfiend 43 43,002 19,341
73 Blood reaver 64 73,781 50,120
75 Gargoyle 73 47,468 23,807
85 Abyssal demon 73 51,520 27,859
90 Kal'gerion demon 79 41,923 18,262
96 Ripper Demon 82.3 100,794 77,133
1. ^ These are the materials required to make Binding contracts. The familiar pouches are obtained by killing the respective monster while carrying a contract in the player's inventory

## Update history

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• ninja 28 May 2019 (Update):.
• Using a summoning pouch whilst the same familiar is active will now renew the familiar.
• patch 18 December 2017 (Update):
• It is no longer possible to save more charms than are used when crafting Summoning pouches.
• patch 26 June 2017 (Update):
• An informative tooltip has been added to all summoning familiar pouches.
• hotfix 17 December 2013 (Update):
• Converting uncharged Summoning pouches now gives bonus experience as expected.
• patch 2 October 2013 (Update):
• Gorajo familiar pouches now have Summon as their left-click option, to bring them in line with pouches used outside of Daemonheim.
• patch 3 May 2011 (Update):
• Minotaurs are no longer grouped together on the Summoning pouch creation interface.
• patch 10 August 2009 (Update):
• Inconsistent capitalisation for options when making Summoning pouches.