Summoning - Extra Features

Introduction

Keep your Summoning points up! If your points run out, you'll be unable to summon your familiars, so if you plan on spending a fair bit of time with your familiar, you should head to an obelisk first to recharge, as well as grabbing some Summoning potions.
Skill-based familiars (like the macaw) can help out with a few skills at once, so you can be working on your Herblore, for example, while getting Summoning experience.
Keep an eye on your familiar's timer! They might just disappear right when you need them the most...

Trading Pouches and Scrolls for Shards

Bogrog, the ogre who manages the Gu'Tanoth Summoning obelisk, is eager to get his massive hands on as many Summoning pouches and scrolls as possible for reasons known only to himself, and to this end is willing to pay summoners for their efforts with spirit shards.

Bogrog will give you 70% of the shards required for a pouch, and a few less for scrolls, provided you have proven yourself worthy of this reimbursement. You need at least level 20 Summoning to trade in pouches and scrolls. In addition to this, you usually need a higher level to trade in a pouch or scroll.

This is a sliding scale; the table below shows a few examples to give you an idea of the level required to trade in pouches and scrolls. If you want to know the exact level required, Bogrog will tell you if you click the "Value" option on your pouch or scroll.

Pouch/Scroll Level	Summoning Level Required to Trade
9	20
21	30
31	39
41	48
51	57
61	66
71	75
81	84
91	92
99	99

Familiarisation

The druids of Taverley are one of the main sources of spirit shards for sale in RuneScape, but have you ever wondered where all those shards actually come from? Well, the recent upsurge in new summoners means the druids are in need of a little help in gathering this much sought after resource, so are willing to share their secrets and teach you the art of familiarisation. Once per week, you'll have the mental fortitude to project your consciousness into the spirit realm itself to gather the raw materials the druids require to make spirit shards. The rewards for helping them will allow you to gain charms faster or earn you some ingredients for infusing summoning pouches with.

The Ex-ex-parrot

Those summoners who have completed the dastardly Rocking Out will have the option to speak to 50-Ships Mufassah about some other, erm, 'duties'. Doing so, of course, will earn you the 'right' to carry about a very dead parrot - of course, in RuneScape, nothing piratical is quite so simple...

As you'll face a terrible and violent fate if its true owner discovers that the parrot is now an ex-parrot (don't worry: no one is going to try to convince you that it's just sleeping), you will need to revive it... sort of. To convert the ex-parrot into an ex-ex-parrot, you will need some special equipment, which you can use with the ex-parrot. Using the ex-parrot-in-magical-cage on an evil and mysterious black rock will restore it to life or, erm, something like life.

Having revived the ex-parrot, you are now the proud owner of a brand new ex-ex-parrot (if such a thing could ever really be called new). Like all Summoning pets, you will need to feed it, but, unlike other Summoning pets, it will not eat food. Instead, you can simply use it on the black rock to feed it the evil and unnatural energies there.

The ex-ex-parrot has no growth stages, but only becomes hungry very slowly.

Summoning Training in Dungeoneering

It is possible to train all of your skills while dungeoneering, and Summoning is no exception. Familiars are particularly useful to aid you in combat and better manage the resources you receive. You can also gain Summoning experience by completing summoning skill doors.

To find out more about skill doors and the basics of dungeoneering, please click here
To find out about summoning familiars in Daemonheim, click here
To find tables with Summoning requirements and XP levels, click here

Quests Providing Summoning Experience

For quests that specifically give Summoning experience as a reward, please refer to the Summoning Rewards page.

Click here to view the Summoning FAQ

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