Hey guys,
The Ring of Wealth has been a pretty controversial and hot topic of conversation across the RuneScape community for many, many years. With loads of different theories, conspiracies and misconceptions about what the ring does, how it interacts with drops and with what you can use it with - it's time to clarify it once and for all. I will only be talking about how it effects drops from monsters in terms of PvM - the effects of it in skilling is pretty well known by now and doesn't require explanation (but feel free to say otherwise and could update it in future).
I posted about it before in this forum but I'll briefly run through how the Ring of Wealth works in terms of drops.
The loot system in RuneScape is a random roll of a certain number, for example 100, and depending on what number you "roll" when the monster dies depends on what loot you get from it. Typically, all of the good or rare loot in this example would require you to roll a 1 out of 100. What the Ring of Wealth does is to decrease the roll number so that you have a better chance of getting the good stuff. For example, it would decrease the roll from 100 to 90 meaning that you have a 1/90 chance at rare stuff instead of 1/100.
There are two different scenarios that the Ring of Wealth does this, it is either only on specific rare drops or it is for the entire drop table where the rare drops are on 1/2/3/4/5 rolls. So for some real examples of this:
The chance of getting an Abyssal Whip is 1/1024 but with a Ring of Wealth it is 1/1017 and none of the regular drops are affected.
The bodyguards at Armadyl God Wars (Flockleader Geerin, Flight Kilisa and Wingman Skree) have a 1/128 chance to have another chance at the rare items from Kree'arra. With the Ring of Wealth equipped, this then becomes a 1/127 chance but it also reduces the chance at 1,000-2,000 coins because it decreased the whole drop table and not just the rare items.
For this reason, I'll be splitting the list of monsters effected by the Ring of Wealth into two: one that only has its rare drops effected by the Ring of Wealth and another that has its entire drop table effected as a result of wearing the ring.
Only rare drops effected
Skeletal Horror - Increased chance at obtaining a Crystal Triskelion piece
Cave Horror - Increased chance at a Black Mask
See AlsoRing of Wealth OSRS Guide - Rune FanaticsA Comprehensive Guide to the Ring of Wealth in OSRS - HarmonicodeMutated Jadinko Male - Increased chance at a Crystal Triskelion piece and Vine Whip
Tormented Demons - Increased chance at obtaining Dragon Platebody clumps
Dark Beast - Increased chance at obtaining a Crystal Triskelion piece and Dark Bow
Aquanite - Increased chance at obtaining an Amulet of Ranging
Glacor - Increased chance at obtaining Glaiven, Steadfast or Ragefire Boots
Automatons - Increased chance at Cresbot pet and Pneumatic, Static or Tracking Gloves
Tormented Wraith - Increase chance at obtaining Holy Elixir
Mithril Dragon - Increased chance at obtaining a Dragon Full Helm
Legio bosses - Increased chance at obtaining a Crystal Triskelion piece
Dust Devil - Increased chance at obtaining a Dragon Chainbody
Skeletal Wyvern - Increased chance at obtaining Granite Legs
Strykewyrms - Increase chance at all rare drops (Focus Sight, Hexcrest and Staff of Light)
Ice Strykewyrm - Increased chance at obtaining a Crystal Triskelion piece
Ganodemic Beast - Increased chance at obtaining a Crystal Triskelion piece
Rare Drop Table (Super) - Increased chance at obtaining a Crystal Triskelion piece
Abyssal Demon - Increased chance at obtaining a Crystal Triskelion piece, Abyssal Wand/Orb or Abyssal Whip
Gargoyle - Increased chance at obtaining a Granite Maul
Nechryael - Increased chance at obtaining Rune Boots
Whole drop table effected
Daggannoth Kings - Increased chance at Dragon Hatchet
GWD Bosses - Increased chance at each bosses respective rare loot (doesn't work with WE2 abilities or warpriest pieces)
GWD Bodyguards - Increased chance at each bosses respective rare loot (doesn't work with WE2 abilities or warpriest pieces)
Spiritual Mages - Increased chance at Dragon Boots
Chaos Elemental - Increased chance at Dragon 2h Sword
Exiled and normal Kalphite Queens - Increased chance at Dragon Chainbody
Kalphite King - Increased chance at Drygore weaponry
Exiled Soldier and Guardian - Have no rare drops but RoW does affect drop tables
Tormented Demons - Increased chance at Dragon Claws and Dragon Limbs
Corporeal Beast - Increased chance at a sigil drop
Nex - Increased chance at all rare drops
Rare Drop Table (Gem Table) - Increase chance at Dragonstones and chance to get on to rarer RDT items
I hope all of that made sense and those people who are interested in drops, the Ring of Wealth etc find it useful. If there's any questions or comments, let me know here or feel free to ask on @JagexTimbo on Twitter.
Timbo
Source: http://services.runescape.com/m=forum/forums.ws?19,20,606,65469068
If you have ever wondered what is concrete and what is fiction regarding the ring of wealth, give that a nice read over :) He explains how random number generators are used to determine drops and how the ring affects them and which monsters :P
I, personally, never take off my ring of wealth unless drops are not involved, i figure it is better to be safe than sorry :P
