Path to end game - where every rare comes from

Fall of Varrock is not a spawn server - every rare in the economy was earned by somebody. Gear enters the game three ways: boss drops, currency shops, and the Royal Smith's war-forge. On top of those sit two shortcuts - the PK bots' Blood Money bounties and rare rolls, and plain gold: almost everything below is tradeable, so the market is always a valid route.

This page is the map. Find the item you want, and it tells you exactly where to go.

One realm-wide note first: the old boss roster is temporarily retired for a rebuild - the retired lairs return one at a time as finished fights (see bosses), and the Corporeal Beast now lives only in its cave rather than at the Lumbridge event arena. Where a drop path below left with its boss, the shop, the market or a war route is the current source - and the drop path comes back when the boss does.

The currencies at a glance

Prices and shops in full: Shops directory.

The gear ladder

• Early: rank armour from the Apprentice's Armoury as your title climbs, weapons to adamant off the shelf, rune from smithing and drops.
• Mid: dragon via the Forge, then Barrows gear from the Quartermaster's coin wing (12m a piece, 20m a weapon) - the crypts themselves are retired for their rebuild, so the shop and the market are the current source.
• High: fight the bosses for their drops - the Corporeal Beast in its cave, God Wars for your Bandos and Armadyl bases, Zulrah, Vorkath, the Hydra; PK for Blood Money. There is no ticket shelf any more (Boss Tickets were retired in September 2026): every chase item comes from the boss that drops it, or from another player.
• End game: hand Bandos, Armadyl and Ahrim's pieces to the Royal Smith with Commendations from the war - Torva, Masori, Ancestral. Take a team into the Corporeal Beast's cave for a sigil.

Torva, Masori & Ancestral

The three war-forged sets are the best armour in the game, and the Royal Smith by the castle wall is the only maker. Bodies and legs cost 25 Commendations + 20 runite bars + 250,000 gp on top of the base item; helms take a Warden's ember instead of the heavier bill.

Nex used to drop finished Torva pieces and her own Virtus mage line directly - those drop paths return when her rebuilt fight ships. Finished war-forged pieces are fully tradeable - a fat purse skips the march.

Godswords

Two are live today: the Armadyl godsword - 15,000 Blood Money at the Emblem Trader, dropped by Lord Vexmar atop the Rogue Knight ladder, and a rare roll (1/100) off elite PK bots - and the Ancient godsword at 20,000 BM. Both are tradeable, so the market works too.

The hilt-and-shards route (each God Wars general dropping its hilt, all four dropping the shards) returns with the God Wars rebuild - until then the Bandos, Zamorak and Saradomin godswords move only between players.

Dragon claws

Pick your grind - the captain hunt is the designed route, the shop is bad-luck protection priced above it:

The megarares

Raids aren't in the realm yet, and the ticket shelf that used to sell the raid weapons at career prices is retired with the Boss Ticket - so the twisted bow, scythe of vitur, Tumeken's shadow, soulreaper axe, sanguinesti staff and Ghrazi rapier have no source until their content ships. Pieces already in the realm move only between players (none of them can be alched or sold to an NPC). The zaryte crossbow and venator bow regain their drop paths (Nex's nihil horn, the Phantom Muspah's venator shard) when those rebuilt bosses return.

Spirit shields & sigils

The realm's rarest flex, and no shop sells them. The Corporeal Beast drops them in its cave at their OSRS rates - arcane and spectral sigils, the rarer elysian, plus the spirit shield and holy elixir that make the blessed spirit shield. Sigil + blessed spirit shield + 90 Prayer makes the shield.

Special-attack weapons

• Dragon warhammer - the named captain Grimjaw drops it 1/15, or 10,000 BM at the Emblem Trader (Sir Halric on the Rogue Knight ladder drops it too).
• Voidwaker - 30,000 BM whole; the piece hunt (hilt, blade and gem off Callisto, Vet'ion and Venenatis) returns with the wilderness-boss rebuild.
• Abyssal whip - Dame Isolde on the Rogue Knight ladder, or 3,000 BM.

Boots, jewellery & the rest

• Primordial / pegasian / eternal boots - Cerberus's crystal drops (returning with her rebuild); the market meanwhile.
• Occult necklace, torture, anguish, tormented bracelet, blood fury, the DT2 rings, ferocious gloves, lightbearer, dragon hunter lance - the bosses that drop them as they ship, and the market. No shop sells them and no NPC buys them.
• Dragonfire shield - craft it from a draconic visage: the King Black Dragon drops one at 1/1000.

The capes

The fire cape and infernal cape are earned in the Fight Cave and the Inferno - both currently retired for their rebuild, so no new capes are entering the game until those fights return. Fire capes already earned are tradeable, though, so the market is the one current source. Neither cape is sold in any shop, ever.

Relics - 3rd age & gilded

The antique prestige line, and the war is how you earn it. During a live campaign or conquest on Varrock, every enemy you cut down on the battlefield has a small chance (~1/5,000) to drop a random 3rd age piece straight to you - so a piece you're wearing says you fought the war for it. On top of that, the Minister or King who wins a war has a 1/1,000 chance to earn a piece as a leadership reward, collected from their ::claim war-spoils box. Both are announced realm-wide when they land.

The Quartermaster's old Relics tab is retired with the Boss Ticket: the war is the only source of 3rd age now, and a duplicate is sold to another player, never to an NPC. Wearing 3rd age is Lord-tier on the rank ladder, same as the other end-game sets.

Gilded armour is the voter's flex: Valaine's Vote rewards shelf sells the gilded full helm, platebody, platelegs, kiteshield, scimitar and boots for 25-60 Vote Tickets a piece. Tickets are tradeable, so non-voters buy them off voters - but a full set represents months of daily votes either way.

The wilderness shortcut

Elite PK bots roam the deep wilderness in real gear - Bandos, Ancestral pieces, fortified Masori, godswords, claws, BIS boots and jewellery - but what they wear is not loot. Every kill pays Blood Money (half a player kill; the named knights double) and rolls that band's rare table: Bandos and claws at the maxer band, ancestral, Masori, Kodai, avernic and the godswords at the elite band, all at long odds. A rare seals into a loot key you cash at the Lumbridge Loot Chest. It's the highest-risk, zero-cost route to end-game gear - and other players can kill you for your keys.

Everything on this page has a real, current source - and as each rebuilt boss returns, its drop paths reopen and this page will say so.