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 - wilderness loot keys off elite PK bots, 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.

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 - run the minigame, or pay the Quartermaster's coin prices (12m a piece, 20m a weapon).
• High: farm bosses for Boss Tickets and unique drops; PK for Blood Money; buy your GWD bases.
• End game: hand Bandos, Armadyl and Ahrim's pieces to the Royal Smith with Commendations from the war - Torva, Masori, Ancestral. Save tickets for a megarare. Summon the Corporeal Beast 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.

Torva has a second source: Nex drops each finished piece directly at 1/450. Nex also drops her own mage line - Virtus mask, robe top and robe bottom, 1/450 each - which no shop sells. Finished war-forged pieces are fully tradeable - a fat purse skips the march.

Godswords

The four God Wars generals each drop their own hilt at 1/508 (Graardor → Bandos, K'ril → Zamorak, Kree'arra → Armadyl, Zilyana → Saradomin), and all four drop godsword shards 1, 2 and 3 at 1/90 each - assemble hilt + three shards. Zilyana also drops the Saradomin sword (1/254) and Armadyl crossbow (1/508).

The Armadyl godsword has faster routes: 15,000 Blood Money at the Emblem Trader, and elite PK bots carry one - it can land in a loot key. The Ancient godsword is 20,000 BM, or forge it from Nex's ancient hilt.

Dragon claws

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

Chests in Last Man Standing also roll claws - but LMS gear only exists inside the match: you keep nothing and lose nothing there.

The megarares

Raids aren't in the realm yet, so the raid weapons are sold at career prices in the Warlord's Armoury - think hundreds of boss kills' worth of tickets, not an afternoon:

Two of the Armoury's weapons also have drop paths: the zaryte crossbow builds from Nex's nihil horn (1/450), and the venator bow from the Phantom Muspah's venator shard (1/200).

Spirit shields & sigils

The realm's rarest flex, and no shop sells them. The Corporeal Beast is a summonable world boss (3,000,000 gp to call, north-east of Lumbridge) - and every contributor to the kill gets an independent roll: arcane, spectral and elysian sigils at 1/150 each, the blessed spirit shield at 1/120, draconic visage at 1/200. 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.
• Voidwaker - 30,000 BM whole, or hunt the pieces from the wilderness bosses at 1/1500 each: hilt (Callisto), blade (Vet'ion), gem (Venenatis).
• Abyssal whip - Abyssal Sire (with the abyssal dagger and bludgeon), or 3,000 BM.

Boots, jewellery & the rest

• Primordial / pegasian / eternal boots - Cerberus drops the three crystals at 1/512, or 900 Boss Tickets each finished.
• Occult necklace - Thermonuclear smoke devil 1/350, or 800 tickets.
• Torture, anguish, tormented bracelet, blood fury, the DT2 rings, ferocious gloves, lightbearer - Armoury tickets (see the shops directory).
• Dragonfire shield - 500 tickets, or craft it from a draconic visage: KBD 1/250, Corporeal Beast 1/200, Vorkath 1/2000.
• Dragon hunter lance - 3,500 tickets, or the Alchemical Hydra's claw at 1/700.

The capes

The fire cape is earned in the Fight Cave - every Jad kill awards one, and it's tradeable for a reason: the Inferno charges one fire cape as its entry sacrifice. Beat TzKal-Zuk and the infernal cape is yours - untradeable, every clear. Neither cape is sold anywhere, 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 Relics tab still sells 3rd age for Boss Tickets, but only as a slow pity-path, now priced at 3× the old rates - melee, range and mage pieces run 12,000-24,000 tickets, the longsword, bow and wand are 30,000, and the druidic robes are the apex at 36,000 each. Buying a set is the single most conspicuous flex on the realm; the drop is how you're meant to get it. Lords and above can also sell pieces back to the Quartermaster at a third of shelf value - deliberately below what a duplicate fetches in player trade, so trading is always the better cash-out. 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 wearing and carrying real gear - Bandos, Ancestral pieces, fortified Masori, godswords, claws, BIS boots and jewellery. Kill one and its gear drops as 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.

One caveat: LMS loot

Everything on this page has a real, current source - but one thing looks like a source and isn't: gear you loot from Last Man Standing chests only exists inside the match. You keep nothing and lose nothing there, so it's never a way to own an item. When new rares open up, this page will say so.