Wizard Tower

The Wizard Tower is a repeatable, instanced combat minigame in the Wizards' Tower south-west of Lumbridge. Your first completion permanently unlocks the Ancient, Lunar and Arceuus spellbooks; every game after that pays out high-tier runes the shops don't sell.

Getting in

• Use the Wizard Tower teleport (Mini-Games tab of the portal) or ::wizardtower - you land in front of the Void Knight holding the mainland end of the tower bridge.
• Talk to him for the briefing, or right-click:
• Solo game - a private tower, just you (and your companions). Solo is the gentler, beginner-friendly run: cleared mages stay dead, and the tower saves your spot so you can nip out to restock and pick up where you left off (see below).
• Multi game - an open assault: up to 5 players share one tower. If an open game is running with a free slot you drop straight into it; otherwise you start one. Muster at the bridge spawn until your band is assembled, then push in together. Multi keeps the respawn/rune-farming loop.
• You spawn on the bridge inside the instance. Cross onto the island and head through the tower's (permanently open) door.
• The War-Prep quest chain routes you here after the Recruit Trials - Vannaka trains you to Prayer 37, hands you a mystic fire staff, robes, a full rune stock and 100 noted prayer potions, then a marker guides you all the way to the Void Knight at the bridge. After your first clear the marker leads you back to Vannaka, who pays out 50,000 coins - the price of your next rank - and sends you on to Duke Horacio to buy it, unlocking the next armour tier. See Recruit Trials and Titles & citizenship.
• Deaths in the instance are safe.

The assault

There is no timer - the game lasts as long as you do. The mages are aggressive on sight, all of them cast, they chase, and they gang up - bring Protect from Magic or be melted. They single out players; your companions are free helpers. Each floor's staircase stays sealed until you've felled its full quota of mages - the stairs count down the kills you have left, and once you hit the quota the staircase opens for good (in multi, mages respawn behind you, but that no longer resets your progress):

Solo vs multi

• Solo - mages stay dead once you kill them, so each floor clears for good and the climb is far more forgiving early on. Better still, the tower remembers the highest floor you reached: step out through the top-floor portal to bank or restock and, when you return solo, you resume on that floor with everything below it already clear.
• Once you've beaten the tower (any mode), that top-floor access is permanent - every future solo visit drops you straight onto the Archmage's floor, so you can pop in for a top-tier rune run whenever you like without re-climbing from the ground.
• Multi - mages respawn about 30 seconds after they die, so once you've carved your way up, your band can camp any floor and farm runes for as long as you like.

When you're done, the portal on the top floor (beside the Archmage's rug) takes you back out to the Void Knight.

Planning your first climb

Expect the first run to be a stop-start affair. The mages hit hard enough that you'll burn through prayer potions faster than the War-Prep stock lasts, and you'll likely need to top up before the tower's done - so don't be surprised if you end up running a slayer task or two to bank enough War Effort to restock. Prayer potion(4)s are cheap from Vannaka's Rewards shop (8 War Effort each), and slayer contracts pay War Effort as you clear them. The practical rhythm for a first solo clear is one floor at a time: push up a floor, step out through the portal to bank and restock potions, then head back in - solo saves your spot, so you resume on the highest floor you reached with everything below already cleared. Once you've beaten the tower the whole restock loop falls away, since every future solo visit drops you straight onto the Archmage's floor.

Rewards

First completion (any mode): the Ancient, Lunar and Arceuus spellbooks unlock permanently on your account - switch books with ::spellbook. See Unlocking the magic books.

Every mage drops coins (200-900) plus a parcel of runes - chaos, nature, cosmic, law, death, blood or soul, with a 1-in-60 shot at wrath runes. In multi games, loot belongs to whoever lands the kill.

The Archmage drops:

• Always: 5,000-15,000 coins, 50-100 death runes and 40-90 blood runes
• One of: law runes (80-150), nature runes (100-200), soul runes (60-120) or wrath runes (20-50)

Two rare collection-log items can drop: the Mystic Lava Staff (1 in 40) and the Master Wand (1 in 80).

There's no loot timer - the instance stays up until everyone leaves, so grab your drops at your leisure.