Summoning

level, rather than simply choosing the log with the lowest burn time. See below for more information.

To convert the probability into the number of required actions with a certain confidence, you can use the formula:

[math]\displaystyle{ \text{Number of actions with Confidence} = \left\lceil{\frac{\log\left({1-\text{Confidence Chance}}\right)}{\log\left({1-\text{Mark Chance}}\right)}}\right\rceil }[/math]

Where:

Mark Chance is the Mark Chance from above
Confidence Chance is the chance that you will have found one mark in the resulting number of actions. For example, if you want to be 50% sure you got one mark in this many actions, use .5 here. If you want to be 90% sure, use .9, etc.

Here is a table for the number of actions needed for a given confidence for marks with fixed interval lengths as an example (these intervals don't change, for the other marks, or other confidence amounts, you can use the formula):

Skill	Summon	Tier	50% Confidence	75% Confidence	90% Confidence	95% Confidence
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Herblore	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Bear	3	1305	2609	4334	5638
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Summoning	Fox	5	1029	2058	3418	4446

Maximising Mark Discovery Chance

The chance of acquiring marks over time for a familiar can be increased by:

Equipping tablets of that same familiar. This multiplies the chance by 2.5x for non-combat skills (excluding
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Alt. Magic), and double the chance for
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Combat skills as well as
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Alt. Magic
Burning the log with the highest
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Mastery level for
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Firemaking. Due to the fixed action time above varying per log, the log with the highest mastery level is the quickest relative to the base burn interval, which in turn maximises the mark chance
Minimising the action time for the following resource-consuming skills:
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Cooking,
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Smithing,
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Fletching,
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Crafting,
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Runecrafting, and
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Herblore. This improves the rate at which marks are acquired. For any other skills, changes to the action time have no impact on the rate of mark acquisition, although longer actions are usually preferable to reduce the number of tablets consumed over time
For
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Combat in particular:
- Maximising the player's chance to hit will improve the acquisition rate as marks are only rolled on successful hits, not misses
- Using weapons with special attacks that make multiple attacks does not increase the chance of discovering marks, as the action time used for hits beyond the first is the time since the last hit rather than the base attack interval

Gaining Summoning XP

Once the player has at least one Summoning Mark, they can begin leveling Summoning. There are two ways to gain Summoning XP: Creating Summoning Tablets, and using Summoning Tablets. Note however that only tablet creation grants

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XP.

Creating Summoning Tablets

Creating Summoning Tablets is a slow process relative to other artisan skills. Each action takes 5 seconds by default and produces 25 tablets.

The interval can be reduced by using -5% with

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Forest Trail

, -5% with

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Elite Pillar of Expertise

, -3% with the

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, -5% from

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Qimican

, -15% with the Eagle and Fox synergy, -10% with the Superior Summoning Skillcape, -10% with the Summoner's Altar, -2% with Harold, -3% with 944

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Cartography

Hex Mastery, -1s with the Necromancer Set (purchased from the

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Shop

with Slayer Coins), -0.3s with Old Summoning Gloves, and -0.2s with Ring of Summoning. This gives a total of 58% interval reduction and 1.5s flat interval reduction resulting in a 0.6s action time. The number of tablets created can be increased by +3 with

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Runic Trail

, +6 with

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Elite Pillar of Endowment

, +20 with

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, up to +5 with Necromancer Potion, +2 for each Necromancer Set piece and an additional +5 when wearing the entire set, +15 with Summoning Scrolls, +3 with Old Summoning Gloves, +10 with the 95% Mastery Pool Checkpoint for Summoning, +10 with the Summoning Skillcape, and +10 at 99 mastery for that tablet for a total of +95 additional tablets per craft.

Regardless of the number of tablets created, the same amount of XP will be earned for each action. The base amount of XP earned is equal to

[math]\displaystyle{ \text{XP Gained} = 5 + 2 \times \lfloor \text{Summoning Level Required} \times 0.2 \rfloor }[/math]

For example, creating

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summoning tablets (requiring

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Level 25

) will grant [math]\displaystyle{ 5 + 2 \times \lfloor 25 \times 0.2 \rfloor = 15 }[/math] xp.

Using Familiars

Summoning XP can be gained much more quickly by using the Summoning Tablets once created. XP is gained whenever a tablet charge is used. For non-combat tablets, this occurs whenever the player does an action in the relevant skill. For combat tablets, this occurs each time the familiar attack bar fills, which has a base 3 second interval. Additionally,

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Occultist

and

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Witch

Summoning Tablets will only be consumed, and provide XP, through combat, not

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Alt. Magic

.

XP gained follows a formula that is based on the level of the summon and the amount of time the action took (in seconds):

[math]\displaystyle{ \text{XP Gained} = \frac{\text{Action Time} \times \text{Summoning Level Required} \times 10}{\text{Summoning Level Required} + 10} \times\text{XP Boosts} }[/math]

Where [math]\displaystyle{ \text{XP Boosts} }[/math] is the total amount of Global XP, Summoning Skill XP, Non-Combat Skill XP, and any additional XP modifiers that apply to Summoning.

For example, when cooking with

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Summoning Tablets equipped (

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Level 25

required), an XP Boost of 25% and an action time of 2.55 seconds, the XP earned will be [math]\displaystyle{ \frac{2.55 \times 25 \times 10}{25 + 10} \times 1.25 = 22.7625 }[/math] xp. When tablets are used as part of a synergy, XP will be gained for each tablet used. Both tablets will use the same action time.

Synergies

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Summoning is a skill that allows you to create Summoning Tablets for various familiars which provide bonuses to various tasks while equipped. Two types of tablets can be equipped in a single loadout. Some combinations of familiars provide a Synergy effect in addition to their regular benefits when equipped at the same time.

Mechanics

Gathering Summoning Marks

In order to create Summoning Tablets for a given familiar, the player must have at least one of the corresponding Summoning Marks. Summoning Marks for familiars are acquired by gaining XP in skills other than summoning. The Summoning Marks screen will show the skills that marks can be discovered in for each familiar the player has the level to summon.

Summoning Marks cannot be found until the player has reached the level to create the appropriate tablet (If playing in Adventure mode, the player must also have Summoning unlocked in order to begin finding Summoning Marks). At level 1, there are two Marks that can be found: The Mark of the Golbin Thief, which is discovered while training combat with a style that gains

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Attack

,

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Strength

, or

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Defence

XP and the Mark of the Ent, which is discovered while

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Woodcutting

.

Once the first Mark for a given Familiar has been found, the player will not find any more marks of the same Familiar until they create at least one Summoning Tablet for that Familiar.

Summoning Marks are not items and will not go to the player's bank. Once found, they instead will fill the progress bar towards levelling up the mark level for the appropriate familiar. The number of marks per level and the benefits are as follows:

Level	Marks Needed to Level Up	Cumulative Marks for Level	Benefit
1	1	1	Unlocks the ability to create Summoning Tablets for the familiar
2	5	6	Unlocks the ability to use this familiar in synergies with Tier 1 familiars
3	10	16	Unlocks the ability to use this familiar in synergies with Tier 2 familiars
4	15	31	Unlocks the ability to use this familiar in synergies with Tier 3 familiars
5	15	46	Unlocks the ability to use this familiar in synergies with Tier 4 familiars
6	15	61	Unlocks the ability to use this familiar in synergies with Tier 5 familiars

Note that:

Marks for all
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Combat skills (including
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Slayer) have a chance of being obtained on each hit rather than on kill
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Slayer marks can only be obtained from the player's current Slayer task monster, they cannot be found from other Slayer monsters
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Prayer marks can only be found when using a prayer that costs points per player attack
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Magic marks can be found when doing
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Alt. Magic
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Strength marks cannot be found when catching fish from the Barbarian Fishing fishing area

Mark Discovery Chance

The chance of discovering a mark for each action is given by the following formula:

[math]\displaystyle{ \text{Mark Chance} = \frac{\text{Action Time}}{\left ( \text{Tier} + 1 \right )^2 \times 200} \times \text{Equipped Modifier} }[/math]

Where:

Tier is the familiar's tier
Equipped Modifier is either:
- 2.5 if the familiar for which marks are being discovered is equipped & discovered in a non-Combat skill
- 2 if the familiar is equipped & discovered in a
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  Combat skill
- 1 otherwise
Action Time is the time the action takes in seconds, which for Combat is the player's attack speed. Note that for the following skills, the value used here is fixed to the following, regardless of the actual time the action takes to complete:

Skill	Seconds per Action
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cooking	85% of the recipe's base cooking interval
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Smithing	1.7
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Fletching	1.3
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Crafting	1.65
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Runecrafting	1.7
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Herblore	1.7
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Summoning	4.85

Note: For

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Firemaking

the highest chance is achieved when burning the log with the highest

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level, rather than simply choosing the log with the lowest burn time. See below for more information.

To convert the probability into the number of required actions with a certain confidence, you can use the formula:

[math]\displaystyle{ \text{Number of actions with Confidence} = \left\lceil{\frac{\log\left({1-\text{Confidence Chance}}\right)}{\log\left({1-\text{Mark Chance}}\right)}}\right\rceil }[/math]

Where:

Mark Chance is the Mark Chance from above
Confidence Chance is the chance that you will have found one mark in the resulting number of actions. For example, if you want to be 50% sure you got one mark in this many actions, use .5 here. If you want to be 90% sure, use .9, etc.

Here is a table for the number of actions needed for a given confidence for marks with fixed interval lengths as an example (these intervals don't change, for the other marks, or other confidence amounts, you can use the formula):

Skill	Summon	Tier	50% Confidence	75% Confidence	90% Confidence	95% Confidence
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Smithing	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Salamander	3	1305	2609	4334	5638
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Fletching	Beaver	5	3839	7678	12752	16591
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Runecrafting	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Crow	2	734	1468	2437	3171
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Herblore	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Bear	3	1305	2609	4334	5638
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Summoning	Fox	5	1029	2058	3418	4446

Maximising Mark Discovery Chance

The chance of acquiring marks over time for a familiar can be increased by:

Equipping tablets of that same familiar. This multiplies the chance by 2.5x for non-combat skills (excluding
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Alt. Magic), and double the chance for
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Combat skills as well as
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Alt. Magic
Burning the log with the highest
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Mastery level for
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Firemaking. Due to the fixed action time above varying per log, the log with the highest mastery level is the quickest relative to the base burn interval, which in turn maximises the mark chance
Minimising the action time for the following resource-consuming skills:
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Cooking,
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Smithing,
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Fletching,
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Crafting,
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Runecrafting, and
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Herblore. This improves the rate at which marks are acquired. For any other skills, changes to the action time have no impact on the rate of mark acquisition, although longer actions are usually preferable to reduce the number of tablets consumed over time
For
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Combat in particular:
- Maximising the player's chance to hit will improve the acquisition rate as marks are only rolled on successful hits, not misses
- Using weapons with special attacks that make multiple attacks does not increase the chance of discovering marks, as the action time used for hits beyond the first is the time since the last hit rather than the base attack interval

Gaining Summoning XP

Once the player has at least one Summoning Mark, they can begin leveling Summoning. There are two ways to gain Summoning XP: Creating Summoning Tablets, and using Summoning Tablets. Note however that only tablet creation grants

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XP.

Creating Summoning Tablets

Creating Summoning Tablets is a slow process relative to other artisan skills. Each action takes 5 seconds by default and produces 25 tablets.

The interval can be reduced by using -5% with

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Forest Trail

, -5% with

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Elite Pillar of Expertise

, -3% with the

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, -5% from

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Qimican

, -15% with the Eagle and Fox synergy, -10% with the Superior Summoning Skillcape, -10% with the Summoner's Altar, -2% with Harold, -3% with 944

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Cartography

Hex Mastery, -1s with the Necromancer Set (purchased from the

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Shop

with Slayer Coins), -0.3s with Old Summoning Gloves, and -0.2s with Ring of Summoning. This gives a total of 58% interval reduction and 1.5s flat interval reduction resulting in a 0.6s action time. The number of tablets created can be increased by +3 with

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Runic Trail

, +6 with

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Elite Pillar of Endowment

, +20 with

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, up to +5 with Necromancer Potion, +2 for each Necromancer Set piece and an additional +5 when wearing the entire set, +15 with Summoning Scrolls, +3 with Old Summoning Gloves, +10 with the 95% Mastery Pool Checkpoint for Summoning, +10 with the Summoning Skillcape, and +10 at 99 mastery for that tablet for a total of +95 additional tablets per craft.

Regardless of the number of tablets created, the same amount of XP will be earned for each action. The base amount of XP earned is equal to

[math]\displaystyle{ \text{XP Gained} = 5 + 2 \times \lfloor \text{Summoning Level Required} \times 0.2 \rfloor }[/math]

For example, creating

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summoning tablets (requiring

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Level 25

) will grant [math]\displaystyle{ 5 + 2 \times \lfloor 25 \times 0.2 \rfloor = 15 }[/math] xp.

Using Familiars

Summoning XP can be gained much more quickly by using the Summoning Tablets once created. XP is gained whenever a tablet charge is used. For non-combat tablets, this occurs whenever the player does an action in the relevant skill. For combat tablets, this occurs each time the familiar attack bar fills, which has a base 3 second interval. Additionally,

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Occultist

and

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Witch

Summoning Tablets will only be consumed, and provide XP, through combat, not

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Alt. Magic

.

XP gained follows a formula that is based on the level of the summon and the amount of time the action took (in seconds):

[math]\displaystyle{ \text{XP Gained} = \frac{\text{Action Time} \times \text{Summoning Level Required} \times 10}{\text{Summoning Level Required} + 10} \times\text{XP Boosts} }[/math]

Where [math]\displaystyle{ \text{XP Boosts} }[/math] is the total amount of Global XP, Summoning Skill XP, Non-Combat Skill XP, and any additional XP modifiers that apply to Summoning.

For example, when cooking with

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