Wise Old Man tasks
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Released | 6 June 2005 (Update) | ||||||||||||||||||
Type | Minigame | ||||||||||||||||||
Members | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
Location | Draynor Village | ||||||||||||||||||
League region | Misthalin✓ | ||||||||||||||||||
Participants | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
Skills | None | ||||||||||||||||||
Reward currency | None | ||||||||||||||||||
Tutorial | No | ||||||||||||||||||
Music | None | ||||||||||||||||||
The Wise Old Man can assign various tasks on member worlds and give small rewards in return.
The most common tasks are to fetch between 3 and 15 of one of the following items (this list may not be exhaustive). They can be brought in more than one batch. The Wise Old Man doesn't accept bank notes, as they have no use to him.
There are 59 tasks in total that can be assigned, each of which is allotted an equal weight.[1] That said, the Wise Old Man will not request an item if the adventurer lacks the skill to create it themselves.
Item delivery
These make up approximately 82% of all tasks.
Easy task items
Hard task items
Letter delivery
Some tasks require the player to deliver a letter to one of the following NPCs. In these cases the recipient will reward the player, rather than the Wise Old Man. The player can read the letter before delivering it. These make up approximately 16% of all tasks.
The drop trick used to allow players to complete these tasks significantly more efficiently than anticipated, and it has been patched to no longer work for these tasks.
- Abbot Langley in the Edgeville Monastery
- Father Aereck of Lumbridge Church
- Father Lawrence in Varrock
- The High Priest of Entrana
- The Oracle on Ice Mountain
- Reldo, librarian of Varrock
- Thurgo, south of Port Sarim
The thing under the bed
Finally, the Wise Old Man will occasionally ask the player to investigate the thing under his bed; the player must then defeat it in combat. These make up approximately 2% of all tasks.
Rewards
The task reward for killing the thing under the bed is 280-300 Hitpoints experience. Upon completing a delivery task, the player will receive a random reward from the lists below whereas completing an item task the player will receive either Prayer experience or a random reward from the lists below.
Prayer experience
If a player has at least level 3 Prayer they will be awarded Prayer experience 43.75% of the time. Players receive between 185-215 experience for an easy task and between 370-430 experience for a hard task.
Coins
An easy task will reward 185-215 coins, and a hard task will award 990-1020. If the player has less than level 3 Prayer, the rate for coins is 9/16.
Item | Quantity | Rarity | Price | High Alch | |
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Coins | 180–220 | 2/16 | 180–220 | 180–220 | |
Coins | 990–1,020 | 2/16 | 990–1,020 | 990–1,020 |
Gems
The gem table is rolled 6.25% of the time.
Item | Quantity | Rarity | Price | High Alch | |
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Uncut sapphire | 1 | Uncommon | 238 | 15 | |
Uncut opal | 1 | Uncommon | 390 | 12 | |
Uncut red topaz | 1 | 2/25[2] | 2,765 | 24 | |
Uncut emerald | 1 | Uncommon | 463 | 30 | |
Uncut ruby | 1 | Uncommon | 988 | 60 | |
Uncut jade | 1 | Uncommon | 127 | 18 | |
Uncut diamond | 1 | Rare | 2,142 | 120 |
Runes
The runes table is rolled 12.5% of the time. An easy task will reward 10 sets of runes, and a hard task will award 25. A "set of runes" consists of one of the following: 1 chaos, 1 nature, 1 law, 1 fire, 2 mind, 2 body, 2 earth, 2 water, 3 air runes. Each set is equally likely.
Item | Quantity | Rarity | Price | High Alch | |
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Air rune | 3–75 | Common | 15–375 | 6–150 | |
Water rune | 2–50 | Common | 10–250 | 4–100 | |
Earth rune | 2–50 | Common | 10–250 | 4–100 | |
Body rune | 2–50 | Common | 16–400 | 2–50 | |
Mind rune | 2–50 | Common | 6–150 | 2–50 | |
Fire rune | 1–25 | Common | 5–125 | 2–50 | |
Law rune | 1–25 | Common | 127–3,175 | 144–3,600 | |
Nature rune | 1–25 | Common | 107–2,675 | 108–2,700 | |
Chaos rune | 1–25 | Common | 102–2,550 | 54–1,350 |
Herbs
The herb table is rolled 12.5% of the time. An easy task will reward 3 herbs, and a hard task will award 10 herbs.
Item | Quantity | Rarity | Price | High Alch | |
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Grimy guam leaf | 1–10 (noted) | Common | 326–3,260 | 7–70 | |
Grimy marrentill | 1–10 (noted) | Common | 398–3,980 | 8–80 | |
Grimy tarromin | 1–10 (noted) | Common | 379–3,790 | 9–90 | |
Grimy ranarr weed | 1–10 (noted) | Common | 6,709–67,090 | 18–180 | |
Grimy harralander | 1–10 (noted) | Common | 676–6,760 | 9–90 |
Seeds
The seeds table is rolled 12.5% of the time.
References
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