Summoning

Summoning is a skill which teaches players to infuse the essence of a variety of creatures into Summoning pouches, then summon these creatures, called familiars.

Players must create pouches in order to gain experience. Although Summoning is a slow skill to train, it is one of the most useful skills, not only to help you last longer at bosses, but also to help in training certain skills like Fishing or Runecrafting.

The Summoning skill has the same procedure as Prayer in the way that Summoning points are drained when a familiar is summoned; Much like if a prayer was activated. Like prayer points, summoning points do not automatically recharge, so they must be recharged at a Summoning Obelisk or by drinking a Summoning potion or a Super restore. The obelisk is located in Catherby.



Getting Started
Before you will be able to train, you'll need to gather charms. Charms are dropped from the monsters inhabiting Katagon. Generally stronger monsters (Frost Dragons for example) will drop more of the higher level Crimson and Blue charms.

There are 4 types of charms:
 * Gold charms (Requires 1 Summoning to use)
 * Green charms (Requires 67 Summoning to use)
 * Crimson charms (Requires 92 Summoning to use)
 * Blue charms (Requires 36 Summoning to use)

Supplies
In addition to the charms, you'll need Spirit Shards, Pouches, and a tertiary ingrediant that determines what familar you'll be making. Pikkupstik, located behind the Mage's Guild, sells some of the tertiary items you'll need. The other tertiary items can be bought on the Grand Exchange.

Protip: To avoid having to purchase the Spirit Shards in increments of 500, buy X amount in the Grand Exchange.

Familiars
Summoning pouches are used to summon familiars. The creation of a pouch is relatively simple: it is created by infusing the appropriate items in your backpack which can then be summoned using the pouch. A pouch is used up when a familiar is summoned, and it is not restored when the familiar is dismissed.

Charms
Gold charms are used to create pouches for the following familiars:

Green charms are used to create pouches for the following familiars:

Crimson charms are used to create pouches for the following familiars:

Blue charms are used to create pouches for the following familiars: