Imbuing

Imbuing is the process of upgrading or enhancing certain items. Most imbues are rewards from Nightmare Zone, whilst others are imbued by other means.

Points earned in Nightmare Zone can be spent in the reward shop to imbue certain items. Imbuing an item provides extra bonuses and appends an (i) to the item name. Imbued items can be uncharged, which removes their bonuses and refunds 100% of the reward points it would cost to imbue the base item. Completing the Hard Combat Achievements tier reduces the cost of imbuing all items by 50%. Note that after claiming the rewards for the Hard Combat Achievements, the refunded points will be calculated over the current cost of imbuing an item, even if an item was imbued before completing the Hard Combat Achievements.

In order to get the "free" NMZ points, it is critical that you uncharge all imbued items before going to Ghommal to claim the rewards (you can however cross the point threshold for Hard Combat Achievements before). Once you claim the rewards, the 50% cost reduction is applied and then you should reimbue all the items. Uncharging all items returns 7,825,000 points of which 3,912,500 (utilizing the reduced cost perk of the Hard Combat Achievements) must be spent to reimbue all items. This nets you 3,912,500 points, or 50% of the original points spent. Spending these points on Herb boxes would yield 411 boxes for a value of 2,645,828.55.

As the number of refunded points is based on your current Combat Achievements rewards, this process can be repeated if your number of Combat Achievement points drops out of the Hard rewards due to new Easy, Medium, or Hard Combat Achievement tasks being released. Even in this case the number of points refunded doesn't decrease until again claiming the Hard Combat Achievement rewards from Ghommal.

Imbuing the Salve amulet or Salve amulet (e) at Nightmare Zone is an elite task for the Ardougne Diary.

Imbues from the Nightmare Zone are also available at Soul Wars. However, players who imbued their items at the Nightmare Zone cannot un-imbue their items for Zeal Tokens.

Imbuing an item provides extra bonuses and appends an (i) suffix to the item's name. Imbued items can be uncharged, which removes the bonuses from the item and refunds the reward points used to imbue it.

Imbuing all available items would require a total of (3,960) reward points.

A Scroll of imbuing can be purchased from the Emir's Arena reward shop for 200 points. It is used to imbue items similar to the Nightmare Zone and Soul Wars Reward Shop. Items that have been imbued with the scroll can be uncharged to return the scroll to the player, allowing imbues to be swapped to other items freely. Since combat within Emir's Arena does not grant experience, players can imbue their items without gaining combat experience. Players that have already imbued items with NMZ points or Soul Wars Zeal Tokens can un-imbue them and get 100% of the points/tokens back, then re-imbue their items with a Scroll of imbuing.

The magic shortbow can be imbued using a magic shortbow scroll, purchased from Justine's stuff for the Last Shopper Standing, to become a magic shortbow (i), increasing its Ranged attack bonus from +69 to +75 and lowering the special attack cost from 55% to 50%.

The ring of wealth can be imbued using a ring of wealth scroll, purchased from Justine's stuff for the Last Shopper Standing, along with 50,000 coins, to become a ring of wealth (i), the imbued ring doubles the chance to receive a clue scroll drop within the Wilderness.

Molten glass (i), while not a typical imbued item, can be imbued during The Fremennik Exiles quest in order to make lunar glass.

The skull sceptre can be imbued by showing it along with a pair of fancy, fancier or fighting boots (equipped, or in your inventory) to Solztun in the Stronghold of Security, and this stops it breaking after you deplete the teleport charges, and allows it to be recharged with bone fragments or sceptre pieces.

Players with level 75 in Magic can imbue a god cape by taking a Justiciar's hand, Ent's roots and a Demon's heart to Kolodion during Mage Arena II miniquest. After the quest, players can obtain more imbued capes by simply bringing the respective component of the god cape that they wish to imbue or by buying the imbued cape from the Lost Property shop for 250,000; it is not necessary to kill all three god followers again to make another imbued cape. These can also be combined with max capes to become imbued god max capes.