RuneScape: How to Craft and Empower the Essence of Finality Amulet
This guide walks you through everything you need to know about how to craft, enhance, and utilize the Essence of Finality amulet to its full potential.
What Is the Essence of Finality Amulet?
The Essence of Finality amulet is a hybrid-tier amulet that combines the stats of the Amulet of Souls and the Reaper Necklace, while also allowing you to store a weapon’s special attack for use alongside other weapons. It’s highly sought after in high-level bossing and slayer content due to its unmatched versatility and power.
Key Benefits:
Inherits the +24 Prayer bonus and life point bonuses of Amulet of Souls.
Grants Reaper Necklace's critical hit chance and healing buff.
Allows storing a special attack from any weapon to use at will.
Has multiple variants (melee, ranged, magic) depending on the combat style.
How to Craft the Essence of Finality Amulet
Crafting the Essence of Finality requires multiple high-level components and 99 Crafting and Invention. It's a mid- to late-endgame item, so be prepared to invest some time and gold.
Requirements:
Amulet of Souls
Reaper Necklace
Alchemy Catalyst (purchased via Death's Store)
Level 99 Invention and Crafting
Access to a Furnace
Gold (millions of GP)
Step-by-Step Crafting Process:
1. Get an Amulet of Souls
Requires 91 Crafting to make (or buy from Grand Exchange).
Combine a Hydrix with an Amulet of Fury and use a cut Hydrix gem.
2. Get a Reaper Necklace
Combine a Hydrix with a Blood Necklace Shard (dropped by Edimmu in the Slayer Tower).
Requires 91 Crafting and Invention.
3. Buy the Alchemical Hydrix
Purchase Hydrix components from the Death's Store (Reaper points).
Requires Alchemy Catalyst and several rare materials like Fortune components, Precious components, and Refined components.
Use Invention to create the Alchemical Hydrix.
4. Combine the Items
Use the Alchemical Hydrix, Reaper Necklace, and Amulet of Souls at any Furnace.
You will craft the Essence of Finality Amulet (unempowered).
How to Empower the Essence of Finality Amulet
Once crafted, the amulet must be empowered with a weapon special attack, allowing it to unleash that attack regardless of what weapon you're using.
Empowerment Process:
Have the Weapon You Want to Store
Example: Dragon Claws, Zaros Godsword, or Statius's Warhammer.
The weapon must have a special attack.
Use the Weapon on the Amulet
Right-click the Essence of Finality amulet and choose “Add Special Attack.”
Select the weapon from your inventory.
The weapon is consumed permanently, so make sure you're ready!
Using the Stored Special
Use the Essence of Finality special attack ability in your ability bar.
It has its own cooldown, separate from your active weapon.
You can recharge the amulet using another of the same weapon if needed.
Note: You can remove the special with the Essence Removal Scroll, but the weapon will not be returned unless using special methods (requires more Reaper points).
Best Special Attacks to Store
Choosing the right special attack is crucial depending on your build and bossing strategy.
Popular Picks:
Dragon Claws – Delivers devastating melee burst damage.
Dark Bow – Heavy Ranged AoE damage.
Zaros Godsword – Great for single-target PvM with healing.
Statius’s Warhammer – Reduces enemy defense, very PvM-friendly.
Korasi’s Sword (seasonal/limited) – Massive magic burst if available.
Repairing and buy RuneScape gold Charging the Amulet
The Essence of Finality amulet degrades to a broken state after 100,000 charges in combat.
How to Repair:
Use Coins and Divine Charges to repair it at any armor stand.
Or use a Repair NPC like Bob in Lumbridge or Perdu in Edgeville.
Can be repaired from the Inventory interface if you have Repair Patches (Invention).
Costs and Tips
Approximate Cost to Craft (GE prices may vary):
Reaper Necklace: ~30–40M GP
Amulet of Souls: ~20–25M GP
Alchemical Hydrix: ~40M+ GP (materials + Reaper points)
Weapon (depends: Dragon Claws ~80M, etc.)
Tips:
Buy the weapon you want to store last to prevent price fluctuation.
Consider storing niche or limited special attacks that benefit multiple builds.
Use Essence of Finality (ornamental) for fashion + function.
Final Thoughts
The Essence of Finality amulet is an absolute endgame powerhouse. Not only does it combine the benefits of two of the best necklaces in RuneScape, but it also gives you access to powerful weapon specials while using any weapon. It can drastically improve your bossing efficiency, Slayer output, and PvP burst potential.
If you're serious about high-level content in RuneScape, the Essence of Finality should be one of your top equipment goals.