Vial
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- This article is about the item used mostly in Herblore. For the item used in Lunar Diplomacy, see Vial (Lunar Diplomacy).
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| Members only? | No |
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| Quest item? | Yes - Various |
| Tradeable? | Yes |
| Equipable? | No |
| Stacks? | No |
| High Alchemy | 1 coins |
| Low Alchemy | 0 coins |
| Destroy | Drop |
| Store price | 5 coins (Jatix) |
| Exchange price | 28 coins update |
| GE Database | Look up price |
| Examine | An empty glass vial. |
| Weight | 0 kg |
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A Vial is a glass container that players generally use in Herblore to make and store potions. They can fill a vial with water by using it on a water source (all the vials in their inventory will fill automatically), or by using the lunar spell Humidify. Alternatively, they can use half a coconut on it to fill the vial with coconut milk. They can then add a herb and a secondary ingredient to make a potion, depending on their Herblore level.
In real life a vial would be cylindrical, whereas in RuneScape it has a wide bottom and tapered top. This makes it more like an Erlenmeyer flask.
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[edit] Obtaining vials for free
[edit] Members
Members can make a vial via the Crafting skill by using a glassblowing pipe on a piece of molten glass (which they can make for free), and then choosing "vial" when selecting the item they want to make. Making a vial requires level 33 Crafting, and will give 35 experience points[1].
Two vials also spawn in Frincos's Fabulous Herb Store in south-west Entrana. A vial is also obtained through the Swept Away quest.
[edit] Non-members
Even though vials are mostly used in Herblore (a members-only skill), they are not a members-only item. The apothecary can make a strength potion to any player who supplies him with a limpwurt root and red spiders' eggs, and pays him 5 coins[2]. The player can empty this vial or drink all the doses of the potion to obtain an empty vial. (This is not recommended due to the valuable nature of the potion.)
Before it was removed, players could obtain a good number of vials simply by waiting outside Bounty Hunter, as player-killers used potions and then dropped the vials because they could not be taken into the craters.
Vials are also an incredibly common low value drop in PVP worlds and many can be collected in a short period of time.
[edit] Obtaining vials as drops from monsters
Some non-player characters, like Chaos Druids, will drop vials when killed. Water Elementals always drop a vial of water, and are close to the bank. They are level 34, and players must have at least started Elemental Workshop I.
[edit] Buying vials
[edit] From NPCs
Members can buy vials in a Herblore shop (for example from Jatix in Taverley), or buy plant cures from gardeners and then empty the vial. Players can also buy them from the general stores in the following places:
- Keldagrim - at Gunslik's Assorted Items. This is quite close to a bank without the need for any teleports
- Shilo Village - at Obli's General Store. This is also close to a bank, with no teleports required
- Mort'ton - at Rasmire's General Store. Players need to have completed Shades of Mort'ton and In Aid of the Myreque
Other places to buy vials from NPCs include:
- Aemad's Adventuring Supplies in East Ardougne
- Frincos's Fabulous Herb Store on Entrana
- Sigmund the Merchant in Rellekka - he sells empty and water-filled vials, and players can bank on Lunar Isle via a teleport (or, if the player is wearing Fremennik Sea Boots they can bank faster with Peer the Seer making this the fastest method of merching water-filled vials because you can buy them for 10 gp and sell them for 58 gp
[edit] From other players
After the Shop Improvement update in October 2007, the street prices of empty and water-filled vials dropped in price substantially, because shops began stocking them in infinite quantities. This in turn caused drops in the prices of several potions, due to the ease of obtaining vials.
The Grand Exchange (GE) was introduced the following month, and players can use this to trade vials freely with other players - the current price is 28 coins each. Even though the street price has dropped, players can buy vials from NPCs and sell them on the GE for a profit, if they are willing to spend the time to do so.
The 2 September 2009 Personalised Shops update removed infinite quantities and replaced them with shops unique to each player account, so that one player's purchases or sales did not affect what was available to another player. Store quantities were reduced to 300, with a respawn rate of approximately 12.5 vials per hour. This does not appear to have had a significant impact on the market for vials.
[edit] Making Vials
Using the Crafting skill, members can make their own vials. This requires a glassblowing pipe, a molten glass, and 33 crafting and gives 35 experience per vial made.
[edit] Trivia
When trying to use a empty vial on the red mist from killing Armoured zombies it will say: "I don't seem to be able to collect the mist with this."
When you use a vial on a well it will say "If I drop my vial down there, I don't think I'm likely to get it back."
Vials appear to have a cork inserted into the top, however nowhere during the process of making a vial do you come into contact with cork.
In 20th of November Vials Skyrocketed from 38gp to 95gp in one day!
