Divination is one of the skills in RuneScape 3 and is a mix of gathering and processing skills. Gathering activities in divination revolves around obtaining divination energies. While on the processing side, you can use divination energies to make various types of portents and signs. As with most skills, you can improve your divination activities with familiars. Familiars are creatures summoned using the Summoning skill that aids you in different activities. In this RuneScape 3 divination familiars guide, we’ll run through various familiars helpful for divination and help you determine the best one for you.
Best Divination Familiar for Money-Making / Energy Gathering: Nightmare Muspah
Nightmare Muspah is a familiar that you can summon using a Nightmare Muspah pouch. You can make this pouch by using a summoning pouch, 150 elder energy, a muspah spine, and an elder charm on a summoning obelisk. This pouch is also buyable from the Grand Exchange. Keep in mind that you need to have level 81 Summoning to be able to make and summon this familiar. Furthermore, summoning this familiar also consumes 100 Summoning points.
Nightmare Muspah is a Beast of Burden familiar that is used for divination. While most other Beast of Burden familiars can store various types of items in their inventory, Nightmare Muspah can only hold divination energies and memories. This familiar will allow you to gather from divination wisps for a longer time. Furthermore, Nightmare Muspah gives you a 5% chance to gather 4x the energy from divination wisps. Nightmare Muspah will also provide a 3% chance to gather enriched memories. Therefore, all those effects make the Nightmare Muspah the best familiar for divination money-making and RuneScape 3 best divination familiars in general.
Best Divination Familiar for XP: Light Creature
Light Creature is a familiar that you can summon using a Light Creature pouch. You can make this pouch by using a summoning pouch, 204 spirit shards, a light core, and a blue charm on a summoning obelisk. Alternatively, you can buy this pouch from the Grand Exchange. Keep in mind that you need to have level 88 Summoning to be able to make and summon this familiar. Furthermore, summoning this familiar also consumes 100 Summoning points.
Light Creature gives you a 10% chance to instantly convert divination memories and destroy divination energies for an enhanced divination experience. You can increase the chance for this effect to occur to 50% by using the Light Creature scroll (Enlightenment). Keep in mind that this familiar is better XP-wise compared to Nightmare Muspah only when you use the Light Creature scroll. You better stick with the Nightmare Muspah if you’re unwilling to use the scroll.
Waterfiend
The waterfiend is a familiar that you can summon using a binding contract (waterfiend). Different from a summoning pouch, a binding contract is made using Archaeology. This binding contract is tradable and is available on the Grand Exchange. Keep in mind that you need to have level 50 Summoning to be able to summon this familiar.
The waterfiend gives you a 5% chance to duplicate items gathered using Divination, Woodcutting, Fishing, Mining, and Archaeology. The duplicated items are stored within the familiar’s inventory, so make sure to withdraw them to your inventory periodically or right before the familiar is about to vanish.