Watchtower
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Start: talk to Watchtower Wizard.
The Wizards of the Yanille Watch Tower have been reporting increased ogre sightings recently. Use a wide variety of your skills to help the wizards recover their stolen power crystals and stop the advance of the ogre hordes!
Watchtower is a members Old School RuneScape quest rated Intermediate. The OSRS TCG Watchtower card list covers 11 of the items and monsters involved, including Gold bar, Death rune and Dragon bones. This page pairs the quest with those cards and with the open player trades for them; the OSRS Wiki remains the authority on requirements and the walkthrough itself.
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Required items & monsters
Items you need to bring and the monsters you'll fight, paired with their OSRS TCG cards. See the wiki for the full requirement list.
Resource • Clue • Barrows
Lovely money!
Resource
It's a bar of gold.
Resource
Useful for lighting a fire.
Resource • Barrows
Used for medium level missile spells.
Resource
These would feed a dog for months!
Resource
A coil of rope.
Resource
I can grind things for potions in this.
Resource
Ew it's a pile of bones.
Resource • Consumable
They don't look very ripe.
- Any pickaxeany one
- Bronze pickaxe
- orIron pickaxe
- orSteel pickaxe
- orBlack pickaxe
- orMithril pickaxe
- orAdamant pickaxe
- orRune pickaxe
- orDragon pickaxe
Any pickaxe works.
Used: Mining during the shaman-slaying stage.
- Guam potion (unf)any one
Bring a ready-made Guam potion (unf), which has no catalogue card, or combine a guam leaf with a vial of water to make one (the vial is obtainable during the quest).
Used: Making the magic ogre potion to kill the shamans.
Monsters you'll fight
Also required (not collectible cards): Light source.
Walkthrough overview
A brief summary of the quest, noting where each card is used. The OSRS Wiki has the full, authoritative walkthrough.
- 1
Climb the Watchtower north of Yanille and talk to the Watchtower wizard to learn the power crystals were stolen. Search the grounds for fingernails.
- 2
Visit the three ogre tribes: talk to Og (who wants his gold bar back from Toban), swing to Grew's island with a rope for jangerberries, and take on Gorad for his tooth.
- Rope
- Jangerberries
- Dragon bones
- Death rune
- 3
Return Gorad's tooth to Grew and the gold bar to Og to assemble the full ogre relic, receiving the crystals along the way.
- Gold bar
- 4
Use the relic, coins, a tinderbox and a light source to gain access to Gu'Tanoth, then explore the Skavid caves with the Skavid map and light source.
- Coins
- Tinderbox
- Gold bar
- 5
Back at the Watchtower, make the magic ogre potion from a guam potion (unf), bat bones (kill a giant bat), jangerberries and other ingredients using a pestle and mortar.
- Guam potion (unf)
- Bat bones
- Jangerberries
- Pestle and mortar
- 6
Enter the enclave with an anti-dragonfire shield and a pickaxe, use the potion on the six ogre shamans while avoiding blue dragons, then take all four crystals back to the Watchtower and pull the lever to finish.
- Any pickaxe
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OSRS TCG Watchtower — frequently asked
- Which OSRS TCG cards are linked to Watchtower?
- 11 catalogue cards map to Watchtower: Coins, Gold bar, Tinderbox, Death rune, Dragon bones, Rope, Pestle and mortar, Bat bones, Jangerberries, Gorad and Giant bat. They are the quest's items and the monsters you fight that exist as cards in the Old School RuneScape TCG. The mapping is maintained by OSRS Card Exchange; whether something is a card, and its rarity, come from the OSRS TCG catalogue.
- Is Watchtower members only?
- Yes, Watchtower is a members quest. It is rated Intermediate.
- What is the rarest card from Watchtower?
- Gold bar at Rare, which packs land on about 16% of the time. Rarity comes from the card's OSRS TCG score, not from the quest.
- How do I get the OSRS TCG Watchtower cards?
- Pull them from packs in the OSRS TCG RuneLite plugin, or trade for them. Open exchanges for this quest's cards are listed further down this page, and the trade itself happens in the plugin's own Trade window in game.
- Does this page tell me how to complete Watchtower?
- It gives a brief walkthrough overview and maps the quest to its OSRS TCG cards — the items and monsters involved, and who is trading them. For the complete requirements, detailed steps and rewards, the OSRS Wiki link on this page is the authority.
Related cards
Cards that come up around Watchtower but that you don't actually need for it — NPCs mentioned in passing, scenery, or items suggested only for convenience.
Monster
Seems intelligent... for an ogre.
The shamans are destroyed with the magic ogre potion rather than fought as a carried requirement.
Monster
Tough-looking.
An ogre NPC referenced in the tribes, not fought or required.
Monster
A mother dragon.
Blue dragons are avoided in the enclave with an anti-dragon shield, not a required kill.
Resource • Armour
An enchanted ring.
Listed only as an optional teleport shortcut, a convenience not a requirement.
Resource
A candle.
One possible light source mentioned in passing; the light-source requirement is obtained during the quest.
Resource
An empty glass vial.
An empty vial filled at the fountain during the quest, part of making the potion rather than a brought item.
Resource • Consumable
Deadly.
Gathered on-site to distract the enclave guards, not an item you bring.