has anyone done a massive test on the ROW? say get a team of people togeather and kill 10k abbys, with ROW, and without ROW. Log all the drops and then you could compair them. Do this with various monsters and then you can get a good idea. As it is right now rare drops are so uncommon that peoples sample size is way to small to answer this question. The "average" player hasn't had anywhere close to enough rare drops on runescape to know if it matters. IMO the ring of wealth does help a little, but i think that if you have a warrior or a zerker ring it is more useful for everyday fighting, only use the ROW for monsters where you are going there mainly for a rare drop, not the xp. Such as the KBD, KQ, metal drags, Tzhaar monsters (maybe), daggs, ect...