OSRS Necklace of Fangs guide 2026: the new mid-level ranged necklace

What the Necklace of Fangs is

The Necklace of Fangs is a ranged necklace added in the Summer Sweep Up Miscellaneous update on 2 September 2026. It provides +12 ranged accuracy and +1 ranged strength, which puts it in an interesting spot: jewellery with ranged strength is rare outside of the Amulet of Anguish, so anything with +1 str on a necklace has an instant niche.

Jagex's stated position in the update is that it fills a gap for mid-level Slayer players before the Anguish — a cheap alternative that lets you gain ranged offence on a necklace without needing the 90+ range and the price tag of the Anguish.

• +12 ranged accuracy.
• +1 ranged strength (rare on a necklace outside Anguish).
• Intended as a pre-Anguish jewellery option.
• Dropped by a common Slayer task.

How to get it

The necklace drops 1/128 from both Turoths and Spiked Turoths. Both are Slayer-exclusive monsters: you can only kill them on a Turoth task, and the task is assigned by Slayer masters from mid-game onward. Turoths require 55 Slayer to be assigned and are a fairly common mid-tier task.

Spiked Turoths are the Wilderness variant of Turoths and count for the same drop table. Since the drop is 1/128, most players obtain a handful within a single task; if you are farming one specifically, a Turoth task with the extension unlocked is the reliable route.

Where it fits in your gear

The value question is necklace choice before you own an Amulet of Anguish. The Necklace of Fangs trades the Fury's +8 accuracy across all styles — but no ranged strength — for a necklace that gives +12 ranged accuracy and +1 ranged strength when you are using ranged only.

In practice, for ranged-only content below 90 Ranged, the +1 ranged strength often wins or ties the Fury on your max hit budget, which is a meaningful bump on defence-heavy bosses. As soon as you own an Anguish it beats it outright, so treat the Fangs as the pre-Anguish step rather than an endgame item.

• Below Anguish: competes with the Fury for ranged-only raids and bosses.
• +1 ranged strength can push max hit rings before 90 ranged.
• Anguish still strictly better once owned.
• Cheap per drop, so it is worth keeping multiple for risky content.

Value and conclusion

The Necklace of Fangs is a small but genuinely useful addition for the mid-game: it is a common-task drop, it costs little, and it gives a real ranged offence bump at a point where the Anguish is out of reach. If you are on Turoth tasks anyway, there is no reason not to keep the ones that drop.

For ironmen without an Anguish it is particularly valuable as a progress item, and for mains it is a cheap alternative until you buy the Anguish. It does not change any endgame BiS list, but it does exactly what the Summer Sweep Up series aimed for: plugging a visible progression hole.