Crystal bow



The Crystal bow is a powerful bow available for purchase from Islwyn after a player completes the Roving Elves quest, and is an optional reward from the quest alongside the crystal shield. To wield the crystal bow, a player must also have 70 Ranged, and 50 Agility. It may also be purchased and sold on the grand exchange after being bought from Islwyn while it is in a "New" state. The completion of Roving Elves is still required to wield the bow if a player obtains it in this manner. However, recharged bows do not count as "new" bows. Many high level players use this for slayer due to high accuracy and hit.

The crystal bow degrades during use. When a player first obtains a crystal bow, it will be a New Crystal Bow. After 250 shots, it degrades into a "Crystal Bow 9/10", and for every 250 shots thereafter it will degrade another 1/10th, until it reverts into a crystal seed after a total of 2,500 shots. As the crystal bow degrades, its ranged attack bonus drops, as shown on the table below. Once the crystal bow has reverted to a crystal seed, a player can buy a New Crystal Bow for the cost of 900,000 coins, or have their crystal seed enchanted into a bow by Ilfeen. While having the seed re-enchanted costs 900,000 coins for the first time, the price lowers by 180k each time you get it re-enchanted, from 900k initially to a minimum of 180k.



Maximum hit
The maximum hit for the crystal bow is 25% of your range level. For example, if your range level is 70, your max hit is 17-18. You can increase this by using a ranged potion. Although 25% of your range skill is its max hit at 10/10, when your bow is on 1/10 it will have fallen to 20%.

Bugs

 * Shortly after its release, players were able to buy the fully charged bow for 180,000 coins in a member server, then high alchemy the same item for 540,000 in free-to-play. Jagex banned the accounts that abused this bug and prevented all players from casting alchemy on member items in free-to-play servers.


 * When the new high-detail graphics came out in a beta stage, players using the crystal bow to attack would see the bow pulled back instead of the string on the bow. (This was fixed.)

Trivia

 * When attempting to light a fire using the crystal bow, a message appears which says that the crystal bow doesn't have a string, therefore lacking the catalyst of lighting a fire. Before the HD update this was true, but now a player can easily tell that a crystal bow does have a string otherwise.
 * Even though it takes only 50 agility to wield the crystal bow, an agility level of 56 is needed to complete the Regicide quest, which is a prerequisite to complete the Roving elves quest. It is possible to complete Regicide using agility level boosts to reach level 56.  It is however, possible to buy the bow from the Grand Exchange at full charge, but it cannot be wielded until Roving Elves is complete.
 * The "arrow" appears in your hand even before you pull back on the Crystal bow
 * As with javelins and throwing axes when equipping arrows and bolts the ranged strength does not change.
 * When the bow fully degrades, it appears as a Crystal seed in your weapon slot. When you unequip the seed, you can not equip it again.