Zanik's crossbow

Zanik's crossbow is both a quest item used during the The Chosen Commander quest as well as a high level crossbow that is one of the rewards for its completion.

As part of the quest, the player must augment Zanik's existing crossbow with additional items, reassemble it when broken, and then use its special attack to defeat the Bandos Avatar. During this time, while the Bone bolts used by the bow must be wielded, the crossbow itself cannot be. Instead, a dialogue option allows use of the special attack.

After quest completion, the player retains the augmented crossbow, which requires 48 Ranged to wield. While similar in appearance to the Dorgeshuun crossbow, it has significantly higher stats similar to that of an adamant crossbow. It can fire up to adamant bolts (including bone bolts, but excluding enchanted bolts). It cannot fire broad-tipped bolts. It has a negative Prayer bonus, but wielding a prayer book, Falador shield 2 or Falador shield 3 in the shield slot cancels that out.

The special attack, Defiance, takes up 50% of the special attack bar and deals increased damage (3-15) to players using Prayers and/or equipment marked by the gods. When used, lightning seems to blast out from the crossbow.

Under the right conditions, the special attack can hit for a max of 59.

Should players lose the crossbow, they may retrieve it from Oldak in exchange for an adamant crossbow.

Trivia

 * It is one of only two pieces of equipment to have a negative Prayer bonus, the other being the Ancient staff.
 * It is a good alternative for training Ranged because it can fire Bone bolts, which are only 4 coins each in the Grand Exchange.
 * Its rough price is the same as an adamant crossbow, which means it is strong yet cheap to replace.
 * In the first few hours of the release the player would receive a debug message when using the Special Attack;
 * [[Image:Zcbowdebug.png]]


 * Although all enchanted bolts up to Diamond are considered to be up to Adamant, they are unable to be used with Zanik's Crossbow.
 * Zanik's crossbow and the Dorgeshuun Crossbow are the only crossbows with special attacks.
 * While it looks like the Dorgeshuun Crossbow, the holding positions are slightly different with Zanik's crossbow being held slightly closer to the body.
 * When you use the crossbow's special,sometimes,even if the target isn't wearing god stuff or using prayer, you'll still do extra damage. This might be a glitch, but no proof it is has been shown.