Zaryte bow

The Zaryte bow is dropped exclusively by Nex, the leader of Zaros' army in the God Wars Dungeon. It requires two hands to wield, level 80 ranged, and degrades over time, but it does not need ammunition, much like the Crystal bow.

It lasts for 10 hours of combat before degrading, and then may be repaired by Bob in Lumbridge or at a Player-owned-house armour stand. It should be noted that the bow does not degrade in increments, and its stats stay the same for the entire 10 hours. The bow will not degrade if it is simply worn. It must be used in combat in order for it to degrade. The bow costs 2 million coins to repair at Bob's Brilliant Axes, or 1 million coins at an Armour stand with level 99 Smithing.

In terms of speed, damage and accuracy, the Zaryte bow is identical to a Chaotic crossbow when used with Rune bolts. However, a shield may be used with the Chaotic crossbow, whereas it cannot with the Zaryte bow, although here you may replace an Ava's Device, which is useful if you have a chaotic crossbow, with a cape. The Chaotic crossbow can also use enchanted bolts such as dragon bolts(e) to inflict heavier damage, bringing the usefulness of this bow into question for those who have achieved the Chaotic crossbow. Generally, most people would prefer the Zaryte bow since there is no need to keep buying arrows. If you die with a crossbow, you lose all the money spent on bolts, but if the Zaryte bow is one of the most expensive things in a player's inventory, then no money will be lost.

The Zaryte bow also has a lower ranged attack than the Magic longbow (sighted) but has +115 to ranged strength bonus while strength of other bows usually depends on the ammunition (max +60 with dragon or god arrows or +70 with a full Crystal bow). This makes the Zaryte bow the strongest bow in the game, but not the strongest ranged weapon as it is surpassed in strength by the hand cannon, several types of bolts and Morrigan's Equipment.

Wielding this bow or any piece of ancient armour will make all factions in the God Wars Dungeon unaggressive.

Trivia

 * In the Behind the Scenes article prior to the release of the Zaryte bow, it was claimed that the bow would be "as powerful as dragonstone-tipped rune bolts". However, upon release the bow only had the power of regular rune bolts (+115 ranged strength), rather than Dragon bolts which give a bonus of +117. The originally claimed power of the bow was additionally misleading in that the bow doesn't have the dragonfire special effect given by Dragon bolts. Although Jagex did not state this, many people believed the bow to have the special effect.
 * A fully repaired Zaryte bow will last for exactly 60,000 game ticks worth of combat. Since the base speed of the bow is 4, it will get exactly 10,000 shots on accurate/longrange stance, or 12,000 attacks on rapid stance before degrading. This works out to a total of 100-200 coins per shot on accurate/longrange, or 83-166 coins per shot on rapid.
 * The Zaryte Bow is currently the most expensive weapon in RuneScape.

Zaryte bow