Talk:Crystal bow

When this is expanded, it should be mentioned that the bow's speed was increased on the last day of July, the 31st. (the sameday as the crossbows update)
 * Oh boy, this page really has a lot of information! 01:06, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Absolutely. This page is excellent for a single item. [[image:Woodcuttingimg.PNG]]HYEN- ASTE 22:25, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Is it possible to own the shield as well as the bow at the same time?--Andy mci0 16:47, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

I have an issue with the statement "It is widely considered the best bow in the game," due to many reasons. First of all, it is not used in pking particularly much, if only due to its lack of a special attack. It really doesn't matter how high the range bonus is if you cannot hit quickly enough or high enough. In addition, in terms of training it is outclassed by a rune crossbow with mithril bolts, as both have a very similar average damage per second, with the rune crossbow being considerably cheaper (72 gp per shot with crystal bow as opposed to ~30-40 gp per shot with mithril bolts). It's also useless for staking, due to the fact that a two handed bow is vastly inferior to a one handed weapon and shield. Though the crystal bow has some uses (lack of arrows, useful in castlewars), I doubt that it is considered the best bow in the game by a large number of people.
 * although your points are good you forgot one very important thing. the crystal bow is in bow class ex. yew bow, maple bow. while rune crossbow is in crossbow class ex. adamant crossbow, mithril crossbow. thats like saying darts are better than throwing knives for some reason. so therefore it is still considered the best bow in the game by a large amount of people. im kind of surprised you oversaw that while doing all that stat research. but whether crystal bow is better than rune cross bow is still open to discussion. 0blivi0n 06:31, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

I agree


 * Also, the bow was considered good before all the crossbow updates, but it wasn't widely known (or because of skull not keeping any items) that it would keep over other things, so it wasn't used for dangerous things. 14:31, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Cleanup
I've done some rewording in the first few paragraphs, but I'm not sure what it was originally marked for. Orbie 23:24, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Ranged Strength Bonus
From the update on March 25, I was wondering what the actual ranged strength bonus of the crystal bow was, people have compared it to rune arrows, I'm sure someone will update this soon enough.-- Long Live Armadyl   19:58, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Huge Profit?
Wouldn't it be possible to keep recharging crystal seeds into bows until it takes only 180k to recharge them, buy seeds at 156k each, charge them into bows for 180k, and then sell them for 900k? This seems like a great way for fast profits because eventually you would get your full money back. If it works it might be a good addition to the article. What if you bought seed off of G E?

No, you can only charge one seed down to 180k, then if you buy a new seed, it will cost 900k to charge it.