Gravite chargebow

The Gravite shortbow is a ranged weapon obtained as reward through the Dungeoneering skill. It can use arrows up to Runite. The gravite shortbow requires a Ranged level of 45 and a Dungeoneering level of 45 to wield. Each gravite shortbow initially starts at 20% charge. A fully recharged gravite shortbow will last 10 hours in combat before it cannot be used. Once these charges have been used up, it can be recharged, for a fee, by the Rewards trader.

The Gravite shortbow is currently the most accurate shortbow in free-to-play worlds. It is more accurate than the maple shortbow, which gives a ranged attack bonus of +29. It is possible to have a maximum range attack bonus of +88 with this bow in F2p, as it has 18 more bonus than a maple shortbow. This brings the accuracy of this bow close to (but still below) that of a gravite 2h, but with a faster attack speed. A player with a high range level could possibly out-dps the gravite 2h with this weapon.

If one chooses to repair the shortbow with coins only, then using the Gravite shortbow with bronze arrows is more expensive than using a Maple shortbow with mithril arrows, in which case a Gravite Shortbow sacrifices about +9 ranged strength by substituting a mithril arrow and thus gaining +18 ranged bonus while maintaining monetary costs per shot, or a 2:1 ratio of accuracy per strength bonus trade-off.

Due to recharging and initial token costs this weapon is not very popular, as it is rather costly compared to the critical usefulness of a few accuracy bonuses in a typical F2P PvP situation in that any counteracting difference in defence while fighting against a rune-armored player with high defence a long-sighted bow would offer a more immediately tactical solution as opposed to adding almost useless accuracy in regard to DPS when it comes to bringing 1 defence pure's LP down to 0.

Similar to the Maple longbow (sighted), the Gravite shortbow can use arrows up to Rune for ammo. Rune arrows being a members' object, however, this is only possible on members' worlds.

Repair costs
When first bought, the weapon is 20% charged. Repair costs come in 1% increments; you can repair them whenever there's at least 1% charge missing.
 * 100% charged (Fully charged) – no cost.
 * 99% charged – 10,000 coins or 1,000 coins and 65 tokens.
 * 90% charged – 100,000 coins or 10,000 coins and 650 tokens.
 * 0% charged (No charge) – 1,000,000 coins or 100,000 coins and 6,500 tokens.

Trivia

 * Even though the gravite shortbow can use arrows up to rune, Runescape's Knowledge Base says it can only use up to adamant.
 * It has stats comparable to a Yew Shortbow/Yew Longbow.
 * Gravite shortbow can use arrows up to rune in member servers. In free-to-play servers, rune arrows are member items.
 * Since Ranged Attack Bonus only determines ranged accuracy, the Gravite Shortbow is the 2nd most accurate bow in F2P (behind the maple longbow (sighted)).
 * Because a maple longbow (sighted) has over twice the range bonus as the gravite shortbow, and the longbow sight costs only 10,000 tokens, getting the gravite shortbow is not a very popular weapon choice. Also, the Gravite shortbow degrades and needs continuous payment, whereas the sighted longbow does not degrade. However, the Gravite shortbow attacks faster than the sighted longbow, which is its main advantage and could deliver high blows much faster than the sighted longbow.
 * The Gravite Shortbow used to cost 90,000 Dungeoneering Tokens before the 21 April 2010 update.