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, the crossbow itself cannot be equipped. 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 and silver bolts, but excluding gem-tipped and enchanted bolts). It cannot fire broad-tipped bolts.

The special attack, Defiance, takes up 50% of the special attack bar and deals increased damage as follows: When the special attack is used, lightning seems to blast out from the crossbow.
 * 30-150 extra damage against monsters.
 * Up to 150 extra damage against players who are using prayers or are using god-related equipment ('equipment marked by the gods'). Unlike the damage for monsters, no minimum amount of damage is specified attacks on players in the RuneScape Knowledge Base (see here).

Under the right conditions, the special attack can hit well over 600 (150 special attack damage plus the regular damage the crossbow does).

If a player loses their crossbow they can retrieve (one or more) from Oldak in exchange for an adamant crossbow(s).

A player can duplicate the crossbow by using the drop trick and having adamant crossbows.

Trivia

 * Zanik's crossbow is one of the only items with a negative prayer bonus, along with the Ancient staff and the Amulet of zealots.



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