Hexhunter bow (Dungeoneering)

The Hexhunter bow is a bow found in the dungeon of Daemonheim while Dungeoneering. The bow is a unique drop from the Soulgazer, requiring 98 Ranged to wield. Its ranged damage increases as your opponent's magic level increases. The bow is one of the rarest and most sought-after items in Dungeoneering and is a highly recommended bind.

The Hexhunter bow has a better damage rate than melee weapons when fighting forgotten mages, necromancers, reborn mages, dragons, and demons. It is of great help when doing challenge rooms against Mercenary Leaders or Ramokee Skinweavers and Stormbringers as well as ghost rooms. In addition, the bow can be used on monsters like Brutes and Hobgoblins that are weak to range even though they have low magic.

The bow is most useful for bosses which cannot be meleed like Necrolord and one stage of Kal'Ger the Warmonger; however, it outhits melee on many other bosses. These include Shadow-Forger Ihlakhizan, Unholy Cursebearer, Bulwark Beast, Hobgoblin Geomancer, Bal'lak the Pummeller, Runebound Behemoth, Flesh-Spoiler Haasghenahk and World-gorger Shukarhazh as well as many Icy and Furnished bosses. The bow can also be used on Gravecreeper, Dreadnaut, and Blink if the boss' defence has been sufficiently lowered with lots of bloodrager scrolls. Players who bind the Hexhunter bow usually also bind Sagittarian Arrows and set their class rings to quickswitch between Berserker and Desperado.

Though Soulgazers officially require level 99 Slayer to damage, they can be killed by a player with any Slayer level using retribution prayer, wrath curse, and the special effect of the Blood Necklace. However, killing the Soulgazer in this way will result in no drop. Recoil damage, such as deflect curses and the vengeance spell require your slayer level to be 99 to damage the Soulgazer. Players can also use Survivalist's Potions to temporarily raise their Slayer level. The bow can be bound at any Slayer and Ranged level; the only requirement to wield it is 98 Ranged.

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Trivia

 * The current max hit of the Hexhunter bow is at least 964.
 * The Hexhunter bow is now affected by the Desperado Dungeoneering ring after the patch on 19 April 2011.
 * Data from hundreds of Soulgazer kills suggests a droprate of roughly 1/16.
 * Upon receiving 98 Ranged, the level up message says "You can now wield Hexhunter Shortbows within Daemonheim." This is rather strange, as there is no Hexhunter Longbow, and the bow is just referred to as 'Hexhunter Bow' in all other parts of the game.