Maple shieldbow (sighted)

The Maple longbow (sighted) is obtained by attaching a Longbow sight (a reward from the Dungeoneering skill) to a regular Maple longbow. It is a huge improvement to the maple longbow since it increases the Ranged attack bonus by +81 (from +29 to +110). This makes it the most accurate ranged weapon for non-members.

The sight can be bought from the Rewards trader for 10,000 dungeoneering tokens. According to the 10:1 experience to tokens received ratio, one needs 100,000 Dungeoneering experience (approximately level 50 Dungeoneering from level 1) to obtain sufficient tokens. Also, this new update may possibly make Ranged overpowered in F2P PvP as its large attack bonus can overwhelm a full runite set's defence bonus with a decent ranged level. It is unsure if Jagex may change melee features in the future to counter this possible imbalance. For now, it is very popular in pking worlds. However, it should be noted that ranged could already be considered overpowered in free play PvP (i.e. full adamant armour barely able to do anything against a maple bow even before dungeoneering was released).

Even with the increased accuracy of this bow, it is still not a great choice to train Ranged with this weapon against monsters with low ranged defence. A maple shortbow is a better choice for normal use because it fires faster. There is one large exception to this idea. If one wished to train on creatures without safespots, this weapon is the beast to beat.The strategy then would be to wear the best available melee plate armour as possible (hopefully at least mithril or higher) and proceed as one would were they meleeing the same creature. This strategy works great because even with full runite and an amulet of power the range attack bonus is still a gigantic 97. This large bonus gives the sighted longbow the edge in close combat ranging.

Trivia

 * Despite its being indicated on the website manual of RuneScape as requiring a dungeoneering level of 30 to use, the longbow sight is indicated in-game as requiring a dungeoneering level of 45.
 * The in-game Ranged info box indicates that the Maple longbow (focused) can use arrows up to Rune for ammo. Assuming focused is the same as sighted (as the in-game icons and 45 Dungeoneering requirements would attest to), this would mark the first time F2P players would be able to use Rune arrows for ammo. The Grand Exchange, however, still does not allow the purchase of rune arrows on F2P, also after a membership has run out and you have rune arrows in inventory or in the bank they appear as "members object". As a member, however, it is possible to fire rune arrows with a Maple longbow (sighted), eventhough this has limited use.
 * There exists a graphical glitch where the bow string is not pulled back when arrows are fired.
 * The inventory image appears to be upside down.


 * Warning: protects  under  most items (even d'hide body) so PvP use is not recommended.
 * Despite it being said to be members only on the Runescape Dungeoneering guide, non-members may also equip and use it.