Karil's crossbow



Karil's crossbow is a ranged weapon that is part of Karil the Tainted's set of barrows equipment. It is a two handed weapon, unlike other crossbows, and requires 70 Ranged to wield. It requires ammunition called bolt racks. It is currently the only crossbow which uses bolt racks as ammunition. It is also popular while defeating TzTok-Jad. This is the only Barrows weapon that does not require 70 Attack to use. It is also somewhat popular among player-killers because of its ranged attack bonus being nearly that of a Rune crossbow, however with the speed and strength of a Magic shortbow, along with the fact that since the ammunition is non-retrievable, the cape slot can be switched from Ava's accumulator to a cape that provides defence bonuses.

Being part of Karil's barrows set, if it is wielded along with all of the other pieces of equipment in Karil's barrows set the player receives a special attack. On successful attacks against a player, there is a chance that it may temporarily lower that player's Agility level. Like all Barrows items this weapon cannot be made using the Fletching skill.

This weapon is inferior to the Rune crossbow and the Chaotic crossbow in ranged bonus, making it the third most accurate crossbow in the game. It also has a lower max hit than the chaotic and rune crossbows (when said crossbows are using runite bolts or their gem-tipped counterparts) and thus it is considered relatively weaker than chaotic or rune crossbows by many. Furthermore, the one-handed nature of the chaotic and rune crossbows allows players to wield spirit shields or other similarly. Some players are concerned about this, as Karil's crossbow is much more expensive to maintain and has a higher range requirement than the rune crossbow. However, despite the lower strength of Karil's crossbow, its firing speed still allows it to deal more damage over time than the rune crossbow, rendering it more valuable against targets for which special bolt effects are not required.

Due to its 2-handed nature, firing speed and the ratio of its ranged attack to its ammunition's ranged strength, some players regard Karil's crossbow to not really be a crossbow at all, but rather the most powerful shortbow in the game "in disguise".


 * Karil's crossbow is only tradeable when undamaged or fully broken.
 * If you drop this item it will degrade to "0".

Trivia

 * Karil's crossbow seems to be based on the real life Chu-Ko-Nu (諸葛弩), an ancient Chinese crossbow that used a rapid fire system.
 * Karil's crossbow appears to have originated from the Eastern Lands as its ammunition is sold by an Eastern Lander named Ak-Haranu.
 * Karil's crossbow is the only Barrows weapon that does not need an attack level to wield.
 * Sometimes, the firing animation and damage "splat" do not match. When this happens, nothing happens when the player fires the crossbow. When the player puts down the crossbow before reloading again, a bolt is seen flying from the player and doing damage. This is most likely caused by lag.