The hellfire bow is a powerful bow that players can wield at level 90 Ranged and does not require ammo. One Hellfire bow per world appears somewhere on the ground in the Wilderness, including the portion of the Edgeville Dungeon that is in the Wilderness, visible to all players and with a large golden loot beam on top of it. The beam's appearance is not affected by the player's loot beam settings. If the bow is taken a smaller loot beam may persist in its original location.
Whilst in the Wilderness, players can operate any of the Wilderness swords to locate the bow. This produces a message indicating the general area it has spawned in, for example: The sword pulls towards the north-east area of the Wilderness! (The northern Wilderness is considered to be level 25 or greater.)
When a player is holding the bow, using the locate function will only say that a player has the bow. Instead a message will periodically be broadcast to players on the same world who are also in the Wilderness. For instance, the following message could be a broadcast: Player has the Hellfire bow in level 47 north-east Wilderness! A red marker is also shown under the player carrying the bow. The person carrying it sees the message: Carrying the Hellfire bow has informed other players of your current Wilderness level!
As well as alerting all players who are on the same world and in the Wilderness to the player's location, carrying the bow will also override normal multi-combat and level restriction mechanics. Players of all levels will be able to attack the wielder of the bow without restriction based on Wilderness level and on top of this the wielder can be attacked by any number of players simultaneously, regardless of whether they are in a multi-combat area or not. These mechanics make the bow relatively dangerous to wield.
It disappears if you leave the Wilderness (it will disappear if you go into the safe strip just north of the Wilderness wall), and cannot be keepsaked. Imp-in-a-box would refuse to bank it, and Telekinetic Grab cannot be cast on it.
It cannot be obtained on a Bounty Hunter world.
As it is freely obtained, does not require ammo, and has extremely high stats, it is popular for combat within the Wilderness, such as player killing, Slayer assignments, killing the Chaos Elemental or the WildyWyrm.
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Class | Slot | ||||||||||
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Tier | Type | ||||||||||
99 | Bow | ||||||||||
Weapons | Main | Off | |||||||||
Damage | 1819 | - | |||||||||
Accuracy | 3031 | - | |||||||||
Style | Arrows | ||||||||||
Range | 9 | ||||||||||
Speed | Fast (3.0s) | ||||||||||
Attributes | Damage reduction | ||||||||||
![]() | 0 | PvM: 0% | PvP: 0% | ||||||||
![]() | 0 | Style bonuses | |||||||||
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Locations[]
Logging out or entering the lobby will force the player to drop the bow. Leaving the Wilderness makes the bow appear in one of the following locations. Note that players may also drop the bow, so it can also be found in other locations.
Wilderness area | Wilderness level | Directions |
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North | 51 | In the Deserted Keep. |
North-east | 27 | West of the charming moths. |
North-east | 28 | East of the ruins (east). |
North-east | 28 | West of the ruins (east). |
North-east | 30 | North-west of the ruins (east). |
North-east | 31 | At the shoreline north of the charming moths. |
North-east | 33 | West of the entrance to the caverns with Corporeal Beast. |
North-east | 35 | South of Red Dragon Isle. |
North-east | 36 | Near the shoreline and the Fishing spots. |
North-east | 38 | East of the ghostly piper. |
North-east | 38 | Near the shoreline north of the Fishing spots. |
North-east | 41 | East of Red Dragon Isle. |
North-east | 44 | North-west of Red Dragon Isle. |
North-east | 44 | South of Demonic Ruins and across the lava moat. |
North-east | 45 | North of Red Dragon Isle. |
North-east | 46 | West of Demonic Ruins and north of the passage in the lava moat. |
North-east | 47 | In the north-eastern part of Deep Wilderness Castle Ruins. |
North-east | 48 | North of the eastern gate to the northern Wilderness. |
North-east | 48 | North-east of Demonic Ruins. |
North-east | 50 | South-west of Rogues' Castle. |
North-east | 52 | Inside the castle walls of the Rogues' Castle. |
North-east | 49 | North-east of the central gate to the northern Wilderness. |
North-east | 52 | South of the central pool of lava on the Wilderness North Volcano. |
North-east | 54 | North-east of Rogues' Castle. |
North-east | 54 | South-west of the magic axe hut. |
North-east | 55 | North of the Scorpion Pit. |
North-east | 55 | North-eastern side of Wilderness North Volcano. |
North-west | 25 | North of the ruins (west). |
North-west | 29 | South-west of the north-western passage to Wilderness Volcano. |
North-west | 30 | On the cliff south of the lava strykewyrms. |
North-west | 31 | In The Forgotten Cemetery. |
North-west | 31 | South-east of the bandit camp mining site. |
North-west | 32 | North-east of the north-western passage to Wilderness Volcano. |
North-west | 33 | North-west of the north-western passage to Wilderness Volcano. |
North-west | 35 | East of lake south of the moss giants. |
North-west | 36 | East of the bandit camp mining site. |
North-west | 38 | South-east of Lava Maze. |
North-west | 40 | South of Lava Maze. |
North-west | 43 | South-west of the Wilderness obelisk. |
North-west | 44 | South-west of the runite ore rocks north of Lava Maze. |
North-west | 46 | North-east of the Wilderness obelisk. |
North-west | 46 | North-west of Lava Maze. |
North-west | 47 | North of Lava Maze. |
North-west | 47 | Down the stone column, past the black dragons in the centre of the Lava Maze. |
North-west | 47 | North-east of Lava Maze. |
North-west | 47 | North-west of the runite ore rocks north of Lava Maze. |
North-west | 50 | North-east of the bloodwood tree. |
North-west | 50 | South-east of Mage Arena. |
North-west | 52 | East of the beacon on the Frozen Waste Plateau. |
North-west | 53 | At the Pirates' Hideout mining site. |
North-west | 54 | West of Wilderness Agility Course. |
North-west | 55 | On the northern side of Mage Arena. |
South-east | 2 | North-west of Lumber Yard. |
South-east | 3 | North-west of the northern gate of Varrock. |
South-east | 5 | In the area with thugs. |
South-east | 7 | South of switch A. |
South-east | 7 | South-west of the gate to Daemonheim. |
South-east | 7 | West of Slayer Tower. |
South-east | 9 | South-west of the gate to Daemonheim. |
South-east | 10 | South-east of Chaos Temple. |
South-east | 11 | On the path between switch A and switch B. |
South-east | 12 | East of Chaos Temple and across the lava moat. |
South-east | 12 | South-east of the lodestone. |
South-east | 14 | North-east of the Chaos Temple, across the lava moat. |
South-east | 15 | East of switch B. |
South-east | 18 | South-east of the south-eastern passage to Wilderness Volcano. |
South-east | 19 | In the boneyard. |
South-east | 19 | South-east of the green dragons. |
South-east | 23 | North-east of the green dragons. |
South-east | 24 | North-west of the green dragons. |
South-east | 22 | In the north-western corner of Graveyard of Shadows. |
South-west | 2 | North of Edgeville. |
South-west | 4 | East of Black Knights' Fortress. |
South-west | 4 | North of Grand Exchange. |
South-west | 4 | West of the Black Knights' Fortress. |
South-west | 8 | East of Obelisk of Air. |
South-west | 8 | North-west of Black Knights' Fortress. |
South-west | 10 | South-west of the lodestone. |
South-west | 11 | North of Obelisk of Air. |
South-west | 11 | South-west of Dark Warriors' Fortress. |
South-west | 13 | South-east of Dark Warriors' Fortress. |
South-west | 15 | In the middle of Dark Warriors' Fortress. |
South-west | 15 | North-west of the green dragons. |
South-west | 16 | North-east of the lodestone. |
South-west | 17 | South-east of the south-western passage to Wilderness Volcano. |
South-west | 18 | North of the lodestone. |
South-west | 19 | South-east of ruins (west). |
South-west | 20 | In the south-western passage to Wilderness Volcano. |
South-west | 22 | Inside Bandit Camp. |
South-west | 24 | Inside Bandit Camp's northern building. |
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Trivia[]
- This item was originally added with the Wilderness Tasks update. The bow's inventory icon was the same as of the original crystal bow. This was changed when it entered the game on 31 October 2016 and was made obtainable by players.
- If the bow is dropped right in the centre tile of the Wilderness, the following message is seen when locating it: The sword pulls towards the spot you're standing on! area of the Wilderness!
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