Royal crossbow

"RCB" redirects here. For the feet slot item, see Rock climbing boots.

For this item's augmented variant, see augmented royal crossbow.

Royal crossbow
Versions
Release	29 May 2012 (Update)
Members	Yes
Members	Yes
Quest item	No
Quest item	No
Tradeable	No
Tradeable	No
Stacks in bank	No
Stacks in bank	No
Equipable	Yes
Equipable	Yes
Stackable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Yes
Disassembly	Yes
Value	5,000 coins
Value	5,000 coins
Alchemy	Not alchemisable
Alchemy	Not alchemisable
Destroy	You will have to reassemble and reforge it. Sir Rebrum can provide a coral crossbow.
On death	Reclaimable
On death	Reclaimable
Reclaim	750
Reclaim	750
Sacrifice	3000
Sacrifice	3000
Exchange	Not sold
Weight	4 kg
Examine	Inflicts heavy damage in prolonged encounters.
Release	29 May 2012 (Update)
Members	Yes
Members	Yes
Quest item	No
Quest item	No
Tradeable	No
Tradeable	No
Equipable	Yes
Equipable	Yes
Stackable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Yes
Disassembly	Yes
Value	1 coin
Value	1 coin
Alchemy	Not alchemisable
Alchemy	Not alchemisable
Destroy	You will have to reassemble and reforge it. Sir Rebrum can provide a coral crossbow.
On death	Reclaimable
On death	Reclaimable
Reclaim	1
Reclaim	1
Sacrifice	4
Sacrifice	4
Exchange	Not sold
Weight	4 kg
Examine	Degraded to its basic form. Perhaps a master of smithing could restore it.

The royal crossbow is a level 80 two-handed crossbow that bears the likeness of the Queen Black Dragon. Using the royal crossbow requires:

80 (to equip) 70 (to forge) (can be boosted) 60 (to enter the QBD lair) (cannot be boosted) Completion of Song from the Depths

Despite the examine information saying that the crossbow will inflict heavy damage in prolonged encounters, this is now outdated as it was the crossbow's ability prior to the Evolution of Combat - it will deal the same damage regardless of the length of a fight.

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Combat Stats

Requirements			Degrades
80			Yes
Class			Slot
Ranged
Tier
80
Weapons		Main		Off
Damage		1020		-
Accuracy		1924		-
Style		Bolts
Range		9
Speed		Average (3.6s)
Attributes						Damage reduction
Armour				0		PvM: 0%			PvP: 0%
Life points				0		Style bonuses
Prayer				0		0		0		0
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Combat Stats

Requirements			Degrades
80			Yes
Class			Slot
Ranged
Tier
80
Weapons		Main		Off
Damage		63		-
Accuracy		150		-
Style		Bolts
Range		9
Speed		Average (3.6s)
Attributes						Damage reduction
Armour				0		PvM: 0%			PvP: 0%
Life points				0		Style bonuses
Prayer				0		0		0		0
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Creating

Parts

The core of the royal crossbow is the coral crossbow, which is untradeable but freely obtained after completing Song from the Depths. Players who have lost their coral crossbow may retrieve another from Sir Rebrum outside the Grotworm Lair. Each player may only own one royal crossbow at any time since Sir Rebrum will not supply coral crossbows needed to create additional royal crossbows. However, the player can bypass this restriction by augmenting their current royal crossbow. Augmented royal crossbow is considered a different item and Sir Rebrum will allow players to claim another coral crossbow.

Aside from the coral crossbow, four other items are required to assemble the royal crossbow, all of which are tradeable and available as drops from the Queen Black Dragon:

Royal crossbow Grand Exchange cost

	Royal bolt stabiliser	89,022 [graph]
	Royal frame	89,215 [graph]
	Royal sight	88,741 [graph]
	Royal torsion spring	90,606 [graph]
Total price		357,584

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Assembly

See also: Royal crossbow (unforged)

Once a player has acquired the four pieces plus the coral crossbow, they must take them to Thurgo at Mudskipper Point, who will gladly combine the pieces into an unforged royal crossbow. He will also comment that incredible heat will be required to complete the weapon, far greater than any furnace can provide; in fact, only the fire of an ancient dragon could produce enough heat. At this point, the crossbow gains a left-click "Brandish" option, as well as an option to disassemble the weapon into its pieces. 70 Smithing is required to successfully brandish the bow.

Forging

Note: Players may forge the crossbow using Practice mode at Queen Black Dragon, which prevents losses if the player dies during the battle.

A player brandishes his royal crossbow

The only ancient dragon remaining in RuneScape is the Queen Black Dragon, who slumbers deep beneath Asgarnia in the Grotworm Lair. Players must enter her lair and battle her up to her fourth phase, at which point she will begin using her extremely hot dragonfire attack (see her strategies article for more information). The Queen Black Dragon's normal dragonfire attack is not hot enough to forge the crossbow; it must be done in her extremely hot attack. Players must stand directly in the middle of the attack (next to the centre artefact) while facing the Queen Black Dragon, taking its full damage, and brandish the unfinished royal crossbow. Only click once and wait until the animation finishes or else the process will not complete. Doing so will forge its components together into a usable weapon. Note that the Queen Black Dragon is a very dangerous, very powerful monster, and standing in the middle of her extremely hot dragonfire will result in very high damage. Actually defeating the Queen Black Dragon is not a requirement for forging the crossbow - even if you die, you can select to keep it on death. The crossbow can be forged in practice mode, which ensures all items are kept on death for free.

It should be noted that once the royal crossbow has been forged by the Queen Black Dragon, it can never be split apart again, so it becomes permanently bound to the player unless lost on death or if you destroy it, in which case it will not be reimbursed. Upon death in the Wilderness, 100,000 coins appears on the ground to the killer.

Disassembly

Disassembly XP	24.0
Item quantity required	1
Material count	12
Base junk chance	?  2.3% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 2.3% 1 34 2.3% 2 49 2.3% 3 64 2.2% 4 69 2.2% 5 78 2.1% 6 83 2.1% 7 91 2.0% 8 95 2.0% 9 105 1.9%
Possible materials
Special
3 × Dragonfire components	100%
Often
Connector parts	35%
Tensile parts	30%
Crafted parts	30%
Rarely
Stunning components	3%
Dextrous components	2%

Defined properties:

All Junk chance: 2.3 Junk chance: 2.3

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Recharging

See also: Royal crossbow (degraded)

Prior to it fully degrading, any of the four components can be used on the royal crossbow to recharge it by 25%. If it fully degrades, it can only be repaired by taking the degraded royal crossbow along with all four royal crossbow components to Thurgo; re-brandishing it at the Queen Black Dragon is not necessary. The royal crossbow has 30,000 charges of combat before degrading fully and becoming royal crossbow (degraded). In this state, it has stats equal to a bronze 2h crossbow. Upon death, if the royal crossbow is equipped, it will degrade by 20% when retrieved from a grave, but does not lose any charge if it was in the inventory instead or is reclaimed from Death.

Analysis

As a level 80 Ranged weapon, the royal crossbow is among the strongest and most accurate ranged weapons in the game. It shares this position with the zaryte bow, attuned crystal bow, chaotic crossbow with its off-hand and the attuned crystal chakram with its off-hand. While it is slower than said weapons, it has a longer range, meaning it can shoot targets further away. Unlike the zaryte and attuned crystal bow, the royal crossbow gains extra damage from its ammunition. It can fire any type of bolt, but when firing ascension or ascendri bolts, they have reduced damage that makes them equal to royal bolts.

The royal crossbow's purchase cost is a small fraction of the zaryte bow's, though depending on the ammunition fired, the royal crossbow may be more expensive per shot than the zaryte bow. There are more requirements to obtain an attuned crystal bow and the main hand/off-hand attuned crystal chakram as Plague's End is required to get an attuned crystal weapon seed needed to create either weapons. Use of one of Ava's devices to automatically retrieve bolts can significantly reduce the cost per shot of the royal crossbow. Given that royal bolts, the most commonly used ammunition, cost 106 each, purchasing ammunition is not a costly endeavour.

Ironmen who use the royal crossbow must keep defeating the Queen Black Dragon for additional crossbow pieces when it needs to be repaired, since they cannot obtain the pieces from the Grand Exchange or from other players.

Comparison with other Ranged weapons

Two-handed

Name		Reqs	Cost	Accuracy (Tier)	Notes
	Seren godbow	92	923,416,219	2577 (92)	Has a special attack, Crystal Rain, which deals damage depending on the target's size in Game squares Supplies its own ammunition, disallowing the use of Bane ammunition Has a 9 square attack range, which decreases the distance a player needs to move in order to attack targets Degrades: has 60,000 charges of combat, and costs 4,800,000 coins to repair via a Repair NPC, or discounted at an armour stand
	Noxious longbow	90	163,230,298	2458 (90)	Has a special attack, Mirrorback, that summons a mirrorback spider which reduces and reflects damage for ten seconds Has a 9 square attack range, which decreases the distance a player needs to move in order to attack targets Degrades: has 30,000 charges of combat (a minimum of 5 hours), and costs 4,500,000 coins to repair via a Repair NPC, or discounted at an armour stand
	Decimation	87	65,339,204	2287 (87)	Has a special attack, Locate, all of your attacks hit all available targets within 3 tiles of your main target (i.e. all of your attacks become area-of-effect attacks) for 10 seconds Supplies its own ammunition, disallowing the use of Bane ammunition Has a 9 square attack range, which decreases the distance a player needs to move in order to attack targets Degrades: has 60,000 charges of combat (a minimum of 10 hours), and costs 4,500,000 coins to repair via a Repair NPC, or discounted at an armour stand
	Wyvern crossbow	85	24,191,474	2178 (85)	Passive effect: damage-over-time effect that ramps up in damage the longer it is in combat against a specific foe that is treated as a poison Has a 9 square attack range, which decreases the distance a player needs to move in order to attack targets Degrades: has 30,000 charges of combat (a minimum of 5 hours), and costs 4,125,000 coins to repair via a Repair NPC, or discounted at an armour stand
	Strykebow	85 85	13,534,872	2178 (85)	Passive effect: stores damage received in combat (must remain equipped) Has a special attack, Deep burn which traps the target in a column of fire using the stored damage from the passive effect As a shieldbow, it allows the use of defence abilities at a cost to damage dealt Has a 9 square attack range, which decreases the distance a player needs to move in order to attack targets Degrades: has 60,000 charges of combat (a minimum of 5 hours), and costs 5 dark bows (387,220 coins) to repair
	Hexhunter bow	80	169,376,270	1924 (80)	Passive effect: +12.5% damage and +10% hit chance boost against magic-classed enemies. Has a 7 square attack range. Degrades: has 60,000 charges of combat, and costs 2,000,000 coins to repair via a Repair NPC, or discounted at an armour stand
	Royal crossbow	80 70 60 Song from the Depths	357,584	1924 (80)	Must reach the Queen Black Dragon's fourth phase and brandish it when she uses her extremely hot flames to initially obtain one Has a 9 square attack range, which decreases the distance a player needs to move in order to attack targets Degrades: has 30,000 charges of combat (a minimum of 5 hours), and is repaired using royal crossbow parts (25% per part)
	Attuned crystal bow	80 50 90 Plague's End The Eyes of Glouphrie	Attuned crystal weapon seed, 2000 harmonic dust	1924 (80)	Has a chance (up to 12%, based on Agility level) to deal +25% damage Supplies its own ammunition, disallowing the use of Bane ammunition Has a 7 square attack range. Degrades: has 50,000 charges of combat (double charges used outside of Prifddinas; a minimum of about 8 hours inside), and can be repaired by Eluned/Islwyn for a minimum of 200,000 coins
	Zaryte bow	80	8,816,585	1924 (80)	Supplies its own ammunition, disallowing the use of Bane ammunition Can be wielded in the God Wars Dungeon to protect from the four central factions Has a 7 square attack range. Degrades: has 60,000 auto-attacks, and costs 2,000,000 coins to repair via a Repair NPC, or discounted at an armour stand
	Sunspear (ranged)	78 River of Blood	Free after River of Blood quest, 600,000 to reclaim	1829 (78)	Can switch combat styles to Sunspear (melee) or Sunspear (magic) Has a 7 square attack range. Degrades: has 15,000 charges of combat, and costs 600,000 coins to repair via a Repair NPC, or discounted at an armour stand.
	Hand cannon	75 61 Forgiveness of a Chaos Dwarf	804,514	1694 (75)	Uses hand cannon shot as its ammunition Can also explode and do damage to the player using it (the higher the Firemaking level the lower the chance) Has a 9 square attack range, which decreases the distance a player needs to move in order to attack targets

Dual-wield

Name		Reqs	Cost	Accuracy (Tier)	Notes
	Blightbound crossbow and off-hand	92	496,358,591 (main hand) 592,343,565 (off-hand)	2577 (92)	Has a 7 square attack range Degrades: has 60,000 charges of combat (but loses 2 charges per hit, so has a minimum duration of 5 hours of combat), and costs 4,500,000 coins to repair via a Repair NPC, or discounted at an armour stand
	Ascension crossbow and off-hand	90	125,758,405 (main hand) 125,985,380 (off-hand)	2458 (90)	Has a 7 square attack range Degrades: has 30,000 charges of combat (a minimum of 5 hours), and costs 4,000,000 coins total to repair via a Repair NPC, or discounted at an armour stand
	Superior Morrigan's throwing axe	88	11,498,028 (main hand)	2343 (88)	Thrown weapon, disallowing the use of Bane ammunition Has a 5 square attack range Has a special attack, Hamstring, which deals 20% extra damage and increases opponent's run energy drain rate Degrades: has 100,000 charges of combat, and degrades to dust No off-hand equivalent
	Superior Morrigan's javelin	88	11,529,528 (main hand)	2343 (88)	Thrown weapon, disallowing the use of Bane ammunition Has a 5 square attack range Has a special attack, Phantom Strike, which inflicts damage over time to the opponent Degrades: has 100,000 charges of combat, and degrades to dust No off-hand equivalent
	Elite Death Lotus dart and off-hand	88 92	25 Death Lotus dart (or off-hand), Death lotus extract	2343 (88)	Untradeable, requires significant progress in the player-owned port to obtain and 5,000 Dungeoneering tokens to buy the extract (one-time use) or obtain with a Lucky charm Thrown weapon, disallowing the use of Bane ammunition Has a 6 square attack range
	Shadow glaive and off-hand	85	12,797,611 (main hand) 12,196,398 (off-hand)	2458 (90)	It has the accuracy of a tier-90 weapon, but the damage of a tier-80 weapon. Thrown weapon, disallowing the use of Bane ammunition Has a 7 square attack range Degrades: has 60,000 charges of combat (a minimum of 10 hours), and costs 3,000,000 coins total to repair via a Repair NPC, or discounted at an armour stand
	Death Lotus dart and off-hand	85 92	Ancient bones, 25 Ascension shards	2178 (85)	Untradable, requires significant progress in the player-owned port to obtain Thrown weapon, disallowing the use of Bane ammunition Has a 6 square attack range
	Attuned crystal chakram and off-hand	80 50 90 Plague's End The Eyes of Glouphrie	2 attuned crystal weapon seeds, 2000 harmonic dust	1924 (80)	Has a chance (up to 12%, based on Agility level) to deal +25% damage Thrown weapon, disallowing the use of Bane ammunition Has a 7 square attack range Degrades: has 50,000 charges of combat (double charges used outside of Prifddinas; a minimum of about 8 hours inside), and can be repaired by Eluned/Islwyn for a a minimum of 200,000 coins
	Chaotic crossbow and off-hand	80 80	200,000 (main hand) 100,000 (off-hand)	1924 (80)	Has a 7 square attack range Degrades: has 30,000 charges of combat (a minimum of 5 hours), and costs (total) 3,000,000 coins, or 300,000 coins and 30,000 Dungeoneering tokens to repair
	Armadyl crossbow and off-hand	75	5,594,315 (main hand) 5,598,386 (off-hand)	1694 (75)	Has a 7 square attack range Does not degrade Offers a prayer bonus No ammunition of the corresponding tier

Trivia

• Prior to the Evolution of Combat, the royal crossbow was a one-handed weapon with a requirement of 85 ranged rather than 80. It could only fire royal bolts. It also had a unique ability in that all shots fired would deal their damage to targets in a damage-over-time effect, rather than dealing their full damage all at once. The total damage dealt per shot tended to be higher than with other crossbows. It was designed to be most useful when fighting boss monsters. Because the weapon was designed to deal damage over a long period of time, it was relatively weak against monsters without many life points. It was also ineffective against players, dealing very little damage to them.
• Prior to an update on 7 January 2014, the only option to recharge the crossbow was to brandish it again during another fight with the Queen Black Dragon (just as it was completed the first time). Since then, players are able use any royal crossbow piece on the completed crossbow, consuming the piece and recharging 25% of the crossbow's durability.
• Its degraded form has 63 damage and 150 accuracy.
• Even though the King Black Dragon is known to be the second dragon ever created (as referenced the Dragonkin Journals), the King is supposedly not "ancient," due to its inability to charge the Royal Crossbow. This means that the Queen Black Dragon is not only the single "ancient" dragon on Gielinor, but also the only "ancient" dragon ever to exist.