Royal crossbow

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

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Royal crossbow
Release																				29 May 2012 (Update)
Members																				Yes
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				No
Stacks in bank																				No
Equipable																				Yes
Stackable																				No
Disassembly																				Yes
Destroy																				You will have to reassemble and reforge it. Sir Rebrum can provide a coral crossbow.
Examine																				Forged in the dragonfire of the Queen Black Dragon.
Options
Backpack																				Wield, Check state, Destroy
Equipped																				Check state
Values
Value																				5,000 coins
Alchemy																				Not alchemisable
On death																				Reclaimable Value: 5,000 Reclaim: 100
Weight																				4 kg
Advanced data
Item ID																				24338
Links																				MRID • recipe
Calculated value
Parsed																				360,805 coins
SMW																				{{GETotal|Royal bolt stabiliser|Royal frame|Royal torsion spring|Royal sight}}
Formatted																				Price(Royal bolt stabiliser) + Price(Royal frame) + Price(Royal torsion spring) + Price(Royal sight)

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The royal crossbow is a level 80 two-handed crossbow that bears the likeness of the Queen Black Dragon. The crossbow can be obtained after completion of Song from the Depths.

Level 80 Ranged is required to equip the crossbow. Additionally, to forge the crossbow, level 70 Smithing is required (can be boosted), as well as level 60 Summoning to enter the Queen Black Dragon's lair (cannot be boosted).

Combat stats

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Requirements			Degrades
80			30,000 charges
Class			Slot
Ranged
Tier
80
		Auto		Ability
Damage		1020.0		1152
Accuracy		1924
Style		Bolts
Range		9
Speed		6 ticks (3.6s)
Attributes						Damage reduction
Armour				0.0		PvM: 0%				PvP: 0%
Life points				0		Style bonuses
Prayer				0		0.0		0.0		0.0		0.0

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8000PvM: 0%PvP: 0%6

6 ticks (3.6s)

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Creation

Requirements
Members			Yes
Ticks			0 (0s)
Facility			Queen Black Dragon
Skill			Level	XP
Smithing			70 (b?)	0
Material			Quantity	Cost
	Royal crossbow (unforged)		1	N/A
Total cost				0
Output			Quantity	Cost
	Royal crossbow		1	N/A

Components

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. The 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	90,379 [graph]
	Royal frame	89,294 [graph]
	Royal sight	90,705 [graph]
	Royal torsion spring	90,427 [graph]
Total price		360,805

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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

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 appear on the ground to the killer.

Products

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Product		Members	Skills	Experience	Materials	GE price
	1 × Augmented royal crossbow		2	?	1 × Royal crossbow 1 × Augmentor	N/A

Recharging

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.

Usage cost

Combat charges	30,000
Method	Thurgo	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Item(s) consumed	1 × Royal bolt stabiliser 1 × Royal frame 1 × Royal sight 1 × Royal torsion spring	4 × Royal bolt stabiliser	4 × Royal frame	4 × Royal sight	4 × Royal torsion spring
Total GE price	360,805	361,516	357,176	362,820	361,708
Per hour
Average rate	21,648	21,691	21,431	21,769	21,702
High rate	43,297	43,382	42,861	43,538	43,405
Maximum rate	72,161	72,303	71,435	72,564	72,342

Analysis

The royal crossbow shares its level-80 ranged weapon spot with the Zaryte bow, the attuned crystal bow, the chaotic crossbow and 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 bolts higher than tier 80, their damage will be scaled down to match the crossbow's level.

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 weapon as Plague's End is required to get an attuned crystal weapon seed needed to create any of the 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 103 each, purchasing ammunition is not a costly endeavour.

Ironmen who use the royal crossbow but do not augment it 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

Main article: Comparison of high-level ranged weapons

Disassembly

Royal crossbow
Disassembly category	Two-handed crossbows
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
Special materials
3 × Dragonfire components	Always
Common materials
Connector parts	35/100
Tensile parts	30/100
Crafted parts	30/100
Rare materials
Stunning components	3/100
Dextrous components	2/100

Achievements

• Through the Fire and Flames ( 30) – Kill the Queen Black Dragon with a royal crossbow. Can only be completed in a solo instance.

Update history

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• patch 18 November 2019 (Update):
  • Royal Crossbow examine text is now updated.

• patch 4 December 2017 (Update):
  • The Royal Crossbow will now display charges remaining on its tooltip.

• patch 16 November 2015 (Update):
  • The royal crossbow's item value has been adjusted slightly.

• patch 20 July 2015 (Update):
  • Royal and coral crossbows will no longer be destroyed when reclaiming them from keepsake boxes.

• patch 27 October 2014 (Update):
  • The amount of coins you receive from killing a player with a royal crossbow has been increased.

• patch 13 January 2014 (Update):
  • The royal crossbow no longer alters the shoulder position when equipped.

• patch 25 March 2013 (Update):
  • The Royal Crossbow will now degrade correctly.

• patch 14 January 2013 (Update):
  • The Royal Crossbow and Crystal Shield now degrade as expected.

• update 29 May 2012 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Prior to the Evolution of Combat, the royal crossbow was a one-handed weapon with a requirement of level 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.
  • Its examine text that described its previous effect, "Inflicts heavy damage in prolonged encounters.", was not changed until 11 November 2019. However, the augmented version retains a version of this examine text.
• 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 charges.
• 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 known "ancient" dragon to exist.