Zanik's crossbow

Zanik's crossbow

Release date	17 March 2009 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Quest item?	Yes - The Chosen Commander
Tradeable?	No
Equipable?	Yes after quest
Stacks?	No
High Alch	0 coins
Low Alch	0 coins
Value	1 coin
Destroy	Drop
On death	Not reclaimable from gravestone
Store price	1 Adamant crossbow (Oldak)
Examine	The crossbow that defeated the avatar of Bandos.
Weight	0 kg

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Zanik's crossbow is both a quest item used during the The Chosen Commander quest as well as a high level crossbow that is one of the rewards for its completion.

As part of the quest, the player must augment Zanik's existing crossbow with additional items, reassemble it when broken, and then use its special attack to defeat the Bandos Avatar. During this time, the crossbow itself cannot be equipped. Instead, a dialogue option allows use of the special attack.

After quest completion, the player retains the augmented crossbow, which requires 48 Ranged to wield. While similar in appearance to the Dorgeshuun crossbow, it has significantly higher stats similar to that of an adamant crossbow. It can fire up to adamant bolts (including bone bolts and silver bolts, but excluding gem-tipped and enchanted bolts). It cannot fire broad-tipped bolts.

The special attack, Defiance, takes up 50% of the special attack bar and deals increased damage as follows:

• 30-150 extra damage against monsters.
• Up to 150 extra damage against players who are using prayers or are using god-related equipment ('equipment marked by the gods').

When the special attack is used, lightning seems to blast out from the crossbow.

Under the right conditions, the special attack can hit well over 600 (150 special attack damage plus the regular damage the crossbow does).

If a player loses their crossbow, they can retrieve one (or more) from Oldak in exchange for an adamant crossbow(s).

A player can obtain more than one crossbow by using the drop trick.

Bonuses

Hover over image for type												A player wielding Zanik's Crossbow A player wielding Zanik's Crossbow	The special attack of Zanik's Crossbow: Defiance
Attack bonus
0	0	0	0	+78
Defence bonus
0	0	0	0	0
Other bonuses				Slot
0	0	0%	-5
FastestInterval: 2.4 seconds

Trivia

• Zanik's crossbow is one of the few items with a negative prayer bonus, along with the Ancient staff and the Amulet of zealots.

File:Zanik's crossbow glitch.jpg

A player wearing Lunar legs and Zanik's crossbow.

File:Zcbowdebug.png

Debug message shown with the special attack when the bow was first released.