Magic shieldbow

Magic longbow

Release date	25 March 2002 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Quest item?	No
Tradeable?	Yes
Lendable?	Yes
Equipable?	Yes
Stacks?	No
High Alch	1,536 coins
Low Alch	1,024 coins
Destroy	Drop
Store price	1,270 coins
Examine	A nice sturdy magical bow.
Weight	1.8 kg

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A detailed image of a magic longbow.

The Magic longbow is the strongest longbow that can be made. It can use arrows up to rune. The magic longbow requires a Ranged level of 50 or higher to wield. However, even players way above 50 benefit from using this strong weapon.

Members can make a magic longbow through the Fletching skill at level 85. First, a player has to cut an unstrung magic longbow from magic logs, granting 91.5 Fletching experience. Then, the player must string the unstrung magic longbow with a bow string, granting a further 91.5 experience. This adds up to a total of 183 Fletching experience for each magic longbow fletched.

At level 45 Dungeoneering and at the cost of 10,000 tokens, a longbow sight can be attached, boosting the bow's ranged attack bonus to +140 and decreasing the time between shots by an extra game tick (0.6 seconds,) giving it the same speed as a longsword.

Many members believe the magic longbow to be better than the magic shortbow. When a longbow sight is attached, it becomes one of the most powerful ranged weapons in the game in terms of Ranged Attack Bonus. 10,000 tokens equates to 100,000 experience, unlike a chaotic crossbow which is far more powerful, but costs 200,000 tokens and equates to 2 million experience, requiring level 80 Dungeoneering.

Bonuses

Hover over image for type												A player wielding a magic longbow A player wielding a magic longbow
Attack bonus
0	0	0	0	+69
Defence bonus
0	0	0	0	0
Other bonuses				Slot
0	0	0%	0
FastestInterval: 2.4 seconds

Special attack

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A player using the Powershot special attack.

This weapon has a powerful special attack called "Power Shot", that uses only 35% of the special attack bar. It's an accurate shot that will hit with an increased ranged skill of 5%. It does not fire 2 arrows for its special like the magic shortbow.

Profit analysis

Magic longbows used to be high alched quite often for a profit. However, this led to them no longer being profitable in terms of gold or experience, seeing as many others things are far more cost efficient to train on.

Profit analysis
Magic longbow	Nature rune	Magic logs	Bow string	Net Coins	Notes
High Level Alchemy
High Level Alchemy 1,536	Ignore cost	Ignore cost	Ignore cost	1536	Ignore cost of Nature runes, Magic logs and Bow string.
High alch 1,536	-	-	-		Include true cost of Nats, magic logs and bow strings
Grand Exchange average price
GE	Ignore price	-	-		Profit from fletching.
GE	+	-	-		Profit from selling Magic long and a nature rune
GE ; High Alch . The difference between High Alching and selling in the GE is coins