The crystal bow is a degradable bow made from enchanting a crystal weapon seed. It requires the completion of Roving Elves to wield, as well as 50 Agility and 70 Ranged. If you die in the wilderness with the crystal bow you will lose it and it will keep its charges. The attack range of the crystal bow is 7 spaces, the same as any shortbow.

The crystal bow will revert to seed after 50,000 charges of combat, but uses two charges per hit except while within Prifddinas, where it uses one charge per hit. A partially degraded bow can be recharged for a fraction of your current creation cost - if it has 90% charges remaining, and the lowest creation price has been achieved, it would cost 20,000 coins to repair.

Because it is blessed by the elven goddess Seren, the crystal bow does not require any arrows to use, as it generates its own when fired. This lack of an ammunition requirement makes the crystal bow useful for firing at targets that are behind barriers that prevent normal collection of arrows, such as the greater demons in the Ogre Enclave.

Combat Stats

Requirements			Degrades
70 , 50			50,000 charges
Class			Slot
Ranged
Tier
70
Weapons		Main		Off
Damage		1286		-
Accuracy		1486		-
Style		Arrows
Range		7
Speed		Fast (3.0s)
Attributes						Damage reduction
Armour				0		PvM: 0%			PvP: 0%
Life points				0		Style bonuses
Prayer				0		0		0		0
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Creation

Required materials:
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Production JSON:
{ "product": "Crystal bow", "image": "[[File:Crystal bow.png|link=Crystal bow]]", "mats": [ { "name": "Crystal weapon seed", "quantity": "1", "image": "Crystal weapon seed.png" },{ "name": "Harmonic dust", "quantity": "750", "image": "Harmonic dust.png" } ], "skill": "Smithing", "level": "75" }

Crystal bow

		-
750 XP		-		326,879
Requirements
Smithing level				75
Completed The Eyes of Glouphrie and Plague's End
Members only				Yes
Materials
Item		Quantity	Price	Total
	Crystal weapon seed	1	55,013	55,013
	Harmonic dust	750	N/A	-

Obtaining

A crystal bow can be obtained by one of four methods:

• Giving a crystal weapon seed and a scaling rate of coins to one of the following elves to have them sing one for you:
  • Ilfeen in Isafdar forest after some progress in Mourning's End Part I (or in Lletya after The Prisoner of Glouphrie)
  • Eluned in the Ithell Clan district of Prifddinas (or Islwyn after The Light Within)
  • Rhodri Dail in the Max Guild
• Using a crystal weapon seed and 750 harmonic dust to sing one yourself at the crystal singing bowl in the Ithell Clan district of Prifddinas (giving 750 Smithing experience).
• Buying one from Islwyn in Isafdar forest for 1,000,000 coins (this amount does not change)
• Choosable reward from Roving Elves (only comes with 20% of its maximum charges)

For the first method, the amount of coins needed to create (and repair) is based on the number of times a crystal weapon/armour seed has been made into an item for coins - the cost is shared over all crystal weapons and shields. The first time costs 1,000,000 coins, and each subsequent creation costs 200,000 less until the fifth time (and every time thereafter), which costs 200,000 coins.

Recharging

The crystal bow can be recharged by any of the following methods

• Ilfeen in Isafdar forest after some progress in Mourning's End Part I (or in Lletya after The Prisoner of Glouphrie)

• Using 750 harmonic dust to sing one yourself at the crystal singing bowl in the Ithell Clan district of Prifddinas (giving 750 Smithing experience).

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Disassembly

Crystal items are guaranteed to give a special component. They will either give 1 crystal part (common), 1 Seren component (uncommon), or 1 Faceted component (uncommon).

Disassembly XP	21.0
Item quantity required	1
Material count	12
Base junk chance	?  23.0% 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 23.0% 1 34 22.8% 2 49 22.4% 3 64 21.9% 4 69 21.4% 5 78 21.0% 6 83 20.3% 7 91 19.8% 8 95 19.1% 9 105 18.5%
Possible materials
Special
1 × Crystal parts	Unknown
OR
1 × Seren components	Unknown
OR
1 × Faceted components	Unknown
Often
Stave parts	35%
Tensile parts	30%
Flexible parts	30%
Rarely
Precise components	3%
Dextrous components	2%

Defined properties:

All Junk chance: 23 Junk chance: 23

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Trivia

• Attempting to light a fire using the crystal bow results in the message "The bow resists all attempts to light a fire. It seems that the sentient tools of the elves don't approve you burning down forests." The message used to say "You cannot light the fire, because the Crystal Bow has no string." Prior to the release of RuneScape High Detail, the crystal bow indeed had no string.
• Attempting to cast Low Level Alchemy or High Level Alchemy on a crystal bow results in the message "You can't do that to elven crystal!" This is due to a glitch that allowed players to alchemise crystal bows on free-to-play worlds for 540,000 coins each. Players could buy crystal seeds, enchant them into bows for 180,000 coins, and alchemise the bows for significant profit. Because of this, Jagex made it impossible to alchemise members' objects on free-to-play worlds, and made it impossible to alchemise crystal equipment at all.
• Before the Evolution of Combat, the crystal bow (as well as shield) would lose some of its combat bonuses each time it degraded. Now the stats remain the same at all charge amounts.

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God	Guthix  Saradomin  Zamorak
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Dyed Seren godbow	Barrows (Augmented)  Blood (Augmented)  Ice (Augmented)  Shadow (Augmented)  Third Age (Augmented)
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v • d • e Crystal equipment
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Ranged	Regular  Bow (Augmented)  Chakram  Off-hand chakram  Deflector (Augmented) Attuned  Bow (Augmented)  Chakram  Off-hand chakram  Deflector (Augmented)
Magic	Regular  Staff (Augmented)  Wand (Augmented)  Orb (Augmented)  Ward (Augmented) Attuned  Staff (Augmented)  Wand (Augmented)  Orb (Augmented)  Ward (Augmented)
Armour	Regular  Helm  Body  Legs  Gloves  Boots Attuned  Helm  Body  Legs  Gloves  Boots
Tools	Chime (Quest)  Chisel  Hammer (Augmented)  Knife  Saw (Quest)  Tinderbox (Augmented)  Fishing rod (Augmented)  Hatchet (Augmented)  Pickaxe (Augmented)
Seeds	Weapon (Attuned)  Armour (Attuned)  Tool  Teleport (Attuned)  Small seed
Historical	Crystal seed  Crystal bow  Crystal ward
Miscellaneous	Harmonic dust Singing bowl Crystal Singing

v • d • e Roving Elves
Part 5 of the Elf quest series
NPCs	Islwyn  Eluned  Golrie  Baxtorian Glarial Moss giant  Ilfeen
Items	Cadarn lineage  Crystal of seren  A key  Glarial's pebble  Glarial's amulet  Consecration seed  Enchanted consecration seed
Rewards	Crystal bow (Historical)  Crystal ward (Historical)
Locations	Isafdar Glarial's Tomb Waterfall Dungeon Gnome Village Dungeon
Miscellaneous	Quick guide • Transcript