Rune Cbow vs. Magic Shortbow

[manaleak]

In terms of training, which of these two are better?

 

 

 

Head: Archer Helm

 

Neck: Amulet of Fury

 

Cape: Accumulator

 

Full Black DHide

 

Archer Ring

 

Ranger Boots

 

 

 

Magic Short Bow + Rune Arrows

 

 

 

 

 

Or

 

 

 

 

 

Head: Archer Helm

 

Neck: Amulet of Fury

 

Cape: Accumulator

 

Full Black DHide

 

Ring: Archer Ring

 

Boots: Ranger Boots

 

 

 

Rune Crossbow + Diamond Bolts (e) + Unholy Book

 

 

 

 

 

From my point of view, magic short bow is slightly better because of its speed. Although the cbow hits harder and more often (and has the built in ability to lower range def to be even more so), the msb makes up for it by shooting 1.5 times faster. So for example, I hit 16's with msb, and 22-23 with cbow, but msb: 16*1.5 = 24.

 

 

 

However I haven't collected any data with this yet, so the accuracy factor of the cbow might play a factor and beat the msb. Any of you guys have a say?

[Dudecrush8]

Training wise the MSB is far far better...

 

 

 

But for damage, you cant beat a rune c'bow :)

[Master_Smither]

Train with MSB then pk or whatever with c bow

[davidium]

it really depends on what you are doing...but ill say the rune cbow is better due to all the enchanted bolts. well with a ruby bolt ppl can hit above 50 (thats only on creatures like metal drags though :P) but still thats much more than what the msb can hit...for killing monsters with a large amount of hp most ppl will chose the rune cbow and btw they dont usually use diamond (e) they use ruby (e) cause of its special effect. initially one may be inclined to think that ppl only use rune cbow on drags since you can wield the anti dragon fire breath shield with it...but hey you dont see ppl fighting the bosses in the GWD with msb do u?

 

 

 

for pking, the special effect of the ruby (e) bolts are not that useful anymore since all our max hp is 99. on the other hand the msb has its special effect which many use as a killer combo when the opponents health is down. so ill say the rune cbow would be better when slaying certain monsters while the msb may prove to be more deadly when pking.

[T. Skill]

Rune c'bow would be better for training because using rune arrows for training is a huge waste of money. Addy bolts to my knowledge are cheaper than rune arrows, hit slightly slower, but a lot higher.

[Dexek]

Are you looking for speed entirely, or being cost-effective?

 

 

 

For speed I would definitely say MSB with rune arrows, providing that is the ammo you have to use.

 

 

 

With these two ammo types, the Xbow would be more cost-effective.

[Freesia]

It really depends on who you are training on. If you are doing it on demons/giants, the best choice would be to use iron-mith knives/darts. For green/blue dragons who have higher defence, you will need a higher range bonus, but a msb could do fine. For black and metal dragons who have real high defence, your best bet would be c'bow + bolts (usually emerald e). Ruby or diamond bolts e are NOT worth using unless killing boss monsters (probably >lvl300) or pking that you use dstone bolts and up. Your suggested ammo for training is quite a waste of money.

[hbk_hossack]

i can hit 20s with rune cbow and emerelad (e) bolts and no where near as high with MSB

[manaleak]

Money is really not an issue, so 10k rune arrows = 10k diamond bolts for all purposes. Although I would like to know the durability of diamond bolts, are they more or less than rune arrows?

 

 

 

I thought rune arrows went for 350-400 and diamond bolts could go up for 1k each; wouldn't that make the rune arrows more cost-effective?

 

 

 

Again, money's no issue and I only care about training effectiveness. I'm currently training in the tzhaar caves if that helps.