Rune Crossbow>All for range training?

[UserOnRS]

I'm 96 range and still don't know the best weapon for training range. :P I like to range some of my slayer tasks, and wondering what to use out of all the range weapons that there are - In some places you see people using lots of different weapons so it seems I'm not the only one. :)

 

 

 

At the moment I'm using black knives for tasks such as bloodvelds and fire giants, and all other tasks I use broad bolts with a rune crossbow (when I use knives I change to Zanik's bow for specials). I still see people using magic shortbows and crystal bows (although I don't), and as far as I know other weapons such as throwing knives, darts, javelins etc. are useless.

 

 

 

Any experienced rangers able to help? I'd guess knives vs rune crossbow is similar but with spots as busy as they are I'm sure I could get mixed results.

[Death123141]

Other then Rcbow i would only bother with Obby rings.

[UserOnRS]

Other then Rcbow i would only bother with Obby rings.

Those are expensive and equal stats to the mage short bow with rune arrows. I've never seen anyone train with them before - so you're saying I should use a mage short for all tasks? I have tons of rune arrows from slayer so it's not a problem if it's significantly better.

 

 

 

Anyone happen to have any experience rates?

[Death123141]

Other then Rcbow i would only bother with Obby rings.

Those are expensive and equal stats to the mage short bow with rune arrows. I've never seen anyone train with them before - so you're saying I should use a mage short for all tasks? I have tons of rune arrows from slayer so it's not a problem if it's significantly better.

 

 

They are expensive but are fast as knifes/darts and i have no experience with msb though.

[Deltaer]

The strength of broad bolts are twice as high as rune arrows (+49 compared to +100 for broad bolts). Crossbows have a higher accuracy bonus as far as I know. So you'll hit fewer 0s and hit higher with the crossbow.

 

 

 

However, the mage shortbow is faster. There are your pros and cons. I believe training with crossbows is faster, but I can't tell you for sure.

[HexiledRazz]

At the moment I'm using black knives for tasks such as bloodvelds and fire giants

 

 

 

and as far as I know other weapons such as throwing knives, darts, javelins etc. are useless.

 

lul wut?

 

 

 

Anyway, I'd like to note that the DPS on knives is a lot of better then Rune Key'bow's on mobs with lower defence.

 

 

 

But, with most tasks the rune key'bow is better. for the high acc, and power of broad bolts.

[UserOnRS]

Oops I meant throwing axes. :oops:

 

 

 

Thanks link it seems I'm doing the right thing. :P Am I right in using black knives? All others seem too expensive as you use a lot of knives but I may be wrong.

 

 

 

By the way obsidian rings are as fast as the mage shortbow and not as fast as knives/darts as someone said, so I guess they aren't worth using.

 

 

 

I've rarely seen crystal bows and only seen karils used in PvP so I guess I shouldn't bother with those.

[pyrodoc2021]

I know one of my good friends excusively used steel darts because they were fast and cheap. I used them for a little while, but I can't remember how good they were.

[lazlazor]

Why don't people use rune c'bow bolts?

[wordsofthelord]

Because rune bolts aare quite expensive in my opinion. I prefer the broad bolts as the hit the same as addy for far cheaper.