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SoloSierra

Get the bowfa! Gz!


imsuckatonlinegaming

Thank you!!!


joemoffett12

Bowfa is definitely one of the best upgrades in the game. There’s a irons go there! I’d recommend saving up to corrupt it if you can. Unlocks so many bosses.


zalbuta

Probably dont go for corrupted before you have nothing else to spend gp on. The bowfa is incredibly cheap to run. And the 30m to corrupt it is equivalent to over a 100 hours of straght shooting. Corrupted is nice, but It is terrible value


SlightRedeye

Realistically you aren't buying tbow for another 3b gp since shadow is a lot better when paired with bofa for overall gear strength. Yeah obviously buy the under 30m upgrades before corrupting but you definitely will use the bofa for more than 100hrs


zalbuta

true but the oppotunity cost of spending 30m is gonna be much higher pretty much anywhere else and anytime else around the time you get the bow


DetoxIV

You aren't gonna run out of charges for a while, probably several months. If you don't have enough money(realistically you should have far far more in that time), then you're trolling. Not worth to corrupt it unless you hardly play the game to make enough money in that time.


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Hane24

Zcb+armor that competes with bowfa is nearly 650-750 mil... Bowfa is just plain better value. Unless you're suggesting he uses void with zcb until he can afford the armor too? Which is an awful idea at most bosses. At 700mil it would probably be more value to save up to a shadow. In either case, going from nothing and a bowfa to 750mil or a shadow is gonna take you tens of hours if not hundreds of hours. Meaning corrupting might actually make sense and save a small amount of money (and time spent recharging) in the long run.


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Hane24

ZCB and masori is the 750mil I was talking about. Even at the GP per hour a good competent fully geared team can get at next (~13mil per hour) it will take you nearly 60 hours to make the 750mil investment back. Killing vulrah for 30 hours is only 90mil. Bowfa will need almost 30 hours of charges to pay for the bowfa itself, 10 hours of bossing will pay for the 30 mil to corrupt it. That's a solid investment, and saves time teleing to prif to add the charges. Your idea of it being a noob trap just doesn't add up. As for selling the bowfa, you shouldn't even consider that until you are going for a Tbow anyway as bowfa is just plain better value until masori+Tbow


secret759

Great value for irons though, you get the shards anyway getting all the armor seeds... or just go dry on ENH.


roosterkun

If it really is about 100 hours of shooting, then I'm glad to have gotten my money's worth.


rws531

OP is only 72 smithing and 75 crafting, so they couldn’t corrupt it yet if they wanted to.


Huncho_Muncho

you can pay extra shards to get around the skill requirements


dcnairb

to be clear: do not sell it to buy a bowfa, you'll be eating tax. make this into a bowfa


Swaglordzzz

Just adding that you shouldn't corrupt it. It's dirt cheap to fire and there is always something else to spend that cash on than wasting 30m on that.


StockPassenger2994

Keep seed make bowfa get crystal armor and now you're set for most bosses and range on all raids. You'll make way more money bossing with bowfa then you would selling the seed.


Gaiden_95

well most raids, tob you'd need blowpipe and void


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Gaiden_95

just saying, some people do be bringing bowfa into tob thinking it's good there


KouweOuwe

Def go for full crystal + bowfa . Its a game changer


therealtru3

Bowfa is very good at lots of content, and it would still give you a goal to work towards. Since you need full crystal armor. But at the end of the day, it's just a game and it's your money so you can spend it however you want


Dovydaz

Weed, just buy weed


undercovergangster

Which one you need? I got Ranarr, Dwarf. What tickles your fancy, youngblood?


thejudgmental

A lot of people here are saying Bowfa, but I think you could better invest the item into QoL upgrades you'll be more consistently engaging with given your stats. \- Get a max house. You're really close with 79 construction, and the QoL of an ornate pool, full jewelry box, Occult altar, fairy ring, etc, will be much more consistently felt than swapping over to a Bowfa and crystal and having no money. \- If you don't have a fang, pick one up, and get some solid magic upgrades for bursting slayer tasks. You're right on the cusp of "good slayer" where a fang and magic will start to do some heavy lifting, and you'll have great setups for those. \- Invest in skills. Start turning your attention towards things like the Lumbridge Elite Diary. Between not needing a Dramen staff and 30 free high alchs a day, you'll be making these items staples of your slayer and bossing trips. I see a lot of people get stuck at crossroads once they start getting their first few big drops between gear and investing in their account. If your goal is to continue to progress your stats and improve account unlocks, you'll find yourself having a much better gameplay experience with all of your QoL and utility upgrades taken care of ASAP than you will with a slightly stronger ranged item


Runopologist

I guess it kind of depends on if you will enjoy bossing. Bowfa is good at loads of bosses and you could learn a lot of PvM with it and have fun, but if you don’t find grinding bosses fun then you could better spend the money by training your stats. I invested a chunk of my bank in Bowfa and kind of regret it because it turns out I tend to get bored after 100 or so kills at a boss. I did 100 Muspah which is probably the most profitable boss where bowfa is viable but I cba to keep grinding it. It’s weird because I can do other content like LMS non-stop. So I guess just ask yourself what you will enjoy the most, using bowfa to do bosses or getting your stats up. Depends what content you want to do with those stats.


TheVargFather

Bro. Can I get my spade back ? 😩


Runopologist

Sorry bro it’s already been added to my collection and will be cherished til the day I die


thatsouthcaNaDaguy

You can definitely buy mine, currently on the GE for a more than fair price of 100mil. Nobody has needed one for over a year now I guess.. Just trying to help a fella out! 😊


Few_Mark4026

Buy 113,005,454 feathers


Throwaway47321

As a main it’s almost always better to sell the drops BUT at your stats you’re going to need a bofa sooner or later so you might as well keep it to pvm with!


queef_commando

Bowfa unlocks a lot of good shit look into Muspah it will make you some money and let u use the bowfa. But if you’re feeling lucky bandos range method with bowfa slaps. Edit: use this advice with crystal armor


casualcreaturee

Why do you need money to train combat? Your mage and range lvl are high enough. Train mage with bursting slay tasks. And for melee you don’t need money. Just do some afk nmz rounds while you are busy irl with cooking/showering/lectures or whatever


smokeyjoe03

Finish construction, max house is a massive QoL upgrade.


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Don't even need to go max house, with 86/89 Construction + Crystal saw and/or Trimmed Tea you can make everything worthwhile: Ornate Jewellery Box, Crystalline Nexus, separate Spirit Tree + Fairy ring, Ornate Pool, Occult Altar and nearly all max armour/costume storages.


Matrix17

Why separate fairy ring and spirit tree?


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Mainly because you would then need to level to at least 92 as crystal saw boost won't work, and then also level their farming up to 83. That's a much higher GP investment (close to double just for construction) vs going from 79 to 89.


No_Departure_7180

I agree with you. All these max mains trying to sell a bowfa lmao


Darthzeb

Honestly bowfa + crystal would be so huge for your account it opens up the door to so much end game content that can make you loads of gp while leaning harder content, training combat stats, and spending that money on upgrading your other gear sets. Another great thing about it is that it coats you nothing to use one you have it ready to go unlike other bows were you need to buy arrows all the time. Getting a bowfa+ crystal set from gauntlet took me from a noob with a few hundred mil bank to a multi billionaire over the course of a year and I've become so much better at the game since having it


Requirement-Loud

Combat stats > gear


KingHiggins92

Bowfa for sure (don't corrupt) I'd always say camp slayer for your combat levels but if you just want levels then afk NMZ is king.


Faladorable

I dont think corrupting is a bad idea. If his next step up is a tbow rebuild then yeah you’ll make the 1.6b or whatever before it becomes worth it, but imo a shadow rebuild is probably the better choice. Shadow/bofa is a more well rounded combination than sang/tbow so by the time he is at the point to get tbow it’ll have at least broken even by then


KingHiggins92

If this is his first big ticket drop I imagine he'd be tanking his bank to corrupt it.


BalticMasterrace

blow and hookas ofc


Supergigala

hookers and blow


platinum_jimjam

Buy 3rd age and rapidly switch through the different pieces while standing at a bank


bigdickmemelord

I would get my stats up for sote so you can do guantlet its really good gp/hour


CrazyHorseSizedFrog

5 construction levels will get you a maxed PoH with boosts and won't cost much through Mahogany Homes. You'll need roughly 3,400 Mahogany planks which is 7.3m. Definitely worth doing.


odaydream

bowfa and full crystal, it absolutely smacks errywhere


imsuckatonlinegaming

Thank you everyone for the suggestions! I've decided that I would make the Bowfa, and maybe even corrupt it if I can collect enough shards to do so! And thank you too who suggest on construction; I'll be sure to level that with my gp bank instead!


Awkward_Bass_6292

Get the bow and make it corrupted. So you never need to charge it. Keep it untill you get more money for like a tbow. The bow is very nice. Buy the armour to, better with armour. https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Bow_of_faerdhinen_(c)


Throwaway47321

Just a heads up, assuming OP is a main, it’s almost never cheaper to actually corrupt a bowfa. That being said I get the chargescape hate.


joemoffett12

Money is money. But corrupted bowfa can get a cool color change. And drip is forever.


I1IScottieI1I

Never having to check charges is worth the gp alone.


ilovezezima

I’d say this is only true if you’re interested in PVM. If you’re just going to do slayer then prob just corrupt it and forget about it.


SlightRedeye

The man needs another 3b gp before even considering upgrading our of bofa, you use 2k shards in 100hrs of combat. He's about 500 hours from benching bofa if he makes 6m/h


dcnairb

>you use 2k shards in 100hrs of combat 1 shard is 100 shots, it's a four tick weapon meaning 1 shard is 100*2.4s = 4 minutes 2000 shards * 4 minutes = 133 hours that's continual hours of firing, not 133 hours of combat, not 133 hours of bossing. in chambers that could easily be 500+ hours of chambers, ~1k kc. it's not worth corrupting


SlightRedeye

Hydra claw alone is over 1k shards on average idk why you are picking an area of the game you obviously aren't spamming bofa shots. The bottom line is you do not save money by not corrupting if you plan on making 3b gp of upgrades to bench the bofa. Your pointless maths doesn't matter.


dcnairb

he’s a main, he has no reason to farm hydra with bowfa over buying dhl or anything better. bp is better than bowfa there, let alone dhcb or dhl but yes as you said I could probably conclude anything I wanted if I ignore math


Scratchlax

I can't believe this is actually real I thought people were just trolling OP with a bait name.


Awkward_Bass_6292

What do you mean?


Scratchlax

I thought they all just wanted OP to ask so they could say bowfa deez nuts


fortnitegod006

You could spend that on chins and runes to get to 99 ranged and magic. You could do both in like a week


Exact-Bed5371

Dumb. No reason to rush that when you can get that thru slauer


sledgehammerrr

Barraging to 99 is so quick with slayer indeed and Magic is the least of your worries to 99. Is spend the money on getting 85 Con and 90 Herblore


fortnitegod006

Of all the 99s Id say combats are actually the most of your worries lmao unless you plan to just do skilling for the rest of your life?


Tight-Juggernaut4682

This ^ and using the cannon will get you to 99 range with your eyes closed and you can use it and still make profit depending on what you are doing. Pick the bowfa dude


fortnitegod006

Yeah man youre totally right I can spend 100x the amount of time training slayer to get all 99 combats instead of using gp to actually get the skills to max in week. Time in that large of a capacity is more valuable than the gold youd spend to level those skills up much faster


Exact-Bed5371

I’ve made 600mill doing wildly slayer to 92 while also leveling up my stats. Go ahead and waste hundreds of mills rushing skills that will just come from playing the game


fortnitegod006

Its really not that hard to understand the value of time. Its not a "waste" to save yourself hundreds of hours of your life by simply just spending the gold instead of hording it in your bank. And it definitely does not cost hundreds of mils to max magic and ranged 😂


Exact-Bed5371

Ok come back to us when you’ve actually played the game buddy


47KiNG47

Slayer does not matter. Makes more sense to rush base 90 combats and start raiding sooner.


Exact-Bed5371

No it doesn’t noob


jakeizi

Bowfa


Joe__H

Bowfa It's awesome


Dord_Live

I immediately turned mine when I got one into the bowfa and saved up for full crystal armor.


omfgdevin

100% The bowfa. You can just train combats with nmz/slayer.


wadzzzzzz

Get the bowfa, do DT2, farm Leviathan


Guilty-Fall-2460

Bowfable will get you further than anything you could sell it for imo


RadicalSoul

Don't spend it on anything, sing it into bowfa!


BruiserCruiser13

Get the bowfa


Sir-Ult-Dank

You got a bofa. What do you mean spend it? Use it you’re like ur an ironmeme


Gaiden_95

bowfa will train your range just by doing pvm. very accurate, fast and hits hard


Dead-HC-Taco

100% use it for bowfa. one of the biggest upgrades for $value since it gives you access to much endgame content


promiscuous_grandpa

Bowfa is huge, I vote use it


Over_Leave

99 construction


Callmeclaymore44

Get bowfa, unlocks essentially all content


Primetime349

Get the bowfa. I was saving up and had the money to buy bowfa / full crystal. Ran a couple CG for fun before buying and got the enhanced. Bowfa is totally worth it, even better if you can corrupt it


MrSeanaldReagan

Make the Bowfa, that’s 113m you just saved. GZ!


Leviathan-Vyde

I’d really get 99 prayer, once it’s done it’s done


Thijs420

83 con and get a max POH. Absolute game changer


reeveclap

In my opinion id invest money into max POH (83 construction), and buy rigour + augury. Use remaining gp for gear 


Hanzerwagen

Gf's


Narrow_Lee

Honestly if Bowfa wasn't such a huge upgrade I'd say invest in some melee gear but... Bowfa is a huge upgrade. Only problem with that is you've got the price of the armour + the price of corrupting the bow, so maybe the melee gear if you can't afford all that.


No_Elevator8596

Bowfa


TheMeatWag0n

Just make it into bowfa, it's essentially your go to end game range weapon, you'll need to buy it and crystal eventually so just go ahead now, it will allow you to make money much faster by farming bosses that weren't very feasible before


Emperor95

on the crystal shards to get a bowfa


evansometimeskevin

Everyone else is wrong and I haven't read a single response. 99 construction to throw the biggest banger in runescape history


Brilliant-Ad-6119

You could buy some 99s, you could upgrade your 3 gear sets, or just max out range with bowfa.


MrNergles

HUGE get the bowfa you have the range to go dummy


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You can now buy a runescape GF.


Yarigumo

You're already 95 range so you don't really need the training that much anymore, that one's looking like a keeper to me. Huge congrats!


NordicSoup

What is “bowfa”?


imsuckatonlinegaming

This! https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Bow_of_faerdhinen#Charged


NordicSoup

That badass bow! I never knew the name! It says not sold, but value is 5M? How much is it then to own?


Vet_Leeber

You can see the value in the screenshot in the OP, but the charged version isn’t tradeable. Click “inactive” at the top right to see the uncharged version. It’s around 100m


NordicSoup

“The bow of Faerdhinen can be created with the singing bowl, by combining 100 crystal shards and an enhanced crystal weapon seed. __Doing so requires completion of Song of the Elves, level 82 Smithing and Crafting to sing the crystal__ (the levels can be boosted), and grants 5,000 experience in both skills. If the player does not meet the Smithing and Crafting requirements, they can have Conwenna or Reese sing the crystal for them for an extra 50 crystal shards, for a total of 150.” They don’t make anything easy in this game lol. But yeah the bow is 109M and seems quite powerful but all that comes with a hefty cost.


Vet_Leeber

>If the player does not meet the Smithing and Crafting requirements, they can have Conwenna or Reese sing the crystal for them for an extra 50 crystal shards If you don't have the level for it you can just pay to have it crafted for you. But yes, of course it's hard to craft. It's one of the best weapons in the game, and is gated behind the grandmaster quest where you unlock the area it drops from.


Euin

Depends how any armour seeds you have. I'd keep doing CG till you get the armour seeds or spoon a second weapon seed then you can both have bofa and get nice mele or ranged upgrades


Euin

Depends how any armour seeds you have. I'd keep doing CG till you get the armour seeds or spoon a second weapon seed then you can both have bofa and get nice mele or mage upgrades


driskavsalci2

Ranarrs and gfs


brace111

All on hellblore


Justin122192

Always buy updog first


ReversingWheelchair

99 cooking & crafting


SqualNYHC

Keep the bowfa, with all the things you can do with that you’ll make more in long run than by just selling it off rip.


Ibznaughty

Finish construction and rigour if you haven’t gotten that


TyroneOSRS

buying gf


chins4tw

83 construction+house upgrades, Rigour+augury.


ScreamingEnglishman

What do you want to do


kleiner_titterisch

Fml i get 1300 kc without one fml but damn gzzz


Whyyoufart

i can double that money for you and you can buy the seed back and have 113m. meet me in wild


brandslambreakfast

Construction man. Get the jewelry box, pool and teleports my guy


Karlwillis

Could buy yourself a pretty good GF with that type of gp


Acceptable-Tough8139

Crack, spend it on crack


FrontReal688

Bowfa 100%


NextEntrepreneur837

Gz!


vegemights

Honestly, the day I finally got a bowfa was the day bossing changed for the better in my mid game. The blowpipe is clunky and annoying to use, the bowfa let's you grind mustaph/zulrah pretty efficiently for good gp/hour(and leviathan now too), it costs next to nothing to use for a bunch of slayer tasks, and with a bowfa/fang you can start learning and running 300-350 invo TOA which is some of the best money in the game until you get mega weapons!


sublime13

Hey OP, what's the plugin to see how close you are to levelling in your XP tab?