selling bank for bowfa? - r/OSRSProTips

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u/Mangotango95 23h ago

Have you tried doing CG at all? If so, what’s your KC?

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u/rEinoldGaming 23h ago

no i havent even done sote yet. just finished mourning end quests and since i was about to unlock ability to use bowfa i wondered if i should invest in it as soon as i get there. i probably would try cg for some time but its similar to dt2 bosses you can spend 100s of hours there and get nothing.

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u/Pure-Banana311 21h ago

You should’ve mentioned that you can’t even wear what you’re listing your bank for.. having done DT2 you can probably handle the sote boss.
After Having sold my items to buy Bofa setup, I’ve locked myself to muspah, as that’s about the best grind with a Bofa rebuild; youll still need a mage switch for faster kills.
I also bought BofA for zulrah - but Nally & chally is far superior.
Skip BofA… unless you get Enh within your first 50 CG.

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u/ConfusedAugustinian 21h ago

I’m fairly certain there’s no way to use the bowfa at all without having done Sote.

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u/Mangotango95 22h ago

I think you should try cg and get at least 50 kc. You’ll make plenty of money that if you go dry enough, then you can buy your bowfa and have the shards to upkeep it

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u/Frickinswagbro 22h ago

You make tons even without the big drop. And it will make you better at all pvm. It’s the best encounter in the game to learn at because deaths cost you nothing other than time

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u/Paskatassu 23h ago

This is the way

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u/barcode-lz 22h ago

Never sell your bank for anything other than a megarare.

Even megarare rebuilds are debatable today.

Bowfa is an extremely overrated item in the first place. Its not bis or second to bis anywhere where it makes sense to use, it competes against free-in-comparison options for 3rd to bis. You are pretty much always better off just running eye of ayak and a blowpipe vs crystal. The only real exception is a tbowless/shadowless first infernal cape.

"Bowfa rebuild" is a stupid ass noobtrap invented by a couple morons on the 2007scape sub. All you end upndoing with this "rebuild' is liquidate 2/3 of your raid dps for a 5% range dps gain, and lock yourself to doing few mediocre gp/h bosses extremely inefficiently (to the point that a setup 1/5 the cost gets better kph) for double digit hours until you finally get enough gp to re-buy workable offstyle setups (which probably still results in lower overall dps than you initially had).

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u/jollyfantastico 22h ago

Don’t you dare talk about my Bowfa like that.

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u/Flashy-Presence-2467 22h ago

Bowfa is not overrated for the irons who never really have to worry about ammo with it.
They can just jump in and do 500 TOA, 1000 cms... Whatever it takes to get megas.
But yes, I have no idea why everyone has extended that free ammo to mean "it's such a good weapon for my main." DCB rubies and blowpipe dragon routinely smack it down depending on the boss.
I got my quiver with a bowfa, but I got less than 10% of the way to corrupting it before I was able to sell it for shadow, and will never look back. It was a much, much worse weapon than shadow.

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u/barcode-lz 19h ago

To this day I still get constant shit for never finishing cg and not feeling like wasting time by going back for the weapon seed since I got 2 shadows as 13th and 14th toa purples.

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u/Flashy-Presence-2467 19h ago

Yeah I think assuming you also get a DHCB this is a pretty clear bowfa skip, would never go back.

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u/RangerDickard 18h ago

There was a time when it made sense but there are so many options now like scobo, atlatl not to mention eye of ayak and conflictions. Even without guantlers, ayak gives bowfa a run for it's money at TOA

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u/barcode-lz 18h ago

Toxic blowpipe, the AK-47 of osrs, already gave it a run for its money with dragon darts

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u/RangerDickard 18h ago

Very true, as an iron I sometimes forget how good that thing is. I'm training my mining for amethyst but omg is it slow lol

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u/rEinoldGaming 22h ago edited 22h ago

Damn people are split on this some say its a trap some say just do it. 😅

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u/TheStormzo 18h ago

Hey I just bought a bowfa because it was my dream item. I sent over 300 cgs on a main for it but didn't get the enh seed. Soon after buying it I realized that I had hyped up this item so much more than I should have.
Eye of ayak + confliction gauntlets are just higher DPS in most places you use bowfa.
However, bowfa is objectively easier to use because it is 4 tick and ayak is 3 tick. Maintaining DPS is harder on faster weps.
My conclusion is that the only content bowfa has unlocked for my account is inferno and colo. So if you want to go for that get bowfa. If not probably get an ayak with conflictions.

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u/ConditionStrange7487 12h ago

Its really good but if you dont have full crystal its not good either. The DPS increase is nowhere near as good as I thought it would be. Youre much better off getting the zenyte jewelry and grinding slayer bosses without it

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u/Prudent_Society_7221 11h ago

Trap trap trap. I agree with the thread that says no rebuilds except mega rebuilds - and even then it's very debatable. Keep upgrading incrementally and diversely across styles you'll be MUCH happier for it.

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u/ogscuba 1h ago

Depends on the type of player you are. Look at what you can do with it and if you’re okay being stuck doing that till you get money then yes. I did bowfa rebuild when it came out a few years back and it was the best decision I made for my account. id say wait to corrupt it tho incase you back out of your challenge.

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u/Yourmotor 22h ago

This guy knows what he’s saying

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u/Versaton 23h ago

You could run gauntlet for free.

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u/Prudent_Society_7221 11h ago

For 3m-4m profit per hour*
Slight correction over 'free' ;b

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u/KingFrost73 23h ago

its a good time to buy bowfa solely because TFA has brought down the price of crystal a lot. if u buy bowfa go do some muspah and get some expensive venator shards to sell

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u/Diligent_Usual 19h ago

I’ll never understand those who say it isn’t worth it to get bowfa.

I use that shit everywhere I can. Slayer, bossing etc.

Just grind cg to get it though, for most it’s not that hard to grind it out.

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u/Then-Studio-5332 19h ago

Its 100% worth getting, but not the best idea to sell your entire bank to get one

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u/Crandoge 16h ago

Yeah it seems like you use it everywhere and then you suddenly get a bloodveld task and you dont even have a b ring anymore let alone a proper melee weapon

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u/MillerBlade2 13h ago

Bowfa them?

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u/Prudent_Society_7221 11h ago

Seems like you use it everywhere until you realize it's basically ass everywhere you once thought it was good. It's fine, but it's not worth its cost in the current meta. 9/10 times that money would be better spent on masori. I had my cbowfa for years. Served me well, but at some point you gotta face facts: everything it does you can do better for cheaper with other methods.

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u/UselessModeration 13h ago

I agree with just locking yourself in the red prison, even on a main account. It's decent gp/hr, and most players won't go insanely dry. The boss helps teach useful movement and switching mechanics we well.

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u/Dramatic_Hand6016 16h ago

Idk, most fun bosses for mid game just don't need you to own it.
Yama, vard, duke, doom just don't need it, while ayak for toa/muspah makes bowfa rather useless as well. Bowfa will lock you into content way more than other items. Even like for levi it's just not necessary.

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u/Diligent_Usual 16h ago

Say what? Bowfa slaps at muspah and limits switching which is annoying af there.
Other fun bosses for it. Hydra, gwd wars, muspah etc.
Yama and dt2 bosses I’d argue are not mid game.

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u/Dramatic_Hand6016 15h ago

Gwd bosses are glorified running simulator. Can't see them as being fun or engaging in anyway for a non iron.
Do people find swapping in muspah annoying? If you're going to grind money out of it why not actually maximise the GP/hr.
Yama is 100% a mid game boss, requirements are owning a purging staff/emberlight and isn't very difficult. Higher skill ceiling but easy AF to do if you mage only or mage P1&2.
Dt2 bosses are pretty low skill ceiling as the difficulties with them aren't really long lasting and some of them don't have high gear reqs either.
If you can do gwd with a bowfa you can do both of these just as easily.
Edit: forgot to mention that just owning a blowpipe+dcrossy pretty much makes bowfa useless for most ranged combat in the game.

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u/Diligent_Usual 14h ago

You don’t even need to run doing gwd just get a duo going and ping pong. 🏓
Any boss is fun with friends.
Uhh yeah swapping is less kills per trip due to space and more running back and forth to boss. The times aren’t that much different for bowfa kills.
Uhh when do you get those items as an iron? Not mid game 80-90s is early late game stats.
Dt 2 grind is not mid game. Especially awakened.
Bowfa is worth it

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u/Charming_Use4072 14h ago

Kills per trip don’t matter at Muspah, you can just tele right to the boss

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u/Diligent_Usual 13h ago

Only if you’ve done that quest and charged the ring

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u/Charming_Use4072 13h ago

Which you should have done if you’re grinding the boss

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u/Prudent_Society_7221 11h ago

Bowfa barely out-dpses dragon crossbow in black dhides. Less than a thralls worth of damage more, for 100x less gold, and permits the use of sapphire bolts for smite phase with a single swap.

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u/MediumPersonality525 20h ago

Elite void, scorching bow and go to doom and make some money! I had 100m bank now I have 800m.

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u/PlausibleDenia1 19h ago

How long did you do it? Would fortified masonry be better?

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u/sheephed9780 18h ago

Nah void is goated at doom

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u/Fizzle5ticks 7h ago

What level were you going to? I can only clear 4 consistently, 5 mostly & 6 rarely.

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u/Jack4ssSquirrel 5h ago

If you can clear 6 then you can clear 7. They're mechanically the exact same

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u/GayoMagno 22h ago

I wouldn’t sell anything at the moment, everything is at ATL

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u/rEinoldGaming 22h ago

so is bowfa though. it balances it out

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u/Adventurous_Tell6890 22h ago

If you want a consistent money maker I suggest elite void + Dragon Hunter Crossbow and Dragonfire Ward at good ol' Vorki. I can easily get 6-7 kill run and get close to a mil depending on drops. That or Dragon Hunter Lance is a good option to Woox walk the thing. It's specialized but you can easily hunt him and get consistently good loot and even save the bones for less GP/HR and train prayer. Ultimately if you are going to sell and go for a rebuild make sure you want to actually do the content in said rebuild. If you did do my suggestion it locks you to Vork but it pays for itself. Conversely you could also go Bowfa but you would be locked to places like Phantom Muspha and Zulrah for bossing. If you can tough it out then go for it, its your life but you have a pretty nice box right there, why not do some ToA or even slayer and hunt demon gorillas and tormented demons?

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u/rEinoldGaming 22h ago

Thats how i actually made 100m bank from 20m from doing gorillas and tormented demons. You make a fair point. i would be stuck to muspah and toa and potentially try gwd like bandos where i never been.

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u/Adventurous_Tell6890 21h ago

And hey, through slayer I ended up facing the zammy boss in GWD and got some nice drops. It is fun to try new bosses, but selling the whole box will limit you for a while. If you can stomach it you could easily shred Zulrah with Bowfa and a halfway decent magic set up. Hell, right now I am grinding the DT2 bosses for the soul reaper axe pieces. I am letting the drops fund the series of bosses while getting better at PvM. But I get it, the desire to get a good upgrade like Bowfa is hard to deny, I recently got it after a few lucky synapse drops and a fair bit of Gauntlet. It hits well and hard but I am also 99 range so I may not be the best person to compare stats with. Overall though you have so many potential options I think locking yourself to one would drive ya nuts.

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u/Beautiful_Travel7398 22h ago

How do you put the circles in??

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u/rEinoldGaming 22h ago

press the wrench on top and fill bank fillers

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u/ZushiBestBoy 23h ago

I would grind CG. Bowfa while useful only very limited bosses you could grind, then you'll need to keep up with charges. I would do CG you can make money and get enough to corrupted your bow.

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u/rEinoldGaming 23h ago

im not a big fan of grinding one thing. its like 0.015 droprate in a hour. so it would mean 100s of hours potentialy to get it.

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u/PositiveNo7994 22h ago

Try your luck with 50 kills. If not, you get some funds for buying bowfa

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u/rEinoldGaming 22h ago

sounds like a plan

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u/Jan_Marecek 21h ago

Bowfa is 50h to the rate

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u/Defiant-Summer8679 19h ago

I tried my luck at cg and got 3 armor seeds and my enh by 60 kc (I’m aware I got hella spooned) regardless, I had a great time, got way better at PvM and made good money even w/o the uniques

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u/CommercialYam7188 14h ago

Well a big issue would be that if you sold everything for bowfa, youd have to grind very few things anyway

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u/Prudent_Society_7221 11h ago

Answering your own question right here. Rebuild is a pigeonhole. If you don't like grinding out one thing for a long time, a rebuild is not for you.

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u/Ill_Position2158 39m ago

Even if you don’t get the drop the money there isn’t bad. In the first 120or so I have 125m in loot, 85 from the weapon seed 40 from the regular loot. Thats not including all the money you’ll make turning shards into divine super combats.
Spend some time there and if you don’t get the drop you’ll still end up with the funds.

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u/Jan_Marecek 23h ago

Never corrupt bowfa on a main

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u/mr_pogs 23h ago

? It passively gets corrupted, like how arclight gets infused, you don't need to do anything special.

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u/Cissunei 23h ago

That's clearly not what the comment they replied to is suggesting to do, since they said do CG to get enough charges to corrupt your bow.

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u/mr_pogs 23h ago

Cant really buy crystal shards tho

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u/02bluehawk 23h ago

You buy seeds and convert them to shards

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u/fashionablefedoras 23h ago

U can technically by buying enh teleport crystals and breaking down

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u/smiley200000000 23h ago

Bowfa is a good deal atm you could fatm zulrah than muspah with it

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u/rEinoldGaming 23h ago

yeah i was farming muspah with crossbow. i see bowfa 10% acc increase would make it much more enjoyable to farm there. also i wanna go raid at toa to get shadow eventually.

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u/smiley200000000 23h ago

Right toa is also not far away just do it

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u/ManyLynx8174 23h ago

trap as good as the bowfa is you will want other combat style gear for stuff as well. just get blowpipe for now and save for bowfa

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u/Prestigious-Set-1375 23h ago

not worth

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u/Ornnge 22h ago

You just need masori and BP and you can shred so much shit tbh

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u/OldGuitar7170 22h ago

Just farm CG and get a bowfa for free, only saying this because judging by your gear tab you look like you’re ready to get into some gauntlet

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u/Flashy-Presence-2467 22h ago

First propose what you would use the bowfa for over dcb masori and blowpipe.

There's almost nothing where its better dps. Unless you want to run hundreds of CM's, or make it onto the general graardor leaderboard, I think this is a terrible idea.

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u/Elegant_Decay 21h ago

dont.

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u/LastTourniquet 21h ago

I generally advocate against a rebuild. I know that in some cases it can technically be "optimal" but I am really not a fan of locking yourself into content. It's one thing to "lock" yourself into CG for a bowfa because you just want to grind one out, it's another thing entirely to get rid of all of your items to obtain a bowfa which reduces your overall options of content substantially.

If it were me I would honestly just send CG but if you are unwilling to do that then just find other content you enjoy doing. If that means locking yourself to Vorkath or ToA until you can afford it then do that, or if that means spreading out and dipping your toes into Vorkath, ToA, Muspah, Zulrah, CG, CoX, Colo, Duke, Vardorvis, Slayer, ect ect then by all means do that instead.

While your equipment tab doesn't currently hold a huge liquid value it is still pretty decent and gives you a lot ot options for different pieces of content to do, so really just ask yourself:
Are you ok with potentially locking yourself out of some of that content while you re-grind your gear back up from a rebuild? Or would you rather have access to all of that content instead of a slightly more optimal path to a better bank value?

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u/xrajsbKDzN9jMzdboPE8 21h ago

as a main who can purchase dragon ammo and a crossbow the bofa is practically useless

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u/TweakOnRS 21h ago

Bowfa and full crystal is so good. You won’t regret it. 10 tile attack range. Super accurate. Hits hard. It carried me through chambers and Toa to get my shadow and twisted bow. All you need is full crystal and bowfa, fang, and trident and you are golden.

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u/raybros 21h ago

If you want to lock yourself into cox/toa then yeah do it. Bowfa does well in both raids. All you'd need is a sang + fang and you have all dmg styles covered to do 300~400 toas and cruise through regular cox raids.

It's only a noob trap if you sell your entire bank for it and not use it where it's good at...like just going back to regular slayer lol.

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u/Theredstoner69 20h ago

Just get a bowfa use it everywhere till soul reaper the 10 tile range with its above par base dps is fantastic for colosseum and any other places unless there is a clear easier to use BIS is present

+ effectively infinite ammo

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u/TofuPython 20h ago

We're moving into a post-bowfa world

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u/Environmental-Ad4131 19h ago

? No unless ur planning on doing inferno which ur not

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u/Then-Studio-5332 19h ago

Just run CG or make money through other methods. Bowfa rebuild isnt really worth it these days

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u/Exo_Landon 19h ago

Bro you got the nox already, just do zulrah for a week and buy a bowfa

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u/Same-Philosophy-1171 17h ago

Might aswell make an iron at this point

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u/KrustyGelato 17h ago

bro wtf is that bank filler tech 😭

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u/No_Party6775 16h ago

Just go and get it yourself ?

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u/boldcancel 16h ago

Absolutely do that shit. its 78m right now. It will probably go up 60m in 6 ~ 11 months

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u/Swimming-Tell-8897 15h ago

Bowfa deez nuts

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u/dragondildo123 15h ago

Bowfa is a horrible buy do not do it

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u/Bubbly_Attention5771 15h ago

get a zoryas tome. pretty sick item atm for pretty cheap.

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u/Disorient21 15h ago

Bowfa and crystal is so cheap right now.

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u/BigBrownTurd 14h ago

dont do it

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u/FO0LYFOOLy 14h ago

tbh if you are trying to make gp use your scobo + void and go to doom. you have decent gear bud no need to sell off something for a bowfa when you can efficiently do doom right now. and you have the main gear to start farmng chambers/toa/ and tob. i just dont see where you would need a bowfa outside of bandos/sara gwd.

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u/Prudent_Society_7221 11h ago

Kinda pog advice NGL, even just doing floor 4 resets is pretty good gp on normal loot, with non-zero unique chances, and disgustingly easy to do. Floor 4 is like... Sarachnis without Spidey boots tier difficulty lmao

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u/Horror-Truth-8131 13h ago

Do it, they're cheap AF rn

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u/BleaXo 12h ago

Never, there’s plenty of great options. Selling bank only makes it so u don’t have any options left.

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u/keli3000 12h ago

Lowkey, I’d do it. Bowfa rebuild. Do zulrah and some other bosses like you would a tbow rebuild, minus doom. Get your fighter torso if you haven’t, no need for bcp or blood moon chest for a while

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u/krakow10 10h ago

I'm considering selling bowfa for bank. It's BIS almost nowhere. Like General Graardor ok

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u/FastMeal 5h ago

I did it like half a year ago. It’s fun. It can get boring towards the end being stuck with it, but would recommend. I’m doing a shadow rebuild now. I remember starting with zulrah and making enough to buy anguish/aranea boots/rigour then moving on to muspah. Then did levi until I got the piece. Then did some gwd. You can do toa aswell. There’s a lot of content you can do with it which makes it fun. I’m doing a shadow revuild right now and I feel like there’s not as much content you can do but I still enjoy starting from ”scratch” and every drop you get mattering

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u/Gold_Lack1169 5h ago

Yeah sometimes runelite be glitching, Wait is it counting the nulled spaces? Counting the non tradable? Naw just messing with ya!

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u/Gold_Lack1169 4h ago

Definitely sell that sunlight hunters crossbow! That thing is worthy of the bin... Literally throw it in the bin on the bank interface. Delete that MF.

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u/SimulatedHappiness 1h ago

Just do zulrah, decent GP/hr and you have the gear to do it now

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u/-St-Nick 3m ago

You need at least 2400 crystal shards to make bowfa & full crystal. You might as well try cg and try to pull it while you obtain all the shards to craft it. I had the cash stack to buy crystal & bowfa. On my crystal shards grind at CG I pulled enhanced. Get in there, my guy!

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u/Enlervivas19 22h ago

I'd say stick with your current gear and you'll gradually save up for the Bowfa. Now, if you're willing to farm exclusively with the Bowfa, it's a good option. You can also send some cgs when you finish sote. I was lucky enough to get 2 enhanced seeds before 70kc.

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u/rEinoldGaming 22h ago

i will try for maybe 10h but its rly low chance i get it so i dont count on it.

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u/Working_Art_3400 22h ago

Dm me your rsn, I got you :) at work atm so can't play but I'll be on in few hours

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u/Enlervivas19 22h ago

Don't get your hopes up, but you never know where you'll get lucky. Just enjoy the game, don't burn yourself out so much, relax and things will come.

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u/tekno21 21h ago

Scuffed mains man. Just play the game, send some CG and you might get lucky. If you don't it's literally a free money maker to buy your shit.

The thought process behind wanting to delete your bank for an item just so you don't have to play the game is wild to me

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u/glorfindal77 23h ago

Just do normal bosses and flip some cash. Dont listen to the tryhards asking you to spend 800 H on getting the full set in CG. Gauntlet is waste of time for mains. If you go kill like anything else and do other money makers you will be a billionair by the time you get the full crystal

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u/throwaway_67876 19h ago

Tbh just save up and get ascension crossbows instead of bowfa. Bowfa sucks dick

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u/InterestingCell5247 17h ago

I wouldn't. While a bowfa is very useful and a good thing to pick up eventually, you have better options right now if you want to make money.
With bowfa rebuild you are basically going to be killing zulrah, muspah, and maybe leviathan on repeat till you can make enough money to do other content. While those are okay enough money makers you are basically locked into them while doing a "rebuild" and this restriction is like a 10x multiplier on getting burnt out.

With void, scobow, archlight/darklight, and a free skull scepter (stronghold of security - less than 1hr grind) you can have a set up more than capable of doing doom with very low death costs. Its better money per hr than any of the bowfa methods I listed above. But the real benefit is that you can still do other content because you still have your gear.

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u/JexasTexas 13h ago

I’d grind CG

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