Dragonbane arrow

Not to be confused with Jas dragonbane arrow.

Dragonbane arrow
Release	14 September 2011 (Update)
Members	Yes
Quest item	No
Properties
Tradeable	No
Equipable	Yes
Stackable	Yes
Disassembly	Yes
Destroy	Drop
Actions
Backpack	Wield
Values
Value	76 coins
High alch	45 coins
Low alch	30 coins
On death	Reclaimable Reclaim: 11 Sacrifice: 44
Weight	0 kg
Examine
Particularly damaging against dragons.
Advanced data
Item ID	21640
Links	MRID • recipe
FAQ • doc

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Dragonbane arrows are arrows that do additional damage to dragons. They are created by attaching dragonbane arrowheads to headless arrows, requiring level 76 Fletching, giving 187.5 experience per set of 15 feathered.

Dragonbane arrows can be used with:

• Shortbows/shieldbows - Magic bows, elder bows, Seercull, Dark bow, Strykebow, Hexhunter bow
• God bows - Guthix bow, Saradomin bow, Zamorak bow
• Charge bows - Gravite chargebow, Decimation, Seren godbow
• Longbows - Noxious longbow
• Chargebows used to disallow the use of bane ammunition, making them not as effective against the monsters that can be affected by them, and useless against rune dragons. This was changed in an update, and they can now be used as ammunition for the bows.

Combat stats

Requirements						Tier
60						60
Class			Slot			Attributes
Ranged						Armour				0.0
						Life points				0
Weapons		Main		Off		Prayer				0
Damage		576.0		-		Damage reduction
Accuracy		-		-		PvM: 0%			PvP: 0%
Style		Arrows				Style bonuses
Range		-				0.0		0.0		0.0
FAQ • docs

Damage Analysis

The 40% damage boost from any type of bane ammunition applies only to the variable portion (the damage between the ability's minimum and maximum hit) of damage. Typically, abilities have ability damage ranges where the maximum hit is 5 times the minimum hit. For example, for an ability with a damage range of 20% to 100%, the damage boost will not apply to first 20% of ability damage, but will modify the additional damage over that. With the exception of auto attacks, this means that bane ammunition will always provide a total lower damage increase than displayed. In addition, it also provides +30% to the player's hit chance.

Average damage increase based on ability

Skill	Ability			Bane ammunition damage boost
	Name	Min hit	Max hit
Auto-attacks and standard abilities
	Auto-attacks	0%	100%	40.00%
	Standard abilities	20%	100%	26.67%
Ranged
	Snipe	125%	219%	10.93%
	Snap Shot (Hit #1)	100%	120%	3.64%
Constitution
	Tuska's Wrath	30%	110%	22.86%

Creation

Using Kethsian smithing to smith Dragonbane arrows

Requirements:

• 80 Mining
• 87 Magic
• 80 Smithing
• 76 Fletching
• Completion of Ritual of the Mahjarrat

The Magic, Smithing, and Fletching requirements can be boosted or assisted. Therefore, using spicy stews and an extreme magic potion, the lowest levels possible to obtain these arrows are 76 Mining (required to complete the quest), 80 Magic, 74 Smithing and 70 Fletching.

Full creation steps

1. Mine banite ore at any of the following locations, or purchase the ore from the Grand Exchange at 4,334 apiece. To skip the next step, cast the spell Tune Banite Ore directly on the rock, which will allow the player to mine dragonbanite ore directly from the rock.
   • Arctic habitat mine which has rocks on the east and west sides of the azure chinchompa hunting grounds.
   • Pirates' Hideout mine located in the Wilderness near the Mage Arena.
   • Glacor Cave which can be accessed using fairy ring DKQ, and running north past the energy barrier. Requires Ritual of the Mahjarrat.
   • Jatizso dungeon mine accessible after The Fremennik Isles quest.
   • Quest mine after completing Hero's Welcome in Tarshak's sanctum.
2. Switch to the Lunar spellbook. The Magic cape can be used to switch magic books at a bank.
3. Create dragonbanite ore by casting the Tune Banite Ore lunar spell on an item from a dragon, such as dragon bones or dragonhide.
   • The dragon item used will not be lost.
   • Each cast requires 4 x earth runes and 2 x astral runes.
4. Smelt the ore into dragonbane bars at any furnace, such as the one at Lumbridge.
5. Use the sixth-age circuit to teleport to the World Gate and then use it to travel to Kethsi (faster) or use DIR then AKS (slower)
6. Use the Kethsian anvil on the upper level to make 75 dragonbane arrowheads per bar.
   • The item can be found under the 'Kethsian smithing' section, under the 'Misc Smithing' header. (see picture)
   • Periodically use the Kethsian forge, re-heating the unfinished smithing item in order to smith it faster.
7. Add headless arrows to the dragonbane arrowheads to craft the finished dragonbane arrows.

Creation

Dragonbane arrow ×15

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187.5 XP	-	2 (1.2s)		-
Requirements
Fletching level				76
Partial completion of Ritual of the Mahjarrat after finding the tune banite ore scroll
Members only
Materials
Item		Quantity	Price	Total
	Dragonbane arrowheads	15	N/A	-
	Headless arrow	15	52	780

Effectiveness

In terms of damage, dragonbane arrows are less effective than Araxyte arrows. This is because Araxyte arrows provide 864 damage while with the extra 25% applied to abilities the dragonbane arrows only provides 720 damage. This means that, if accuracy is not an issue, Araxyte arrows are superior. Due to the inherently high accuracy of the Noxious longbow, players should find that Araxyte arrows are better against normal dragons, if only slightly so. When fighting a dragon like the Queen Black Dragon, dragonbane arrows are of much more use due to their increased accuracy. In addition, dragonbane arrows are less time-consuming to acquire.

In any other case, dragonbane arrows are generally better. It should also be noted that rune dragons take immensely reduced damage in their first phase if hit by anything besides dragonbane bolts/arrows, so much that they are required to kill them effectively.

Disassembly

Dragonbane arrow
Disassembly category	Arrows and arrowheads
Disassembly XP	0.9
Item quantity required	50
Material count	6
Base junk chance	?  67.0% 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 67.0% 1 34 66.4 2 49 65.0 3 64 63.7 4 69 62.4 5 78 61.0 6 83 59.0 7 91 57.7 8 95 55.7 9 105 53.6
Common materials
Stave parts	40/100
Head parts	30/100
Crafted parts	27/100
Rare materials
Precise components	3/100

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Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included - see here for how to help out!

• patch 7 February 2022 (Update):
  • Addressed feedback regarding the combat item tooltips from last month's Ninja Strike:
    • Clarified that the bonus ability damage from Bane Ammunition depends on the ability used.

• patch 4 March 2019 (Update):
  • Chargebows now take into account arrows equipped or held in an equipped quiver, so special effects like those of dragonbane and black stone arrows can be used with them. Damage will be reduced to the lowest tier of the arrow or chargebow. Chargebows will work as usual when no arrows or another type of ammunition is held in the ammo slot.

• patch 9 November 2015 (Update):
  • The XP given when crafting dragonbane arrows has been altered to match the Make X interface.

• patch 22 November 2011 (Update):
  • Dragonbane arrows now function correctly on all kinds of Frost dragon

• update 14 September 2011 (Update):
  • Added to game.