r/runescape • u/KingMango69 • Dec 08 '25
Luck Thanks Jagex for not spoiling this surprise!
Hex Bow at 195 KC
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u/No_Contact8193 Dec 08 '25
Well shit! I got the bow from soulgazers at 10k kills but might just keep trying on this boss for a second!
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u/DragonDanzZ Completionist / 5.8B / My Chinchompa Eat my Clue scroll Dec 08 '25
Aww for a moment i thought i got the bow to.. until i saw it was an elder shortbow XD
Lucky you ^^
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u/SolenoidSoldier Dec 09 '25
I wondered why they had the elder shortbow in that drop table. Makes complete sense now. It's a troll drop! Just like the dragon long swords which looks like the dragon harpoon.
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u/RevealUsed4709 Dec 08 '25
The flood of “wah wah wah I was at soul gazers for 5k hours so you should have to be too” Andy’s
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u/Demiscis Ironmeme Dec 08 '25
I had to grind like 20k soulgazers for the drop and I’m actually so glad it’s on the boss drop table. Hexhunter bow is straight up cheeks, and has long been power crept out of being a meta end game item.
I remember rushing Inquisy staff on my Ironman and it was like super useful because I got it at like 80 magic (and it was still bis at the time). Now it’s more of a “oh it’s really good if you get it early” but how many people are going to be like me and get 200m arch before 99 magic?
With the current meta in the game you’ll rarely see someone actually get use out of hexhunter bow by the time you can farm it from soulgazers. I’m genuinely ecstatic to think that I might see an iron running around with the bow at like ranged in the 80s, getting full use out of it.
Who cares that I spent hundreds of hours on the item? I got the log that I wanted, and I still have the bow. Jagex didn’t break my knee caps, steal the item from me, and remove the grind from my memory.
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u/G2Keen Dec 08 '25
I still use my inquis staff at 99 magic depending on what I'm fighting. The effect is still quite good especially boosted when against melee.
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u/Demiscis Ironmeme Dec 09 '25
It’s still a very good staff don’t get me wrong. It just isn’t the end game bis that it once was.
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u/Eineegoist Armadyl Dec 09 '25
It took me about 24k big boys for the pet.
Let everyone have their bows, I got sick of seeing them.
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u/Legal_Evil Dec 09 '25
And we don't even know if fighting this boss is faster to get the bow than soul gazers.
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u/igornist 31k Dec 08 '25
Oh great! But its probably a very very very rare drop from it, much like the Nihil can drop the zaryte bow
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u/Cautious-Interest-40 Dec 08 '25
There is ko way the droprate is gonna be anywhere close to the zaryte bow from nihils
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Dec 08 '25
Why not?
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u/Cautious-Interest-40 Dec 09 '25
Common sense ?
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Dec 09 '25
There’s no reason jagex won’t make it 2x as rare as zaryte they could make it any rate? Could be normal rate as non elite soulgazer
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u/Deathxcake 200m! Dec 09 '25
Nah boss is on par difficulty wise to an elite, so I’d expect drop rate to be reasonable. 1/5k max… Zaryte from nihil is straight up 1/1m confirmed and was more of an easter egg than anything else. They aren’t doing that and you know it.
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Dec 09 '25
I don’t know, no one knows right now and not may have came in through the thousands and thousands killed today. 1/5k I think unlikely
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u/Kthonic Maxed 11/20/2025 Dec 08 '25
Is this an emotional assumption or is there any evidence youre drawing from?
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u/Cautious-Interest-40 Dec 09 '25
“Emotional assumption”
I would call it a logical assumption taken from the 20 odd years of me playing the game…
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u/IStealDreams 5.8b exp Dec 09 '25
I'm pretty sure it does, but this did count for your drop log for Daemonheim, right?
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u/aussypat GIM Dec 09 '25
My clannie got it from the boss and said it did not count for raper drop log
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u/BFrolka Dec 10 '25
Oh wow. He bow price has dropped considerably since I last looked. Nice drop though!
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u/MC-sama Dec 09 '25
If this boss also drops the soulgazer charm, and assuming hex bow counting for log is fixed, then there's a legitimate reason to camp eyeball boss past the boss pet now.
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u/IStealDreams 5.8b exp Dec 08 '25
There goes my Charm collection value. GG Jagex, you win this time.
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u/MightyJill Untrimmed RSN: P o u c h Dec 09 '25
Charms were already crashing for a good time now, ever since they fixed the insane RDT rate at Stalker creatures the charms have been dropping in price hard.
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u/IStealDreams 5.8b exp Dec 09 '25
Yeah I was just joking really. I bought like 300 for 30m to use for my own grind and just never got around to it. People downvoted me because they think I was serious lol.
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u/Lenticel Dec 08 '25
This is interesting, but may well be a problem for the boss in a weird way.
If it’s significantly faster to get a hex bow from the boss than soul gazers and it counts for slayer log, it might make a lot of players camp the boss only for the bow crashing everything else it drops into oblivion. Sorta how players chasing shards of genesis at Nakatra caused the magic weapons to be dirt cheap compared to other t95s.
That would be bad for low level players wanting to actually make money from the boss and might crash the hex bow, making soul gazers even worse as well. It would be hilarious of you still need to kill soul gazers for the pet only but getting a bow wouldn’t even be profitable.
Should be interesting to see how it plays out in the long term.
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u/BigOldButt99 Dec 08 '25
bro the harpoon is like 1m on day one, there is nothing to crash lol. it's like a hermod boss.
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u/Todsrache Green h'ween mask Dec 08 '25
As a GIM not mad to have an easy augmentable harpoon.
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u/Kthonic Maxed 11/20/2025 Dec 08 '25
.. im sorry, a harpoon?? What??
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u/Todsrache Green h'ween mask Dec 08 '25
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u/Another_eve_account Dec 09 '25
Get a crystal rod. Tool seeds from cadarn elves. Harpoon kinds whatever. Can give rods to rest of group.
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u/rsnSlaskeDorte Dec 08 '25
You cant compare that🥲 t95 is pretty common on NM at sanctum.. they where sub 200m a day after release
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u/ThaToastman Dec 08 '25
Everything else is already gonna be cheap as the boss is super fast and the ‘rares’ are 1/100 at worst
If its like hermod, the pet rate is like 1000kc so…
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u/Legal_Evil Dec 09 '25
If it’s significantly faster to get a hex bow from the boss than soul gazers and it counts for slayer log, it might make a lot of players camp the boss only for the bow crashing everything else it drops into oblivion. Sorta how players chasing shards of genesis at Nakatra caused the magic weapons to be dirt cheap compared to other t95s.
This boss will just crash the price of dragon harpoon and the amulet from afkers grinding for the hexhunter bow, not a t95 weapon.
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u/Julius_Novachrono Dec 09 '25
At least that low level weapon will now reflect its tier with it’s price point to likely drop… this boss so ez, was afk’ing for a while. The re-entering mechanic prevented full afk capacity though
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u/Another_eve_account Dec 09 '25
That's the point, yes. Easy boss for new players to get experience with, not some afk content for high level players
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u/DarthChosenRS Zaros Dec 08 '25
you telling me i grinded out stalkers for nothing?
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u/KingMango69 Dec 08 '25
I would like to mention that it did not update my slayer log
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u/Mr_Hump Dec 09 '25
You should report this. Likely an oversight and the comment you replied to is downvoted making it not very visible
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u/Zepertix Working on Soul Wars Remastered Dec 08 '25
1: its obviously still incredibly rare for this to be the first person to post it with such fast kill times and so many doing iy
2: no, almost always "i did all that work for nothing" when something new also gives the same thing is almost always silly. Hexhunter has been a sought after ranged weapon for a long time and you got to use it for what... nearly 7-8 years before this boss was released? You worked hard to be able to use it years before this boss was released and there was always the chance that this boss was never released or didnt drop the hex.
3: you still have a functional hexhunter bow. You get to skip grinding this boss for it. Yippie!
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u/KobraTheKing Dec 08 '25 edited Dec 08 '25
Hopefully its a rare drop and soulgazers remain the clear better way of getting it.
We don't need another case of new boss deciding to cannibalise by taking the unique rewards from other content.
EDIT: If the issue is hex is too rare normally, then the solution is to buff the rate from its original content source, not kill it off completely. The new boss has plenty of reasons to do it already, and has lower requirements than the slayer monsters. It doesn't need to be the better source of the bow as well making them pointless to fight.
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u/BoludoConInternet Trim | 5.8 Dec 08 '25 edited Dec 08 '25
i don't understand why would you want to gatekeep a bow that's basically dead content behind slayer mobs that are also dead content
i think it's cool that this boss drops the bow, seems a lot more engaging and fun than afking seekers/gazers for like 500 hours and it also keeps the drop pool interesting
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u/KobraTheKing Dec 08 '25
I don't want to gatekeep said bow. If rate is an issue, then buff the rate from its original source. That should alway be the default action of anything thats too rare.
The issue I have is if it kills off the reason to do the other piece of content. Its boring if the game don't encourage you to engage with a breadth of content, and instead is just a narrow set where whatever is most recent do so by taking the rewards from something else.
I prefer if there is reason to do both the new boss, and soulgazers and seekers. Instead of just do the boss why even bother ever doing the other stuff.
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u/BoludoConInternet Trim | 5.8 Dec 08 '25
dude people kill soulgazers because they're a slayer task not because they have like a 1 in 1m chance of dropping a useless bow
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Dec 08 '25
Only people I know that kill soulgazers is for the log not xp or a task
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Dec 08 '25 edited Dec 08 '25
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Dec 08 '25
Oh for sure I’m not opposed to it being on the bosses drop table by any means. Curious of what the official rate it for it
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u/Another_eve_account Dec 09 '25
Honestly, most people I know skip soulgazers unless they want the bow for log.
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u/Armadyl_1 In the time of chimp i was monke Dec 08 '25
You're not making sense. You want an already outclassed bow to keep it's value but then argue you want it to be more common from slayer drops? That will kill it faster than a super rare drop from this boss.
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u/KobraTheKing Dec 08 '25 edited Dec 08 '25
I think you misread me.
I argued that I think both the slayer monster and the boss should have reasons to do them, and since Hexhunter is pretty much the big reason to do stalker creatures as is, it should remain the primary method of getting it. Which is why I stated I hope its rare enough that its better to do soulgazers.
If the argument become it is too rare as is from stalker creatures and thats why its good that its on the new boss, I'd prefer buffing the rate on stalker creatures over having a new boss have its big drop with ok rates. I don't want the boss to replace doing them.
Game is better if we are encouraged to engage with different pieces of content. I'm arguing on behalf of stalker creatures should have a reason to be done, not on behalf of hexhunter should have a certain value.
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u/Thewhatandthewho Completionist Dec 08 '25
They already have a reason to be done my guy, it's a slayer task. No one's camping these guys for a dead content bow. Or for the pet, they do them for their slayer task, thats it. Unless you're randomly part of a very small group of players who are passionate about killing stalker creatures, other than that you're not making alot of sense.
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u/Monkey___Man Dec 08 '25
They aren't a good slayer task though, most people are there for slayer log.
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u/KobraTheKing Dec 08 '25 edited Dec 08 '25
If their only value is that they're a slayer task, you'll quickly just see people just block them, skip them, pick alternative tasks via VIP tickets and 120 cape and so on. Slayer already has enough buffs that rotating just a handful or so of tasks that do offer reason to do them beyond "they're a slayer task" will be picked instead.
I know when I've done the task, it has been with the idea I can get uniques, otherwise there is no reason to not instead aim for one of the tasks that do. Same with most people I've encountered there.
Less "passionate about killing stalker creatures" and more "there is no real need for this content to cannibalise another piece of content, it would stand on its own two legs without it and do so without harming another piece of content."
Same reason Raksha having the dino and vile bloom boots were stupid (and changed because of it), and that Arch-Glacor thankfully don't have Glacors unique drops and so on. Kerapac don't have the nodon uniques, so you have a reason to do Nodons and not just go "I'll just do Kerapac for everything."
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u/Wrong_Hovercraft2529 Dec 08 '25
Boss drops hex bow?