Triple crossbow
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| Name | Triple crossbow |
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| Skill | Crossbows |
| Damage | 23 |
| Accuracy | -2 |
| Base delay (%) | 23 |
| Min delay | 10 at 26 skill |
| Hands | 2H |
| Size | Medium |
| Ranged? | Yes |
| A crossbow with three strings arranged in series to provide exceptional power, initially designed as a siege weapon and then scaled down. It takes a considerable amount of time to load and fire. |
This weapon falls into the 'Crossbows' category. It is a two-handed weapon
The triple crossbow is a phenomenally powerful weapon; at 23 base damage, it has the highest base damage of any weapon in the game. However, it's also one of the slowest weapons in the game: with a base delay of 2.3, it takes a whopping 26 skill in Crossbows to reduce its attack speed to its mindelay of 1.0.
Until you get close to that point, you'll likely get much better performance out of an arbalest or longbow. Once you reach those near-max skill levels, however, there is little reason not to upgrade.
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| Mundane | 
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| Magical | 
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| Unrandart triple crossbow | |
| Sniper | 
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| Weapons | |
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| Axes | Battleaxe • Broad axe • Executioner's axe • Hand axe • War axe |
| Maces & Flails | Club • Demon whip • Dire flail • Eveningstar • Flail • Giant club • Giant spiked club • Great mace • Mace (Hammer) • Morningstar • Sacred scourge • Whip |
| Long Blades | Demon blade • Double sword • Eudemon blade • Falchion • Great sword • Long sword • Scimitar • Triple sword |
| Polearms | Bardiche • Demon trident • Glaive • Halberd (Scythe) • Spear • Trident • Trishula |
| Ranged Weapons | Arbalest • Hand cannon • Longbow • Orcbow • Shortbow • Sling • Triple crossbow |
| Short Blades | Dagger • Quick blade • Rapier • Short sword |
| Staves | Lajatang • Magical staff • Quarterstaff |
| Throwing | Boomerang • Dart • Javelin • Large rock • Stone • Throwing net |
History
- In 0.29, stats of the triple crossbow were changed (damage from 22 to 23, accuracy from 0 to -2), and they were effected by the ranged weapons rework that applied to all launchers, including the removal of the dedicated crossbows skill and physical bolts necessary to fire. Spriggans also lost the ability to wield them.
- Triple crossbows (as well as hand crossbows and arbalests) were added in 0.15, replacing vanilla crossbows.
