Toxic blowpipe

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Toxic blowpipe (empty)
Released							8 January 2015 (Update)
Also called							Bp, Blowpipe
Members							Yes
Quest item							No
Properties
Tradeable							Yes
Equipable							Yes
Stackable							No
Noteable							Yes
Options							Dismantle, Drop
Worn options							None (?)
Destroy							N/A
Examine							Fires darts while coating them with venom.
Values
Value							120,000 coins
High alch							72,000 coins
Low alch							48,000 coins
Weight							0.3 kg
Grand Exchange
Exchange							10,256,099 coins (info)
Buy limit							8
Daily volume							1,357
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Advanced data
Item ID							12924
Link							MOID

The toxic blowpipe is a blowpipe that requires 75 Ranged to wield. It can be made by using a chisel on a tanzanite fang, which requires 78 Fletching. Players using the blowpipe have a 25% chance of inflicting venom on their opponent with attacks or manually-cast combat spells. However, if the opponent is an NPC and the serpentine helm is worn in conjunction with the blowpipe, there is a 100% chance of envenoming them.

The base attack speed of the toxic blowpipe varies; in player versus monster encounters, its attack speed is 3, or equal to darts. During player versus player combat, its attack speed is 4, or equal to a shortbow. In addition, its attack range is +2 higher than that of throwing darts, at 5 by default. Longrange increases attack range by 2.

If the blowpipe is not protected upon death, all scale and dart charges will appear on the floor alongside the blowpipe. If the blowpipe IS protected upon death, ALL scale and dart charges will be maintained when you respawn. This makes it an effective weapon for ranging in the Wilderness as the weapon and the ammo is contained in one high-value item slot, being very effective at the Revenant Caves for those who are not skulled. The blowpipe is only tradeable when uncharged (empty).

Players can dismantle an uncharged blowpipe to receive 20,000 Zulrah's scales, resulting in a loss of −7,116,099 coins.

Players can toggle whether picked up ammunition is automatically reloaded into the blowpipe or remains in the inventory by talking to the Ranged combat tutor or by toggling the "ammo-picking behaviour" checkbox in the in-game settings.

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Attack bonuses
+0	+0	+0	+0	+30
Defence bonuses
+0	+0	+0	+0	+0
Other bonuses				Slot
+0	+0	+0%	+0	List

The toxic blowpipe has a special attack, Toxic Siphon, which increases accuracy by 100% and damage by 50%, while healing the user by half of the damage dealt (rounded down). This consumes 50% of the player's special attack energy.

Similar to the Saradomin godsword special attack, if the target dies from the special attack, it will still heal the player based on what they would have hit if the target had more Hitpoints; for example, if the hit was calculated to deal 20 damage and the target only has 4 Hitpoints, it will heal the player by 10 Hitpoints. For certain monsters, it heals based on the damage dealt before calculating damage reduction, such as Vorkath during its acid phase (where it will take 50% reduced damage), kurasks that have 100% damage resistance to most weaponry, or Akkha during his ranged state which is 100% resistant to Ranged attacks.

The toxic blowpipe is charged with Zulrah's scales; it cannot be wielded if it is uncharged, except when fully depleted while equipped. It uses unpoisoned darts as ammunition, and can hold up to 16,383 scales and 16,383 darts, costing 2,572,131 coins to fully charge, excluding the cost of darts. Players can configure the charges while the weapon is in their bank by right-clicking on Configure-Charges, as long as players have the required materials. The blowpipe has a 1/3 chance to not use scales when firing; thus, on average, two scales are used for every three shots fired. A fully charged blowpipe lasts for 8 hours and 12 minutes of non-stop combat with the rapid attack style or 12 hours and 17 minutes with the accurate style.

At the current price, the toxic blowpipe costs 103.62 coins per shot, excluding the cost of darts. When charged with scales, the toxic blowpipe has a Ranged attack of 30 and a Ranged strength of 20. These bonuses stack with the Ranged Strength of its ammunition. For example, using dragon darts on the charged blowpipe will increase its Ranged strength to +55.

Uncharging the blowpipe will return all remaining darts and scales.

When using the rapid attack style on the toxic blowpipe, up to 3,000 darts may be fired per hour, equating to up to 2,000 Zulrah's scales used per hour. This makes the base cost per hour 314,000 coins, excluding the cost of darts. Using an Ava's device or picking up used ammo will reduce the number of darts needed.

Average usage of ammunition using the Toxic Blowpipe is described by the formulas below.

The blowpipe can be cosmetically enhanced via the Trailblazer reloaded blowpipe ornament kit to change its appearance into that of the blazing blowpipe. To apply the kit, the blowpipe must be emptied of scales and darts.

• Unlike other darts, dragon darts have a unique projectile animation when shot out of a toxic blowpipe.
• The maximum amount of scales and darts that can be held by the blowpipe, 16,383 each, is equivalent to the maximum value that can be represented by 14 bits. This is because 14 bits were allocated for this part of the data, while the rest were allocated for dart types and room for potential future additions.^[1]

v t e Zulrah
Monsters	Zulrah Snakeling
Signature drops	Zulrah's scales Jar of swamp Pet snakeling Zul-andra teleport Serpentine visage Fangs Tanzanite Magic Mutagens Magma Tanzanite
Equipment	Toxic blowpipe Toxic staff of the dead Trident of the swamp (e) Helms Serpentine Magma Tanzanite
Other	Strategies High Priestess Zul-Harcinqa Priestess Zul-Gwenwynig Anti-venom Anti-venom+

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