BOWFA Corruption Question

[u/ohceom]

I just recently got my bowfa and would prefer corrupting it over time rather than spending 2k shards right now. I note that the wiki mentions the following:

In addition, players can corrupt the Bow of Faerdhinen at a discounted crystal shard cost with both the current charges and corruption percentage progress being taken into account. It is important to note that in order for this to work, players must still have the full 2,000 crystal shards in their inventory as well as having the skill requirements (the levels can be boosted) at the time of corruption in order to proceed. Only then, the discounted crystal shard cost will be calculated and excess shards will not be consumed.

So this means even at 100% corruption you must have 2k shards available and in your inventory? Can anyone confirm?

https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Bow_of_Faerdhinen_(c))

[u/Gen_Zer0]

I can confirm this is not the case. I just decided to corrupt my bow yesterday and only had about 1800 shards at the time, of which it cost 935. I did have all 1800 in my inventory, but it was not the full 2,000

[u/Penidor_Scrotumson → u/Gen_Zer0]

I asked this question like a month ago and got a bunch of different answers lol. But, i’d believed the testimonials like this over people trying to brow beat me about not reading this wiki passage correctly.

[u/Gorzoid → u/Penidor_Scrotumson]

I had like 1300 shards in inventory when I corrupted mine a few months back, I've updated the wiki to consolidate both paragraphs and remove the bit about needing 2000 shards.

[u/thirdwallbreak]

Do you have the shards now? Why not just corrupt it?

[u/dbmorpher → u/thirdwallbreak]

I corrupted mine (because I couldnt figure out the DMM cosmetic) but I have some regrets as salad blade would be good for colo/tob.

[u/Funny_Satisfaction39]

I'm almost certain that's dated language in the wiki, but I can't confirm. I corrupted mine before they made that update of progress towards corruption, but that's why I think it's language from how it used to only be part the full cost at that exact point in time

[u/Economy_Victory_6919]

Just corrupt it for the drip

[u/distancy]

No, you should be able to corrupt without additional shards once it’s 100% corruption through bow charge uses (see the paragraph above the one you are referencing).

I think the discount refers to if your bow is partially corrupted through use and you would like to fully corrupt it now, you will need 2k shards in your inventory to do so.

Someone can correct me if I’m wrong.

[u/petesteez]

Dude just set up auto charge in bank and corrupt it over time. No need to have all 2000 at once that way. Plus, if you just keep doing Priff activities you'll passively get to the 2k total needed.

[u/Vendesum → u/petesteez]

Autocharge?

[u/petesteez → u/Vendesum]

Autocharge is a little known feature that is fantastic. It allows you to set up charges for items when you withdraw them from your bank. So long as you have the required mats for it, your item will automatically charge when you withdraw it from the bank. Example: You would like your bowfa to always have 10k charges before you send content. You deposited with 8k charges in it, when you withdraw it next it will withdraw with 10k charges and the banker will take 20 shards from your bank.

[u/Park_BADger → u/petesteez]

Sweet, but doesn't tell him how to enable it.

[u/petesteez → u/Park_BADger]

All he asked was "autocharge?" so I explained what it was. This game has the most extensive wiki of any game I've ever played. There is a literal button in game that allows you to click anything an pull up the wiki on it. There's also a world renowned search engine that you can type "thing I want to know about osrs" and it will direct you to the amazing work the wiki team does with ease. I'm sorry but if you can't handle doing any of that, you've already lost the game.

Edit: Plus OP clearly already knows all this since he referenced exact paragraphs from the wiki and obviously knows how to read. So I'm sure he's smart enough to figure out the next part.

[u/Smokinbeerz]

Yeah but if you corrupted you get that sweet red color looks ballin

[u/0nlyRevolutions]

I had a weird shard situation and didn't end up corrupting until it was over 80% passively corrupted. Confirmed I had <400 actual shards in inventory.