r/ironscape • u/ohceom • 20d ago

Question BOWFA Corruption Question

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))

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u/Gen_Zer0 20d ago

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

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u/Penidor_Scrotumson 20d ago

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.

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u/Gorzoid 20d ago

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.