Bolts are the consumable ammunition a crossbow fires. They are used by Bowmans of the Crossbowman sub-job, and by any class that picks up a crossbow. In the current build the crossbow ammunition is sold under the item name "Arrow for Crossbow". Each shot spends one, and the better tiers add weapon attack on top of the crossbow's own. For the crossbows, armor, and accessories an archer wears, see Bowman equipment.
Bolts are the crossbow counterpart to the arrows a bow fires, and to the throwing stars an Assassin throws. The three lines are not interchangeable: a crossbow fires only bolts, a bow only arrows, a claw only stars.
How bolts work
- Spent one per shot. Each ordinary crossbow attack consumes a single bolt, and skills that loose several projectiles spend one each.
- Add weapon attack. The plain bolt adds none; the metal tiers add a small flat bonus, the steadiest damage gain for a Crossbowman between crossbow upgrades.
- No requirements. Bolts carry no level or stat requirement, so the only thing gating a tier is its shop price and availability.
- Keep a spare stack. A crossbow needs bolts to fire, so running a stack dry interrupts training. A backup stack is standard for any long session.
List of bolts
Every crossbow bolt tracked on the wiki, weakest to strongest. The plain Arrow for Crossbow adds no weapon attack; each metal tier adds a little more. Click any column header to re-sort.
| Item | W.ATK | Max stack |
|---|---|---|
 Arrows for Crossbows
|
+0 | 1,000 |
 Bronze Arrows for Crossbows
|
+1 | 800 |
 Iron Arrows for Crossbows
|
+2 | 800 |
 Mithril Arrows for Crossbows
|
+3 | 800 |
Acquisition
Bolts are stocked by NPC weapon and ammunition vendors in the towns, alongside the arrows their bow-using cousins buy. Keeping a full stack on hand is routine, since a crossbow is only as useful as its supply of bolts.
See also
- Crossbow: the weapon that fires bolts
- Arrow: bow equivalent
- Throwables: thief (Assassin) equivalent
- Bowman equipment: everything else an archer can wear
- Crossbowman: the crossbow sub-job
- Bowman: parent branch