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Comment by 7049

This weapon is arguably one of the best dps weapons in the game. The crossbow of smiting is a slight upgrade from the Rhok'delar bow obtained in the hunter epic quest. This weapon has a ranged attack power stat on it, making it useless for any class besides the hunter.

Comment by 7043

This x-bow is only surpassed by the Nerubian Slavemaker, a very nice gun dropped in Naxxramas.

Comment by 4172

Best pre-naxx weapon for hunters, primarily because of the slow speed. Because it has a speed greater than 3.00, Aimed Shot actually makes it both shoot faster and do more damage. Aimed Shot is a primary source of damage for raiding hunters, so that is very important. Also, it has amazing DPS and great stats! One of the best hunter weapons in the whole game!

Comment by 8198

I have had this weapon for months, and I've watched other hunters pick up the AQ40 gun or Huhu's Stinger... and they have always been disappointed with the results. In this most recent patch, Huhuran's is finally able to surpass Rhok'Delar in DPS... but, from what I've seen from friends, only is it substantially better if you are beast mastery. Ashjre is BY FAR the best weapon you can find outside of KT drops: it his for 500-600 damage with BWL level gear, its speed is lowered to 2.8-2.9 with quiver, and it is also (luckily) one of the only bows in the game that ONLY hunters are after. If your guild can kill Chromagus, wait for this bow. You will not be disappointed.

Comment by XenosBH

tydie is correct when he/she says that only the Slavemaker is better at this time. My guild has run BWL and killed Chromag almost 30 times and he hasnt dropped this x-bow once. I'm top Hunter DKP and want it badly.

Comment by Serpent

I've heard stories of people killing Chromaggus dozens of times and still not having this crossbow drop, however I saw two drop in just two months of raiding.

I am moderately geared and I I have multi-shots that hit in the 1800 range. It's easily one of the best bows in the game, although I imagine we will all be upgrading when the BC expansion hits.

Comment by 9590

What a weapon. It hits like a monster and is great for hunters. I recommend getting this if you have the chance, it is definitely one the most powerful bows in the game. At least until Burning Crusade comes out, then it'll be time to get some new stuff.

Comment by Kaoswarr

This crossbow is currently the ranged weapon with the highest max damage (slowest) in the game (Pre TBC).

When i had full GS set (+15% multishot damage bonus) i could reach almost 2.2k multishot crits on low armor targets (without blasted lands buff, mongoose and grilled squid).

Aimed shot crits are around 2.7k on low armor targets.

It is definately the best PVP ranged weapon at this time.

Your Aimed shot crits **** for 2434 damage.
Your Autoshot crits **** for 1024 damage.
Your Mutlishot crits **** for 1974 damage.
**** dies.

Starting combos dreams are made of.

Comment by Shuror

The slowest ranged weapon in the game, shared with a green; http://www.wowhead.com/?item=6315#dropped-by

Comment by undeadflamingo

One of the few chinese-looking items in the game. For those that actually care about that...

Comment by Auryan

Beautiful crossbow that goes remarkably well with Mists of Pandaria gear for xmog.

Comment by Volleynova

When I got this crossbow in 2006, my DPS nearly doubled. It was better than all the weapons in MC, BWL, and even Temple of Ahn'Qiraj (Huhuran's Stinger was surprisingly not as good.). Only the Soulstring from Four Horsemen and Nerubian Slavemaker from Kel'Thuzad in Naxxramas seemed to offer a slightly better DPS output.

Comment by nzhuv

As of 7.3.5, it has +mana on it. I could be wrong but I could swear it did not have this +mana before.

Comment by krikcrack

on my account, i have 5 thunderfuries, and 4 hands of ragnaros on various characters. needless to say i do a lot of classic raiding.
in all 322 runs of blackwing lair i have done on different characters, i have seen this crossbow drop twice. once before in wrath, and once today. back in wrath i gave it to someone else who was running with me. luckily today, my hunter was in the instance and i was finally able to attain the last weapon of all classic raids unlocked in my transmog appearance book. it's been a wild ride. to say the least, this has been difficult to grind. you are lucky to have it drop for you if it does. happy farming.

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Ashjre'thul, Crossbow of Smiting

Item Level 29
Binds when picked up

Ranged	Crossbow

6 - 10 Damage	Speed 3.00

(2.7 damage per second)
+4 Agility
+3 Stamina
Durability 120 / 120

Requires Level 25

Sell Price: 4 9

Dropped by: Chromaggus

Drop Chance: 6.73%

Players can win this item when selecting the following class specializations:

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Ashjre'thul, Crossbow of Smiting

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