The imbued bow has +75 Ranged attack, instead of the regular bow's +69, and uses 50% of the special bar when performing the special attack, instead of the regular bow's 55%. When using Rune arrows, this shortbow does comparable damage-per-second to Broad bolts. This is due to the way that damage scales with attack speed, and is the reason why fast weapons such as the Toxic blowpipe and Abyssal whip are more powerful than high hitters such as the Dark bow or Godswords.