Culteral Fletching advice needed

[Kurwin]

Can someone please tell me if making culteral arrows (Tunare) is a good way to skill up or are the skillups slower than bows?

[Osprey]

It's time versus money.

Cheapest but most work: Acrylia arrows
Slightly more expensive, slightly less work: wood elf cultural arrows
Most expsensiv, least work: Bows

[andyhre]

I am a 202 fletchewr and jsut for experimentation purposes, I played around with Mithril Champion Arrows. I did 12 tries and only had one success (and zero skill ups).

Is it advisable to use bows to get a little higher before using Wood Elf Cultural, or should I just hunker down and expect a lot of failures at first?

[Footsore]

A relatively small sampling, mind you, but I did 97 mithril champion combines at skills 205-207 with a total of 2 successes (and 2 skill ups). 235 wis, no gearlok.

I hate precombines (I know, I better get used to it), so I ended up going the darkwood bow route to 215.

Have been getting ready for another session, but using acrylia arrows. Fewer pre-combines. (Just shafts and arrowheads, vs. shafts, arrowheads and fletches.) Haven't done the calculations to see which is cheaper. Buying condensed and acrylia in bazaar can be a bit expensive, but the mithril ain't cheap either. And, I have had a very good success rate with the acrylia arrows.

I sell the acrylia at 3pp each and can't keep stocked. (On Zeb) On the other hand, the champion arrows sold for 40pp each (but only one and 2 at a time. Not sure why that would be.)

Looking at the cost and sell back of Shadewood, I think I'll stick with arrows. Plus, I get a little extra joy from selling the arrows to players that would be missing with the bows. (No way I try to put that many bows up in the bazaar!)

[Demorphina]

Mithril Champion and Blessed Champion arrows sell single or in pairs to Endless Quiver Rangers.

We only need 1 arrow, so its cheap.

[Footsore]

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"We only need 1 arrow, so its cheap."
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Ah. Live and learn. Well, at least there seem to be a lot of rangers who need them. (so far)

[Kurwin]

Honestly I dont care about selling them I just want to GM fletching I give the arrows I suceed on away. Seems like a farmless cheap alternative to other combines.

[Footsore]

Give away? Nah. Couldn't do it.

I am a GM Merchant Miner before all else. Sell below cost, maybe, but never give away. It just wouldn't be right! Merchant Mining financed all my fancy duds (see link below) - and whatever small tradeskill advances I've made.

[Kurwin]

Well I can say these are good to skill up off of I did 296 Combines and went from 204 to 216 which imo is awesome.