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Serrated Arrowhead (188 triv, fletching)
Class 3 Steel Serrated Tip Arrow 7dmg, 25 range, NON magic (227 triv)
Longer Version:
There are two fletching vendors in Abysmal Sea, a male and a female.
The male will tell you about Taelosian Stones, which he claims can be made into arrowheads sharper than any yet known. If you do 400 combines for him, he'll "give" you a compound that will help you work with the Taelosian material. I didn't actually receive anything from him, but got the impression that I received something like a tradeskill character flag that would allow me to work with Taelosian stones. When you first talk to him, he also gives you a book that claims that "even" with ordinary fletching components, serrated arrowheads make "great" arrows.
The female talks of Taelosian stones and apparently more powerful Discord stones which we may be able to imbue with magic properties. She'll teach you how to work with the materials if youhelp her with 10<x<400 combines, provided you have some Taelosian stones to sacrifice to her.
Having chatted with these 2 vendors on the ship ride over to the new continent, I asked my Expedition group if I could keep the Chunk of Taelosian Rock that dropped. Having done 40 combines for the male Abysmal Sea vendor without apparent result at that time, I returned and simply handed the chunk to him. He gave me 2x Taelosian Stones. The book he had given me said these could be crafted into arrowheads with water and a file.... so assuming some consistency in recipes I headed over to the forge and tried them without result.
I then gave the female vendor one of the Taelosian stones, which she promptly ruined by turning it into 10 small stones and 10 small files that I was to combine for her to help with her "duties."
It was only then that I discovered that if you helped the male vendor long enough, he would actually ask you to do something different. After 100 Wayfarer Arrows, 100 Wayfarer bows, 100 Wayfarer Bow Staves, and 100 Wayfarer Arrowheads, he said some text about having given me a compound needed to work with Taelosian stones that would then be available to me for any future fletch combines.
Taking a cue from the Wayfarer Arrowhead combines, I put my final Taelosian stone, file, and water in a regular fletch kit, which yielded 2x Serrated Arrowheads (triv 188).
The book said the arrowheads would make great arrows even with ordinary arrow components. Wanting an extraordinary arrow to replace my Blessed Champions, I tried the following:
Traditional mithril recipe
Serrated Arrowhead + Mithril Shaft + Mithril Fletch + Small Nock = DNC
(in woodelf cultural fletch kit, regular kit, and planar kit.)
Traditional acrylia recipe
Serrated Arrowhead + Acrylia Shaft + Shield Fletch + Small Nock = DNC
It being very late by this point I simply swapped out the acrylia shaft for a steel shaft, and came up with the very disappointing result:
Class 3 Steel Serrated Tip Arrow (x10)
7 Damage, 25 Range, NON-magic, 227 Triv
Hopefully the Discord material, or a hypothetical imbued Discord material will return more impressive results. My guess at this point is this is simply a tradeskill bridge for arrows between 202 and acrylia, and not a potential mainstay arrow for the rangers.
Paxyn Silvershot
Mithril Web
Lanys T'Vyl
Serrated Arrowhead (188 triv, fletching)
Class 3 Steel Serrated Tip Arrow 7dmg, 25 range, NON magic (227 triv)
Longer Version:
There are two fletching vendors in Abysmal Sea, a male and a female.
The male will tell you about Taelosian Stones, which he claims can be made into arrowheads sharper than any yet known. If you do 400 combines for him, he'll "give" you a compound that will help you work with the Taelosian material. I didn't actually receive anything from him, but got the impression that I received something like a tradeskill character flag that would allow me to work with Taelosian stones. When you first talk to him, he also gives you a book that claims that "even" with ordinary fletching components, serrated arrowheads make "great" arrows.
The female talks of Taelosian stones and apparently more powerful Discord stones which we may be able to imbue with magic properties. She'll teach you how to work with the materials if youhelp her with 10<x<400 combines, provided you have some Taelosian stones to sacrifice to her.
Having chatted with these 2 vendors on the ship ride over to the new continent, I asked my Expedition group if I could keep the Chunk of Taelosian Rock that dropped. Having done 40 combines for the male Abysmal Sea vendor without apparent result at that time, I returned and simply handed the chunk to him. He gave me 2x Taelosian Stones. The book he had given me said these could be crafted into arrowheads with water and a file.... so assuming some consistency in recipes I headed over to the forge and tried them without result.
I then gave the female vendor one of the Taelosian stones, which she promptly ruined by turning it into 10 small stones and 10 small files that I was to combine for her to help with her "duties."
It was only then that I discovered that if you helped the male vendor long enough, he would actually ask you to do something different. After 100 Wayfarer Arrows, 100 Wayfarer bows, 100 Wayfarer Bow Staves, and 100 Wayfarer Arrowheads, he said some text about having given me a compound needed to work with Taelosian stones that would then be available to me for any future fletch combines.
Taking a cue from the Wayfarer Arrowhead combines, I put my final Taelosian stone, file, and water in a regular fletch kit, which yielded 2x Serrated Arrowheads (triv 188).
The book said the arrowheads would make great arrows even with ordinary arrow components. Wanting an extraordinary arrow to replace my Blessed Champions, I tried the following:
Traditional mithril recipe
Serrated Arrowhead + Mithril Shaft + Mithril Fletch + Small Nock = DNC
(in woodelf cultural fletch kit, regular kit, and planar kit.)
Traditional acrylia recipe
Serrated Arrowhead + Acrylia Shaft + Shield Fletch + Small Nock = DNC
It being very late by this point I simply swapped out the acrylia shaft for a steel shaft, and came up with the very disappointing result:
Class 3 Steel Serrated Tip Arrow (x10)
7 Damage, 25 Range, NON-magic, 227 Triv
Hopefully the Discord material, or a hypothetical imbued Discord material will return more impressive results. My guess at this point is this is simply a tradeskill bridge for arrows between 202 and acrylia, and not a potential mainstay arrow for the rangers.
Paxyn Silvershot
Mithril Web
Lanys T'Vyl
for the rangers not there yet and the other classes though this doesn't look too bad for skill ups.
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