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Got to 202 Fletching a few weeks ago, and decided to start working on it again. I saw that I had 3 choices: Bows, mithril, and acrylia.
Did bows to 215, at best prices, each success loses 22.1pp, cost about 14kpp to get me the 13 points (about 40ish combines per skillup). I then made one darkwood compound bow, net loss of 73pp on a success (ouch!), then researched tinkered cams, and saw that even with tinkered cams, you'd still lose 21pp per bow (and the cams don't stack).
So I decided to try mithril. Made 206 attempts, cost 3300pp, and got 640 arrows out of it (about 31% success rate). Unfortunately, only got 3 skillups. Then, even worse, between me and 2 other vendors, we have over 1000 of the arrows for sale in the Bazaar for 3 days now, >at 5-6pp per (very cheap)<, and not a single arrow has moved! Apparently nobody buys these things. So at a resale value of about a silver piece, the net loss per attempt on these is about 16pp.
So do I lose 21pp per attempt (302pp on a failure), and hopefully get faster skillups with the closer trivial, or lose 16pp per attempt with TONS of subcombines and zoning back and forth between Felwithe and Kelethin? Neither one sounds appealing.
Now, I have packs full of condensed arrowheads (literally almost a thousand), that cost me nothing. However, I didn't pursue that because on my server, anything in the bazaar that has "of acrylia" in the name costs at least 60pp (blocks, bricks, pieces, doesn't matter), so that's the most expensive route to go.
But not liking the other 2 alternatives, I think I'm going to become an acrylia farmer. Just was wondering what other people were experiencing?
Tat
LOL, as I was typing this post, I sold 10 arrows! Now just 630 to go =)
Did bows to 215, at best prices, each success loses 22.1pp, cost about 14kpp to get me the 13 points (about 40ish combines per skillup). I then made one darkwood compound bow, net loss of 73pp on a success (ouch!), then researched tinkered cams, and saw that even with tinkered cams, you'd still lose 21pp per bow (and the cams don't stack).
So I decided to try mithril. Made 206 attempts, cost 3300pp, and got 640 arrows out of it (about 31% success rate). Unfortunately, only got 3 skillups. Then, even worse, between me and 2 other vendors, we have over 1000 of the arrows for sale in the Bazaar for 3 days now, >at 5-6pp per (very cheap)<, and not a single arrow has moved! Apparently nobody buys these things. So at a resale value of about a silver piece, the net loss per attempt on these is about 16pp.
So do I lose 21pp per attempt (302pp on a failure), and hopefully get faster skillups with the closer trivial, or lose 16pp per attempt with TONS of subcombines and zoning back and forth between Felwithe and Kelethin? Neither one sounds appealing.
Now, I have packs full of condensed arrowheads (literally almost a thousand), that cost me nothing. However, I didn't pursue that because on my server, anything in the bazaar that has "of acrylia" in the name costs at least 60pp (blocks, bricks, pieces, doesn't matter), so that's the most expensive route to go.
But not liking the other 2 alternatives, I think I'm going to become an acrylia farmer. Just was wondering what other people were experiencing?
Tat
LOL, as I was typing this post, I sold 10 arrows! Now just 630 to go =)
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