Fletching post 202

[Acacious]

Ive read many ways to raise the skill further, and I think Darkwood bows to around 235~ is the way I am going to go. About How muich plat will it take to go from 202-235~

obviously I need just a general #. It took me about 1.2K to get from 0-202

[Laspeera]

Trying to remember how cloudy my memory is here...

From 202-235 doing bows I believe I spent between 15 and 20k total. I did not do it all in one sitting and did not have buffs during all of the sittings I did.

[Merlman]

I just recently went from 202 to 215 using bows. With the new sellback nerf. I spent about 20-25kpp to get those points. Guess Ill spend some more cause I do not want to farm crap for this skill too. I still need to get blacksmithing and tayloring to 200, and that will be enough farming for me.

[Buchalter]

Since the "change" (cannot use the N-word ) to the sellback price on bows I've switched to doing Acrylia Arrows. (Half-Elf so can't do Mithril) Granted it's more time consuming because of farming, but it's also MUCH cheaper. I've also noticed that I still get a fair amount of skill-ups from them. If money is an issue I'd recommend going this route.

[Dhomal the Scavenger]

Hello-

Yes, cash would be a big issue with me.

As odd as it seems too - I've known for almost a year that Fletching was to be the skill I wanted to GM. It all started about 10 - 30 days after Luclin came out. I was merchant mining in the Bazaar - before WE could be traders - and found an interesting item pop up - Condensed Shadow Arrowheads. I bough what was there - 3 of them - and could not find any info on what their exact use was (meaning recipie )- so - surmising that they were made with the chunks of condensed shadow i had seen all over the place - I started buying them up whenever I saw them. I think at this point I have about 25 stacks on a mule So - i was planning ahead

At this point I have actually made some of the arrows - but I have a Severe cashflow issue - and getting people interested in farming the Acrylia is not an easy task! So - my skill sits at 202 for the time being.

Oh - and I bought up about 15 of the Nightmarewood bow staffs in the Bazaar a coule weeks ago that someone was selling for 25 P each - hoping to make an attempt (to help the cashflow of course! ) - and then - Poof - cant try that quite yet now... Oh well - I still have the bow staffs

Dhomal the Scavenger
"Ah - I see now - well - I will have to go and 'find' some Acrylia now "

[Acacious]

Ack..the N word

maybe bows ARNT we way to go..*sigh*

[Greymantle]

Cheapest way post 202 is acrylia arrows where you farm the materials. Only things you have to buy are the nocks and fletch.SLOOOOWWW going though,as acrylia is not that easy to get in volume. This is the way i am going though, as i don't have multi K plat to spend doing bows. Not in any hurry myself as at 209 + geerlock i can attempt most anything with a fair chance at sucsess

[Foog]

Post 202

There are pretty much 3 viable routes as others have stated.

Darkwood bows then Shapedwood after dark trivial
Ends up being expensive but bows sell back for a helluva lot more than arrows.

Acrylia arrows
Cheapest route but if your server is anything like mine you can buy/farm condensed substances rather easily. But farming acrylia is a pain in the rear and there isn't much out there to buy when you are talking about 1000 plus combines depending on if you are trying for 250 skill or not.

Mithril arrows (non imbued work for skill ups)(must be woodelf)
Not cheap but cheaper than bows and all components can be bought. Although you need some smithing skill to smith the mithril into the components you will need.

Higgee 238 Fletching, 105 Pottery, 110 Brewing, 146 Smithing, 55 tailoring

[Gerail-Tunare]

on getting to 250:

to 235 from 205 it cost me nearly 1k per point doing darkwoods w/ store bought cams. After that I think it cost me about 10k to get to 250 on mithril arrows.

[TocapValdor]

Acrylia arrows for me, skill is 221

I buy small bricks of acrylia, 25-50pp each in bazaar.
I make 2 shaft.
Buy the condensed on vendors, 7gp each i think
I make 2 heads.
Buy the rest on regular vendor.

It cost less to do that, than doing 2 combines on BOWS at 221 skill.
I give the arrows to my friend ranger, or pass them down to a twink ranger.

[cshontz]

What was the mentioned change, or "nerf"? Can someone explain, or point me to a related URL or thread?

I'm a 204 fletcher. I hit a wall at 204 because I'm poor, and I do practically no adventuring.

I've been entertaining the notion of taking my fletching further, but I've never had over 1000pp at one time. I'm making a gnome to tinker cams, but I'm in uncharted territory. Never ever been anything but a Ranger.

[Greymantle]

A few patches back VI changed the sell back price on the bows. You used to be able to make a profit doing darkwood 2 cam bows, if you used tinkered cams. no more. Not sure of the differnce these days, but i think it is still cheaper to buy a small brick at 50p which give you 2 shafts for 2 attempts. Works out to under 26p per attempt and you can sometime sell the arrows if you don't use them. I THINK the sellback differnce is more than 26p per bow now.

[Tobin Itharel]

Mithril arrows (non imbued work for skill ups)(must be woodelf)
Not cheap but cheaper than bows and all components can be bought. Although you need some smithing skill to smith the mithril into the components you will need.

Are we sure this would be cheaper then bows? If so, I think this would be the way I will go. Acrylia is just so hard to farm.

[Greymantle]

Hmm not being a woodie i never really paid that much attention to the mithril stuff. Can someone whom is a wood-elf fletcher please post the appoximate cost to make the mithril arrows? Curious as to how it compares to purchasing acrylia to make shafts.

Hmm just looked up the recipies, it does not list yields for the fletch and non-blessed arrowheads. If its two each that means for two chances you need 2 small mithral bricks, one large brick mithril, two flasks of water and one arrow shaft mold as comsumables.How much does the mithral cost?

[Wolfypaw]

Mithril arrow costs...

For two combines, assuming no failures in making the subcomponents, you need:

1 large block of mithril, approximately 18.5 pp.
2 small blocks of mithril, approximately 6 pp each
2 water at 1 silver
2 small nocks at 5 gold each

Basically, it's about 16 plats per combine. Successes (which are rare) yield 10 arrows. On Innoruuk server, arrows sell slowly at 3 pp each. I currently have 2 twinks full (bank and what they're holding) with arrows, and my merchie has about 1000 of 'em available.

Through the low 200s, I averaged about 70 combines per skill point, meaning it was costing just over 1k per point. From about 220 to 244, the average dropped to about 50 combines per point, although I had a few bad runs.

This was looking to be a major money sink for me. Then I discovered I can buy most of the ingredients for nightmarewood compound bows, and they sell for 8-10k on my server at a cost to make of 1-2k (based on fletching skill and prices of components).