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For some people, like myself, sitting in the Bazaar day in and day out to sell acrylia that I couldn't fit in my bank/inventory for more than a few hours -- its just not an option.
I pharmed my acrylia not from AC (which would've been smart) but from Tenebrous Mountains. Get a full bag or two - plus whatever my partner-and-crime-tradeskill-widower could carry. Head to Katta (before I screwed my faction) smith out the arrowshafts, which are stackable.
The arrowheads I fashioned myself. I love my friends - they'd hunt in Akheva or ME, bring me what condensed shadow they had, usually for free (or in exchange for arrows). Fire came from friends as well, mostly wizards who quad in Scarlet Desert. Smith the arrowheads, spend the total of about 40 plat max for a batch of 60-80 nocks and flights, and BAM! Arrows, and - at least for ME, YMMV - some decent skillups. Usually 2-4 per batch.
Yah, it took me a LOT of time to get from 202 to 250. Yah, I tried mithril, and the cost was prohibitive (at 55. still is at 60. ranjas are rarely rich, I've found) and the skillups were not as plentiful. Again, YMMV. Also, while I could sell them in the Bazaar for more, I generally had less successes, and lost money overall. With acrylia, I padded my bank some selling the arrows for WELL beneath the going price (because they cost me on average, 7sp a piece in materials) made many friends happy with stacks and stacks of arrows, and had plenty to shoot off myself as well.
Recap:
Acrylia is very time intensive.
Mithril is very cost intensive.
If you have the time, want to put in the effort, and - honestly- think of fletching as more of a quest to succeed in than a skill to max out as fast as possible? Go the acrylia route.
If you have the cash, or don't have the time - in the case of pharming acrylia in exp zones and selling while you're at work - want to get it done as fast as possible, and don't mind, IMHO, sacrificing some skillups? Go the mithril route.
****, now that I've been incredibly longwinded... I'll go now. /chuckle
~~Ianna Wandring~~
Grand Mistress Fletcher (250)
Prexus
I pharmed my acrylia not from AC (which would've been smart) but from Tenebrous Mountains. Get a full bag or two - plus whatever my partner-and-crime-tradeskill-widower could carry. Head to Katta (before I screwed my faction) smith out the arrowshafts, which are stackable.
The arrowheads I fashioned myself. I love my friends - they'd hunt in Akheva or ME, bring me what condensed shadow they had, usually for free (or in exchange for arrows). Fire came from friends as well, mostly wizards who quad in Scarlet Desert. Smith the arrowheads, spend the total of about 40 plat max for a batch of 60-80 nocks and flights, and BAM! Arrows, and - at least for ME, YMMV - some decent skillups. Usually 2-4 per batch.
Yah, it took me a LOT of time to get from 202 to 250. Yah, I tried mithril, and the cost was prohibitive (at 55. still is at 60. ranjas are rarely rich, I've found) and the skillups were not as plentiful. Again, YMMV. Also, while I could sell them in the Bazaar for more, I generally had less successes, and lost money overall. With acrylia, I padded my bank some selling the arrows for WELL beneath the going price (because they cost me on average, 7sp a piece in materials) made many friends happy with stacks and stacks of arrows, and had plenty to shoot off myself as well.
Recap:
Acrylia is very time intensive.
Mithril is very cost intensive.
If you have the time, want to put in the effort, and - honestly- think of fletching as more of a quest to succeed in than a skill to max out as fast as possible? Go the acrylia route.
If you have the cash, or don't have the time - in the case of pharming acrylia in exp zones and selling while you're at work - want to get it done as fast as possible, and don't mind, IMHO, sacrificing some skillups? Go the mithril route.
****, now that I've been incredibly longwinded... I'll go now. /chuckle
~~Ianna Wandring~~
Grand Mistress Fletcher (250)
Prexus
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