202-250, what to do...

[Tennek]

Im reletively new to Fletching, just kind of picked it up as my guild is near elemental and wanna help out and make the bows for them. Was wondering what is a good way once i get to 202, i am at 195 atm, to get to 250. I would like to know the cheapest way to get to 250. Sorry for the noob question.

[lonewylfe]

Cheapest way is to farm acrylia and condensed shadow, and do those all the way.

[Tennek]

What about stuff that i can just buy from vendors? Dont really have the time to farm, but if i have to i guess. Would rather just buy the stuff off vendor. anythingwill be of help to me, thank you.

[splunge]

You asked specifically for the cheapest way, not the easiest way. =)

Farming acrylia/condensed is the cheapest way, but takes a long time.

Making bows at a vendor is the most expensive way, but the easiest.

Making wood elf cultural arrows is middle of the road.

[Tennek]

How much approx. does it cost t go from 202 -> 250?

[Yroc Morf]

I did it by making acrylia arrows.

I did not farm acrylia or condensed substance. I just bought both in the baz, then sold the arrows for 3 plat each (takes a while for them to sell).

Total cost ~0.

[Vruss Scalesmith]

Acrylia Arrows

To give an idea of how long it will take to raise skill doing acrylia arrows I had my Paladin (265 Dex - 250 Wisdom) do Shadow Tipped Acrylia Arrows, started at 208 and did 60+ combines , got skill up to 210. Ended up with 400 Shadow 10 Ice and 10 Flame tipped arrows. Should last a Ranger maybe 2 mobs ? If you have a small group of friends in the high 50 lvl you can easily farm the chunks of condensed _____ and bricks of acrylia in Akheva Ruins and Acrylia caverns.

[Myrithial]

When I did Fletching, Acrylia was awfully slow and I was impatient so I went the bow route and ended with Mithril Arrows as I am a Wood Elf Ranger Tunare. Darkwood + Hemp till 215, Darkwood +2cam + Hemp till 235, then Mithril if you are Tunare WE, if not then go Acrylia but skillups are extremely slow. If you have money to throw away then do Shadewood. Not sure how well you can skill up doing Nightmare bows as I have been 250 for awhile. Getting ingredients could be a pain though.

[Volante]

I can't say how much it cost to go from 202 to 215, but it did take me about 60k to go from 216 to 250, and that was with tinkered cams. Bout 30k for each recipe.

I had a REALLY good run with the shadewood though, I wasn't even expecting to max fletching when i did, thought i'd've needed another 30k.

--Raedron V`Lante, 64th Arch Mage of the Spurned
Eternal Advocates, Vazaelle

250 Baking / Brewing / Jewelcraft / Fletching
244 Pottery
233 Smithing
178 Tailoring

[splunge]

Doing almost 100% mithril arrows from 202 to 250, cost me about 40kp.

[Renjah]

202 to 238 skill doing bows with ALL vendored parts put me at 45k but I also made and sold the nightmarewood bows as I found items on vendors in bazaar. Netted me extra cash after 220 or so skill. I have since made my money back and dumped it into other trade skills

Baking 220
Tailoring 192
Smithing 186
Fletching 239
Brewing 220
Pottery 203
Jewelery 222

[Marylynn]

Something alot easier

Did a little look up on what I could go out and farm at a Lvl 47 Ranger. A very easy thing to find that if you farm enuff of them should take you right up to 250 with the smallest cost on the end. Condensed Shodow Arrowheads. Made from a chunk of condensed Shadow. Which drops of A Shark Dratha (to many names to type). All in Shadewever's Thicket. Which on TP was almost always empty with no one farming them. To make the Arrow heads you need to have a 116 in smithing for them to be trival. But the monsters are between Lvl 11 and 17 from what I have read. They all con'ed green to me and died very quickly in solo mode. One chunk makes two heads, plan on camp it again when you run out and goes alot faster when you have two lvl 15's in tow helping. ( yep a little PL was going on ) but we both got what we wanted. These suckers are all over the place in the south and some in the tunnle that run's north to south. They do drop else where but thoes zones are 50+. and is why to much work for something you can get else with less chance of dieing.


Marylynn Baker
Level 47 Ranger

[Taushar]

Re: Something alot easier

Made from a chunk of condensed Shadow. Which drops of A Shark Dratha (to many names to type). All in Shadewever's Thicket. Which on TP was almost always empty with no one farming them. ... They all con'ed green to me and died very quickly in solo mode. ... These suckers are all over the place in the south and some in the tunnle that run's north to south. They do drop else where but thoes zones are 50+. and is why to much work for something you can get else with less chance of dieing.

One thing to note if you are farming the Dratha type. There are two types in the tunnels in SWT. There are light colored ones and the dark grey colored ones. The shadows only drop off dark colored ones. And they only spawn during the night (my observation was about 6-7PM to 6-7AM game time). During the day, light colored ones spawn.

If you are lucky and someone killed these during the night, the new spawns are still dark colored ones and you can farm until light. Sometimes there are mixed in a room because someone only killed a few. There are 3 rooms kind of close to each other and using AoE method, I can clear a room in one shot. Doing this, I was able to clear the 3 rooms twice before the light colored ones spawned.

What is frustrating is that you can't tell the game time on the moon so I had to keep asking via /gu what time it was so I knew when to start the cycle all over again. Each clear of 3 rooms would yield me about 1-2 stacks of shadows, which was enough for 20-40 combines.

Good luck.

Taushar