Okay, Everyone seems to give estimates on 202-250

[Tenlaienye]

Okay, i have mastered jewel crafting and smithing so far, tailoring is in the 70's as is brewing. Baking is around 50 and pottery is very low, fletching has no skill. How much would i most likely need to save up in order to work fletching 0-202 if i have 255 int.

Tenmage Infiltrator
26th Season Magician
Mighty Tykes

Tenlaienye Everarcher
47th Ranger
Amies Dliberte

Both of Brell Serillis

[Morani]

Buying and selling at the "best prices" and selling your successes back to the vendor, it's possible with as little as 300 plat. The worst combine (price wise) is JUST over 4 plat each. If you want to play it very safe, plan 500 plat. (Having access to 500 plat at once in the latter stages, so you can buy stacks of supplies) will be useful but you will get a decent part of the back selling your successes.) 203-250 MORE than makes up for the easy ride to 202 though.

[Tenlaienye]

Thank you for the information, with the nerfing of C3 i will have to take a break from trade skilling until my ranger is able to create enough hard cash to fund gear to 255 int.

Tenmage Infiltrator
26th Season Magician
Mighty Tykes

Tenlaienye Everarcher
47th Ranger
Amies Dliberte

Both of Brell Serillis

[splunge]

For fun i made a new ranger, got him to about 200 WIS and got him to 202 fletching skill in 3 hours and 300p. (Selling everything back to the merchants with best faction/cha)

Oh wait a sec.... Ranger? INT?

Rangers are a WIS class. Its much easier to find ranger usable gear with WIS on it then INT. We are part druid (Wis caster) and a chain class (only other chain classes are rogue and Shaman, a WIS class).

[lonewylfe]

Or dex, that's the little bit of gear I got for Ave for fletching. Think I spent 500pp taking her fletching to 202, but don't know how much I got from sellback.

[Braeorn]

can you outline how you got there? I'd like a path to follow...

thanks,
Braeorn

[Morani]

Trivial at 16: Field Point, Wooden Shaft, Round Cut, Large Groove. Cost 0.020 plat each, 0.42/stack.
For the rest, use the above formula and change out ONLY the item listed below or you will be wasting money. Only the highest trivial item in the recipe counts towards skill-ups or successes.

36: Medium Groove - cost 0.031 plat/1 or 0.630/stack
46: Parabolic Cut - cost 0.041 plat/1 or 0.840/stack
56: Small Groove - cost 0.057 plat/1 or 1.155/stack
68: Bone Shaft - cost 0.094 plat/1 or 1.890/stack
82: Shield Cut - cost 0.204 plat/1 or 4.095/stack
102: Hooked Tipped - cost 0.330 plat/1 or 6.615/stack
122: Wooden Vanes- cost 0.697 plat/1 or 13.965/stack
135: Ceramic Shaft - cost 1.170 plat/1 or 23.415/stack
162: Bone Vanes - cost 1.380 plat/1 or 27.615/stack
182: Silver Tipped - cost 4.005 plat/1 or 80.115/stack *
202: Ceramic Vanes - cost 2.797 plat/1 or 55.965/stack **

* Some guides recommend skipping this step, I do not. My reasons are that: 1) it costs less money to make smaller leaps unless the cost difference is substantially different (and it's not here) since it usually take many fewer combines do to do the leap than it would to cover the same leap with the next step up's recipe. 2) Unlike all the other components, Silver Tips produce 2 times the number of arrows on a success (10 rather than 5) so the sell-back of more arrows makes up for the increased price of the component.

** Ceramic Vanes OR Steel Shafts can both get you to 202 however, Ceramic is slightly cheaper (1 plat ,5 silver per stack). It can easily take you 600 or more combines at this point to trivial them (even 1200 is not out of the question) so the 1 plat can add up. If someone else is willing to compare sell-back prices, the steel shafts might turn out to be better but the sell back would need to be at least 1.5 plat more to make up for the extra cost and the ~ 1/2 minimum failure rate. (I won't be able to log on till Sunday to check it out for myself).

[javalin]

0-202 i think i spent around 700 plat been a while now may be less but i don't think more thats buying supplies with 140 cha

[Aarial]

Cost me around 75k from 0 to 250that is included GM Trophy

Grandmaster Fletcher

[lonewylfe]

gratz
I'm guessing you did bows after 202?

[Aarial]

Yeah it was the easiest an cheapest.

[Taushar]

Yeah it was the easiest an cheapest.

Cheapest? I did about 40% bow and 60% Acrylia arrows after 202 and costed me about 45kpp to go from 202 to 250. I know bows are definitely easier but certainly not cheap. I farmed most of my Acrylia but I did buy a bulk of it and it was still cheaper than bows. Last stages I was losing 350pp per combine on bows selling back at best prices. /shudder.

Taushar

[Forthofer]

140pp per combine for bows past 235 (for me)

Taushar, how did you manage to lose 350pp per combine?

Past 235, I combined hemp + shadewood, at a cost of 375pp and sellback of about 250pp, with a success rate of about 95%. That's a cost per attempt of about 140pp.

What did you do differently?

[Taushar]

Re: 140pp per combine for bows past 235 (for me)

Taushar, how did you manage to lose 350pp per combine?

Past 235, I combined hemp + shadewood, at a cost of 375pp and sellback of about 250pp, with a success rate of about 95%. That's a cost per attempt of about 140pp.

What did you do differently?

I don't have any logs from it and quoting only from my memory (of course at my age, memory fluctuates). I remember the total cost for each combine of shadewood and hemp was about 400pp or so and sell back was about 150pps. So my math was off, not 350pp but 250pp per loss. My charisma was over 140 so I am pretty sure I had best price. I never had 140pp loss on those arrows. The reason why I know is that I would usually take 5kpp and do a combine of bows and I can last about a stack or so before running out of money. That means, if I succeeded 19 of 20, typical run for me, I would be spending about 250pp or so per attempt before I run out of money.

Again, this is from memory and from a bit ways back so I don't remember exactly but all I know is that it costed me a lot of money to make those bows.

Taushar