What skills do I need for Fishbone Darts??

[Mitch the Blonde]

I'm fairly new to tradeskils having only ever done pottery before for gate potions but now I'd like to make some of theose nice darts and I got a bit lost backtracking from the finished item to the skills etc needed.


Am I right in thinking I need to have more then 1 tradeskill raised to make them??


Any help would be very welcome.



Mitch

[Heartsong_Steelsoul]

I believe you need an imtermediate step using the fishing skill and then then fletching.

[kiztent]

You create the fish bones using fishing, then fletch the darts.

[syrinne]

Well first, use the ol' fishing skill to fish, or just buy some. If you want the whittled darts (1 more point in damage and I think another 25 range?) you'll need to go fishing for some rarer species. It used to be only red roughy from Western Wastes and... weary wrass? (never caught one, not sure) from Sleeper's Tomb. But I think now Cobalt Cod and a couple others work as well.

Again, using the fishing skill, you need to combine in a tackle box the fish and some components to get the bones (as well as a prepared fish in return - a simple meal, nothing special... and maybe you get a fish scales as well?). You need a foraged root, celandine (alchemy item, for sale on alchemy merchants for 2p+ each), and a smithed fillet knife (returned on success or failure).

As far as I know the only places in which you can buy a tackle box are PoK and the initial sole distributor, the vendor on "brother isle" in OOT. Maybe the dwarves sell one in Shadowhaven now too though? In any event, this is where those tinkered collapsable containers really help... there's a collapsable tackle box gnomes can make, which means you're not always having a slot taken up by a rarely-used 6-slot container.

Once you get the fish bones (the rarer species mentioned above give high quality fish bones) you combine them in a fletching kit with a fishbone dart tool, again, smithed. The dart tool is returned on success or failure, success yields 5 nice new darts, and their trivial is 162 for the easier darts and 182 for the whittled ones. Don't forget that even though it looks like a planing tool, the tinkered Geerlok item for fletching mod will help!

Good luck! I had lots of fun making these out of red roughy I'd catch in Western Wastes. It was always kind of surreal to be going all the way there just to go fishing. And since the darts have an absurd range of 225-250, they're great fun for pulling. I think you can also make a good amount off them if you want to sell them in the bazaar. Throwing weapons that don't have a uselessly small range are pretty rare (the smithed throwing axes are good too, but not nearly as nice as these darts).

[wombat]

Or make Javelins out of a javelin mold and a sheet of metal (yeilds 2).

With range 200 they arent bad and not too expensive, I think they are 7/33 and trivial at 60, though get to 90+ to really recieve the 5% fail on them.

My rogue can put a short burst of 4-5 rounds into an incoming mob, which with criticals, is nice damage!

[Quesci]

Javelins are pretty heavy for a monk. My monk has a backpack full of Antonican Jevelins for the longer range, but I am gonna get her some fishbone darts when I start playing her again.