Fletching

If you are a wood elf the answer is easy. You will want to make Mithril Champion Arrows. Mithril is fairly easy to farm compared to so many components in the other recipes. If you are not a wood elf, but worship Karana you make steel guardian arrows using a Surefall fletching kit.

If you are neither of those, you are not going to get an easy answer. Sorry.

Have you looked at eqtraders? they have a quick trivial list that you can browse. Good luck.

Long answer:

Well....a lot of tradeskills have been 'injured' with the advent of defiant gear. Cultural armors are at an all time low price and still not moving. Once you hit level 65 you can get a SoF era bow and smoke anything you will ever be able to make. You can spend a load of cash working on fletching but you will find little justification for your efforts, other than accomplishment and a cool title to wear in front of your name.

On the other hand, if you are a wood elf you can make blessed champion arrows and those are really nice. The main drawback there is that once a ranger gets his everlasting quiver aa he is only going to buy one. Sales will be slow and the complexity of making these expendable jewels is prohibitive for use by most folks.

Short answer:

At the moment fletching adds little value to the world of Norrath in comparison to the quality and availability of defiant bows. Sad but true.

Unemployed master fletcher (with Everlasting quiver AA and proud owner of a single Blessed Champion Arrow)

Well you can hit the search button to get a list or put in part of the name like class 6 for all class 6 arrow types that you know.

If you don't know an item. then you have to make one in experiment mode first before it is added to your list.

You probably accidently hit the open with ctl+right click button

make one. or find a fletcher that can make one. i sell a 6dmg bow with 20 1dmg arrows for 1pp which is about what it costs to make. they're so cheap and easy to make.

Greetings,

It doesn't sound like you're doing anything wrong - unfortunately, in all tradeskills, you'll eventually come to a time when you'll have an extended run with no skillups.

Having as high an INT/WIS as possible helps - INT for you I assume, as you're a SK. Using a geerlok device increases your chance of a successful combine, but not necessarily the chance of a skillup - although recent revelations of the inner workings of the tradeskill formulae at Fan Faire show that a successful attempt does give you a better chance at getting a skillup. Confused?! I certainly was....

The best thing is to just keep plugging away - you will get a skillup eventually, and then two or three within a few combines - it's just the way the random number generator works.

Hope this helps, and if you want to know more about successes/skillups, take a trip the eqtraders.com message board and attempt to follow the mathematical discussion there!

The Easy way to get fletching from 202 to 227:
(Before you do Condensed flame,ice,or shadow arrowheads)

make these http://www.eqtraders.com/items/show_item.php?item=10809&menustr=080060024000

You have to do the quest, to make serrated or discord arrow heads, first, here http://www.eqtraders.com/articles/article_page.php?article=q151&menustr=120037000000

I suggest doing the freebie quest, as it is alot faster, you can get "chunk of taelosian rock" to drop off mobs in Natimbi, or you can buy it in the bazaar.

If you want the collect quest, go here http://www.eqtraders.com/articles/article_page.php?article=q152&menustr=120037000000

Do this before you attempt to make condensed (flame,ice,or shadow) arrowheads. It will get your trivial up to 227, and you will have better luck starting condensed from there.

Regards,
Menvarin (Stromm)

Yes!, go here http://www.eqtraders.com/recipes/recipe_page.php?article=224&rsa=Fletching&sub=LDON&sb=item&menustr=080060023000

Regards,
Menvarin (Stromm)

The Easy way to get fletching from 202 to 227:
(Before you do Condensed flame,ice,or shadow arrowheads)

make these http://www.eqtraders.com/items/show_item.php?item=10809&menustr=080060024000

You have to do the quest, to make serrated or discord arrow heads, first, here http://www.eqtraders.com/articles/article_page.php?article=q151&menustr=120037000000

I suggest doing the freebie quest, as it is alot faster, you can get "chunk of taelosian rock" to drop off mobs in Natimbi, or you can buy it in the bazaar.

If you want the collect quest, go here http://www.eqtraders.com/articles/article_page.php?article=q152&menustr=120037000000

Do this before you attempt to make condensed (flame,ice,or shadow) arrowheads. It will get your trivial up to 227, and you will have better luck starting condensed from there.

Regards,
Menvarin (Stromm)

The Easy way to get fletching from 202 to 227:
(Before you do Condensed flame,ice,or shadow arrowheads)

make these http://www.eqtraders.com/items/show_item.php?item=10809&menustr=080060024000

You have to do the quest, to make serrated or discord arrow heads, first, here http://www.eqtraders.com/articles/article_page.php?article=q151&menustr=120037000000

I suggest doing the freebie quest, as it is alot faster, you can get "chunk of taelosian rock" to drop off mobs in Natimbi, or you can buy it in the bazaar.

If you want the collect quest, go here http://www.eqtraders.com/articles/article_page.php?article=q152&menustr=120037000000

Do this before you attempt to make condensed (flame,ice,or shadow) arrowheads. It will get your trivial up to 227, and you will have better luck starting condensed from there.

Regards,
Menvarin (Stromm)

The Easy way to get fletching from 202 to 227:
(Before you do Condensed flame,ice,or shadow arrowheads)

make these http://www.eqtraders.com/items/show_item.php?item=10809&menustr=080060024000

You have to do the quest, to make serrated or discord arrow heads, first, here http://www.eqtraders.com/articles/article_page.php?article=q151&menustr=120037000000

I suggest doing the freebie quest, as it is alot faster, you can get "chunk of taelosian rock" to drop off mobs in Natimbi, or you can buy it in the bazaar.

If you want the collect quest, go here http://www.eqtraders.com/articles/article_page.php?article=q152&menustr=120037000000

Do this before you attempt to make condensed (flame,ice,or shadow) arrowheads. It will get your trivial up to 227, and you will have better luck starting condensed from there.

Regards,
Menvarin (Stromm)

This guide is now locked for some reason... I agree it was a great guide

Shop of All Halos or something in Felwithe North I think?(the first one from GFay)

Enter Felwithe from Gfay
Cross the bridge take the left hall it is the second building on your left while following the path

Take the stairs in the building and the High Elf male next to the counter is selling mithril bricks of all sizes

Fletching / Bowyering ...

Not easy. The bows that sell well trivial around or above 250. They require very rare components, which usually aren't even for sale in the bazaar, so if you're not looting them in the planes (usually elemental planes), you're not making these bows.

Plus, getting over 202 is hiddeously expensive, and / or takes an EXTREMELY long time in terms of farming acrylia and condensed materials. plus there are sub combines because you gotta smith the parts together, then combine into arrows. when you're done you'll spend a ridiculous number of hours farming materials and smithing sub combines, and then out of 200 attempts, you may, if your wis is 250 and you're quite lucky, get around 10 skill ups. if you're like others though, who's wis is lower, say 200 ish, and you're less likely, you may go through 80 combines just to get one skill up.

not easy. very frustrating. only very profitable if you have at or very near 250 skill.

trying to discourage you? no. but if you want a GM item, along with the cool 100% weight reduction bag and very decent stat bonuses, i reccommend brewing. for what you lose in the cost of the GM item being more expensive, you make up for in the fact that you can hit 248 skill in it for probably under a thousand platinum. plus make your own qeynos afternoon tea. still interested in fletching? well, i am. making bows sounds much cooler than making drinks. but you may want to reserve post-200 skill ups in fletching until after you have the AA's to spare to get a 'new taanan crafting mastery' point.

These nice tradeskills junkies know, and they share their knowledge at -- EQ Traders Corner - Learn a Skill - Fletching.

EQ Traders Corner has just about everything anyone could ask for in tradeskills how-to help.

Best of luck to you.

You've missed one vital point early in your post - yes people say rangers should use archery as their primary damage dealer, but ONLY after about lvl 55 (at the least) when you get the AA archery skills. Before then your damage from archery will be lower, with a much higher delay, and much more expensive (because of arrow cost) than hand to hand. Even with a Tolan's bracer (unlimited summoned arrows) your damage will still lag behind, and killing level 40+ mobs with the low delay on any bow (compared to much lower dly dual weapons) will take about 10 minutes...

Find a merchant that sells fletching supplies and buy a book. This will tell you what you need to start. But buy stacks of Field Point tips, Wooden shafts, round fletching, and large nocks. Buy a fletching kit to combine these in. Control click the items and place one of each of the above things in the kit and hit combine. Keep doing this and your skill will go up. That should get you started.

They are smithed at like a 112 trivial into arrowheads

The arrowheads a smith acrylia shaft some small nocks I think and some wooden vanes?(or something) make Condensed xxx Arrows

I second that and would like to add that Halfelven rangers who follow Karana instead of tunare get the shaft Double, cause not only cant we make any of those good cultural bows, we cant even use them, And karana Followers have nothing to even it our, I mean is the Silver blade of thunder supposed to make up the not being able to use and entire line of bows, AND armor, AND not being able to learn specialized tradeskills like cultural?

I would say no. The main reason is because the materials. It can take a whole day to get the right materials for just one, let alone at least 20. I would highly advise against it.

the woodvane recipe is arrowhead/shaft/vane/nock, not arrowhead/vane/fletch/nock...I learned the hard way, but I hope this helps!

Aerdor Dewcatcher, 40th druid of Xev
<Sojourner's Compass>

Ghrumbul, 25th warrior of Xev

look at www.eqtraders.com

yes go to the parabolic fletching, then the small notch, then the bone shafts, then the shield cut fletching, then the hooked points, then the wooden vanes, then ceramic shafts, then bones vanes, then silver tips, then stells shafts, and ceramic vanes, then acrylia shafts, and condensed substance heads, both os which must be black smithed. check out eqtraders.com for a full list with trivials.

This is how I did it there is several web sites that are for rangers out there. This web sites has links to them, use them. This is a list from one of those sites, with the name of the component that will help you gain skill use the cheapest in all the others and then sell back to merchant. Also the way I did this to gain the money to get skill high enough was to kill lots of wisps at your level you should have no problem with them on Erud's crossing, take boat from Qeynos and get off at first stop this is Erud's crossing. When returning I don't remember the name of the boat there are 2 boats if you end up in Erudan (excuse the spelling) stay on the boat and it will take you back to Qeynos, from the run to the Gypsy's in NK again I don't remember the name just hail and one of the women gypsy's will say something about a quest give her one Greater light stone (btw you will gain some xp from this) she will give you back a Concordance of research sell it to her depending on your charisma you should get anywhere from 7 to 9 pp. Back on the Island you will also pick up regular light stones sell them to the merchant on the island for around 8g. BTW get yourself a crude stein or any other cha jewelery. there are three stats that help on this skill that is Cha wis and dex, I had a guild member shaman buff me with dex and cha I got to 202 where I am now following this for under 1k all money came from would u believe it Greater light stones and looking at bears and cats that others had killed in West commons when running through and saving them up when a druid was offering 10pp each for Hq pelts hey you never know. Now for the list Hehe.

Large nock trivial at 16
Round fletch 16
Wood shaft 16
Field point 16
Medium point 36
Paraboplic fletch 46
Small nock 56
Bone shaft 68
Shield fletch 82
Hooked point 102
Wood vane 122
ceramic shaft 135
Bone vane 162
Ceramic vane 202
Steel shaft 202
Silver tip 202
These are also listed in order of cost, beyond these you have to make condensed tipped acrylia arrows that will take you to 250 or darkwood and other high end bows.

I could be wrong but stick to arrows I took my skill from 0 to 145 in Fironia Vie. I started with the worst of each component and when it could go no higher I increased one component to the next level.