Trueshot Longbow  

 

I attempted this 4 times with my lvl 18 ranger, his skill at fletching was only in 150's and had no succsess. At lvl 20 and a fletching skill of 201 succeeded on first attempt. The hardest part of this quest is camping the ever elusive micro servers, must have camped these greenies for a week to get enough for the 5 attempts.

Marlus Wyndsonorth
54th lvl barb warrior
Craaven
22nd lvl human ranger

The bow itself is quite impressive for the average ranger. Since it costs about 200pp if you are interested in buying it, the 20 45 dmg dly is very impressive compared to other bows youll find in the price range. Anyone who uses this obvioulsy knows that they are a long way off from the 35 38 bows or whatever those crazy 60 warders with trueshot discipline criticaling for up to 2000 have. If you are interested in fletching, I can't say much besides the fact that it takes a bit of luck- though the most consistent piece of information I've heard is that with a skill of about 160 you can make this reliably, though if you are looking to gamble a little, I've heard of 40 skill fletchers lucking out and making one. To dispel a certain rumor, gathering the pieces is very easy, I trust that all of you concerned with getting this bow are rangers and therefore have track. Though it is time consuming, there is a difference between difficulty and time consumption. I doubt that you will have a druid capable of port other being dragged around with you, however if you did it would be very helpful. Here is some advice for getting the pieces-

Micro Servos- These are the most annoying of the pieces to get. You'll need 2 per trueshot attempt. They drop in the gnome newb zone, that being the steamfont mountains, off rogue clockworks. There are all sorts of clockworks but these specific ones that you want are rogues. When i was there, they didn't drop very often so prepared to be bored- and when you are tracking, don't be tempted to go over the little mountains, because you cant...you have to go around.

Treant wood- At first this was very odd to me. There are 2 Jyle Windshots. The one in East freeport is the WRONG one. He is not interested in whatever you have to say, so just leave him alone. The one you want is in west freeport, in a tavern of some sort (easily tracked). He wants small lanterns, or normal lanterns, lanterns of some sort. Most merchants will sell these, but for sure I know there is one in north freeport near the bank. Lanterns do not stack, so clear out your inventory and then buy as many as you can and give them to him in bulk, he will thank you every time as if he needed over 20 lanterns to make whatever trip he wants to.

Dwarven wire- a mini quest all on its own. You need to speak to trantor everhot or whatever, he'll tell you to go get his favorite booze from tumpy irontoe, who will tell you that he needs these kiola nuts. If i had a dime for every quest that needed these elusive kiola nuts...well nevermind that. When you are heading back to Kaladim from Jyle Windshot in freeport, be prepared to make a dash. When the boat stops at the sister island (or whatever they call it), one of the first huts you see contains the merchant who sells the nuts. These nuts do not stack, but they are like a gold a piece, so buy as many as you can, and run back out to the boat before it leaves the dock. You then need water flasks, which you can buy pretty much anywhere from vendors, 1 nut and water flask make a tumpy tonic. You need to give everhot 2 tonics per 1 dwarven wire, therefore making it hard to get many dwarven wires per trip.

Spiderling silk- At last, a break! Any newb zone, for instance misty thicket, greater faydark, etc etc, anything with spiderlings or something that drops spiderling silk, get a few stacks of these in 10 minutes.

Now, I hope you didn't just do all of that hoping to get the bow afterwards. The cheap ******* in the ranger guild in greater faydark doesn't make the bow for you, even though he brags about being a master fletcher and all that, no, he gives you the stave so you can make the bow yourself. And to do this i recommend having 160 fletching skill or so. So basically the quest sucks because it is designed for a low level to enjoy and gain exp, though only higher level fletchers with money can do the quest. Good luck anyways.

I made one last night (hurrah for me) and I remember seeing four races (didn't pay much attention to which) so I think they must have added halflings.

I was 0/9 at skill 119 and 1/3 at skill 139.

Gathering the components sucks so I would get your skill as high as you can bear platinum and patience wise. Damn fletching is hard on the fingers!!!!!

Time to soak my aching carpals.

Have they changed this to allow all ranger races to use it yet?

Is it just me or did the clockwork spawn drop drastically with the patches a couple of days ago? It seems now there are a gazzillion different spawns in steamfont, and a rogue clockwork is never one of them, not to mention it seems clockworks are dropping more and more items except for serveos. ARGH!!!!! Still this is a fun quest when you a newbie, I kick myself for not working at it harder when I was young enough to get exp from all the mobs, Now I just find myself camping out waiting for the darn things to spawn when none of my friends are on and I'm sick of soloing. I hope to make this confounded bow some day. Wish me luck!

OK, let me tell you what I have found. I have made this bow over 8 times, and sold all but 3 for 200p each. My first success was at fletching of 90; and then not again until skill level 145. At my current skill of 178 I think I have to be REAL close to the trivial point, though there is no known such point. Here is why: 5 of my 8 successes have all been back to back, first try success, and all since skill level 175, and all within the same calander week. My most recent attempt (success number 8) is the only one to not succeed first try since the 175 level, and it succeeded on the second try.

On another note, I have seen this hit for above 50 damage when using 4 dmg 150 rng arrows. It seems to hit high 40's to low 50's about 1/5 of the time for me.

These are just my personal experiences, take from it what you will.

If you are in need of this bow, and on Seventh Hammer, send me a tell. I will gladly sell the one I am carrying. I have a spare on an alt, and stockpiled supplies.

As always, stay safe and have fun :)


Rhawr
Ranger of Tunare

Seventh Hammer Server

I was going to wait till I had an outrageous skill like 150 or better but decided to give it a try at 85 and made it on my third try. Two thoughts from this, don't wait till you get an incredible skill level to try because you very well may succeed...and...don't expect to succeed. On the lack of success side I count myself lucky since after giving my new trueshot to another char to hold, the next seven attempts (I had gathered comps for 10 tries) were failures. Give it a shot, It'll take more time and money to improve fletching than to gather a few more microservers.

Just something i noticed today. I have been spending a lot of time hunting clockworks to get a stockpile of micro-servos and i noticed the spawn rate jump up dramatically when a group started hunting the minataur slavers. Hope its not just coincidental cuz like many i have wasted hours trying to get microservos and a spawn turbo would definitely help. Tried 3 times so far making the trueshot and failed. (skill lvl 117... gonna get it up some more before i try again)

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Sorry...double post...my bad.

Edited, Fri Feb 22 12:50:31 2002

Edited, Sat Dec 15 01:41:39 2001

I realize now I should have posted this message under the link for the quest itself.

I read all I could find about this quest from this and a couple other sites and thought I'd add a few details that might help others that follow. Many posts are from the point of view of what I consider to be high level characters. For example, they simply say to collect Kiola Nuts on the island in OOT but due to the warnings I found in a couple of posts and speaking with other Rangers in game, I knew that a pirate patrolled the island so lowbies should either buy quickly and get back on the boat or hide while waiting for the next boat to arrive.

Because my intent was to collect enough components for 20 Trueshot attempts, I planned on two quick visits to the island to get 40 Kiola Nuts. The first trip was uneventful. I ran to the first hut and quickly bought 20 nuts and returned to the boat as it departed. However, on the next trip I left from BB and didn't get off in Freeport before continuing on, so was lagging slightly when I got to the island and just missed the boat. I had no idea how long it would take for the next boat to arrive so I hid under the dock and cast camo once, then twice. While waiting I saw a level 9 character get attacked by Dayle Jornin and killed just before being attacked myself. I started out into the water to evade my attacker who was doing 30 hit points of damage but he followed me so I started fighting back before I noticed he conned blue to my level 15 ranger. Once dead, I looted a pirate's earring that identified him as the pirate to watch out for.

The other difficult part of the quest for lower level characters involves farming Micro Servos in Steamfont. They have a very low drop rate from the Runaway Clockwork spiders in the newbie area near the druid ring and south of the windmills so most of my time was spent hunting Rogue Clockworks out in front of the mino caves and on the ridges NNW of the windmills. The biggest hazard was the Missionary who killed me twice in the 25 hours I spent in Steamfont. Also, the plague rats were a pain because they deplete health and consume mana trying to regain enough health to continue hunting. At level 15 I could handle a couple clockworks at a time but sometimes the earth/steam elementals would gang up 3 at a time and I'd be out of commission again regaining health.

The last problem I found was once all the clockworks were killed and looted, a lower level character isn't able to kill enough MOBs to get the clockworks to respawn quickly. It might take over an hour for them to reappear and because of the low drop rate I once spent 4 hours killing the few spawns without getting any Micro Servos at all. The best hunting I had was logging on for 20 minutes early one morning before work and getting 4 servos. I found that if there are any other rangers hunting in Steamfont, it just isn't worth the spending the time if you have to share in the loot, neither one of you will be getting much in return.

I finally left Steamfont after collecting 33 servos so decided to increase my chances by raising fletching from 102 to 138. Even then, I became worried until success on my ninth attempt though I got two skillups, 140 on my successful attempt.

Based on various posts, I'd say I had average success on this quest. I didn't succeed easily on my first fletching attempt nor did I fail miserably for 20 straight attempts. I didn't give up during the dry spells when collecting servos because of that memorable 20 minutes when I looted 4. The only advice I can offer would be to hunt in Steamfont in the early hours before anyone else arrives and the zone is fully spawned or when it is busy (but with no other rangers) with others who will keep the spawns going and /auction to pay some plat to anyone giving the location of a dead clockwork with a servo they aren't interested in anyway. Good luck to all who follow.

Cuen
HE Ranger on Zebuxoruk