Trueshot Longbow  

 

I started fletching about a week ago and now I'm at 206 skill!
I read some of the reports about why not to do this as anything but a ranger, but as an enchanter I want to be able to make cool stuff.
It's paid off well so far.
I'm a 21st level high elf enchanter with an int of 170.
I started off by going to websites for info on fletching.
There is a lot of good info on how to do it the cheapest way so I won't repeat that all.
I had about 150pp on me when I started.
I stuck to using 3 cheapest items and stepping up the 4th.
I sold all my arrows back to the vendor.
When dealing with an arrow vendor I used illusions to match races with the vendor and benevolence to jack up my faction.
This may be why it worked so well as an enchanter
Manufactured arrows sell back for about what you can sell em for, but you lose money on every failure.
If you use the cheapest component you are not trivial with, you minimize the monetary expense of your losses, and you maximize your success rate so you have as many to sell back as possible.
With a 170 int, I found I was skilling up with every few attempts.
I hit master, 100 skill about 3 hours later, and was only down 20pp from where I started.
Tried making my first bow at 100. I think it was elm and silk. made the bow for about 20pp and sold it for 40pp.
Took a while to sell, and not many inquiries so I figured I'd skill up more.
I was fletching in east commonlands between the 2 orc camps, and I'd auction every once in a while trying to sell some of the arrows I was making.
Only sold about 2 stacks the whole time, and those I was pretty much letting go at cost.
I kept making arrows till 175 skill. Stopping because I ran out of money.
Down to about 30pp and a 4 stacks of materials was costing me 50pp
I read some online accounts of people making trueshot bows, so I figured I'd give it a try.
My previous character was a dwarf, so I knew about Tumpy, and Trantor Everhot. finding them wouldn't be a problem.
I'd done the quest for the Stein of Moggok, so I knew where kiola nuts were.
Lanterns are in the inn by the south gate in WFP
Jyle Wyndshot didn't like me much but I used benevolence on him, and used an illusion to match races. On my first attempt giving him a lantern he gave me the treent heart. I liked the faction hits I was getting from Jyle and lanterns only cost a few coppers, so I made 3 trips with full bags to get treent wood. By the end my faction with Jyle improved to the point I didn't need the illusion any more.
I realized later that the wood weighs 1.0 each, and I was carrying around 60 worth in wt. a real problem for a weakling enchanter.
I hopped on the boat bound for Kaladim.
At the first stop I jumped ship early and raced for the first hut. The girl on the left sells kiola nuts. I bought all my inventory would fit. and raced to catch the boat before it left. At the dock I stopped to bind myself to the site. The boat pulled out before my spell finished DOH! Time to break out the fishing pole.
In Kaladim I went to Tumpy and asked about the quest to refresh my memory.
I gave him 1 water and 1 nut for as many nuts as I had. Which was somewhere around 30. I took the Tumpy's Tonics to Trantor Everhot. Trantor has 2 places he likes to hang out. You can get him to give you wire in both places. the first is in front of Everhot forge where he plays guard and chases down rats.
The second is a little harder to find. There's an empty building just north of the forge, and a tunnel to the east leading up to Grey Bloom farms. Trantor heads up there every once in a while to hang out.
He wants the tonics 2 at a time, but I tried giving him 1, he says "only 1?" but if you give him 1 more, he remembers and gives you dwarven wire.
I got as much wire as I could.
Another enchanter bonus, I gated back to the island where the nuts were.
I bought as many nuts as would fit in inventory. I only had to wait a few minutes to catch the next boat to butcherblock.
I repeated a few times figuring I'd want as much wire as I had wood.
not true.
Heres something you won't find on trueshot quest lists.
your shopping list
1 treent wood
1 small lantern
2 dwarven wire
4 tumpy's tonics
4 kiola nuts 4water
1 spiderling silk
2 microservo's
1 planing tool

as you can see, I needed more wire than wood, but it really didn't matter I had enough wire to make 30 bows.
Off to the steamfont mountains to hunt rogue clockworks.
this is VERY time consuming and will be the limiting factor in how many bows you make.
Microservo's are no drop, so you have to loot them, you can't buy them.
On my second trip I found that I could send out a couple ooc messages saying I needed microservo's and would pay a 5pp bounty if I could come loot them off someone's kill. I got 1 guy who was looting them to turn in for faction to agree to a trade, he'd tell me where all the microservo's he came across were, and I'd give him all the scrap metal I came across. Worked out great for both of us.
Best place to hunt for rogue clockworks is north of the windmill in front of the mino mine. but watch out. The Kobold Missionary spawns there. and he killed me 3 times so far. Ouch. It's about 40th level, and kicked my butt at 21. My pet lasted just long enough to get an enthrall on him and run to the windmill. That was the only way I found I could survive an encounter.
Usually there is someone high level in the mines who can come out and kill the missionary for you. I should say, that I only died 3 times because I've been there for at least 8 hours hunting I collected about 20 microservos so far.
My first time I stopped at 6 microservo's because it was taking so long, and I was itching to try making a trueshot. Spiderlings are everywhere in steamfont. Kill some for silk.
Now off to Kelethin. Download a map, the place is hell to find your way around. Outside the bow shop there is a vendor selling planing tools, the last and most expensive by far ingredient.
the planing tool costs about 10pp, and the rest of the ingredients maybe total 2pp all together.
(assuming amiable faction with all vendors)
In champions, Maesyn will give you a bag if you tell him "I will gather materials" put spiderling silk, treent wood, dwarven wire and microsprocket in the bag and combine. I don't think this uses any skill. You get a backpack closed which you can give to Maesyn. In return you get exp and a treant bowstave. you put the bowstave, planing tool, a dwarven wire and a microsprocket into your fletching kit. cross your fingers and combine.
At 175 skill I was successful my first attempt.
I put up an auction and the guy standing next to me, a ranger had just tried to make one, and failed. It sold for 200pp in about 30 seconds.
My second failed and 3rd succeded. I sold the 2nd bow in east commons for 200pp in a few minutes of trying.
400pp not bad for a day's work.
Now with some spending money, I returned to the fletching stand.
I figured I'd fletch till I ran out of money again.
By this time It was costing 60pp to buy a full stack of materials.
but my failure rate was low, and I was making almost 60pp back selling the arrows.
It really started getting expensive when I got to steel shafts, but I talked to someone else who told me that I should use the ceramic vanes instead of the steel shafts, because they sell back for more.
good point.
I started making money. WOW! and I was skilling up.
I got to 202 and maxed out skill from arrow making.
so far I've made 8 trueshot bows and my second attempt was the only one I failed.
I've socked away 1kpp profit in the bank easily.
I found one guy who was willing to give me the bowstave, and 150pp just to finish the bow. that was worth it. really all the cost is in the microservos. half the microservo's is about half the work.
the bow is lore, so you can only have 1 at a time, but you can carry staves, and make another on the spot.
It's been a blast, and a great way to make money so far.

Enabler (Nature's Fury)
Morrell-Thule

currently im hunting in steamfront for exp and i kill the rogue clockworks by mino caves. i dont see what all the fuss about microservos is. i got 5 in 10 min once.

20 tries from fletching skill 105 till now 136 and I finally made my first Trueshot. Micro servo are the biggest pain to get. Good Luck.

Nortac
Ranger 20lvl

I tried making one for fun after getting tired of hunting for micro servos. I had 16 micros, failed 7 times, on the 8th time and using the last of the micros, I made the bow. Happy happy happy for me. Here's my stats when I started:

Flecthing : 88 - 90
Wisdom : 93
Intelligence : 75 (Base intelligence of a Wood Elf Ranger)

My flecthing skill went up to 89 on the 1st try even though I failed. Increased to 90 on the last try and made the bow.

Lelara
Dragoons of Soma
Tholuxe Paells

i got mine at 122 fletching skill with starting woodelf int and wisdom. I wasted several tries at lower skill levels, and tried three times at 122, and got it...

I was sadly dissapointed though.. i mean, many hours of boat riding and servo hunting to see "you have sucessfully combined.." i mean.. wheres the fireworks and the parade?

Its hard to move on after trying for so long, i've just been camping the clockworks, have over a stack of servos, getting ready to make my second.

Eowin Wood Elf Ranger
Tholuxe Paells

For all you folks who-ve made this bow, can you reveal your wisdom level when you succeeded? Some people believe wisdom is a critical factor in making the bow. Let's find out. Link your info to this thread. Share your knowledge and 'Wisdom" :-)

Elberis of Cazic-Thule
Veteran if 15 seasons

I know what they meanwhen they call this rare. Even I haven't made one yet, but I'm close. I encourage all rangers to work on their fletching and make this bow. It's like a lightsaber to a Jedi. :-)