Trueshot Longbow  

Fair play, i started this quest last November and finished it last night (although i don't play as much as i should!) The main reason? i had to build my Bowyer skill up to 156 before i could make it, and i didn't have a spare 800pp around to do this. Make sure you have a wedge in the bank and time to spend outside the local bow and arrow merchant before attempting this little venture, as i levelled really slowly whilst concentrating on this quest!

There is a quest you can do in Freeport to get your faction with Faydarks Champions up.
There is a Dwarf upstairs in the Inn in West Freeport who wants muffins. Give him a couple of stacks of muffins and the Champions will love you.
I think that the quest is detailed on this site.

I have been trying for my Trueshot off and on now since lvl 18. Every time I attempt to create the bow it keeps telling me I have made an alternate item and puts the plane in my hand but no bow or message saying I failed.

I have been placing the Treant Bowstave, Plane, 1 Microservo, and 1 Dwarven Wire in the kit.

Any suggestions on how or why this is happening, or how this should work will be greatly appreciated.

i gave jyle windshot a lantern and he gave a wooden heart instead of treant wood.
anyone know what this heart if for??

Having a problem getting treant wood from windshots somthing about getting there trust

Every one uses abbreations and stuff. what do you mean? What is SoW and DOT? What do you mean by LORE and NO DROP? And how many wood chips do you need to make the Trueshot bow stave?

Don't forget that the BOWSTAVE is lore as well!! You can't amass them or stack them ..... only ONE at a time !! Found that out the hard way !!

Completed the quest last night. I was hunting, err dying in unrest after my third death I decided to hit steamfront and get servos to finally get my TS. Last time I attempted it was at lvl 13 with a skill of 115 in fletching, failed four times. This time I was up to 172 in fletching, failed on the first try because I forgot to put another servo in the fletching kit(doh), the second time I made sure I had all four components in the kit and BAMMO got me a trueshot! Can't wait till I do a crit hit with it, that'll be sweet. I think this quest was ok, worst part was getting the micro servos. The only tip I can offer other rangers is don't focus on this quest you're just setting yourself up for failure. Just level up in fletching and gather components if they're near where you're hunting(i.e. spiderling silk and wood chips in FP). Most importantly, don't get discouraged!

A word on pricing. Average has been 200pp and many out of desperation for cash, as most rangers ar not rich sell their work for 150pp. I really think the work is harder than we are giving credtit for.

Cost: silk is easiest part; treant wood is cheap at a small lantern per wood; nuts for tonic are less than 1pp no matter how they don't like you but you need two and water, so about 2pp for wire; Servos cost nothing unless you use arrows to hunt them. Planes are 12pp or 10pp with best con.

Time: yet again silk is easiest; a boat ride if you get to it with no waiting is about 15 min, then buy the lanterns and go get wood. If you are a fast runner and do it under 15 min you might catch the boat and only spend 45 min total, however usually you miss the boat =) ; on the way back you stop at sister isle and get off boat to buy nuts, you should be able to buy nuts and be waiting for boat in time, unless a pirate stops to chat with you. about 20 min to get nuts, but dont forget to buy water here because Kal has no water in Tumpy Eats or that zone.; Tonics, you can give a water then nut water then nut, as long as you do not stack water. Most people fill ther bags with all the nuts they can about 52 if you get bags, so making tonics takes a while as well; Dwarven Wire, you can stack 4 at a time in four slots so not much time to get wire, you already did the hard part with tonics, so about 26 wires after double shots for our freind. I wish he would drink them where we could see him, I gave him 120 trumpy tonics, his wis and int would but -100 =); Servos are the most time consumming aspect. 1 in 10 servos on small clocks was the most optimistic rate I saw yet. it takes a bout 3 min to find one and 6 sec to kill it. After you start hunting it becomes a whait on spawns, HINT rats are runaway space holders, KILL RATS. If I have 26 wire I would want 26 servos as it takes two of each, so if this was a perfect sience 3 min per kill * 10 kills for 1 = 30 min/ servo. Now if you're going all out in hunt these servos you might get better odds, Sow is a god sent. I average 4-6 servos an hour. So about 5 hours to get 26 servos by yourself.

Total cost about 13pp-16pp
Total time for one try about 2 hours.
For the 26 of each no drop which is 13 tries is about 6 hours

I am giving best hopes out of 26 tries:
at skill 100---1 possible Not likely
at skill 110---1 possible doubtful
120---1 likely 2 possible
130---2 likely 3 possible
135---3 likely 5 possible
140---3 likely 7 possible
145---4 likely 8 possible
150---4 likely 9 possible
160---5 likely 10 possible
165---7 likely 13 possible
<at this point based on wis you might get 1 out 3>
I am now 180+ I get about 1 out of 2 average. I look at the effort to get to this point and sell bows for 300-350pp, Yes not only will people pay it they are given opertunity to get items them selves to save 100pp, I will trade a treant Staff and 200pp to make bow. I am asking All Fletchers to reconsider their pricing as not because we high fletchers can make more at less risk but because the lower fletchers work to hard to get the bows. I could flood the market with bows at 125pp a bow and cover my time. I am not a greedy bastage I am helping the smaller fletcher ask more for their work. There is little to no profit to cover the hundreds lost to get fletching to master. And for those that strive for 1 out of 3 trueshots hundreds more to get there. Please do not look at the 13pp and 2 hours as a cheap way to make 150pp, because chances are slim.
I am on Seventh Hammer trying bring about a better awareness of the Fletchers Skills and the Value back to the Trueshots. If you hear a shout at 300pp-350pp send a tell to the person before Laughing at them openly in a shout about their price. We are all In this for the betterment of the Skill and game.

I made the trueshot on the first try with a lvl 122 fletching and a lvl 19 ranger I thought it was a pretty fun quest and the bow is great, well worth the time

After speaking with Maesyn Trueshot the first time and getting the bag to combine the items to make a Treant bowstave, I cannot get him to give me another. I hail him, he says "blah blah blah [Trueshot longbows] but he doesnt respond after that.
Thinking I could not have two Treant bowstaves at once, I used the bowstave and tried to make my first Trueshot. (attempt failed at 101 fletching) Thats ok, I will try again, but he will not answer when I hail him and say "Trueshot longbows" or any variance of those words. He just wont answer. Still he con's amiable to me so I dont know what to say to get him to give me bag to combine the items to make the bowstave again. any Suggestions?
BTW I think I remember after you say "Trueshot longbow" you have to say something else to get him to give you the backpack to combine the items. Anyone remember what to say?

Where is Tratnor Everhot ? I went to Kaladim to the Everhot Forge but can't find him. I found 6 other Everhot NPC but no one called Tratnor. I asked all other for dwarven wire, but no one replied anything to me ?

Can anybody help me please !

First off, I want to say that I thought this quest was a pretty good quest, even though I failed a few times before I got the bow. When I finally combined the required materials and was standiing there holding my very own Trueshot Longbow, I was exhilerated. I didn't look at it like I had wasted several days of my EQ life failing on attempt after attempt. I looked at it from a Role Playing perspective. The first time I tried, I didn't think I would succede, but I tried it anyway. And failed. Then I tried several more times and failed. So, I figured I my bowyering wasn't up to the task. So I shoved off and went to making arrows and arrows and arrows blah blah until I felt it was ok to give it another shot. When I was about to try to make the Trueshot, I asked the people in my guild to send up a prayer to their deity for luck and it worked! When it did work, I wasn't thinking "about frikkin' time" rather I was thinking "YESSSSSSS!!!!!!" and now I have a Trueshot Longbow. I think it's pretty cool that they added the element of you having to know what you're doing to get this quest (tbe bowyering part). Shoot, paladins have to be good smithy's to get their quest armor. I think more quests should be like this. That would add another dimension to the secondary skills (as well as the new armors they've added to smithing).

Now, on a non-role playing note. My fletching skill was less than 140 when I failed the first time. Then I went and raised it to a little over 140 and failed a few more times. Then someone told me that he had heard that at a skill of 160 it was almost 100% success rate. So I went and got my skill up to 162 and succeded the first time.

Also, that fools name in West Freeport is not Windshots it is just Windshot. I say this because in the quest description is says not to be fooled by imitators, that this is the real one, so a correct spelling would be nice. :P AND you have to be better than indifferent to him. I went up to him indifferent and gave him the lantern and he said "Thank you. However, although you are not an enemy of Faydark's Champions, you still have yet to prove yourself to us." and I didn't get the treant wood. I had to head to Crushbone and raise my faction with Faydark's Champions. And, you have to give him a SMALL lantern, not a large one.

Nediam Nori
Ranger of 35 winters
Fennin Ro