Trueshot Longbow  

i'm trying to make this quest but when i try give small lantern to jyle he dont give treant wood, just say its good at someone is giving free merchant.

I am a new and realtively young ranger who has traveled 9 seasons and wishes to know if it possible if the trueshot longbow is even open to us diminuative fellows. Could someone please help me out? I would love to get one of these, if for no other reason then to eventually get the upgrade.

Fergal
9th Season Ranger
Terris-Thule

I am recently in the midst of completing this quest. I am doing it a little late in my career as I am lvl 38. Being that high a level makes my suggestion a bit easier at this point, but I will continue anyway. As you are going to have to go to antonica for portions of this quest anyway I would suggest by beginning in south karana. For a couple reasons actually. 1) There are plenty of spawns to kill, as well as animals to fear kite. 2) You can pay some kind necro that is whacking treants for treant wood shards and to loot a treant heart for the raincaller upgrade. 3) You just have a run in with a couple rare centaur spawns that can drop a thunderhoof quiver (33% dly reduction). Also, as a bonus, you can camp the centaurs and kill them all day and not get an iota of bad faction for it. Once you are satisfied with your collection of treant pieces you take the boat across Lake Rathetear and run across the Rathe Mountains into the feerot. The Hulking Gorillas that you need the clumps of hair from for raincaller are now at the top of the ramp outside cazic thule. They are only about lvl 28 but there are plenty of types of Tae Ew that con blue to me at lvl 38. so you will need a group here, although since there will be a lot of high levels wanting to raid the new CT, you may be able to get some to put a whacking on these guys for you and then you just loot. Once you do that you make the run to freeport. Head to west freeport and find Ping Fuzzlecutter outside the gate in W. Freeport and buy the formula 5000's. Just be careful because they are a drink and you may drink them. You need 10, so buy extra in case you get thirsty. Now take the boat and get off at the first stop which is the isalnd of the sisters of erollisi marr. If you run off the boat with sow to the first hut and just start buying the hell out of the kiola nuts and then run out really quick you shouldnt have to wait for the boat to come back around for you. Once in BB, go to kaladim and get your Tumpy Tonics, then trade em for the dwarven wire. Next head to steamfont and collect your microservos. Before you leave, be sure to head into Akanon and do the Sanfryd Featherhead part of the raincaller quest for the tattered whig. At this point you just need to combine the trueshot once you turn in the components. I have heard this doesnt trivial until skill 235, so definitely have extra components or you will have to repeat thinfs, which I find highly annoying. Now all you have to do for your raincaller is go into kedge and get the golden tresses form the golden haired mermaid. If you are not ina guild, I suggest yuo join one for this purpose. Kedge is tough, and you will die by yourself, period. Anyway, that is my suggestion for saving yourself some run around.
Hope it helps.

Valorindel
38 Ranger
Soldiers of Valor
Ayonae Ro

The microservos drop MUCH more frequently off the runaway clockworks than the giant clockworks. I have a stack in the bank from killing the runaway's. Another option is to, while killing to collect your own, offer 2-5pp to anyone who will let you loot one. Make sure you remind ppl they are no drop in your auction.

Phoenos Stryyder-Lord of the Woodlands
GL Shadow-of-Fire on Tribunal

Wood shards are the correct item.

I have sold many Trueshots for 150pp each. One downfall is you can only have one at a time. And only one staff as a backup once you sell the bow itself.

hey folks......justed wanted to let you know my thoughts on this quest.

i gathered enough materials for 6 trys and failed all six. then i had to go back to freeport and isle to get more treant wood and kiola nuts. then to steamfront for more microservers. on the 7th try, i finally made the trueshot bow at 141 fletching skill. i spent about 12 hrs from beginning to end gathering materials. most of my time was spent in steamfront trying to get microservers. one evening i killed approx. 40 rogue and runaway clockworks and only one microsever drop. the next day i spent 1 hr killing the clockworks and 5 dropped. then, the next day i spent about 2 hrs and collect 6 more microservers. let me know if you have any questions about the quest. you can email me at eqfun@attbi.com.

I am a lvl 17 ranger with a 79 fletching skill. I have enough supplies to try to assemble the Trueshot 5 times over. The one question I have is if I bought at plane should I put it in the Fletching Kit with the other items or does it need to be in the Primary Weapon Slot.
Looking for any advantage I can get.
Thanks,

Tengen
Lvl 17 Ranger
Kelthen

I have been reading about the success rates some people have with this and I am particularly cheesed off with the person with 50 fletch who suceeded on the first attempt.
So far I have had 23 failed attempts with skill 140-150. The really annoying thing is that I had 140 fletch at lvl 17 - and now I'm lvl 30 and I still don;t have a trueshot. =(
Anyway, I'm heading back to Stone soon for another session of mass slaughter - wish me luck.

Rain

I went to the island in the ocean of tears and noone would sell anything to me. I was at the right island...the one on the way to Butcherblock. I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem and if so how do I gain faction or get them to sell to me.

I'm a 10lvl Wood Elf Ranger.

Dont quote me on this, but I think the elementals around the mino caves are on the same spawn table as the big clockworks. I'd gotten about 15 servos in several hours of camping, when I noticed that the elementals and the clockworks basically move around in the same way--they stay still for long periods with occasional moves, unlike the other creatures in the area, which mosly move constantly. So I tried attacking them while bored and waiting for spawns, and it seemed to me that not long after killing an elemental a clockwork often showed up on radar. I actually saw four in the mino area simultaneously at one point, when before I'd never seen more than a pair. I got my last 5 servos in about an hour.

Hope that helps.

And for the record, my Trueshot took 2 attempts at 136 fletching.

Edited, Wed Feb 6 10:24:59 2002

Okay, I have all I need for a good few attempts at the trueshot. Just 1 thing, what is the wooden heart for that Jyle gives to you on occasions?

Happy hunting

LVL 15 Ranger Pentegal
Xegony