EQ Fletching Recipes

If you wish more complete information, I recommend visiting Aoenla's Fletching Guide. You can also check the Ranger's Glade for info (if the Ranger's Glade is still down, then you can try hitting their forums for an ETA on the main site).

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Arrows:

Naming

Old world arrows are named by three of their components, in order that they appear in the name, fletch, shaft, and arrowhead. For instance, an arrow made with wooden vanes, ceramic shafts, and hooked tips would be called a CLASS 4 Ceramic Hooked Arrow.
The new Luclin arrows, on the other hand, are simply called Condensed Substance Acrylia Arrows, where Substance is one of Shadow, Flame, or Ice.
The nock never changes the name of an arrow.

Class		Shaft		Tip
Arrow Name	Component	Arrow Name	Component	Arrow Name	Component
CLASS 1	Several Round Cut Fletchings	Wood	Bundled Wooden Arrow Shafts	Point	Field Point Arrowheads
CLASS 2	Several Parabolic Cut Fletchings	Bone	Bundled Bone Arrow Shafts	Hooked	Hooked Arrowheads
CLASS 3	Several Shield Cut Fletchings	Ceramic	Bundled Ceramic Arrow Shafts	Silver	Silver Tipped Arrowheads
CLASS 4	Set of Wooden Arrow Vanes	Steel	Bundled Steel Arrow Shafts
CLASS 5	Set of Bone Arrow Vanes
CLASS 6	Set of Ceramic Arrow Vanes

Assembly

Arrows are assembled from four components, one each of arrowhead, arrow shaft, fletch, and nock. Each of these components contributes some combination of damage and range to the arrow produced. To find the stats any combination will produce, simply add up the stats from each of the components in the table below, and add to the "base arrow", of damage 1 and range 50. For instance, using the above example of CLASS 4 Ceramic Hooked Arrows with Small Grooved Nocks, you would have +1 dmg from Hooked Arrowheads, +2 dmg from Ceramic Arrow Shafts, +1 dmg and -25 range from Wooden Arrow Vanes, and +50 range from Small Grooved Nocks, for a total of +4 damage and +25 range. Add to 1 dmg and 50 range, and you have an arrow of 5 damage and 75 range.
The trivial to make an arrow is the highest trivial value of the four components. For instance, to make the CLASS 4 Ceramic Hooked Arrow with Small Groove Nocks, the trivial of each component would be 102 for Hooked, 135 for Ceramic Arrow Shafts, 122 for Wooden Arrow Vanes (the CLASS 4), and 56 for the Small Groove Nocks. Since 135 is the highest of these, that would be the trival value of the arrow.
Most arrow combinations return 5 arrows upon success. However, arrows with silver tips, and condensed substance acrylia arrows, return 10 arrows instead. Additionally, these arrows are magic, and can hit targets only affected by magic weapons.
Note that acrylia arrow shafts and condensed substance arrowheads only combine with each other, a shield cut fletching, and a small nock. The "Condensed Substance" can be one of Condensed Shadow, Condensed Flame, or Condensed Ice, which result in an arrow that does an additional 4 damage if the target fails to save against magic, fire, or cold, respectively. These shafts and arrowheads are made by Smithing.
All arrows have a weight of 0.1.

Arrowhead	Damage	Magic Damage	Range	Trivial
Field Point	+0	-	-	16
Hooked	+1	-	-	102
Silver Tipped	+2	-	-	182
Condensed Substance	+3	4	-	>250
Arrow Shaft	Damage	Magic Damage	Range	Trivial
Wooden	+0	-	-	16
Bone	+1	-	-	68
Ceramic	+2	-	-	135
Steel	+3	-	-	202
Acrylia	+5	-	+75	>250
Fletch	Damage	Magic Damage	Range	Trivial
Round Cut	+0	-	+0	16
Parabolic Cut	+0	-	+50	46
Shield Cut	+1	-	-50	82
Wooden Vanes	+1	-	-25	122
Bone Vanes	+1	-	+25	162
Ceramic Vanes	+2	-	+0	202
Nock	Damage	Magic Damage	Range	Trivial
Large Groove	-	-	+0	16
Medium Groove	-	-	+25	36
Small Groove	-	-	+50	56
Base Arrow	Damage	Magic Damage	Range	Trivial
	1	-	50	16

Bows:

Naming

A bow is named by the tool with which it was made (if any), the material from which it was made, and the cams included or lack thereof. Much like the nocks of arrows, the string is not reflected in the name of a bow. For instance, a bow made with an Oak Bow Staff, Whittling Blade, one Standard Bow Cam, and any string would be called a Carved Oak 1-Cam Bow.
Again, a table of components and the resulting names:

Tool		Staff		Cam(s)
Bow Name	Component	Bow Name	Component	Bow Name	Component
Rough	(no tool)	Hickory	Hickory Bow Staff	Recurve	(no cam)
Carved	Whittling Blade	Elm	Elm Bow Staff	1-Cam	Standard Bow Cam
Shaped	Planing Tool	Ashwood	Ashwood Bow Staff	Compound	2 Standard Bow Cams
		Oak	Oak Bow Staff
		Darkwood	Darkwood Bow Staff
		Shadewood	Shadewood Bow Staff

Assembly

Bows are made by combining from two to five components in your fletching kit. All bows include a bow staff and a string; additionally, you may be able to add a tool and one or two cams, depending on the bow staff material. If your bow staff is made of elm or better, you may use a Whittling Blade. If your staff is ashwood or better, you may use a Planing Tool. If your staff is oak or better, you may use a single cam, and if it's darkwood or shadewood, you can use two cams to produce a compound bow. Unlike all other bow components, a tool is returned on failure, but consumed on success.
Much like arrows, you can take the values for the individual bow components from the table below and add or subtract them to figure the stats of the resulting bow. Note that, although all the "extras" actually reduce damage, they also reduce delay, usually enough that the overall damage/delay ratio is improved. And, again, the trivial of the bow is the highest trivial of its components (with the complication that two cam compound bows have a different trivial than single cam bows). For instance, making the Carved Oak 1-Cam Bow mentioned above, with a Silk String, would have a base 21 dmg, 65 delay, 125 range from the Oak Bow Staff, minus 2 dmg 8 dly for the Silk String, minus 1 dmg 4 dly for the Whittling Tool, minus 1 dmg 5 dly for the Standard Bow Cam, for a total of 17 dmg, 48 dly, 125 range. Trivial would be 192, the single cam trivial being higher than the others.
All player made bows have a weight of 4.0, excepting the quested Trueshot.

Staff	Damage	Delay	Range	Trivial
Hickory	10	50	50	16
Elm	13	51	75	68
Ashwood	16	58	100	129
Oak	21	65	125	168
Darkwood	25	68	150	215
Shadewood	27	66	200*	250
String	Damage	Delay	Range	Trivial
Hemp	0	0	-	16
Linen	-1	-4	-	32
Silk	-2	-8	-	46
Tool	Damage	Delay	Range	Trivial
Whittling Blade	-1	-4	-	102
Planing Tool	-2	-9	-	148
Cam(s)	Damage	Delay	Range	Trivial
Single	-1	-5	-	192
Compound (2)	-2	-10	-	235

* Note that the range of a shadewood bow depends also on the number of cams. A shadewood bow with no cams has a range of 150, with one cam has a range of 175, and with two cams a range of 200.

Restringing

Bows can be restrung for a slight modification to damage and delay. Just combine the bow and the new string in your fletching kit. The string must be a different type than the bow is already strung with, and the combine never fails. Trivial is 15.

Darts

fishbone dart tool is returned on both success and failure

Quest Recipes:

Trueshot Longbow

To obtain a Treant Bow Staff (note that this is LORE, but not NO DROP), you must speak with Maesyn Trueshot in Faydark's Champions, the Rangers' Guild in Kelethin. Get a components bag from him, and combine a Spiderling Silk, Micro Servo, Wooden Shards, and Dwarven Wire.

• Spiderling Silk is obtained by killing spiderlings anywhere, naturally.
  Spiderling Silks are stackable and tradeable. You will need one per Trueshot attempt.
• Micro Servos are dropped by Rogue Clockworks in the Steamfont Mountains.
  Micro Servos are stackable but NO DROP. You will need two for every Trueshot attempt.
• Get Wooden Shards by giving a small lantern to Jyle Windshots in Hogcaller's Inn in West Freeport—don't be fooled by the Jyle in East Freeport! There is a chance (perhaps 1 in 20) that Jyle may give you a Wooden Heart instead of Wooden Shards. If you're a ranger yourself, hold on to this; it's used in the Raincaller upgrade of the Trueshot. If you aren't, you might as well destroy it because it's NO DROP.
  If you're evil, you can also get Wooden Shards by killing treants, but this can make it hard to pay Maesyn a visit later. But you can often find them on merchants in areas where players kill treants, if you find your warm welcome in Freeport is a little bit uncomfortable due to one faction or another.
  Wooden Shards are stackable and tradeable. You will need one for each Trueshot attempt.
• Getting the Dwarven Wire is a small quest itself. It's easiest to do this on the way back from getting the Wooden Shards in Freeport. Get off the ship at Erollisi Isle in the Ocean of Tears, run into the nearest hut, and buy Kiola Nuts. You will need four Kiola Nuts per Trueshot attempt; these cost at least 1gp 7sp 3cp each. Hopefully you can do this quickly enough to run back to the ship before it leaves; if not, wait around and catch the next one.
  When you get to Butcherblock, go to South Kaladim and give Tumpy Irontoe in Irontoe Eats one Kiola Nut and one Flask of Water at a time. He will give you back one Tumpy Tonic for each of these. Now go to North Kaladim, and locate Trantor Everhot. He wanders, so you might have to search or track a bit. Give him two Tumpy Tonics at a time, and he'll give you one Dwarven Wire for every two tonics.
  Dwarven Wire is stackable, but NO DROP. Get two Dwarven Wire for each Trueshot attempt.

When you have combined these in the bag, give it to Maesyn (make SURE you've combined it first!) and he will return to you a Treant Bow Staff (LORE, but not NO DROP).
Now, in your fletching kit combine this Treant Bow Staff, another Micro Servo, another Dwarven Wire, and a Planing Tool (bought from bowyer vendors, costs at least 10pp 7gp 1sp). If you're either very skilled or very lucky, you'll have your new Trueshot Longbow! The combine is trivial at 235.

Trueshot Longbow: LORE, DMG: 20, Delay: 45, Range: 100, weight 3.0, Class: RNG, Race: HUM ELF HEF

Luclin Quest Recipes

All these quests start with Merchant Rytan in Shar Vahl, on the southwest side of town at loc -403, 410. Full writeup on this quest can be found here

Item	Ingredients	Trivial
Grimling Bone Shaft (NO DROP) produces 3 shafts	Skeletal Grimling Femur (NO DROP), Xakra Dart Crafting Tool (LORE, NO DROP) or Grimling Dart Crafting Tool (LORE, NO DROP)	36
Xakra tooth dart (dmg 5, dly 26, range 75)	Grimling Bone Shaft (NO DROP), xakra tooth (NO DROP), Xakra Dart Crafting Tool (LORE, NO DROP)	46
Grimling Dart Crafting Tool (LORE, NO DROP)	Xakra Dart Crafting Tool (LORE, NO DROP), Crafting Tool Shaft Attachment	<=48
Grimling Fang Dart (NO DROP) (dmg 7, range 85, Archery)	Grimling Bone Shaft, grimling fang (NO DROP), Grimling Dart Crafting Tool (LORE, NO DROP)	>54
Rockhopper Dart Crafting Tool (LORE, NO DROP)	Grimling Dart Crafting Tool (LORE, NO DROP), Crafting Tool Hook Attachment (LORE, NO DROP	<=48
Rockhopper Talon Dart (NO DROP) (dmg 10, dly 0, range 95)	Rockhopper Dart Crafting Tool (LORE, NO DROP), Rockhopper Foot (LORE, NO DROP)	<=104
Owlbear Dart Crafting Tool (LORE, NO DROP)	Rockhopper Dart Crafting Tool (LORE, NO DROP), Crafting Tool Handle Attachment (LORE, NO DROP	<=48
Owlbear Feather Dart (dmg 12, dly 0, range 120)	Owlbear Feather, Owlbear Dart Crafting Tool (LORE, NO DROP); BAR, IKS, OGR, TRL, VAH; ALL; yield 3	>120 <=139

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