[Bowcraft/Fletching] Magical Bows

[Caelas]

I have about 72.5 Bow/Fletch skill. I learned the recipies for the magical bows, but when I look at my chance of sucessfully making one, it says 0.0 even though it says I only need 70. What gives? If I put on a fletching talisman, it says I have whatever chance increase I have on the talisman.

 

[aarons6]

at gm the special bows like mischief maker, night reaper (the ones that use peerless ingredients) are only 40% success.

the min skill for those is 75..

at gm the special bows, like light weight shortbow, slayer longbow (the ones that use gems) are 50% success with 5% exceptional.

the min skill for those is 70..

 

[Caelas]

Does a failure only cost wood, or the ingredients too? I don't want to have a chance at wasting para ingredients...eek!

 

[Basara]

not sure about the peerless ingredients that require 10 pieces, but I know the special gems and peerless ingredients that only require one each, aren't lost on failure.

 

[aarons6]

just wood is lost.

gems and ingrediants stay in pack on failures.

one other thing to note.. you can make the semi arty bows (ones with gems) with a runic kit and get the mods of the kit + the mod of the gem and if its exceptional it has 40 DI.

the lightweight shortbow is really nice.

 

[Parnoc]

According to my menu, it takes 85 minumum bowcrafting to make a Magical Shortbow, dunno where you read 70.

 

[Sir Kenga]

70 minimum skill for recipe bows. But there is strange things with them 70 minimum skill, and chances are worse then with heavy crossbow, which is 80 skill.

 

[Basara]

I believe the big difference is many recipe items (especially the bows) start at 0% chance of success (as all smith items do), when bowcrafting, tailor, and some other crafting skills start at 50% at the skill where one can start making normal items.