I need to finish up fletching. I have been putting it off because it's slow and expensive. But, I need to be able to make Acrylia arrows and Nightmarewood Compound Bows. So, Saturday afternoon I decided to try and trival the last arrow you can make from storebought components: Silver-tipped Steel-shafted arrows. They cost approximately 150pp for a set of stacks of components. And, if all goes well, you lose about 23pp on the sell back + 6pp per failure in the batch. The recipe trivials at 202. After that, only acrylia arrows (or bows) will be skillups. Bow are just too expensive to even contemplate and acrylia needs to be farmed and smithed.

So, click, click, click. After 3 hours, I made it from 192 to 200. I have no idea how many arrows I made. I burned 500pp, so it looks like roughly 3000 combines. All I noticed is that my eyes hurt, my wrist hurt and I think I am dumber for trying. Once I had 2 skillups in the same batch, once I went over 100 combines w/o a skillup. EQ is heartless, capricious and completely too time intensive. I averaged around 80 combines per skillup, I think.

Then, as a slap, I ran out of arrows on the first Prototype in last nights raid and that good for nothing mage never summoned me any arrows. Even though I gave his rogue many stacks. Ah well, some guys were never meant to be dresswearers... So, after we wipe on the 3rd Proto, I run and get arrow pieces and while waiting for a rez. Needless to say, I got a skillup in the first 5 combines. /sigh