Fletching

How Fletching works past 99#

Up to 99, Fletching is the classic skill: knife on logs for bows and shafts, string them, and make arrows.

From 99 to 150 it changes job. The four Olympian logs are fletched into forge components, never into usable bows:

Woodcutting feeds Fletching, Fletching feeds the forge, and the forge makes the weapon.

Every Olympian ranged upgrade at ::forge now takes fletched parts. The forge still decides when a ranged weapon is actually made.

The Olympian logs#

Cut them from the Olympian trees on the home island's west shore (see Woodcutting & Firemaking).

Use a knife on an Olympian log to open a three-option menu: the limbs of that log's tier, Fletching Resin, or a Bowstring Core.

Log	Woodcutting	Fletching XP per log	Resin per log
Ichorwood logs	99	11,000	1
Apollonian Laurel logs	115	13,000	2
Stygian Cypress logs	130	16,000	3
Ambrosia Heartwood logs	150	20,000	4

XP is the base on-screen drop before your multipliers. Fletching an Olympian log pays exactly the same XP as burning it, so Fletching and Firemaking are equal choices for your logs.

The limb ladder#

Each tier of limbs is made from its own log plus one set of the limbs below it, so every rung keeps its value.

Limbs	Fletching	Made from
Reinforced Bow Limbs	99	1 Ichorwood log
Empowered Bow Limbs	110	1 Apollonian Laurel log + 1 Reinforced Bow Limbs
Corrupted Bow Limbs	120	1 Stygian Cypress log + 1 Empowered Bow Limbs
Ancient Bow Limbs	130	1 Ambrosia Heartwood log + 1 Corrupted Bow Limbs
Perfected Bow Limbs	140	Resin on Ancient limbs: 1 Ancient Bow Limbs + 10 Fletching Resin (25,000 XP)

Resin and cores#

Fletching Resin

Fletching 99. Any Olympian log gives 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 by tier. Every ranged upgrade at the forge uses it, and so do the Perfected limbs and the Primal Bow Frame.

Bowstring Core

Fletching 105. One per Olympian log. Used in ranged forge upgrades, and it's also a +5 Enchanting booster, the one booster that needs no boss (see Enchanting).

Master Fletching and the Primal Bow Frame#

The first time your Fletching reaches 150, you unlock Master Fletching, a permanent account unlock. It stays through a skill prestige.

Only a Master Fletcher can shape the Primal Bow Frame. Use Perfected Bow Limbs on Ambrosia Heartwood logs:

It isn't a bow, though: the forge has to finish it.

Where it all goes#

Forge recipe	Fletching parts it takes (on top of its normal materials)
Bow of Apollo (Olympian set, ranged)	250 Reinforced Bow Limbs + 250 Fletching Resin
Apollo's Ascendant Bow (Sovereign of Olympus, best-in-slot ranged)	1 Primal Bow Frame + 100 Perfected Bow Limbs + 500 Fletching Resin + 100 Bowstring Cores

Empowered, Corrupted and Ancient limbs are ladder steps: you make them to reach Perfected limbs.

A route from 99 to 150#

1. 1
   99-110: fletch Ichorwood into Reinforced limbs and bank them. You'll need 250 for the Bow of Apollo, and every higher rung eats one.
2. 2
   105+: turn a share of your logs into Bowstring Cores for enchanting and for the Ascendant Bow.
3. 3
   110-130: work up the ladder: Empowered, then Corrupted, then Ancient limbs, each on its own log.
4. 4
   Keep making resin as you go. A Perfected limb takes 10, the frame 25, and the Ascendant Bow 500.
5. 5
   140: cure Ancient limbs into Perfected ones. You'll want 102 of them in all: 100 for the Ascendant Bow and 2 for the frame.
6. 6
   150: you're a Master Fletcher. Shape the Primal Bow Frame and take everything to ::forge.