Fletching training

__NOWYSIWYG__ This article gives tips about training the Fletching skill.

The best place to train is Seers' Village bank, as this is where most people sell their maple, yew and magic logs and bowstrings. Because of this, there are often people buying longbows in bulk, to alchemise for magic experience. The most common logs and longbows traded are yews. Not many people buy willow or lower level longbows, so it may be better to sell these in noted form to a general store for profit.

Helpful quests
Some quests give Fletching experience as a one-time quest reward:
 * Big Chompy Bird Hunting: 260 experience
 * Animal Magnetism: 1,000 experience
 * Zogre Flesh Eaters: 2,000 experience
 * Fremennik Trials: 2,813 experience
 * Devious Minds: 5,000 experience
 * Temple of Ikov: 8,000 experience

Some other quests not listed give a generic experience lamp that could be used on Fletching if the player intended to do so, however, Fletching is known to be a "fast skill" to train up, so generic experience lamps are typically better used on other skills.

Level 1-99
This section will show the time and number of either logs or unstrung bows and bowstrings needed to reach level 99 if switching to each newly unlocked bow type you can fletch as soon as possible, along with the amounts of the materials involved; logs, bowstrings, unstrung bows and finished bows.

Level 1 - 25 Alternate - Iron Arrows

Fletch 2,505 Arrowshafts (167 regular Logs), attach 2505 feathers (which will get you past level 15, so that you can proceed), and then attach 2,505 Ironarrowheads. This method will roughly break even.

This method actually achieves level 26 for a total of 9,602.5 xp (assuming player is starting at level 1 with 0 xp). 5xp per 15 arrow shafts, 15 xp per 15 feathers attached, and 37.5 xp per 15 arrowtips attached.

Level 1- 5 – Arrow shafts
The best way to get from level 1 to level 5 is by fletching arrow shafts, which give 5 experience per log. This method also tends to be slightly profitable.
 * Experience needed: 388
 * Logs needed: 78
 * Time: 150 seconds
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Level 5-10 – Shortbows
You can now make basic shortbows which give 5 experience for fletching or stringing them.
 * Experience needed: 767
 * Logs/Shortbows (u) needed: 153
 * Time: 6 minutes (fletch) or 4 minutes (string)
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Level 10- 20 – Longbows
You can now make basic longbows which give 10 experience for fletching or stringing them.
 * Experience needed: 3,316
 * Logs/longbows (u) needed: 332
 * Time: 12 minutes (fletch) or 8 minutes (string)
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Level 20 - 25 – Oak shortbows
You can now create oak shortbows which give 16.5 experience for fletching or stringing them.
 * Experience needed: 4,082
 * Oak logs/oak shortbows (u) needed: 205
 * Time: 6 minutes (fletch) or 4 minutes 20 seconds (string)
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Level 25 - 35 – Oak longbows
You can now make oak longbows which give 25 experience for fletching or stringing them.
 * Experience needed: 14,564
 * Oak logs/oak longbows (u) needed: 583
 * Time: 21 minutes (fletch) or 14 minutes (string)
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Level 35-40 – Willow shortbows
You can now make willow shortbows which give 33.5 experience for fletching or stringing them.
 * Experience needed: 14,818
 * Willow logs/willow shortbows (u) needed: 445
 * Time: 16 minutes (fletch) or 11 minutes (string)
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Level 40-50 – Willow longbows
You can now make willow longbows which give 41.5 experience for fletching or stringing them.
 * Experience needed: 64,109
 * Willow logs/willow longbows (u) needed: 1,545
 * Time: 55 minutes (fletch) or 37 minutes (string)
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Level 50-55 – Maple shortbows
You can now make maple shortbows which give 50 experience each for fletching or stringing them.
 * Experience needed: 65,303
 * Maple logs/maple shortbows (u) needed: 1,307
 * Time: 47 minutes (fletch) or 32 minutes (string)
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Level 55-65 – Maple longbows
You can now make maple longbows which give 58.3 Fletching experience for fletching or stringing them.
 * Experience needed: 282,792
 * Maple logs/maple longbows (u) needed: 4,851
 * Time: 2 hours 53 minutes (fletch) or 1 hour 56 minutes (string)
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Level 65-70 – Yew shortbows
You can now make yew shortbows, which give 67.5 experience for fletching or stringing them.
 * Experience needed: 288,199
 * Yew logs/yew shortbows (u) needed: 4,270
 * Time: 2 hours 33 minutes (fletch) or 1 hour 42 minutes (string)
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Level 70-80 – Yew longbows
You can now make yew longbows which give 75 experience for fletching or stringing them.
 * Experience needed: 1,248,441
 * Yew logs/yew longbows (u) needed: 16,646
 * Time: 9 hours 55 minutes (fletch) or 6 hours 37 minutes (string)
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Level 80-85 – Magic shortbows
You can now make magic shortbows which give 83.3 experience for fletching or stringing.
 * Experience needed: 1,272,526
 * Magic logs/magic shortbows (u) needed: 15,286
 * Time: 9 hours 6 minutes (fletch) or 6 hours 4 minutes (string)
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Level 85-99 – Magic longbows
Magic longbows are the last type of bow unlocked. They give 91.5 experience for fletching or stringing them.
 * Experience needed: 9,775,837
 * Magic logs/magic longbows (u) needed: 106,840
 * Time: 56 hours 26 minutes (fletch) or 38 hours 22 minutes (string)
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Level 30-99 - Steel arrows
Fletching steel arrows is a reasonably fast method of training fletching that is occasionally profitable. This is due to it sometimes being possible to sell the arrows above the market price, meaning that players can sell them at the same price which they bought the materials for (allowing them to break even). Each set made yields 75 experience (5 experience per arrow).
 * Experience needed: 13,021,068
 * Steel arrowtips and headless arrows needed: 2,604,214
 * Time: 57 hours 52 minutes
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Level 52-99 – Broad arrows
Fletching broad arrows is a fast but expensive method for training Fletching. When fletching broad arrows, you make 10 sets of 15 arrows at 10 experience per arrow (150 experience per set). As broad arrows are untradeable, no profit can be made from this method of training.
 * Experience needed: 12,910,771
 * Broad arrowheads and headless arrows needed: 1,291,078
 * Time: 28 hours 41 minutes
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Level 55-99 - Bolts
Starting at level 55, players can make broad bolts. Broad bolts are fletched 10 at a time and give 3 Fletching experience per bolt, or 30 experience per set of 10 bolts made The unique thing about bolt fletching is that the xp is dependent on how fast you click since there is no "make x" option so one must click feathers then bolts for every set of 10 made. Broad bolts can give up to 110,000 experience per hour and even more under intense concentration. Broad bolts also make a profit if you buy them from a slayer master. Broad bolts cost 55 coins per bolt and feathers are around 3 coins each. It costs 58 coins to make a broad bolt and they can easily sell for 60+ coins per bolt on the GE as they are in high demand. An expensive way to train is to make mithril/rune bolts. Mithril bolts give 50 experience compared to broad bolts' 30 experience and runite gives 100 experience per set of 10 made. This leads to massive experience gains as you can get easily 50/100 experience per second. If you are fast enough you can fletch 20 bolts per tick. Bolts are very expensive and labor intensive, but offer some of the fastest experience rates in the game.

Level 55-99 – Maple longbows
Maple longbows are usually a cheaper, if slightly slower, route to achieving level 99 in Fletching. They give 58.25 experience for fletching or stringing them.
 * Experience needed: 12,867,795
 * Maple logs/maple longbows (u) needed: 220,717
 * Time: 131 hours 23 minutes (fletch) or 87 hours 36 minutes (string)
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Level 70-99 – Yew longbows
Yew longbows are another alternative method to reach 99. They're a compromise between the speed of magic longbows and the relative cheapness of maple longbows. 75 experience is given for fletching or stringing yew longbows.
 * Experience needed: 12,296,804
 * Yew logs/yew longbows (u) needed: 163,958
 * Time: 97 hours 36 minutes (fletch) or 65 hours 4 minutes (string)
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Level 95-99 – Dragon darts
Making dragon darts is the absolute fastest way to train fletching, but at an extremely high loss. Darts are made twice as fast as bolts and arrows. They are fletched in 10 sets of 10, at 25 experience per dart (2,500 experience per action).
 * Experience needed: 4,262,873
 * Dragon dart tips and feathers needed: 170,515
 * Time = 3 hours 6 minutes
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