Lord Archer Gear Advice

a few notes written in my infancy as a lord that may aid those who come after me. Do NOT!!! waste your time with ANY bow or crossbow that identifies out as having NO inherent bonus. I wasted most of an entire day real time brilling up Elegant bows only to find that the best of them did not match up to the bows that pop with a bonus already on them. Any bow that you are gifted that has a BIG bonus, like the shadow bow for example, is not condusive to brilling. Just do the re string, hope it doesn't snap and be grateful to whomever gifted it to you. The art of Fletching the Magical arrows available to you at lord ( Ice arrows and Lightning arrows) takes a LOT! of mana. Be prepared to spend a lot of time doing this. I advise that you buy 3 Fletch kits and fletch them up into Mithril, Ice and Lightning, giving yourself an ample supply to begin with. Unless you are specifically advised to do so, do not waste time with crossbow ammunition at this time, even if you have a lord level crossbow. The crossbows are your weapon for TANKING and unless you are extremely experienced and powerful (in which case you won't be wasting your time with this) you will NOT be tanking for a long long time. You may be asked to be crossbow equipped and armed as part of a tank chain due to HUGE hp's but frankly, its almost suicdial for you to accept this kind of offer, regardless of your HP, Hero gear simply doesnt belong on a lord run if you can help it, and if a DETONATE goes off...*shudder* The fletch results wander all over the spectrum and I cannot state what affects them. I attempted fletching with a FORT running but it seems to make little, if any, difference. My production runs from a hi of 26 to a low of 4. 100 mithril arrows and bolts will be all you ever need to make, they do NOT break but do NO damage at all. you will use about 300 arrows on a typical run, twice that if and when you tank.