Building a Better Bow  

Submitted by:BruceR
Realm:Albion
Start Zone: Camelot Hills
Start NPC:Elvar Ironhand
Class:All
Type:Mini Quest
Avg. Time:5 minutes
Min Level:3
Max Level:8
Grants XP:Yes
Grants Coin:Yes
Rating:
*****
Related NPCs:
  Skeleton
Last Updated:Thu Apr 3 01:38:47 2008
DISCLAIMER: Your Steps and Tasks may be different

Per patch 1.93 (4.02.08)
- Building a Better Bow - The goals for this quest have been updated so that it requires the proper amount of bones. This fixes an issue where the journal would indicate players needed two bones, but the quest required three. The quest now only requires two bones as per the journal text.



Visit Elvar Ironhand, a smith in Cotswold village (Camelot Hills).

Elvar Ironhand says, "Hello, adventurer. Are you here in response to the notice I posted in the [tavern] ?"

Elvar Ironhand says, "I was hoping to get someone to help me with a little side project. You see, in my spare time, I collect texts on weaponsmithing and I recently came across one about weapons used in less civilized [lands] ."

Elvar Ironhand says, "It seems that some nomadic tribes have perfected the art of reinforcing their bows with thin pieces of bone or horn. The text claims that bows constructed this way shoot farther and hit harder than the ones used by our [scouts] ."

Elvar Ironhand says, "I think combining this technique with our longbows could help give our forces the edge in the war against Midgard and Hibernia. Will you help me gather some of the materials to build a prototype?"

Accept the Building a Better Bow quest.

Elvar Ironhand says, "Wonderful! It's going to be difficult to get ahold of the right kind of horn, so I think it would be best to experiment with bone [first] ."

Elvar Ironhand says, "If you travel southeast from Cotswold, toward Prydwen keep, you should find some skeletons near the bend in the river. Return to me when you've gathered two well-preserved bones from them."

( Go to the cemetary near Prydwen keep. Kill two skeletons. The first two you kill will each drop a well-preserved bone. Return to Elvar. )

Elvar Ironhand says, "You're back! I hope you were able to retrieve those bones without much trouble. I'm already drawing up the plans for the new bow. May I have the bones?"

( Give Elvar the two well-preserved bones. )

Elvar Ironhand says, "Hmm... These look a bit more brittle than I was expecting. I suspect I may end up using horn for the final prototype, after all. No matter, I'm sure I'll end up making several bows before I start demonstrating the new [technique] ."

Elvar Ironhand says, "Thank you for your help, (character class). Here's a bit of copper for your time. Keep your eyes open for a good source of horn in case the bone prototype doesn't work out."

You are awarded 60 experience!
You are awarded 50 copper!


lvl 4 received 64 experience and 3 silver

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