Ranger: Shoot Your Own Ammo! - Guide to Crafting

=The Guide= When I first chose to start leveling my Ranger job, I made it a personal goal to never shoot and arrow or bolt that I myself did not make. I'm level 51 and still have not broken that goal. Read on, and find out how I accomplished that goal and saved millions of gil in the process.

Before I begin, let me make one thing PERFECTLY clear. CRAFT YOUR OWN LUMBER! Unless you hang out at the guild shop a few minutes before it opens, you'll rarely be able to buy Arrowwood Lumber. If you're luckily enough to see it at the shop, buy it. But that's all you buy there. Never, ever, ever, buy lumber from the AH. It's just not worth the price. Most of the arrows and bolts you'll be crafting will require two types of wood, Arrowwood Lumber and [Ash Lumber]]. With only a few exceptions, Arrowwood Lumber is used to make arrows and Ash Lumber is used to make bolts. Buy the Arrowwwod from guild of the logs from the guild (dirt cheap) and get the Ash Lumber from either any of the shops next to the docks of the three major cities or from the Norvallen Regional merchant. Unless by some miracle the guild shops have them for cheaper then 80 gil, don't shop there.

Ash Logs

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! width="30%" | Name ! width="35%" | Location ! width="35%" | Type
 * style="background:#ffdead;" colspan="3"| Price: 87 - 99 gil
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 * - style="background:#d5d9ff;"
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |Albinie
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |Port San d'Oria H-6
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |Standard Merchant
 * - style="background:#d5d9ff;"
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |Denvihr
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |Port Bastok G-7
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |Standard Merchant
 * - style="background:#e3e6ff;"
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |Machielle
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |Southern San d'Oria G-9
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |Regional Merchant
 * - style="background:#d5d9ff;"
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |Mille
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |Bastok Mines G-6
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |Regional Merchant
 * - style="background:#e3e6ff;"
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |Posso Ruhbini
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |Port Windurst D-7
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |Regional Merchant
 * - style="background:#d5d9ff;"
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |Uli Pehkowa
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |Port Windurst M-7
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |Standard Merchant
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Level 1-10
At these stages, I just did a huge burst of Woodworking. Since I previously leveled Clothcraft already to around 50, I had alot of fletchings just laying around. So I used them to start my woodworking crafting.


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 * style="padding-left:1em;" |Stone Arrow
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |1
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |3
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |
 * - style="background:#d5d9ff;"
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |Wooden Arrow
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |1
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |4
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |
 * - style="background:#d5d9ff;"
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |Bone Arrow
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |7
 * style="padding-left:1em;" |9
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