Arrow Prices!

[Ragz]

Crafting arrow is a pain in the butt. To make Red Coral Arrow by self require at minimum 40 GS 40 Weaver 36 Alc and 45 Carp. Each stack of arrow takes 3 syn and 20k in mats. In addition, Red Coral and Eagle Feather is not exactly flooding the market. So on a good day a carp can find enough mats in market to make 8-12 stack arrow, and pretty much all of them goes to LS for NM use anyway (I make arrow for 6 archer in LS, 2 stack each for NM run cleans me out right away), it just doesn't make sense selling one stack of red coral arrow for less than 100k. I personally had never sold any arrow because I can make more gil with way less effort with other stuff, and I could barely (or rarely) keep LS stocked as is.

Silver arrow has it's own problem: horn glue is rarely available, and way over priced (10k a pop!) unless you farm your own. Also the profit is just not there, why would anyone stock up a maid with 10 stack silver arrow while praying to get total of maybe 200k (assuming 50k per stack) profit in a week's time?

So as long as equipment are still profitable I don't see arrow price coming down (it will be different when nothing else is profitable like in FFXI). It is much easier to have carp buddy who can hook you up, since people are much more willing to make stuff if they know there is demand beforehand.