there is a reason people have been saying since day 1 don't waste your time on higher ranked arrows. i thought the bow mattered though.

even if they are even reasonably close i had 2 archers from my old ls do a shoot off on the sphene doblyns south of broken water. one had the high end arrows and the other used weathered and they both got a mob each and tested them side by side on 10 straight mobs. they would either drop on the same shot number or 1 difference at most. if that 40K+ for a stack of arrows saves one shot off a mob then that is a 40k i'll spend on 300 gil a stack of weathered and use the rest for other things.