I'll post the whole additional patch message because it has a few other things:
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9/14/99
September 14th, 3:00pm
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Trade Skills:
- Tailoring: More items have been added to the trade skill. The
instructions on how to make the new items were also added. The
difficulty of some tailor-made items was lowered making them easier to
produce. New patterns now exist t round out the tailor-made items.
- Brewing: New liquor can now be made. The instructions are hinted at
in the game.
- Pottery: The Mortar and Pestle is now droppable and Vials are now
stackable
- Bowyer: More slots have been added to the Fletching Kit. Dual-cam
bows have been added.
- Fletching: The range of normal store-bought arrows has been reduced.
Players may now make a cheaper more effective arrow with the fletching
skill. Nock vendors now sell all arrow components.
Items:
- Lustrous Russet Armor, the Hero Bracer, Order of Thunder and the Box
of Abu-Kar have been returned to their previous statistics.
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So, the dual cam bows were not craftable before this patch.
Also, it seems before this patch, there were only two merchants in EQ that sold the full range of fletching supplies, one in Kelethin and one in Surefall Glade, although they didn't sell fletching kits. The other fletching merchants scattered around Norrath only sold nocks, fletching kits, and storebought arrows:
Quote:
8/14/99
There are only two places in the entire game where you can get
arrow-making components: Kelethin and Surefall Glade.
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8/14/99
jason <ja...@dhp.com> sez:
> I thought one of the huts in the East Commonlands (I seem to
>remember it being the furthest west cluster of huts) had a merchant who
>sold arrow pieces. I'll see if I can go find that tonight.
The vendor you're thinking of is what we Fletchers derisively refer
to as a "nock vendor". Whichever verant employee came up with the idea of
having a vendor that sells only nocks should be taken out and beaten. The
only use that a nock vendor has is (A) They sell the fletching kits (which
you can't get off the vendors of either fletching or bowyering components);
and (B) they sell cheap arrows for those who have bows but no access to
fletching materials.
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8/14/99
kyle...@nospam.fuse.net (Kyle) sez:
>Umm actually your wrong. Another spot is in East Commons, and is in a
>building, and in in the northern half of zone. Anymore detail would be
>a spoiler and I do not do spoilers.
No, I'm not wrong.
Trust me. I moderate the Fletching message board on Stratics.
This is a frequently axed question in that board. The vendor you're
talking about is between the two orc camps on the far northwestern portion
of the East Commonlands zone. That's the only vendor near Freeport that
sells anything even vaguely resembling fletching components.
Repeat after me: There are only TWO vendors in ALL of Norrath who
sell the FULL range of arrow-making components. There are Lots(tm) of
vendors who sell nocks, kits, and a few other archery supplies, but the
items that they sell do NOT constitute the full range of fletching
equipment.
To make an arrow, you must have an arrowpoint, a shaft, a
fletch/vane, and a nock. Once again, repeat after me: There are only TWO
merchants in ALL of Norrath who sell arrowpoints, shafts, and
fletchs/vanes. One is in Surefall Glade. The other is in Kelethin.
Fletchers from every server, from level 1 to level 50, have scoured
the lands looking for other vendors that sell the full range of arrowmaking
components. Currently, there ain't any. Maybe we'll get lucky and Verant
will put another fletching vendor or two elsewhere on the map. But until
then there are only (choral response) TWO vendors in ALL of Norrath who
sell the FULL range of arrow-making components.
This has been a public service announcement.
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