Runescape 3 Fletching Guide

Why Should You Train Fletching ?

Fletching is a really old skill that does not have that many uses unless you are an ironman. There are only 2 practical uses for the skill which are: crafting scrimshaws and fletching endgame ranged weapons. Aside from these it's a really fast and easy skill to train for those that want to increase their skill total level.

There are also some quests that require a certain Fletching level to complete. Those quests are as follows:

• Big Chompy Bird Hunting - Fletching Level 5
• The Tourist Trap - Fletching Level 10
• The Fremennik Trials - Fletching Level 25
• Zogre Flesh Eaters - Fletching Level 30
• Catapult Construction - Fletching Level 42
• Devious Minds - Fletching Level 50
• In Pyre Need - Fletching Level 53
• Within the Light - Fletching Level 70
• The Branches of Darkmeyer - Fletching Level 70
• River of Blood - Fletching Level 75

To get a quest cape you need to have at least level 75 fletching.

Lastly if you are looking to complete all the aerial tasks to receive their benefits you will need to have at least level 93 fletching.

Fletching Guide

Before we get into the actual ways of training this skill, there are a lot of buffs and items that you need to know about. If you already know about them or if you do not care, please skip to the title called "1-99 and Beyond Fletching Training".

Fletcher's Outfit

This outfit can be obtained for 100 reward points from the minigame "Stealing Creation". Wearing this outfit increases your fletching experience.

• Fletcher's headwear - 1% Experience boost
• Fletcher's chestpiece - 1% Experience boost
• Fletcher's legwear - 1% Experience boost
• Fletcher's gloves - 1% Experience boost
• Fletcher's boots - 1% Experience boost
• Set bonus - 1% Experience boost

Torstol Incense Stick

Consuming each one of these sticks will provide an additional increase to your base Fletching experience. It is recommended to overload with these to get the maximum experience increase instantly, which is 2%.

Wergali Incense Stick

Consuming one of these will give you a 0.5% chance to produce a strung bow when fletching logs into unstrung bows. Their potency level will increase every 10 minutes and can go up to 4 stacks (2%). Overloading consumes 6 sticks but instantly provides potency level 4.

Relic Power

This is a relic power which you can activate if you have level 118 Archaeology. When active it grants the player a 2% experience boost to Fletching.

Crystal Knife

This knife is created by using the crystal singing bowl with a tool seed and around 150 harmonic dust. Alternatively you can pay Ilfeen, Eluned, Islywn or Rhodri Dail 1,500-7,500 coins to turn the tool seed into the crystal knife. This knife has two effects which are beneficial for your training:

• It gives 5% chance to get double arrow shafts from fletching logs or double tempered fungal shafts from Zygomite carestyling.
• It gives another 5% chance to give the player a strung bow instead of an unstrung bow when fletching unstrung bows.

Wise Perk

This is a perk that can be attached to any of your tools or equipable items. It provides an additional 1% experience boost to your Fletching per rank, up to 50,000 experience per day. It is advised to place it on an off-hand or a main-hand weapon.

Fletching Skillcape

After you reach level 99 Fletching you can start wearing its cape. Wearing this cape provides a 0.75% chance to make extra bolts, arrows and darts when fletching them.

Portable Fletcher

The portable fletcher is a reward from treasure hunter. Alternatively you can buy them from other players through trading or using the Grand exchange. You can deploy them which spawns a fletching table that lasts for 5 minutes. You can use multiple at a time to increase its time by 5 minutes per fletcher used. Fletching using this gives you the following bonuses:

• 10% Fletching experience boost.
• 10% Chance to save logs when fletching bows or crossbows excluding elder logs.
• 10% chance to save arrowheads and headless arrows when making arrows.
• 10% chance to save unfinished bolts and feather when fletching bows.

Fletching Potion

This is a potion which flat out boosts your fletching level by 3. You can use it to fletch higher tier items earlier.

Sacred and Volatile Clay Fletching Knives

These two items can be obtained from the reward shop of the minigame "Stealing Creation". Sacred knife gives 29,340 bonus experience and the clay one gives 24,450 fletching experience.

Protean Logs

Protean logs are a reward from treasure hunter. They are used to train fletching in a very AFK manner. Since they are untradable you won't be losing any money while training as well. Also the experience these logs gives scales with your Fletching level.

1-99 and Beyond Fletching Training

Slow But Cheap Route

Throughout the methods you will always have the option to either fletch or string bows. Stringing them is always faster than fletching them even though both methods yield the same amount of experience.

Levels 1-25 Headless Arrows: This is the fastest way to get through some early levels. There are alternatives to get to level 25 but this is the recommended way as it also profits you around 150K. Buy 7,842 arrow shafts and feathers and attach them together.

• Alternative Levels 1-5 Arrow Shafts: To get to level 5 you will need 78 logs. Once you have them, fletch them into arrow shafts. This will cost you around 60K. 
• Alternative Levels 5-10 Shortbows: After level 5 you can string or fletch shortbows. If you string them you will actually profit but if you fletch them you will lose money. You will need 154 logs/unstrung bows to get to level 10.
• Alternative Levels 10-20 Shieldbows: Start fletching shieldbows and add string to them to complete the bows. String the bows will profit you around 420K. You will need to have 332 logs/unstrung bows to get to level 20.
• Alternative Levels 20-25 Oak Shortbows: Fletching or stringing is the next alternative method to reach level 25. Fletching will result in a small loss of money while stringing will result in a small profit. You will need 210 oak logs or unstrung oak shortbows to get to level 25.

Levels 25-35 Oak Shieldbows: You can fletch or string oak shieldbows to get to level 35 Fletching. Just like the other methods, fletching will result in a loss of around 280K gold while stringing will profit you around 440K gold. You will need 583 logs or unstrung bows to get to level 35 Fletching.

Levels 35-40 Willow Shortbows: From levels 35 to 40 fletch or string willow shortbows. Fletching them will result in a loss of around 150K gold and stringing them will profit you around 50K gold. You will need to have 445 logs or unstrung bows to reach level 40 Fletching.

Levels 40-50 Willow Shieldbows: From levels 40 to 50 you will be fletching or stringing willow shieldbows. Fletching them will result in a loss of around 770K gold and stringing them will profit you around 660K gold. You will need to have 1,545 logs or unstrung bows to reach level 50 Fletching.

Levels 50-55 Maple Shortbows: From levels 50 to 55 you will be fletching or stringing maple shortbows. Fletching them will result in a loss of around 20K gold while stringing them will profit you around 500K gold. You will need to have 1,307 logs or unstrung bows to reach level 55 Fletching.

Levels 55-65 Maple Shieldbows: From levels 55 to 65 you will be fletching or stringing maple shieldbows. Fletching them will result in a loss of around 410K gold and stringing them will profit you around 1.5M gold. You will need to have 4,859 logs or unstrung bows to reach level 65 Fletching.

Levels 65-70 Yew Shortbows: From levels 65 to 70 you will be fletching or stringing yew shortbows. Fletching them will result in a loss of around 580K gold while stringing them will result in a profit of 850K gold. You will need to have 4,270 logs or unstrung bows to reach level 70 Fletching.

Levels 70-80 Yew Shieldbows: From levels 70 to 80 you will be fletching or stringing yew shieldbows. Fletching them will result in a loss of around 3.3M gold while stringing them will profit you around 4.3M gold. You will need to have 16,646 logs or unstrung bows to reach level 80 Fletching.

Levels 80-85 Magic Shortbows: From levels 80 to 85 you will be fletching or stringing magic shortbows. Fletching them will result in a loss of around 1.8M gold while stringing them will profit you 5.5M gold. You will need to have 15,286 logs or unstrung bows to reach level 85 Fletching.

Levels 85-90 Magic Shieldbows: From levels 85 to 90 you will be fletching or stringing magic shieldbows. Fletching them will result in a loss of around 4.2M gold while stringing them will profit you 6.9M gold. You will need to have 22,817logs or unstrung bows to reach level 90 Fletching.

Levels 90-95 Elder Shortbows: From levels 90 to 95 you will be fletching or stringing elder shortbows. Fletching them will result in a loss of around 206M gold while stringing them will result in a loss of 72M gold. You will need to have 33,847 logs or unstrung bows to reach level 95 Fletching.

Levels 95-99 Elder Shieldbows: From levels 95 to 99 you will be fletching or stringing elder shieldbows. Fletching them will result in a loss of around 278M gold while stringing them will result in a loss of 35M gold. You will need to have 36,749 logs or unstrung bows to reach level 99 Fletching.

Expensive Route

Levels 52-99 Broad Arrows: Fletching broad arrows is a really fast way of levelling up your Fletching. However, it is super expensive due to the fact that these arrows are untradable. To be able to fletch broad arrows, you first need to unlock the ability to do so for 300 slayer points. With this method you can expect to get around 675K base experience per hour. Doing this method will result in a loss of around 129M gold. You will need to have 860,719 broad arrowheads and headless arrows to get to level 99 Fletching.

Levels 75-99 Rune Arrows: Fletching rune arrows is a little bit cheaper than fletching broad arrows. With this method you can expect to get around 562K base experience per hour. Doing this method will result in a loss of around 121M gold. To get to level 99 Fletching you will need 945,921 headless arrows and rune arrowheads.

Levels 81-99 Rune Darts: This method is even a faster method than the previous two but it costs way more money. Fletching rune darts gives around 1M base experience per hour. Doing this method will result in a loss of around 226M gold. You will need to have 576,682 feathers and rune dart tips to reach level 99 Fletching.

Levels 90-99 Ascension Bolts: This is a much cheaper alternative to rune darts but it gives way less experience per hour. Fletching ascension bolts will give you around 600K base experience per hour. Doing this method will result in a loss of around 53M gold. You will need to have 384,405 ascension shards to reach level 99 Fletching.

Levels 90-95 Dragon Arrows: An alternative to fletching ascension bolts is fletching dragon arrows. Fletching dragon arrows will give you around 675K base experience per hour. Doing this method will result in a loss of around 88M gold. You will need to have 228,348 headless arrows and dragon arrowheads to reach level 99 Fletching.

Levels 95-99 Stalker Arrows: fletching stalker arrows is a really fast way to reach level 99 Fletching. Fletching these arrows will give you around 900K base fletching experience. Doing this method will also result in a loss of around 109M gold. You will need to have 243,600 stalker essence and dark arrow heads to reach level 99 Fletching.

Levels 95-99 Dinarrows: This is the first alternative to stalker arrows, yielding the same 900K base experience rates. Doing this isn't recommended since it will cost you around 216M gold. You will need to have 213,200 headless arrows and dina arrow heads to reach level 99 Fletching.

Levels 95-99 Dragon Darts: This is the final alternative to reach level 99 really quickly. This is by far the fastest way to train your Fletching in the game, providing you with 1,5M base fletching experience per hour. However doing this method will result in a loss of around 417M gold. You will need to have 170,515 dragon dart tips and feathers to reach level 99 Fletching.