I knew this would require Smithing Skill, since every other XBow does. Assuming the easy route, I bought 120k worth of materials to synth them for guild points...Smithing was only 8, when I started...
Please update this. Smithing skill should be atleast 15-20 to have a good success rate.
Sorry about this post I made a long time ago, but please fix this? Well, I sent in a report about 7 months or whatever a ago, and it had already been inaccurate for at least 8 months at that time. Still not fixed I see. {/no}
I thought I could profit off this, but it yielded horrible losses and breaks. In the end I got +.1 Smithing skill.
Woodworking is 54, smithing is 7; I consistantly got .3 skillups in Smithing, and broke far more synths than my Woodworking skill alone accounted for. Probably requires smithing skill of 14+.
I tried making one of these for my GF and was tryin to HQ it. Bought the materials for 5 synths and after invseting all that money and failing all 5 times another player next to me said i would need to lvl smithing up to atleast 20 to get a good synth rate and any chance in hell of hq'n it /cry
I also bought all of the materials to try and make zamburak +1 with 59 woodworking. But when I found out, as I had figured, that smithing was required as a sub craft instead of selling my 160k worth of materials back I am going to level smithing until i can HQ these and get my money back. I recently tried with smithing 13, it let me synth them but on the fourth try i got a .1 skill up for smithing =(. I am currently at 16 smithing and am going to go to 30 to be sure that I can HQ.
Had to make this item for the Guild today. Got Advanced Support to be sure. Craftet 2 of them successfully. At the first one my Smithing Skill raised 0,2 Points.
Level 65 woodworking, attempting to sign one for my ranger. This craft was beyond my current skill lvl... o.O. So it definitely requires another skill, which means i have a ton of materials to sell back no /sigh.
this definately requires another skill to sythesize. i tried making one at lvl 59 woodworking and couldn't do it. i would imagine that it needs smithing as a steel ingot is used. my smithing is at 0 ; ;
I must agree with you. Even though the Woodworking guild NPCs do not mention that Crossbows require any Smithing skill, here is what I noticed when I recently synthesized a Crossbow successfully with advanced Smithing imaging enhancement: "Your Smithing skill went up by 0.1". This was on a regular Crossbow (not Zamburak), and my Smithing skill was 6 at the time.