best way to get your mage up in my opinion is to get your fletching up until you can make yew longs. then make 1000 yew longs. and then alch them all. and repeat. lotta work but you'll make lots of money from it too. Or you might be able to buy the yew longs. might cost alot over the long run though. back when i was working on my mage i went and bought 5000 yew logs and 5000 bow strings