1. What's the best overall way of doing this? Depends what you mean by 'best'. Battlestaffs, some jewelry, glass orbs, and dragonnhides are all good methods. 2. What's the cheapest way of doing this? Bow strings, but you obviously don't want to do this untless you want to be crafting until your ninety years old. As I said before, battlestaffs are really good, the problem is you can't buy many at a time. Take Sinkhan's idea into account, as I'm sure that will work out fine for you. 3. The fastest way? (expensive or not) Black Dragonhides, or realisticly Green Dragonhides. 4. Most profitable way? Again, bowstrings. But seriously, Sinkhan's idea should work fine for this.