AcadianPaladin wrote: »Above advice is good. Only thing I'd add is that the nirnhone trait materials are not cheap. You can get the one for weapons by farming critters in Craglorn. If you can farm your own trait item and you know a crafter who can make nirnhoned, offer to send them your trait material so they can make you a nirnhoned bow to research - that way it costs your crafter friend nothing but a couple minutes.
AcadianPaladin wrote: »You can get the one for weapons by farming critters in Craglorn.
Yes, you can find items that are specifically made for research, but they won't be common. I suspect that this was made on request for someone who turned out not to need it, rather than speculatively, as Nirncrux isn't cheap, unless you gather your own. It's much more common to send the Nirncrux to a guildmate who then returns a maple/homespun/iron example for you to research.Nave_Horsespitoon wrote: »I finally found a bow in... ah shoot I forgot the name of the town, but anyway I did find a plain Jane maple bow that had been nirnhoned. So now I have to wait like 40 days to finish researching it! At the same town the vendors had both types of nirncrux for sale, for quite a bit of coin.