Arrows and Enchantment.

[Hellblazer]

I made a bunch of arrows today, ranging from hickory to yew, with bronze, platinum, adamantium, cobalt and titanium heads. I took the levels of those and they can be found here. I found that the only thing that determined the level of the arrow was the type of wood used. Yew arrows have a level requirement of 17. But then I went on and added different enchantments level on them to make a chart and noticed that with the enchantments, the yew arrows dropped level requirement considerably.

Arrows/Bolts with Elemental Enchantments|hickory|oak|mahogany|Yew  
Lesser elemental enchantment|8|10|10|11
Moderate elemental enchantment|8|10|10|11
Intermediary elemental enchantment|11|13|13|13
Greater elemental enchantment|?|?|?|?[/table]

Is this normal?

[darkstorme]

Yes, that's normal.

As you can see in the Toolset, there's no Enhancement Bonus that can be applied to ammunition for the purposes of overcoming DR or adding to AB - it's just a damage bonus.  Since with yew arrows, you're overwriting a fairly powerful damage bonus (1d8 of whatever feather you've used) with a lesser bonus (for everything but a level IV enhancement), this will substantially decrease the value of the stack of arrows, and therefore the level requirement.