This bow can be made by middle to high level players but even players at first steps can snap a bow if someone get them horn, all low level components and some spare strings as there are literally thousand's of combinations between 2 horns , 3 sinews, 3 bowstrings and 3 handles.

Where to Start? This quest start in new human outpost near west coast of South direlands, called Ayan Baqur (59.9S,87.9W) its not so easy to come there as there are no nearby portals for Portal Tie.
In this town lives Yuan Hanzu if you click on him he will tell you, "Have you read my work on composite bows? I gave some to my ivory crafter associates. I can help you by carving pieces of horn to go into the bow's stave. If you are interested in crossbows, talk to my friend, Barnar the Tinker."

From this hints you can get a tip that to get a book you need to give Fire Auroch horn from Auroch Bull to Ivory crafter in Ayan Baqur (59.9S,87.9W) for which he will give you a Yuan Hanzu book.

Necessary materials to make a bow / crossbow:

Lets start with Crossbow as it require one more step because you will need to get crossbow stock. Remember that most components come in 3 variants best, medium and low quality.

• Wood Golem Heart - You will need to get wood golem heart from Wood golem. They are often found around Stonehold (68.8N,21.6W) or if you take a run from Holtburg (42.7N,33E) you will have many chances to kill some of them.

• Crossbow stock - Bring Wooden golem heart to Barnar the Tinker in Stonehold (68.8N,21.6W) and he will make crossbow stock for you

From here on process is a same for bow and for crossbow

You will need horns which comes from 2 Dereth animals Auroch fire bulls or Great mattekars, as using mattekar horn will produce a better bow I suggest to go find this.

• Great Mattekar Horns - Its time for Great mattekar hunt (remember mattekar coat) ..... find your favorite mountain spot and use fire on them until you get 2 horns. mattekars are often found in area around crater on North of main continent specially near Mattekar Cave (65.38N,16.75E), and also at south in mountains around Qalaba'r (73.4S,20E).

• Fire Auroch Horns - If you decided that mattekar are too hard for you you, then you can go in hunt for Fire Aurochs bulls in the western woods of Northern Osteth (Stonehold (68.8N,21.6W) region).

Once you have your 2 horns, go to Ayan Baqur (59.9S,87.9W) and give them to the Yuan Hanzu. If you click on a him he will say that he knows something to do with bows. Now you will have two 'Shaped Great Mattekar Horns.'

• Lugian sinews - Now is time to find a portal for Livak mountains and start to hunt Lugians you can get 2 types, one is called 'small Lugian sinews' from Lithos lugians and 'large lugian sinews' from Giga and Extas lugians. Of course you will be the one of 200 people in Gharun'dim Lugian Citadel (70.2S, 24.2E) or Sho Lugian Citadel (56.5S,67E) waiting to jump on any Gigas you can see as you will never settle with nothing less then best. You will need 2 of them, one for every horn, and it is suggested to get some more to compensate for cook mistakes :)

• Braided guts or & Braided Tongues - To make bowstring you will need to combine 3 Sclavus Tongues from Sclavus Castle (25.9S,46.5E) or much better 3 Drudge Ravener Guts which you can found all around direlands but you can also visit Dungeon of Corpses ( 56.1S, 49.6W) where they will welcome you in thousand's :), as this is known to be very easy to break it is suggested to get some reserves. 

Last element is optional :) as bow will work even without it but I'm sure you will wish to find a

• Undead Thighbone - OK it is a time to get rid a world of this restless undead take your favorite arrows and lets visit some of this lichs, Lich lords and new direlands skeletons, until you don't get our last component 'undead thighbone'. There is a nice new dungeon near Ayan Baqur (59.9S,87.9W) called Hall of Metos (56S,89.2W), Lich Spire (62.4S,52.4W) or old Lightless Catacombs (82.3S,35.2W) right near exit from Mayoi to South Direlands (62.2S,77.1E) portal where you can find some of this fearsome undead.

• Dark Revenant Thighbone - If you will settle only with best and your skills are really HIGH In dark caves of Nexus (40.2S,79.1W) or Serac Vault (75.9S,29.1E) are the best places to find a Dark revenants which leave this hard to get bone. It is better then normal Undead thighbone but very hard to carve so best to get as much bones as possible.

Steps and skill checks to made a bow

Now is time to find your cook, alchemist and fletcher, they need to have over 250 in skill but even with 270 you still have 1/3 chance of falling a check for medium quality components.

• Horn type determine defense bonus Auroch +2, Mattekar +6

• Lugian Sinew is for bow speed (45, 40, 35) or for xbow speed is (120,105 ,90)

• Bowstring determine, damage modifier for bows (40, 90, 110) and for xbows (100,120,140)

• Note: It looks like Damage Modifier  is not as simple as it looked at first try sitll there are something wrong im looking into

• Bone Handle gives a final bow its attack bonus (+2, +4, +6), and spells BD ( III, IV, V) and Bow Mastery ( III, IV, V)

1. Hand to your Cook two large lugian sinews so he can cook them in a cooking pot (you can find a pot in Al-Arqas (30S,14.9E)).  when he cooks them, if you get the message "You expertly cooked" you will have a Cured Large Lugian Sinew. If your cook fails (message is "You cooked") you will get 'Cured Lugian Sinew'. If you cooked small version you will get 'Cured Lugian Sinew' if you "expertly cook" it and if you fail the cooking check you will get 'Cured small Lugian Sinew' . From best to worst they are 'Large lugian sinew', 'lugian sinew', 'small lugian sinew' - warning cooking skill check!!

2. Give to your alchemist your Braided drudge gut and let him/her apply Bloodseeker potion on it. If (s)he is skilled enough and (s)he passes the test he will receive a message "You apply oil liberally to the string" and you will get an excellent oiled string, if he fails you will get the message, "you apply oil to the string" and you will remain with 'Fine oiled string'. From Sclavus tongues you can get 'Fine oiled string' if you pass a check or if you fail you will have a 'Oiled string'. From best to worst they are 'Excellent oiled string', 'Fine oiled string', and 'Oiled string'  - warning alchemy skill check!!

3. Combine your Lugian Sinews with Shaped horns which you get from master bowmen and you will have two Composite Arms. Be careful to have a SAME quality sinews or your arms will not combine in stave.

4. Combine Composite arms to get Stave

5. Crossbow only step: Combine Stave with Stock you get from Stonehold Tinker to get Crossbow Stock

6. Ok its time that you get all the parts in your hands and find some nice creature mage to buff your bow/crossbow, your coordination, and your dexterity with level VI buffs.  Then you can combine the Stock / Crossbow Stock with a excellent oiled string and you will have Composite bow/crossbow.  If you fail you will lost your bowstring and need to go kill some more monsters. The quality of the components determine modifier on the bow and your skill will be needed to mount a bowstring.  If you are not skilled enough you will have very little chance of mounting a string. Lesser quality components require lower skill.  It is assumed that for the best bow (110% damage +6 deff 35 speed) you need over 280 skill for 50% chance and even with over 300 skill some people failed 2 times in row. - warning bow/xbow skill check !! WARNING II bow/xbow is NODROP

7. This is not all, as if you remember we have Undead thighbone. You will need a whittling knife (found in Cragstone (25.6N,49.1E)) handled by exceptional fletcher to get a final part of your super bow bone handle if you examine it must be intricately carved handle if fletcher fail in his task you will remain with 'carved handle' and I'm sure you will turn to PK only for discussing this little detail with him :) If you are brave enough to have Dark Revenant thighbone it is possible to carve a better handle; the "Intricately carved handle made from the thighbone of the high undead," which is also other color then lower version 'Intricately carved handle.' But a fletcher has to be really a master. If the fletcher fails in his task you will only get a 'intricately carved handle'. From best to worst they are '' Intricately carved handle made from thighbone of the high undead,' 'Intricately carved handle,' and 'Carved handle.' - warning fletching skill check !!

8. Now, very slowly and gently mount your handle on Composite bow/crossbow to make COMPOSITE BOW/CROSSBOW WITH HANDLE. warning: you can't remove handle once mounted.

Final Bow Stats

• Range - is 80 yards for all

• Weight - Bow weight is 980 and X-bow 1920 bu

• Mana - 500

• Mana cost - use 1 point every 20 seconds

• Difficulty - See Table above

• Cross/Bow skill - See table above

NOTE: Bow with High Undead handle is darker in color then normal handle - thanks Jayna