Gold Tips or Carbon express terminators are both excellent arrows. I would shoot Carbon over Aluminum anyday. they are faster and more durable in the sense that if they are bad you going to know it. A slightly bent aluminum arrow will be hard to detect until you shoot it. really the only way your going to break a carbon is to shoot into a rock or tree at 270+fps I shoot CX terminators 6075 no complaints here! had 2 break on me, emailed CX and they sent me 12 new ones!