07-10-2011, 06:59 PM
Guide to Blacksmithy
So you think you have what it takes to become a master smith? Well first of all I will warn you that it takes A LOT of effort (or gold) to get GM Blacksmith. I assume you have done a bit of mining so far and I can tell you that mining is 3-4 times faster if you use all the iron you mine to raise bs. Since I’m not GM yet this will be a guess but having to use 200k iron seems like a low shot to GM smith.
That said let’s get into the gritty stuff.
The most efficient way to raise bs is making daggers. They cost 3 iron each. Starting out at 40 bs you will be having a return of between 3 and 4 gp per ingot if you sell all your daggers to NPC’s. You get 3.3 gp for a normal dagger and 4 gp for an exceptional dagger in a per ingot pricing. Since your chance to make exceptional items increase with your skill you will get more and more money back for your ingot investment. It will however never get anywhere near the price for buying ingots from other players where the price varies around 8 gp per ingot.
There may be items that give you a better return in gold but the increase in ingots needed makes it not worth it.
If you mine your own iron it will still be a fair return in gold compared to time spent. Won’t get rich in a few days but it all adds up.
Why would you even start with blacksmithy? Well you get to make the best armors and the best weapons on the shard. Need any more reason than that? *grins*
So if you are willing to spend a few weeks in the mines for the iron and then another two weeks making daggers go for it!
*edit*
Locking your mining skill at around 60% can be a good choice if you want to mine mostly iron. It has the significant downside of you not getting the higher end valuable ores and since you can make daggers from any type(although it takes higher bs depending on the type) i see little reason to actually lock your mining skill.
You can smelt daggers which gives you a return of 1 iron per dagger(no matter which type its made from). This can reduce the amount of ingots needed to raise your blacksmith by ALOT. But downside is no gold from selling the daggers. I do however feel smelting is worth it unless you really need the gold.
So you think you have what it takes to become a master smith? Well first of all I will warn you that it takes A LOT of effort (or gold) to get GM Blacksmith. I assume you have done a bit of mining so far and I can tell you that mining is 3-4 times faster if you use all the iron you mine to raise bs. Since I’m not GM yet this will be a guess but having to use 200k iron seems like a low shot to GM smith.
That said let’s get into the gritty stuff.
The most efficient way to raise bs is making daggers. They cost 3 iron each. Starting out at 40 bs you will be having a return of between 3 and 4 gp per ingot if you sell all your daggers to NPC’s. You get 3.3 gp for a normal dagger and 4 gp for an exceptional dagger in a per ingot pricing. Since your chance to make exceptional items increase with your skill you will get more and more money back for your ingot investment. It will however never get anywhere near the price for buying ingots from other players where the price varies around 8 gp per ingot.
There may be items that give you a better return in gold but the increase in ingots needed makes it not worth it.
If you mine your own iron it will still be a fair return in gold compared to time spent. Won’t get rich in a few days but it all adds up.
Why would you even start with blacksmithy? Well you get to make the best armors and the best weapons on the shard. Need any more reason than that? *grins*
So if you are willing to spend a few weeks in the mines for the iron and then another two weeks making daggers go for it!
*edit*
Locking your mining skill at around 60% can be a good choice if you want to mine mostly iron. It has the significant downside of you not getting the higher end valuable ores and since you can make daggers from any type(although it takes higher bs depending on the type) i see little reason to actually lock your mining skill.
You can smelt daggers which gives you a return of 1 iron per dagger(no matter which type its made from). This can reduce the amount of ingots needed to raise your blacksmith by ALOT. But downside is no gold from selling the daggers. I do however feel smelting is worth it unless you really need the gold.