[soMa]

well there is a trade off to locking your skill at 60 you will hit gm smith with no high end ingots then spend another 2-3 weeks trying to get them id just gm mining then start another char and gm it again then again untill you gm smithing that way you will have atleast a few suits worth of higher end ingots. Thats the problem with buying ingots as well in my opinion it's not worth it to buy them because the price is to high to counter the lack of high end ingots you don't get from mining your self.

Ive heard it's roughly 400k iron ingots to gm blacksmithing.