[Venos]

Allowing a bit of quibling over details (e.g. I think scribes have enough impact already without being involved in weapon making) I very much like this approach. This way hunters still have business, smiths have less of a hard time getting things made, and lots of gear for everyone to use to smash each other up with and have a good time.

Also there are definitely too many ingot types, this is a very good point and was also true on IN after the invul/vanq wipe was followed with adding new armour (dwarven, fire, wizard, aqua etc.) things were better without them...

If not scribe then what? Hehe. Alchemy? Carpentry? Anyway its more about not letting it be pure smith focused. It could be a drop from a quest. Preferably one which could be done in many places to avoid it being camped by pk's.