Blacksmithing!!!

[Eiyuu]

Just starting my Smithing since the sudden crystal market crash on Midgardsomr, blew about 8k to get Cooking/Goldsmithing/Blacksmithing to lvl 3 each =X

The funny thing is, i find myself doing blacksmithing in the Goldsmith guild coz the copper there is just so dirt cheap(it dropped from 12 gil at first to 10 after a couple of hours...wierd). burning corn while the shop is closed (23-8) gives me something to do.

The most annoying thing is that i have to run to metalworks smith guild just to get tin, run all the way back again to get copper...kinda time wasting?

oh btw I mine quite a bit in Z-mines, but my AH is always full of stuff, so i usually sell my iron ores @ 350 each. surprisingly...noone buys them! >_<

[kisada]

Anyone know where to find a guide to 90+ Smithing? Or perhaps are already that high themselves? Thanks in advance.

[DrMrLordX]

No clue, Kisada. I've been flying by the seat of my pants levelling blacksmithing since about skill 50.

And yes, I'm still stuck at 66 blacksmithing. The expense is too great for me to continue at the moment.

So, are you a skill 90 blacksmith, perchance? Maybe you could give ME pointers *)

[blueoakleyz]

So basically after you have perfected a craft and got it really high,
what do you do? like in blacksmithing, what do yo udo with that skill? what do you make that makes profit?

[Syndicate Corp]

So basically after you have perfected a craft and got it really high,
what do you do? like in blacksmithing, what do yo udo with that skill? what do you make that makes profit?

Well thats easy, its like real life you got to study your market. See what sells well and don't sell well. Because its always changing.


For example since the Ps2 noobs started the scale mail and +1 scale mail been a hot seller but that will change soon

Nothing is definite in this game, which is good, if you to be good at any craft you'll have to do your homework.


Hope the 2cents help


Peace

[Reinhardt]

Can anyone tell me how to craft solid mail armor? It is a lower level than chain mail but has slightly higher stats. I havent seen anything written about it anywhere.

Thanks in advance!

[Syndicate Corp]

It is a +1 scale mail synth. You get solid mail only from doing +1 to the synth of scale armor.

[tfung]

thanks for your guide.. I managed to get blacksmithing up to 30 in 1 day... having some trouble now at 30 though... some servers are pretty screwed up, like Odin... for example.. iron chains sell for 46k a stack (doesn't even sell very often on AH)... materials if you make it from ore costs 64k...

I looked through the entire list of stuff I can craft from 30-50, and everything is about as profitable as the iron chains (30% loss) if you buy the materials on any AH... it's just a little frustating that every single thing you can make comes from iron ignots or steel ignots... and we all know how expensive those are...

so was wondering if anyone has some tips to get through lvl30-50 smithing? until I can make darksteel ignots?

[UnholyReign]

I am currently at 24 blacksmithing but steel scales synths seemed to have stopped giving skillups. Is this too early to start iron chains?

[tfung]

from 30-45, I ended up following DrMrLordX's guide.... I had to skill up leathercraft on the side from lvl 0 to lvl 12, and wound up at the end about 200k loss for the 15 lvls of smithing and 12 lvls of leathercraft I gained... I hope the last few lvls before I can craft darksteel ignots won't be too much of a gil sink... ; ;

[Saber-One]

Currently at lvl 14 smithing here, just wondering if i will be able to synth iron ingots safely without support imaging since i wanna be able to synth as i mine at the same time to save inventory space. thx

[archzai]

14 is too low to synth in the mines without advance imaging support...

you'll prolly pull off a few successful iron ingots synths, but its not worth it.

I tried at 15 and i still failed quite a bit.

Wait till 16 and you should be able to churn those with little to no failure ^^

[Saber-One]

Aye, thanks for the heads up. guess i will lug those iron ores back to town and synth them in the guild. ^^

[DrMrLordX]

Originally posted by UnholyReign
I am currently at 24 blacksmithing but steel scales synths seemed to have stopped giving skillups. Is this too early to start iron chains?

You can start iron chains if you like, but I'm sure you meant iron scales, not steel scales, yes?

Using the proper moghancement(in this case, Earth) will help you if you decide to start "early".

[DrMrLordX]

Originally posted by tfung
from 30-45, I ended up following DrMrLordX's guide.... I had to skill up leathercraft on the side from lvl 0 to lvl 12, and wound up at the end about 200k loss for the 15 lvls of smithing and 12 lvls of leathercraft I gained... I hope the last few lvls before I can craft darksteel ignots won't be too much of a gil sink... ; ;

45-49 isn't so bad. Steel Visors are easy to make and easy to sell, but you may lose a ton of money depending on the iron and steel prices on Odin. This would be a good time to either farm a ton of goblin mail/helms and break them down, or to go mining, or both.

Both iron and steel prices have gotten stupidly high on Midgardsormr. I am glad I'm not at this level of blacksmithing anymore *)

btw, iron chains sell for so little because high-level blacksmiths can get 2(possibly more?) iron chains per synth on HQs. A skill 80+ blacksmith would be able to crank them out like crazy. And they probably do, too.