I find the SC items to be much more useful on Smithing, where the only decent way to train that is by smithing, not usually smelting, but crafting has a few decent methods. You will notice the difference when you start to go for higher crafting levels, the SC needles are well worth getting, they save a lot of cash and arent very difficult to attain. As said here they last for 40k+ experience. Crafting, smithing and construction are all well worth getting SC items for. If you do the calculations, all he will need is 10-11 needles to save him 1.2mil doing green dragon hide bodies. Hi dude I have 93 crafting. And tell me why that is relevant? Although I quoted you, the post was directed at the OP since he/she was asking the question in the first place. Point is you save millions while using the needles so why would you not use them.