my smithing is 52, and my mining will be 72 when i start training smith (i'm mining ess, so i wont have any ore). I mine all my ore. What's the fastest F2p way to up my smith?

Mine coal and iron and make Steel Bodies?

thx

 

 

 

btw, wtf is your avatar???? :shock:

Demon Hunter from Warcraft 3 :D

 

http://www.battle.net/war3/nightelf/uni ... nter.shtml

Demon Hunter from Warcraft 3 :D

 

http://www.battle.net/war3/nightelf/uni ... nter.shtml

 

Illidan

Demon Hunter from Warcraft 3 :D

 

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Illidan

 

 

 

No, hes not blue :P

Back to F2P smithing, and a quick ore comparison:

 

 

 

1. 2x Iron & 4x coal make 2 steel bars, total 110 XP smelted and smithed

 

2. 6x Iron makes (average) 3 iron bars, total 112.5 XP smelted and smithed.

 

 

 

Iron is the best XP per ore collected, BUT:

 

1. Each load takes longer to smelt, as the animation repeats for every ore

 

2. More bars, so longer to smith as well

 

3. Poorer sale/alch values

 

 

 

For those reasons, steel may be preferable.

 

 

 

Mithril, superheating in the mining guild or superheat / ruins forge from the Hobgoblin mine is another possibility, as bringing back a load of bars means a lot more XP per trip, though mithril is worse XP per ore than steel.

 

 

 

Gold from the crafting guild (if you can do it, and get clear runs) may be worth a shot, but it's not worth competing for.

 

 

 

The "long walks" can be worth a try, they are:

 

1. Air runes, followed by Crafting guild gold or Rimmington Iron/Gold

 

2. Mind runes, followed by Skeleton Coal

 

Those methods are best used as an extension to runecrafting - I got a lot of air runes, gold, and tele'd back.

Steel is the best choice xp/cash/time-wise, trust me, got to 89 smithing on f2p before quitting, tried and calculated all of the possible methods, steel comes out best :)

what about gold smithing with the gauntlets? I thought that was the fastest?

what about gold smithing with the gauntlets? I thought that was the fastest?

 

 

 

he's f2p, isn't fam crest members?

what about gold smithing with the gauntlets? I thought that was the fastest?

 

 

 

he's f2p, isn't fam crest members?

 

 

 

Yeah it is members, unfortunately.

aaahhhh...my bad

If your looking for only smithing xp the fastest possible way is to smelt steel bars, then trade the bars for ores+cash or ores+extra ores. You not only get smith xp, but also some cash. This is by far the fastest smelting way because there is no need to mine and trading takes minimal time. That is the cheap f2p way.

 

 

 

Of course if your rich, you can just buy any type of bar(iron gives the most xp per gp spent) and smith those into plates, then alch. This is the fastest way members or f2p and only do this if you have loads of cash to spend (most likely you need 20m+ to obtian a respectable smithing lv).