Smithing Exp?

[Cooldude3910]

What's a fast, semi-cheap way to get my smithing level from 71-80?

[toast647]

Gold ores to 73 and make adamant bolts to 80. It's what I did and I lost like 4m or something with SC hammers

[Kellis]

Gold ores to 73 for a loss, or iron bars with RoF -> iron knives for a profit. Be sure to use goldsmithing gauntlets or SC hammer at all times!

 

 

 

From 73 onward, adamant bolts are the way to go. Very small loss, and if you farm bars at aviansies you will actually turn a very nice profit (it's the same as farming them for bars, you're just taking it one step further by smithing the bars you collect into bolts before selling. You can also pick up feathers there to fletch the bolts if you wish to do so. It's very good fletching experience as well).

[BlindBaker]

Well, I heard the fastest smithing experience is super heating gold with gold smithing gauntlets on. I don't know if Stealing Creation changed that, or if it's cheap, but you get some magic experience.

[Cooldude3910]

Gold ores to 73 for a loss, or iron bars with RoF -> iron knives for a profit. Be sure to use goldsmithing gauntlets or SC hammer at all times!

 

 

 

From 73 onward, adamant bolts are the way to go. Very small loss, and if you farm bars at aviansies you will actually turn a very nice profit (it's the same as farming them for bars, you're just taking it one step further by smithing the bars you collect into bolts before selling. You can also pick up feathers there to fletch the bolts if you wish to do so. It's very good fletching experience as well).

 

I think I'm going to use that technique. Would it be a bigger profit if I fletched the bolts instead of just selling the unfinished ones?

[Kellis]

Well, I heard the fastest smithing experience is super heating gold with gold smithing gauntlets on. I don't know if Stealing Creation changed that, or if it's cheap, but you get some magic experience.

 

It's very fast that way, yes, but you're forgetting about the cost. Gold ores are slow to obtain and expensive to buy, and superheating means that you also need to purchase nature runes for each gold ore. I believe gold ores run about 400 each, and nature runes are about 220, and you gain 56 experience or so for each gold ore smelted with goldsmithing gauntlets on.

 

 

 

That means you're paying about 620 gold for 56 experience, or roughly 11 gp/exp. That's quite high.

 

 

 

I think I'm going to use that technique. Would it be a bigger profit if I fletched the bolts instead of just selling the unfinished ones?

 

 

 

I think the profit is about the same; it may be a couple gp less for fletched bolts, since fletchers buy the unfinished bolts to fletch for fast experience.

 

 

 

However, the fletching experience is very fast, as I mentioned before. If you don't already have 99 fletching, I'd advise you to fletch as many as you can with the gathered feathers. I usually get about 1k feathers for every 250 bars or so. While you won't be able to fletch them all with gathered (aka free) feathers, you will be able to do anywhere from 1/3 to 1/2 of them. Fast and very cheap fletching experience = win, in my opinion.