Need advice for my smithing training

[dilloncyh]

I am now 68smith, and want to get 75(or even 80), can any1 some suggest a training method for me? I will be playing fast sc for getting the sc hammer. Which items should I smith?

[MafiaShotz]

It depends if you are willing to lose GP, or you wanna go slow. SInce your getting SC hammers, I suggest you smith the best thing you can. If you research about smith, no matter what you smith, it gives the same exp:bar ratio. Meaning you smith 1 iron bar, you get 25xp, 2 irons bars, 50 exp etc. Since your able to smith mithril, keep in mind what are you going to make? What item cna you smith, that can be sold back to GE to minimise your losses.

 

Calculation: Price of item smithed - price of bars used = Loss that you'll make.( You'll want this to be as low as possible.)

 

Hope this will help you!

 

[Grimy_Bunyip]

just FYI SC hammers smith multi bar items like platebodies much slower than regular hammers

 

also consider smelting gold ores with gold gauntlets. With the drop in price of gold ores and the rise in price of other bars, they have become viable again

[Slayer_Jesse]

mith bolts. im not sure if this is stil the case, but if you make mith bolts, and add feathers, you should break even IF YOU USE THE BLAST FURNACE.

[Alkatrazdtd]

I have recently trained my smithing from 70 - 75, I started off using iron ore - bars - plates, but i think i lost a fair amount of money, and it wasn't great experience.

Swapped over to gold, you lose ~200gp per bar, but you get 56.2 exp per bar, and I was surprised by how easily the gold bars sold.

 

I personally haven't tried the sacred clay hammers, but bear in mind, that the time getting the sacred clay could've been spent smithing, or getting money to pay for smithing.

[Slayer_Jesse]

I have recently trained my smithing from 70 - 75, I started off using iron ore - bars - plates, but i think i lost a fair amount of money, and it wasn't great experience.

Swapped over to gold, you lose ~200gp per bar, but you get 56.2 exp per bar, and I was surprised by how easily the gold bars sold.

 

I personally haven't tried the sacred clay hammers, but bear in mind, that the time getting the sacred clay could've been spent smithing, or getting money to pay for smithing.

or, consider the fact that sc hammers make smithing MUCH CHEAPER. allways use sc hammers.

[lagatag]

Depends on if you want fastest xp, or least expense

 

Fastest xp is obviously the highest platebody you can make

Cheapest xp used to be Iron nails, as they broke even, but since iron bars rose they lose money, but still effective. Low gp loss but slightly faster xp would probably be making highest bolts you can, and selling them unfinished. Even if finished bolts sell for more than enough to cover the cost of the feathers used, the time spent isn't worth it really.

 

Personally I have a ton of gold ores from mining, so I just use those. It's somewhat cheap, and somewhat slow, but I wouldn't recommend buying gold ores over other bars since with bolts you make more % of your money spent back.

[Evil_Sabre]

yes, if he uses sc hammers it will directly cost him less. But he could be making money another way to minimize his losses indirectly. If he killed green dragons for the amount of time he spent getting sc hammers, he would be making a much higher profit. So don't always think sc is the best way to go.