Alright, I've been gone for over a year and have noticed that a lot has changed... I've done a little research, and have seen that a good method to raising your smithing at these levels seems to be addy arrowtips till 88 and then addy platebodies to 99 all using the sacred clay hammers. So now that the basics have been discovered, i need tips on acquiring the goods... Sure, I can mine addy, but with the addition of the relevants (i think thats what they are) in the wildy, I got discouraged very easily... So, do I buy the addy ores, go to mining guild and mine coal with superheat? Or buy the bars directly? I just burned about 10 mil on gold ores, and am thinking about waiting till they go over 400 again before i sell, but in the meantime, i have another 7 mil i can burn plus tons of items i can sell if I'd like... So basically, I'm just wondering, since I don't want to spend a huge amount of money, do you think I could get by with just buying the addy ores?

 

Next, SC hammers... How many do I need? I've never used them before, so I'd really like to know about how many bars i can get out of them doing arrow tips, then platebodies.

 

Any tips are welcomed, and I thank you for posting. :)

Alright, I've been gone for over a year and have noticed that a lot has changed... I've done a little research, and have seen that a good method to raising your smithing at these levels seems to be addy arrowtips till 88 and then addy platebodies to 99 all using the sacred clay hammers. So now that the basics have been discovered, i need tips on acquiring the goods... Sure, I can mine addy, but with the addition of the relevants (i think thats what they are) in the wildy, I got discouraged very easily... So, do I buy the addy ores, go to mining guild and mine coal with superheat? Or buy the bars directly? I just burned about 10 mil on gold ores, and am thinking about waiting till they go over 400 again before i sell, but in the meantime, i have another 7 mil i can burn plus tons of items i can sell if I'd like... So basically, I'm just wondering, since I don't want to spend a huge amount of money, do you think I could get by with just buying the addy ores?

 

Next, SC hammers... How many do I need? I've never used them before, so I'd really like to know about how many bars i can get out of them doing arrow tips, then platebodies.

 

Any tips are welcomed, and I thank you for posting. :)

I just bought bars directly when I was recently raising my level. I'm not a fan of mining coal... If you do, I would use the Living Rock Caverns.

 

I'm fairly sure that using sc hammers was lasting me 520-530 bars or something like that. (527, maybe?)

Well as you know you need a lot of coal + 1 addy ore per bar. So something that I could suggest for someone not wanting to spend to much cash is to kill Aviansie's in the GWD. As you may have heard they are really good money, generally from the addy bar drops, but also from other drops. Basically if you camp there for say a month, you should have enough bars for 99 Smithing, maybe even 3 weeks depending on play time.

 

Along with racking up lots of bars you should also get some good cash from things such as clues, alched rune drops and ranarrs :P

 

Best of luck :)

Oh and SC hammers last ~65k exp each, but calc it at 64k each