Efficient Smithing

[jijilentosmi]

I am currently working to obtain 85 smithing, I'm 80 now, and am not sure if I'm being efficient. I'm using adamantite bars to make adamant bolts, since they are basically the only product I can find that doesn't lose more than 50% per bar.

When Smithing one bar at a time its very slow, so I was wondering if anything at my level could be faster than this and not lose tons of gp/exp

Thanks

 

Note: I am not mining the ores or gold smelting with gauntlets.

[Bladewing]

Mithril Platebodies with SC hammers.

[aspeeder]

Mithril Platebodies with SC hammers.

Platebodies are always the fastest/most efficient since you use up the bars very fast, so basically it's just mith platesbodies till 88 and addy platebodies.

[Bladewing]

Mithril Platebodies with SC hammers.

Platebodies are always the fastest/most efficient since you use up the bars very fast, so basically it's just mith platesbodies till 88 and addy platebodies.

People just don't like it cause the drain on your bank is very visible. People severely underestimate the value of their time, though.

[Wheels]

I made this Google Doc a while ago, just out of curiosity. As you can see, all values use Stealing Creation hammers...just double the gp/xp values if you're not using them.

 

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tPlRASRNyzjnnzblfuEX3_g

[Grimy_Bunyip]

Mithril Platebodies with SC hammers.

Platebodies are always the fastest/most efficient since you use up the bars very fast, so basically it's just mith platesbodies till 88 and addy platebodies.

I find platebody smithing extremely inefficient. It's just ridiculously costly right now, even with SC hammers (okay it's not quite as bad as prayer/herblore)

the thing is that SC hammers smith a platebody over 2x slower than a normal hammer

The time to collect SC hammers adds onto that even more, and the xp rate just plummets to oblivion

 

Honestly gold ores are pretty awesome right now in terms of price. They should not be underestimated

 

Right now im superheating gold ores as i mine them from living rock caverns

This suits me because i want the mining and magic xp too

 

Sometimes i drop the bars, sometimes i dont, depends on which gold ore rock i am mining.

 

It's 1 nature rune for 65 mining, 56.2 smithing, and 50 magic xp

If i ignore the other xp, and assume that i drop all my gold bars, that's 4.4 gp/xp

 

50k mining xp/hour, 43k smithing, 38k magic xp/hour

 

Smithing addy platebodies with SC hammers in contrast is 150k xp/hour if you can get 5 SC tools per hour with a clan chat, and costs 8.45 gp/smithing xp, almost double the cost, and without the other xp. honestly i think the other xp isnt to be trifled with. magic xp isnt very important but 50k mining xp is ALOT

[lordkafei]

I must concur about gold ore. It is in massive oversupply and falling in price. I am beginning to wonder if it will fall lower than coal.