Smithing & Crafting Methods.

[Tyler93]

So now that I've reached my current combat goals and am coming close to my current gear goals, I'm looking to get 90 Smithing & Crafting for Player Owned Ports armour. I'm just curious about what methods people use now since I haven't trained either in probably 5+ years. I do have Smithing Brawling gloves I can use as well. I'm looking to spend as little as possible but I'm willing to spend more if I have to.

 

All feedbacks appreciated, Thanks!

[The Real ET]

Unfortunately smithing is one of those skills where spending more is going to get you places faster. I'm sure someone will respond with the most efficient way ever to do smithing, but here are a few suggestions:

 

1) Tell us what level you currently are for best suggestions

2) Gold smelting with Goldsmtih gauntlets from the Family Crest quest.  Gold prices have probably risen since the last time I checked but it used to be a cheap way to grind (though very slow)

3) Use a combination of the Blast furnace to smelt with less coal and then smith while wearing Varrock armour or just sell the bars (you can sometimes turn a profit with that)

4) I'm not sure if they've changed the Brawling gloves with the changes to how bonus exp works, but it used to be you would get more experience for using them in the wild. And there is an anvil conveniently placed west of the Mage Arena lever, so that would be a good place to smith for a bit and use that bonus exp.

5) Artisan's workshop. This is pure investing money to produce smithing exp. If you can complete the Elite Falador tasks you also get a 5% bonus to the exp. At it's cheapest it's very low maintenance, at it's most expensive it's some of the fastest exp in the game. If you wanna figure out the best price/exp combination for your purposes, the wiki has a great table that shows you how expensive each kind of ingot there is (http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Artisans_Workshop#Ingots)

 

Hope this helps.

[Bxpprod]

Although better used on Mining (marginally), your best bet for smithing will be Warbands.