How do dark elves level blacksmithing?
 

There aren't any merchants in Neriak that carry molds for scalers and skewers. I bypassed the first by just spamming lanterns at a money loss but the gap to banded is just too large without being able to craft skewers.

DE's can't buy from anyone else on the wiki vendor list

Most DEs aren't KOS in Freeport. Very easy to level there.

If you *are* KOS... make a mule, I guess?

You may need to go to Grobb to get through the skewers stage. You should be oik there faction wise.

Or you can do the Note To Rebby quest in FP many times to get faction to buy the skewer molds there.

Banded Bracers become trivial at 102 cost maybe 1pp or so to make.