Blacksmithing Question.

[weirdguy508]

Originally Posted by Shodo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Banded trivials at 175. If I had to guess... probably about 500p. But it really depends a lot on luck and your str/wis/int. If neither your wis nor your int is very high, ask a high level shaman in ec for a str buff - the extra strength will make a huge difference in your chance to get a skillup.

Whew I'll pass on that for now. Being only level 9 right now I still have a few better things to invest 500 into. Thanks though I'll keep that in mind when I do decide to level it, if I do lol.

[Valdarious]

I think I ended up going through about 600p to get to around 175. If done by making banded for other people, it would have been cheaper. I wanted to get the skill points as fast as I could though.
I did not use any training points to start off. I started making stuff from skill 1 on.
I think it might also be a different story if some stats were different. I had no int or wis gear when making stuff and I am not sure which stat would have helped me out.

[Shodo]

Originally Posted by Valdarious [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I had no int or wis gear when making stuff and I am not sure which stat would have helped me out.

For all tradeskills, you use either int or wis - whichever is higher. For smithing, you substitute str (if higher than int/wis) and for tailoring and fletching you substitute dex (if higher thanmint/wis). There's a
calculator on the eqtc website that you can play around with to see the actual effects of higher/lower stats. At 193 skill and 115 str, going for a trivial of 208, for example: getting my str to 182 with a str buff ends up doubling my chance of getting a skillup to about 10% - which is a big deal when dumping money on fine steel.

[Valdarious]

Cool, thanks for the info. I knew it was a good idea to ask that shaman for a STR buff at one point. If not for skill help but to move those damn blocks of ore, made things go by so much quicker. To make the sheets of metal it was painful without a buff. With the STR and sow buff, moving the ore in Kaladim was easy.
I had all of my STR equipment on and that was it so I could move more ore at a time.