Game Mechanics: Smithing Skewers

[Uthgaard]

Smithing and JC were already in with fine plate and blue diamond jewelry available from the start, can't realistically undo that, so it's about as good as it's going to get.

[Bilderan]

The problem right now is there is a large gap of costs to level. It jumps from a few gold to over 1pp per combine for banded gorgets which really shouldnt be started for another 12 skill points or more. It may not sound like a big gap, but it's a lot of failed combines.

If we have to live with this, anyone have any suggestions for cheap combines? I'm at 68 skill and need to jump up to 80-85 to begin banded armor.