Blacksmithing

G

Ginam

Dalayan Adventurer
I'm skilling up blacksmithing and at 129 skill at the moment. In my last set of combines i started at skill 125, and here is the combines/skill ups

Mastercrafted Silver Legs (20) no skill ups
Mastercrafted Silver Breastplate (4) no skill ups
At this point homogenn reccomended harder combines
Dalium Dagger (20) 3 skill ups (3 combines in a row)
Dalium Bastard Sword (10) no skill ups
Dalium Bracer (10) no skill ups
Dalium Vambraces (20) 1 skill up

after running out of dalium and silver i tried mithril, but it was too difficult

All these combines took over 700pp for components and hours mining/buying all the ore needed.

Could the skill up rate of blacksmithing be looked into?

Ginam
 
First let me say, none of my business to post on this. Second, I am going to post anyway.

You had 84 combines if I counted right and got 4 skill ups, albeit sporadically. When you look at the whole picture, it does not sound bad at all. If you look at the fact that 75% of your skill ups came from doing those daggers, well, I would do more daggers. =D
 
I have a screenshot somewhere of jewelcrafting, once you pass 120ish every combine costs minimum 50pp, and once you reach 205ish it's dropped gems only, then at 245 you're running at something like 220pp per combine. It took me around 50 combines or more to make 245-250 as there was a cut in skill-ups at that point too..

Anyway 700pp... seems like you have it easy tbh..
 
The platinum isn't much of an issue, i have about 10k in the bank, its the massive amounts of mining needed to get that much ore. I used 12-15 stacks of silver and 11 stacks of dalium. To get that much silver/dalium is probably at least 6 hours of mining at 250 skill. 6 hours of mining for 4 skill ups at 125 is alot of work.

And also, comparing smithing at 125 to jewelcraft 240+ is just stupid, you don't mention how many combines for skill up at all 120+, and its also bought components at that point.

Ginam
 
I personally have not done much tradeskilling in SoD, so I need to ask this; Does it give a trivial message when the combine is trivial? If so, then I would have to agree with ginam considering the maginitude of combines on non-trivial items. Makes it even more fishy that 3 of the 4 skill ups where all in a row.
 
I have'nt tried Blacksmithing yet, but as I have tried all the other SoD tradeskills I'm guessing the skill ups are the same. Being 186 in Tailoring and 165 in Brewing, I find that skill ups slow far more as your skill increases. And yes, you do get a message saying: You can no longer increase your skill from making this item. If I recall in both Brewing and Tailoring, around 120 the skill ups took a huge decline, where I had to often make 20 items to get only one or two skill ups. On the flip side, I have noticed that as my skill increases the chance of failing a combine that is not triv decreases. So, where I might attempt 20 non-triv tailored items, I'll usually get like 16 successes and maybe one or two skill ups. Where back when I was starting out, the success rate was more halved, 20 may yield you like 10 successes, but probably would get you like 5 or 6 skill ups.

I dunno if this info helps, but I do know tradeskilling is expensive and very time consuming, so if you want to master any of the trades, plan to put alot of hours into it. I try to xp as I farm, this helps, I often use alts for the mobs that I need to farm that are green to my main. Friends that help ya out make a huge difference too ;)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom