In-depth, Beginner's Smithing Guide (Lv0-10)
May 15, 2017 20:51:30 GMT
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Post by Jileev on May 15, 2017 20:51:30 GMT
A guildmate asked me to write up a thorough Smithing guide. So, as I have time, I'll be adding on to this post. I'll even go into detail about how much mats cost/where to get them, and how much you can sell your products and/or byproducts for.
If anyone would like any advice I haven't yet covered, feel free to ask me in the comments. PM me if you need my personal/hands-on, in-game help crafting anything.
I've found Smithing, by far, to be the best money-making prod category (followed by Tailoring, and, later on, Alchemy). So if you have a player stall, and you're primarily interested in the profit aspect of crafting, I'd recommend you focus mainly on Smithing.
However, if this is your approach, it can still be somewhat necessary at times to know dependable people who already have other prod categories developed, so you can readily acquire specific Smithing mats that are sometimes exclusively obtainable from other prod categories (some intermediate & later, convoluted Smithing endeavors require Alchemy, Carpentry, or Chasing involvement).
With Smithing, you can start making money from the get-go. It just gets more and more profitable the further into it you go. And if you're privy to the real value of things, what you can manage to sell usually more than reimburses the cost of the mats you've hitherto bought.
I seldom farm stuff, unless it's not available at a decent price. The labor of a craftsman is already enough of a painstaking work of love, without the needless drudgery of traditional farming methods. My guide will teach you how to get smart, save time, & circumvent a lot of mistakes & grievances a novice would invariably stumble at.
Lv0-5 Pickaxe: Hematite, Bent Pickaxe
Lv0-6 Longsword
Lv5-7 Pickaxe: Hematite x5, Cule Wood x2
If anyone would like any advice I haven't yet covered, feel free to ask me in the comments. PM me if you need my personal/hands-on, in-game help crafting anything.
I've found Smithing, by far, to be the best money-making prod category (followed by Tailoring, and, later on, Alchemy). So if you have a player stall, and you're primarily interested in the profit aspect of crafting, I'd recommend you focus mainly on Smithing.
However, if this is your approach, it can still be somewhat necessary at times to know dependable people who already have other prod categories developed, so you can readily acquire specific Smithing mats that are sometimes exclusively obtainable from other prod categories (some intermediate & later, convoluted Smithing endeavors require Alchemy, Carpentry, or Chasing involvement).
With Smithing, you can start making money from the get-go. It just gets more and more profitable the further into it you go. And if you're privy to the real value of things, what you can manage to sell usually more than reimburses the cost of the mats you've hitherto bought.
I seldom farm stuff, unless it's not available at a decent price. The labor of a craftsman is already enough of a painstaking work of love, without the needless drudgery of traditional farming methods. My guide will teach you how to get smart, save time, & circumvent a lot of mistakes & grievances a novice would invariably stumble at.
Lv0-5 Pickaxe: Hematite, Bent Pickaxe
- Easy recipe. In the end, it doesn't really leave you with any product to sell, but it's a self-sustaining, fast EXP recipe. Later on, it takes a day to acquire 2 prod levels, but this can be done in a mere hour or two. If you'd prefer a more profitable alternative, skip to the next recipe.
- Just go to Rokoko Mining Village, where there's even an NPC merchant who'll sell you Pickaxes & Smithing Tools. Start off by killing Goblins for their Bent Pickaxes (and the occasional Hematite). Then go to the coordinates (73, 13) or (96, 105) in the adjacent Rokoko Tunnels map, and mine however many extra Hematite you need (you'll get about 3 Hematite per 10 Pickaxes spent).
- Craft a bunch of pickaxes, and then use those to mine more Hematite. Kill more Goblins, craft/buy more pickaxes. Rinse & repeat.
- Alternatively, 1-2k~ is a fair price to pay for Hematite, if you wanna just buy them from player stalls, or hire someone to mine them for you.
- Bent Pickaxes = 5-6k~ (I've sold many stacks at this price (500-600k/stk)); cheapest I've seen them on stalls is 3k—and I've managed to haggle players into farming them for me for as low as 2k.
- In the process of mining, you can discard the other things you get, unless you feel like turning Rocks into Zinc Ore via Chasing (from Lv0-8), for the heck of it. You can also easily get your Alchemy from Lv0-5 with rocks, via the Gold Dust recipe (it's not a lucrative recipe, though—it takes time, and will at most repay the cost of pickaxes you bought earlier). If you ever plan on definitely progressing your Alchemy to the Lv30-80 range, then you can save yourself a lot of time by hanging onto those Gold Dust you made, rather than selling them to the NPC—otherwise (or if you don't mind making Gold Dust all over again), go ahead.
Lv0-6 Longsword
- This is an optional recipe—skip if you want. Otherwise, go to Micerne Plains (2 maps beyond Fort Bailune) and farm Mooths for their Longswords (which, surprisingly, are a relatively common drop). Then strengthen them via Smithing until they break, or their atk is maxed (then discard/give to a nearby noob). You can squeeze a lot of EXP out of just a single weapon.
- Of note: Their most common drop, Fluffy Fur can be converted into Soft Cloth via Tailoring (at a 10:1-2 ratio). So send them to me, and I'll turn them into a sellable product for you (Soft Cloth is in high demand among Tailors). I've sold stacks of these for 2.5m each, and I've purposely farmed them in the past, because they're needed for a lot of recipes. Mooth's other drops are worthless.
Lv5-7 Pickaxe: Hematite x5, Cule Wood x2
- Now then, here's the next recipe you won't want to pass up. And don't start in on this one until you've at least done one of the previous two recipes up to Lv 5 or 6.
- Start off by acquiring as much Hematite as you can (at least 10 stacks). Mine it, or buy it for 100-200k per stack.
- With that out of the way, all you need to do is farm 4 stacks of Cule Wood from the Kijimu on Ronfa Mountains, near Rokoko.
- Kijimu also drop Cule Flower (junk), Feathered Rod (which you can strengthen for easy Carpentry EXP from Lv0-8—and there's a 1/10000 off chance you might get a 2-slotter, worth 35m), and Starhunter Petals (rare drop), which sell for 70-100k (they're a high demand crafting mat for Tailoring & Alchemy). Oddly, it's the Lv13 Kijimu whose rare drop is Feathered Rod, and conversely only Lv14 that drops Starhunter Petals; IIRC, they're fairly intermingled, though.
- Here's a recipe you'll be returning to a lot, even after it ceases to grant EXP. A lot of Smithing recipes require the use of Iron. Consequently, it's also in fairly high demand on the market, and moderately profitable to make & sell from scratch.
- You can always sell these for at least 20-40k—sometimes 50-60k, or as much as 75-100k, if you're an opportunist when market supplies are low (always keep the current market price & quantity of Hematite in mind, as well, since they're directly correlated, about 1:20).
- Once your Smithing is Lv9, you've technically mastered this recipe (though you can keep getting EXP from it until you reach Lv10), and you can then produce 2 Iron per 20 Hematite about half the time, instead of just the usual 1. This is what is called "Great Success A" (certain recipes also have a chance of "Great Success B," which grants three times the usual yield).
