Blacksmithing

I'm a level 219 trying to get to 250 making Indium Breatplate Template. Greigs end is a great place to farm the Indium as well as pelts, jewels, powders and spell scrolls. The thing I will say to my displeasure is I have done over 600+ combines and have gone from 219 to 242. It seems to me in this case that the smithing tradeskill is more of a waste of time and money. I have been farming for about a week now and still haven't gotten to 250. I was looking to see if there are any items I could make to help my other chracters but really not much. It seems EQ has put more emphasiss on new levels to keep those getting to the top playing and forgetting what got us all here........the old days!!!
Herachilles

I see it's been awhile since I was here...looking for answers :-) It took a year, but now have 3 toons nearing the caps of 300 on their skills: smithing, tailoring, jewlery. Have been using aa's to get the Salvage & Mastery points. Have also gotten the trophys for all the skills they do. (By the way!! Anyone doing any skills should get their trophy! Quest is given in Freeport and evolves with your skillups) But how do you raise the cap above 300?? There are receipes out there much higher than 300 and once you hit that 300 cap, how will you know what skill level you have attained if you can't raise that cap??

From what I've been reading it seems that the skill cap in any tradeskill is 250. If this is the case how does anyone know what the trivial is on anything above 250?

just started weapon smithing today. How do find out what to combine to make things? Say I want to make a sword? Any help would be appreicated.

E-MAIL AT skeeter03@aol.com

Thanks in advance.

okay my skill is at 106 and was wanting to know whats the easiest way to 250.




Lanvaren 55 pali
karana server

I have a 44 level dark elf, that I started with smithing years ago, before Luclin and before newbie armour quests. I only got her to about 75 trivial and started running out of cash, and playing a lot of alt characters. I just came back to smithing with her recently and got her so far up to 140 trivial only to realize: I think I'm wasting my time and money! Most of the stuff in the game that you can craft seems to be not even as good as the stuff you make now for your start-out set (newbie armour quests). What this means is unless you have the 250 skill in smithing, as well as master tailoring and brewing (or hopefully have a friend that is.. because its way too expensive to pay for materials in bazaar) your skill is essentially a money sink. No one wants to buy seafury, ornate chain, banded, or gothic ringmail anymore!! If it wasn't for the fact that I'm lucky enough to have two opal encrusted steins to shave some of my costs, I think I'd give it up! Sony/Verant should try to cut us people who are actually roleplaying a break and not make items that a level 10 can get better than what a level 65 can craft. I still love Everquest, but it's getting ridiculously unbalanced with fancier and fancier items that anything older (quested or crafted) might as well not exist.

I found that if u get small brics of ore and combind them with a chisal to make 2 small peses of ore the combine 3 peses of ore and a flask u make small brick and repet u loos one but it isent that much and if u combine tarnisht wepons with water flask u dont have to by brics so

1. tarnisht wepon + flask of water = small brick of ore

2. small brick of or + chisal = 2 small paes of or

3. 3 small peases of ore + water flask = small brick of ore

4. repet steps 2 + 3

this givs u a lot of combins for low cost of two or three water flasks

? is the traver for smithing caped at sertan lvls or can i have a lvl 1 car with 250 trever curent at trever of 50 lvl 13?

sorry for spelling hehe

not sher of compind result of tarnisd wepon and flask need more reserch

good luck :)

Please Sinuuyanea Nocturne, Heretic Mistress
send me one of your guides it will be much apreciated!
thank you!
Maget@hotmail.com

Huberto is at 135 in smithing and in search of
HQ ore. The economical smithing quide mentions
fine steel (FS) weapons can be found in Stonebrunt
Mountains (SBM). I went to check.

There is the little town (2 on eqatlas map) with
a wall around it and 4 buildings inside near the
north and center of the zone. Just north of the
town is a camp of Kobolds (1 on eqatlas map) who
drop FS weapons. It turns out the town has a
forge. So you can collect some FS weapons, then
go to town and convert them to HQ rings. By the
time your done converting, the Kobolds have respawned.

I like SBM because the cats there never drop
ruined pelts, and all smiths need lots of
pelts for padding. The leopards, and yellow
tigers have pelts. The white tigers never have
pelts. Between the town and the Warrens entrance
are plenty of cats.

As an aside, what is a good way to contact smiths?
I have found 2 on Karana, but they want 2k pp
for lvl 250 combines. I understand the smiths
put a lot of work into getting to 250, but I am
just a modest paladin doing the work of Mithaniel
Marr and don't have that kind of money.