cheep blacksmithingFollow

Look, there is NO easy path to high level blacksmithing. You can follow the guides on eqtraders.com to maximize your work but it will still take time. When high enough you can do Enchanted Velium Bits up to 222. From there, you descend in either mortgaging the farm to buy supplies or hours upon hours of farming green mobs for drops.

The only one worse is Tailoring, IMO.

Is there a reason you need high level or just interested? If just interested, then take your time and have fun. If you need something consider approaching someone to make it for you. Just some thoughts.

By far the cheapest (to 250-ish) is Shadowscream Armor. This requires extensive farming and doing the Shar Val smithing quest to get your hammer and anvil.

Not to diminish your accomplishment but I can get any toon to 111 in smithing in under 3 hours and for under 300pp. Good luck for the next 200 skillups!

100-115 try banded tunics
116-132 try cultural needles
to 120ish shadow disks (need shar val quest)
132-160ish cultural sewing kits
to 168 humming orbs (need shar val quest)
168+ DoN cultural or switch to Shadowscream.

Royal Velium armor is rather cheap but lots of farming to keep it that way (to 175)

Enchanted Velium bits to 222 but 17pp per pop and no re-sale value.

Other useful tips:

Have your STR or WIS/INT maxxed. I am guessing for your warrior STR would be easiest to max. Chances of a skillup on a combine are based on these stats. Also after skill 200 you have < 5% chance of skillup on any combine and it gets worse


Edited, Wed Feb 1 15:37:14 2006 by Dothammer

ok let me rephrase my question, i'm an ogre warrior looking to make grand master armor, only a few on my server do it and they are normally alts to jack prices and make money off of everyone, what's 50000 for other races BP and such is 2-4 times more for ogre's.

no offense to eqtraders but alot of their stuff is outdated now with oow, DoN, DoDH, and GoD.

as for my stats i'm a 70 warrior, my str is over 400 and since i'm wearing stuff that is warrior/cleric gear i have over 400 wis as well.

i'm just looking for simple combines like 2-3 items to make one thing not stuff that takes 5-6 items to get one skill up.

but thanks for some of the ideas already.

Have you looked closely? They actually are quite on top of updating when new expansions come out.

Wow.

Warlord, eqtraders is most definitely not out of date. The trivial lists are VERY useful in deciding paths. There is also something floating around called the "Economical Smith" that I found very helpful but that IS out of date.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but the simple cheap combine you are hoping for just doesn't exist to the levels you need to attain to make GM armor. Getting the TS AAs will help but still need to get pretty high up. There is a calculator on EQtraders that will tell you what % success change you have at what levels and with what AAs. Be prepared to see it tell you that even with AAs, to succeed at GM DoN armor with any decent chance will take 240-250+ raw skill. There is a reason people can ask for 50K+.

You might want to check with your guild about getting you a Massive Girdle of the Forge it has a 10% smithing modifer if you don't have better. A couple pet handlers and a cleric can take the mob.