Quetzalcoatl.Sammitch said:
What is the recommended path for skilling up Smithing these days? I've been looking over the recipes and it seems like the majority is just going to be sold to NPC at a loss of at least 70%.
Is there a point to getting crafts levelled anymore?
I leveled smithing a year or so ago, and it was still at the point where there was a massive horrible horrible stretch from about 55 to 80 where it was nothing but loss. After that you could break even or even make a slight profit if you were prepared to go
ridiculously slowly waiting for ***to sell on AH.
However, after every stage I passed, SE changed something to make that stage so much easier. Dark Adaman Ingots, Durium Ingots, Adaman/Molybdenum/khroma/wootz ore availability increase changed things a lot. I'm still only just on 98 because I couldn't be bothered with that home stretch, and there's not a great deal you can do with it. Also, I think 99-100 is ridiculously hard, because it's still the same 1-2 recipes as it's always been, except that they're even less useful recipes than they were 5 years ago.