leveling blacksmith

Brightxdawn

When you create an item say a dagger, will you gain more experience in that skill line if you craft a larger piece. Say I craft a bunch of daggers that cost me 5 pieces of iron. Will I get more experience if I use 10 pieces of iron per dagger I craft?

Ljungstroem

No, you should always try and use the least amount of ingots for each dagger. And also deconstruct everything you see and don't need, that got me to lvl 50 blacksmithing.

KerinKor

To be honest creating isn't really a great way to skill-up, whether or not you get more XP (I don't know the answer to your question, try it and see), crafting skill-ups in this game largely come from deconstruction rather than construction .. damned silly frankly but then that comment applies to many things IMO .. you're better off breaking than making.

Brightxdawn

Yes I am breaking and making its taking quite awhile though. I just want to get to level 50. Guess I will be on the grind.

SugaComa

It us a grind, I'm at level 44 and oy just realised I have to research every trust for each type of item

Say 9 traits 8 armour, and 8 weapons that's 144 traits

At roughly 1 per play that's 144 days ... Assuming you have the item to research

Haxnschwammer

It's easier with stealing. Go to a beginner town like davons watch. Steal all the stuff (should be around 70 items).
Deconstruct them all. Go down to thieves refugee and come up again. Now everthing should have reset. Repeat.
You can go to level 50 in every craft in one (boring) day. And after that you can sell all that materials you got
from deconstructing.

helediron

SugaComa wrote: »

It us a grind, I'm at level 44 and oy just realised I have to research every trust for each type of item

Say 9 traits 8 armour, and 8 weapons that's 144 traits

At roughly 1 per play that's 144 days ... Assuming you have the item to research

I think with trust you mean actually traits. For one character it takes about a year to learn nine traits for every item. You can speed it at account level by creating multiple crafting characters and learn in parallel.

Sandshark95

@Brightxdawn I'd strongly advise against crafting items to level your crafting skills. You get far more XP (or IP, rather) by deconstructing items. Deconstructing looted items (stolen, quest rewards, enemy drops, found, etc.) will yield the most experience, while deconstructing items made by other players (or by you, on a different character) will yield the second most. Deconstructing items you craft will give you very, very small returns. If you really want to level your crafting skills, find a place near a crafting station where you can loot a ton of items and then deconstruct them all. Rinse and repeat. It's a grind, but it's far quicker than crafting a ton of daggers. We're not in Skyrim anymore...