Blacksmithing

it is a place in town and most all towns have them

This is flat wrong. You cannot put practice points into a trade skill after you have reached 20. You have to work hard (and spend good time & money) to progress beyond that, so using practice points for the first 20 is a good idea.

i need INFO on how to make armor like steps what items i need and stuff like that thats what most new blacksmiths look for when they go by website after website so if u could post some useful INFO i would be very thankful i have been to other websites and i cant find nothing. i have a guild book that dont help at all

i got mine in steam front from a guy in one of the windmills. i understand it is also in rathmountians. i learned that you need ot buy the large bricks from him and make your own blocks. i was uable to find blocks of mq ore, if anyone know where to find this let me know. you need three large brick of mq ore + 1 flask of water to make a large block of mq ore. trival at 83 to do that. your also need leather padding. easy to make .. get some spiderly silk (not spider silk) and a small sewing kit and combine two at a time to make silk thread then combine silk thread w/ low quality pelts of any kind. very easy once you get all the stuff together. Have fun.

Teej,

Smithy hammers can typically be bought from vendors who sell ore. Two that come to mind are the miners in high hold keep and the ore seller in north freeport.

leather padding is created by a tailor by combining a low quality pelt and silk thread in a sewing kit. The tailoring skill trivial level for making padding is around 30. Silk thread is made by combining 2 spiderling silks ina sewing kit, trivial to a 15 tailoring skill.

Fine steel can be quite expensive and time consuming, so I suggest not starting until all banded pieces are trivial - approx 175.

As far as where, you have some choices since I do not know anywhere that has both the ore and the molds you will need. The easiest commute for those of us who can not gate is Freeport and High Hold Pass/Keep. You can get molds in Freeport and ore to make the MQ folded sheets in High Hold Keep. There is a forge in the pass you can use make the folded sheets from the ore as well. I havent tested it yet but I hear the sheets are now stackable so you may want to make the sheets, bank them then go to freeport, get the sheets out of the bank and head to East Freeport where the molds are sold since the molds are not stackable. If you want to keep your trips between the cities to a minimum get sow and str buffs so you can move with all that weight.

Good luck and feel free to send me a tell in game

May the Light guide you.
Kainyar Wyrmbane <Protectors of Light>
33rd Seasoned Paladin
Xegony

Ok for a new smith, it is IMPERATIVE you find and print Knarmon's guide to smithing. This guide got me from 20 all the way to 173. It is a comprehensive and well documented guide to everything you need and many overlooked aspects of smithing. (Things like recipes for padding and how to make a skinning knife so you can make LQ pelts FOR padding.) It has pricing guides, dye recipes and GOOD cultural smithing stuff.


Look it up online. Oh, and Frank R.I.P. and thanks again...

Thayn

If you haven't been killing bad faction for Dark Elves, I suggest Neriak, first zone in. far back right corner takes you to the ogre/troll section of Neriak, going down the ramp, the first female ogre on the left sells the mold you need. (its the only place in Neriak they sell that particular mold, I don't know anywhere else to buy it because i'm KoS everywhere else)

you cab go to the halfling city of river vale they have some at the begging of the city in the farm house

well.. as far as i know tunic will become trivial before cloaks.... but, that doesn't answer your question.. i'm not aware of any more effecient way of increasing your skill at this point. :P I think we're all just cursed to spend a but load of cash and time on it.