Blacksmithing

Read prior posts, notice many pages (17) I've answered all your questions numerous times, includeing very recently.

you didn't say what race you are, and that is critical. You did not say what city you are smithing in, and that is critical.

I'd be most interested to know which races worship Rodcef Nife

the recipe you gave is for humans in qeynos

Full Plate Vambrace = Full Plate Vambrace Mold + Two High Quality Folded Metal Sheet + water + Smithy Hammer + Leather Padding + Chain Joining + Royal Temper + one Barbarian of Silver/Electrum/Gold/Platinum 58pp

only you left out the precious metal.

Rodcet Nife is the diety associated with opal, and will define who can wear it. Only a worshipper of Rodcet Nife can wear the armor. What is not clear if a smith can used imbued gems for dieties that are not worshipped within the city he smith in. No one has ever mentioned that.

I've seen no imbueing recipes for qeynos human smiths, so you are working experimentally, and if the lack of information you shared is a measure of your knowledge, you are pretty much not going to succeed.

Mithril bits: Get 2 small pieces of Mithril and combine with morning dew in Fier'Dal Forge.

This is what someone posted somewhere.

Where are you finding the mithril bits please???

Chain Jointing is used in making Full Plate and Brellium Plate Mail that I know of, unfortunatly at this point unless they have changed it, its buged. You will lose your smithy hammer when you successfully make the jointing, :( one more thing to add to the money pit :) at around 11PP per hammer.

One thing I've learned in pursuring and mastering 6 or so trades, is whenever you go outside posted recipes, you always fail.

smithing is weird. Never has a trade had so many choices, and never has there been evidenced a hunger to make stuff that is not even hinted at.

Heck half the stuff that is hinted at, no one has figured out yet. Inclding hints in the book that comes with the box when you buy the game. making magical armor and weapons

I'm a little confused, but I'll try to answer. HQ ore can be used in a regular forge, but not to make northman Ringmail. HQ ore is (also?) used to make Ornate Chainmail, which takes HQ metal rings (Large Brick of HQ ore, file, and 1 water flask), a chainmail pattern, a flask of water, and a non-cultural smithy hammer in a normal forge. Seeing as I'm not a Barbarian, I can't help you with the Northman Ringmail question, but it just may be time for one or more of my twinks to begin their smithing careers...

Experimenting with recipes nearly always leads to failures. You fail enough with known recipes. Experimenting is for RICH folks.

Here is what I assumed, but please look at my post about mithril. The recipie for old fashioned metal bits is:

2 Small Pieces Ore + Water Flask = Metal Bit

I assumed:

2 Small Pieces Mithril + Morning Dew = Mithril Bit

I would say start there and play around with it. Read my post(s) about mithril, though.

Strebor sent you where I was going to.

Since you are interested, explore Allakhazams sites, and take notes, say on bracers, since if anything is made on the new stuff it is usually bracers that someone succeeded and posted on, and give us a nice clean report of every armor for every race.

Be warned, what we have, about 8 races, 2 to 8 types of armor per race, you are looking at 40 to 50 different armors here.

The questions people ask...

would be nice, I've been tempted to do it, but insanity lasts only momentarily for me.

Which type of human racial armour? There are 3 of them:
Field Plate- Freeport
Full Plate -Qeynos
Seafarers Chain mail.-Freeport

Some of the pieces have been made and Alla has them listed with pictures under human recipes. As for the skill required: I would start attempting Any Racial Armour and Fine Steel AFTER banded is trival...175.

Strebor M.
Human Druid-Luclin

I have come to the same conclusion..not just becuase no corroded has been found,,but also depending on your class..rogue, war, sk,,,pally you need differnt types of corroded,,rogue nees corroded chain mail..war corroded fine plate, each has its own type..this must be a smith skill yet i have found no books or ingrediants that will corrod armor,,good luck to all...

Wediel Weaponxxx
Morell Thule War/49

That is a novel idea, will have to check out what is available again in the Ice Dwarf city :) Thanks for that approach.

Is that costs in copper? Or PP?

Knarmon's web site is a good site for info but I HIGHLY reccomand www.eqtraders.com. Everything you have just listed is on a FAQ page and more...

Strebor M
Human Druid-Lucin

you an ogre? you talk like one. Allakhazam lists chain recipes for ogres, but lists them as "small", doesn't make much sense, huh?

also boots missing. Me thinks someone goofed. It might be corrected by now, check his links again.


yup, I went back, it has been removed. or was never there and I goofed in my records... anyway gone now.

Maybe you have to be a Gnome? Do you get the "wrong forge" message? No idea, still wondering about mithril. Of course there's the extremely likely probability that the recipies are not available or even working yet.

1. Skill Level 0-10 Practice points each time you level. 20 points is the maximum you can put into here, and you may want to do that.

2A. Skill level 10-21 Metal bits: Two small pieces of ore, one water (non conjured) combined in a regular forge. Be sure not to stack, put the three items in 3 separate slots in the forge. Do not use summoned or foraged water, it will not work. In Halas the vender outside of McDaniel’s right near the forge has water, also the Fire Cider Tavern. Net cost to skill up with metal bits is 3.5pp, less travel than sharpening stones in spite of high failure rate. You will have about 25 metal bits for future use.) Save these for future use. With failure (lack skill) you lose about 140c per attempt 3/4 the time with no product to show for it. Sinudar reports: 7 stacks of ore raised his skill level from 10 to 21 when bits went trivial. 27 successes out of 70 attempts. His cost to skill up 5.2pp, which translates into a cost of 400c per metal bit, actually not bad considering you will be using these.

If you buy the weapons to sharpen and resell this represents about 1.5pp cost, and you have nothing to show for it. A master smith can make 27 metal bits for 2pp, so you save about 2pp in cost to make bits later on. Ore is available in Erudin and High Hold Keep.

2B. Skill level 10-27 Sharpen stones (net cost 5.2pp) (stone plus rusty sharp edged weapon in regular forge, sharpen cheap weapons (vendor buys for under 1 gold) first until trivial (trivial in low 20’s), then more expensive ones (trivial at 27). You can save weapons from fishing and hunting, or buy them from vendors, selling all products bact to vendors. You get a tarnished weapon with success. You get rusty weapon back (labeled as “alternative product” with failures. You lose everything if you put a weapon in that is not sharp, like a halberd. The tarnished weapons have same damage class but are faster. If you buy weapons to sharpen they sell back for less than you paid. Tarnished weapons do not sell for any more than rusty. Sharpening success depends on size (cost) of weapon. I've never taken more than 4 attempts on bigger weapons to succeed At skill level 17 some weapons still needed 3 attempts.

Mystk reports: 90 combines to go from skill 8 to 27. 64 attempts skill 8 to 21, 23 attempts skill 21 to 26, 3 attempts skill 26 to 27. This is with a high intelligence, high wisdom character.

Stones are sold at High Hold Keep near bank, Freeport or Erudin in front of the armory. Stones stack and are only 4c each. Buy at least 200 stones. To go to Erudin, take a ship from north dock in Qeynos, the boat stops at Erud’s island (vendors there, cat people, dangerous place to hunt mid teens and lower) At Erudin you get on a small transport ship. If you miss it, and decide to swim for shore do locs over and over, sharks will kill you with one blow if not careful. From the Erudin docks enter the marble building, go to far back, then enter the center pool. You will transport to right in front of the armory. The zone transport to temple with bank in basement is at the top of the steps from the transport disk you are one. The vendor selling ore is outside the armory just a few feet away from the transport disk. The transport back to the docks is up the same steps and to then to the right. There is the Erudin forge (for erudite smiths only) outside the armor. The general forge is in the enclosed courtyard outside Deepwater Knights, near the library. To get there face the armory, turn right, go up path, down stairs and keep to left. Enter Deep Water Knights, and from inside first floor, exit to courtyard.

3A: Skill level 21-41 Studs 3 bits, file, water. 3 metal bits (700c at 70% success rate), file (110c but is reusable unless you put wrong combination into the forge), flask of water (13c) The file is reusable, and is returned with failures and successes. File molds are 12c If you put in wrong ingredients you lose it. Studs are potentially profitable if sell to players, more so at skill 41 when success rates are better. Net loss 549c if you sell to venders, but you make about 300c or more if you sell to tailors at 1pp each. They are stackable (this is new as of 9/2000), and yield is now 2 studs per combine. Tailors need studs in large quantities if they choose studded armor to skill up. Sinudar had 5 successes with studs on 10 attempts to raise level 2 points 21 to 23, and at level 27 had a success rate of 50% taking 10 combines to raise skill 1 point. Cost per success is 500c, and you have studs that you can sell at a profit. Based on data given by Sinudar (pre 9/00 update) rough assumption is it will take 70 attempts to get to skill 27, 50% success rate, cost of failures will be 13.5pp, and you will have 35 studs that you can sell for 5g to 1p per stud,.so you should at least break even. Vendors buy studs for ?. Since they are now stackable they may sell for less to tailors, but it will be easy to store stacks of studs in bank until you find a buyer. To get to level 41 is 14 more levels, probably 140 combines or less.

3B. Skill level 27-41 make scalers: bits, scaler mold, water. Scalar mold (63c), metal bits (227c at 70% success rate, 156c at 100% success rate), water (13c) In past this gave a file and large container lid mold. Ignore this in other smithing guides. Since I mastered smithing it has been changed, so that successes give a scaler only. Molds available at Daniel’s Smokes second floor in Halas, the cottage in Qeynos Hills, and Trader’s Holiday from Islan in East Freeport. I do not know cost or success rate data with new products. Mystk reports that 110 attempts got her from skill 27 to 41. These have no market, so they must be sold at loss to vendor. In past net loss was 400c with failures and much less with success, so if 50% success rate roughly 20pp cost to skill up to 41.

3D: Skill level to 37 Skinning knife: use with tailor skill to lower grade of pelt one notch. Small brick of ore, Hilt Mold, Dagger blade mold, water. Trivial at 37. Due to mold availability, this is special order item only, not a skilling up item.

4A. Skill level 42-51 (or 27-71) make tool boxes: (one metal bit, water). A toolbox is an 8-slot container with a combine button. It is used by gnomes for tinkering. You are going to have run to a vendor to sell them as you make them one to three at a time as they do not fit inside other containers. They no longer can be sold at a major profit to vendors, but Verant fixed that to usual pattern of vendors paying back somewhat less than cost to make. Vendor buys them back for about 8 silver, with a metal bit costing about 2g to make. Net cost per successful attempt is 120c. Assuming 10 combines per level, and 50% success rate you cost will be 50pp more or less to get to level 51, another 100 to get to level 71 (I have no data on this),

4B. Skill level 42-56 Cookie cutters: bits, cookie mold, water. mold (438c), 1 Metal bits (200c), water (13c) = 651c per attempt. (Net loss 488c per attempt at 40% success rate at skill level 47 if you sell to venders. If you sell to players, 1620c would be your break-even point at these rates. Cookie cutters sell for 2 plat to the occasional buyer by my experience. Over 2 weeks of auctioning I found 3 cooks in Freeport interested, so don’t stock up on too many of these, like one at a time. Net cost likely about 10 to 15pp, if 10 combines per level needed, and you sell back to vendors.

4C. Skill level 42-56 Metal sheets: small brick, water. (venders sell for 1295c, and cost 1313c to make, venders buy for 774, net loss 529), there is really no market as they are readily available to people needing them at less than your cost to make. Exception, if you are in HH, halfling smiths will snap these up to make their small banded. Their small molds are in Misty thicket, but closest sheets of metal for them are Qeynos Hills, or Freeport. Metal sheets can be considered a quick expensive route of skilling up. The only places I know to buy sheets of metal in Norath are in Qeynos Hills and Freeport. So if you are smithing small size banded in Rivervale you will have to make your own metal sheets buying the bricks in High Hold Keep, other wise it just isn’t feasible as you have to make multiple trips over vast distances to Qeynos or Freeport. Potentially 140 combines to go from 42 to 56 skill, so about 70pp net cost potentially if you sell these back to vendors, otherwise you have potentially 70 sheets to use later for banded, major inventory storage problem though.

5A. Skill level 51-71 make Lanterns: bits, lantern mold, bottle, water) lantern casting mold (193c in QH, 181c at McDaniel’s Smokes), bottle (6c), water (13c). At skill level 47 and 50% success rate, net loss of 290c per attempt. Get bottles at a tavern. In Halas, Leopok in bank has bottles. Greta Terrian outside of McDaniels has bottles for 6c, and water, nice and close to the forge. In East Freeport bottles are on second floor of chops and hops in south west corner of zone (the lower poor district reached via an obscure passage behind Felith and Bards imported Goods. It is quite tedious making lanterns with 4 components, and continually roaming around to restock the molds and bottles. Mystk reports 172 attempts skill 41 to 64, so this stage will consume considerably less than 40pp minus profit from selling successes back to vendor, estimating 20pp if you make lanterns. Again she is a high intelligence, high wisdom player. When I made lanterns I was experimenting with many other items so I do not have data to compare for a barbarian. Assuming 200 combines for level 51 to 71 a crude guess is net cost about 60-70pp if you choose this route. There is no point in selling these to players. They’d make fine gifts to newbies though, these are large lanterns by the way, a nice light source and they work just like the store bought kind

3C. Steel Boning: (27 - 41) (profitable if resold to players) (net cost? likely high) Small brick ore, file, water. You can make successfully at skill level 80. Tailors consume these in vast quantities, and most tailors will be needing 300 bonings in process of skilling up to 110 in tailoring.. Small brick ore is 600c, wt 15. You can carry only 8 at a time. Boning weighs 0.1 and do not stack. I use my erudite mule with 8 empty backpacks, load up at vendor in Erudin, gate to Qeynos, then use my main character to offload one back pack at a time and crawl to forge. You need to have two accounts to do this, or have a buddy make an erudite enchanter and do this for you. Alternatively travel your smith to Erudin, and use deepwater knight forge, or go to high hold keep, and crawl from bank to forge outside Greenbane’s in High Hold pass (follow left wall from Keep entrance). Easiest of all will be in Freeport where forge is right outside the ore vendor. Main problem is stashing all the non-stackable bonings. Suggest making a warehouse character for this, an enchanter is nice because they can gate, and have nice charisma to buy the expensive ore. At smith level 154 I made 136 with 3 failures.

5B: Skill level to 80 Javelins water, metal sheet (1.4pp), javelin mold (11c) dam 7 delay 33, range 205, cost 1.5p, vendor buys for 453c see source of molds near middle of this document. Assuming 10 combines per skill level, over all success rate of 50% net cost about 200pp. The 50 successes cost you 50pp, and the 50 failures cost you 150pp. I don’t know who would buy a weapon you use once for even the cost to make of 1.5pp.

5C: Skill level to 75 Forged ******* sword: 1HS weapon, dual edged mold 1944c, hilt mold 648c, pommel mold 648c, metal sheet 1303c, water flask 13c (vender sells ******* sword for 15P damage 8) cost to make 4600c, dam 7, delay 33, wt 6.5 sell for 9pp. cost 4pp Due to mold availability, this is special order item only, not a skilling up item.

5D: Skill level to 75 Morning star: Trival 75 spiked ball mold 2592c, hilt mold 648c, metal sheet 1303c, water flask 13c, trivial below level 141, costs 4600c to make, 1 hand blunt weapon, dmg 8, delay 38, wt 9, sell for 9pp. Cost 4pp. Due to mold availability, this is special order item only, not a skilling up item.

5E: Skill level to 91 Forged Two Handed sword: heavy blade mold 3887c, hilt mold 648c, Pommel mold 648c, sheet of metal 1303c, water 13c, cost to make is 6600c (vender sells 2H sword for 27 plat damage 12) not trivial at 141, I had 1/2 successes at 141. Damage 12, delay 44, wt 11, sell for 15pp. cost 5pp. Due to mold availability, this is special order item only, not a skilling up item.

6A. Skill level 71—115 make Skewers Metal Bits (200c), water (13c), mold (104c)
10 % success rate at Skill level 70 303c net loss per attempt. Skill level 77 success rate was about 25%, Skill level 82 success rate less than 50%, Skill level 90 success rate starts rising, Skill level 100 success rate 70-80% and net loss is less than 200c per attempt. Mystk reports 276 attempts to go from skill 68 to 109 with her high intelligence enchanter. Rough guess would be 50-60pp at this stage net cost, a barbarian cost is likely double on basis of more combines needed, and cost increase in components. If dark race no skewer molds available, use alternatives like javelins, sewing kits etc. There is no market for skewers except for the occasional cook

6B. Skill level 71-101 Pie tins and other cooking items: cake round and muffin tin are trivial at 101, also need ceramic liners, that need a potter, so not very practical to use. After you are a master smith, and if you master pottery (a cheap and fast trade to master) these sell occasionally for a few pp. Other cooking items, such as muffin tins, cake rounds, smokers, bread tins, all have similar problems, and very low demand. Best to make them on request only after you are a master. Recipes further on in document. These are fairly complex and time consuming to make, and are definitely not an item to make for skilling up, but only after you are a master, specifically for resale.

7A. Skill level 115-122 make pots: bits (200c), pot mold (465c), standing leg mold (195c), water (13c) net cost about 880c, vender buys at 527c, net loss per attempt 350c. You will sell these back to vendors. The rare cook buys them for 2pp. Be aware that most of the recipes involving pots on the web are wrong. See my baking guided for true and tried recipes. When you use wrong ingredients you lose the pot. WARN your customers. It is miserable to lose a 2pp tool to make an item worth 2 silver. Pots will skill you up faster, but banded will be break even selling to players at skill level 115, and as you approach 120 you will actually start making significant money. Net cost to skill up 115-122 about 40pp.

7B. Skill level 123-135 Make small sewing kits: needle mold, thimble mold, bits, water. Cost is about 750c and venders buy back at 440c. Again, this is fast route up, but they are a container, so you can’t even put them in back packs. This makes a 2 slot sewing kit, which is a nice give away to newbies that need to combine spiderling silks. Since it takes up a container inventory slot, it is much better for a player to have a large sewing kit, and well worth the vender price. Assuming 120 combines, at an overall loss of 5g per combine, pretty costly route up. Molds not available in Freeport but are available at Inn just as you enter Northern Ro from East Freeport. You get a 2-slot kit. I wondered if you could get a larger kit and tried with out success ("these ingredients do not combine") the following recipes: 1 needle mold, 1 thimble mold, 2 bits, 1 water, and 2 needle molds, 2 thimble molds, 2 bits, 1 water. Considering none of the books mention making larger kits is possible I ended my experimentation.

7C: Skill level 100-175: make banded armor for resale to players. Several pages further in this document are very detailed instructions, and this should be reviewed before starting. As each item becomes trivial, add next one to your list of armor you can make, and make all kinds to keep a variety on hand for resale. If you make banded too much below triviality, high failure rates occur. At the point you start making banded you can head back to your home city. Banded is in demand everywhere. Stash up on about 120 metal bits to have on hand for future endeavors (cooking items, studs, boning). If you make banded on west coast you will be buying molds in either Halas area or cottage in Qeynos hills, and sheet metal at the cottage in Qeynos hills. I made 2-300 pp selling at twice my making costs, between skill level 115 and 139. You can only carry so much at a time, and you have to wander a lot of zones auctioning your wares. Also, pay attention to details below as to which items of banded you can make at a given level, you lose 3-5 plat per failed attempt. There is really not much point in pushing your skill up rapidly at this level, other than pride, or you want to make fine plate and race specific armor at 50 to 100pp per attempt, or want the ability to make ALL items of banded with high success rates.

If you use a charisma 105 character to buy and sell banded supplies, you break even within a few gold on cloaks, mantels, legs, gloves not counting failures. At skill level in 160’s cloaks fail about 10% of time, and all other items fail about 5% of the time. It takes my barbarian about 20 combines per skill level. At charisma 65 (my barbarian) you will lose1.5 to 2pp every sale back to a vendor. Because I was eager to get to skill 175 to make the new armor, at skill level 165 I began selling back to vendors, after filling up an alternative character with an inventory of legs, mantels, gloves, and cloaks and running out of excess cash. With failures it cost me about 10pp per skill level with my wisdom buffed with basic jewelry and using a charisma 105 character to do buying and selling for my barbarian smith.

If you are selling to vendors with pure goal of skilling up make items that require fewer sheets of metal.
100-115: banded wrists for resale, mold, 1 sheet metal, water
115-123 banded boots: mold, 1 sheet metal, water
123-135 banded mask (1 sheet metal), helm (2 sheets), belt (2 sheets): mold, 1-2 sheets metal, water
135-168 banded gloves (2 sheets), legs (3 sheets): mold, 2-3 sheets metal, water
135-168 banded gloves (2 sheets), legs (3 sheets), mantel (2 sheets): mold, 2-3 sheets metal, water
168-175 banded cloak: mold, 2 sheets metal, water

8. Skill level 175–200: fine steel armor/fine plate armor. See detailed notes further in this document as to recipes, and components. These are all extremely expensive and extremely complex to make. At 30 to 100pp per attempt, don’t do it below skill level of 175 is my suggestion. Watch your success rates, I suspect they will be good enough that skilling up further will not need to be your primary goal, though getting to 200 will allow you to make all fine plate with likely a low level of failures, as well as the race specific items.
175-181 fine plate bracer, neck, and maybe face
181-188 fine plate helms
188-192Fine plate boots, when these
192-200 all other fine plate

8A. Ornate armor (NA, trivials known are <178 one and two sheet items): make only if HQ ore happens to be on hand, probably 170-178 level. Not viable path, as high quality ore not available in sufficient quantity, and market for player resale is very low. Little is known of trivials, other than high quality rings are trivial between 175 and 178, possibly 82 by one report, combining small bricks HQ ore is between 175 and 178. 3 small bricks HQ ore and water in regular forge, give 1 large HQ ore. 1 large HQ brick of ore, water, and file in regular forge gives HQ ring. Armor uses 1-3 rings, ringmail pattern, smithy hammer, water, and unenchanted silver bar to make.

9. Race specific armor: (Race specific refers to race of smith and forge used. One player reports Cabilis scale (Iksar) is trivial at 185. Not viable for use in skilling up, components too hard to get.

10. Skilling up above 200: The first trade that you get to 200 in you will automatically specialize in and continue to increase your skill in that trade. All other trades will be capped at 200.

I have made the Imbued Feild plate for humans and made the first step in Enchanted Full plate for humans. I think the First thing you need to do is check out this website thoroughly under the skill section for recipes because each race is different. Dark elves may not have an enchanted armor and only have imbued armors. I do not really know i only research the Human armors because that is a pain in itself so i dont want to add anymore on top

haven Soulblesser

Blush, thank you for the vote of confidence.

I have answered most your questions below, but first:

Some self disclosure:
Some of you know I have cancer, I get chemo every week and stay sorta beaten down due to that. I have limited play time abilities due to that, hence, my focus and love of the trades. I expect to be around for a while, you never know. I am working hard to get a clean updated master document posted at my clan web site, sort of as my legacy to the game. I had a disaster and lost a big chunk of the new smithing stuff. I've mostly reconstructed it, and hope within a week to have a fresh copy at the web site. For the smith below level 175 you will find it overwhelmingly useful as is.

Go to Sabretooth Bear Clan at www.geocities.com/sbc_huzzah
Go to the vault, and then the skills section. It is over 50 pages long. It is meant to be printed out, and used that way, or set up on your word processor with bookmarks, if you have two computers side by side. It does not have tables, or internal hyperlinks. It is meant for easy updating, and copying with simple word processors. Despite its length it is well organized, with internal table of contents for each section, and common info repeated a fair amount so that you don't have to keep jumping all over the place to make a single piece of stuff.

I have documents I've written based on first hand experience mostly on the web site also on tailoring, brewing, cooking, fletching, pottery, fletching (simplified), alchemy (just recipes with trivials) jewelry making (simple, just the skilling up sequence, trivial levels as wonderful tables are available at allakhazam that put together this complex trade well, Allakhazam's links ARE weak on the skilling up sequences and trivials, and costs, hence my table) Aside from fletching and jewelry, I consider most websites very simplified, hence my attention to detail.
Knarmon Smith 178, Tailor 105, Fletcher 109, Brewer 145, Baker 130, Potter 110, Jeweler (my enchanter Theodities) 121. My guild mates have posted other valuable information tables also.

All my documents are deeply indebted to Allakhazam's resources as their foundation, though most of that is scarcely recognizable at this point of rewriting for umteenth time.

NOW FOR YOUR QUESTIONS:

Regarding money, heck Banded is still a gold mine, just find the market where wearers in their lower teens hang out. Yah, know, it is a quest item for some folks, I ask my usual 6 pp, and they invariably give me 50 to 100 pp they are so grateful to finally find a smith! Interesting.

No idea at all where to GET Mithril, but lots of notes below if you find it.

I don't quite get your question on Frost temper, perhaps this will help:

Frost temper: vendors have been seen selling for 31pp, otherwise cost is 81c for brandy, and camping time. Brandy (81c), ice goblin blood (dropped by ice goblins, vendors sell for 1.7pp), 2 essences of winter (Ice Giants in Everfrost). Verified recipe. Hang out around ice giant castle far east edge of Everfrost zone, and auction for ice goblin blood (offer 1-2pp), and essence of winters (offer 10-20 pp)

Here is recipe for a Northman Ringmail piece of armor:
Visor: smithy hammer, frost temper (31pp), large chain visor pattern (2p), large leather visor (1.3p), 1 medium quality ring (6p). AC 6, wt 2.0.

Recipe for Imbued Northamn ringmail:
Visor: smithy hammer, frost temper (31pp), large chain visor pattern (2p), large leather visor (1.3p), imbued ivory (9p), or jade, 1 medium quality ring (6p). AC 6, wt 2.0. str +1, wis +2, cold resist +2. Total cost to make 50pp. Trivial >175


Regarding High Quality Ore: Everfrost, specfically Permafrost has lots of it. Best way to get is just to auction, offer what vendors buy it for. It is NOT in demand up here for sure. Few smiths around. so: 3pp for small, 9pp for large would be fair.

I have experience making and using it (for ornate) at skill level 178 and fail about 25% of time making large bricks, and about the same for rings (total number of combines under 7 so add a range of 20 to 40% on this for failure rates to cover the unreliability of the data.

Here are my notes as of today:

High quality small brick ore: Vendor buys for 2818c. Vendor sells for 11,497-15,933c, non-stackable, wt 7.0, HH keep, Miner Harton, Also DE vendor near Neriak Forge. Its icon is silver in color. When sold to other vendors by players vendor sells for 17pp. Dropped by Permafrost goblins near King room, Nintalten writes: Goblins in Solusek A also drop the small/large bricks of high quality ore. They drop fairly frequently. After spending about 1-2 hrs in Permafrost he had about 5 pieces of small ore and 2-3 pieces of the large. You can camp the rare spawns while doing it and get some half decent equipment. Used by humans only in Freeport forge, for specialty armors and shields.

Enchanted High Quality small brink ore: high level (49) enchanter spell, spell in Freeport somewhere. Requires 2 jacinth.

High quality large brick ore combine regular forge: 3 high quality small brick, water. (icon silver in color), trivial 175-178). wt 14, permafrost goblins near King room. Also DE vendor near Neriak Forge. Halas, magic shop 41pp (may not be regular stock item) Enchantable with enchant steel. Use to make High Quality rings used by all smiths to make ornate chain armor. Trivial >175 Vendor buys for 9pp. 2/3 successes at skill level 178.

Forged High quality folded sheet metal: combine in regular forge: high quality block of ore, water, smithy hammer. Cost to make 10pp. Confirmed by Gzar Zigdog. Used in Seafarer armor, humans at Freeport.

Enchanted sheet of metal: make in cultural forge. 2 HQ enchanted small bricks ore, water.

High quality rings: Use regular forge: high quality large brick, water, file. (Verified by Kepler and myself). Trivial 175-178. Vendors have been seen to sell rings for 10pp (player sold to them). Cost to make is 9pp. At skill level 178 2/3 successes.

NOT MUCH ON MITHRIL:
Mithril sheet: can be made magical

Mithril studs: Fierdal forge? (wood elf?) Used in wood elf tailored armor

Mithril boning: Fierdal forge? (wood elf?) Used in wood elf tailored armor

Checking my High Elf Notes, I see I put a lot of conjecture work into this topic, here is what I came up with (conjecture: guess work, unreliable, probably wrong, get it? hee hee.)

Enchanted Mithril ring: Morning dew (foraged), Small brick of Mithril 7pp, File 2g. Cost to make 7pp (suspect correct recipe is large brick enchanted Mithril.)

Note on enchanting Mithril: The recipe above does not specify enchanted Mithril, but that may be assumed. the spell enchant mithril calls for a blue diamond, anyone know if this is purchased or dropped, and where? Sebilis, and plane of hate is reported. You can buy blue diamond in FV for about 210pp. The diamond is consumed when it is enchanted. If recipe is bad, may want to compare to specific notes on enchanted Brellium armor which has been verified. May need large brick of enchanted mithril if pattern followed.

Chainmail patterns: Felwithe 120, -420 Tanalin Silverkale Mithril Ore and Chainmail Pattern Vendor, North Qeynos Connie Link, outside of Ironforge Estates.

Success rates:
(player report)
Enchanted Elven mithril chain, smithing skill 208, and both str and int over 200. 2 attempts on enchanted (something) 5 attempts on enchanted-imbued gauntlets. Not a single success. 0/7 successes.

This is conjecture on enchanting the various components, drawn from process found to work for Dwarven brellium:
Make enchanted folded sheet::
A. Enchanted Large Brick of Mithril: enchant a large BRICK of mithril (12.4pp) This needs a blue diamond.
B. Enchanted Block of Mithril: THREE enchanted large bricks of Mithril. Dwarven ale, combine in the Stormguard forge. C. Enchanted FOLDED sheet of brellium: Enchanted block of Mithril, Dwarven ale equivalent, and a DWARVEN smithy hammer in the racial forge