Post by boyth on Mar 15, 2015 21:51:13 GMT -5
So you suck at Smithing.
Look at you. You're a smithing noob.
You can hardly pick up a hammer. The heat of the forge makes you sweat, and you wouldn't know what to do with an anvil if it fell on you from the sky with 'ACME' written on it.
So, we'll go back to Tutorial Island and start with bron- or not. There's really no reason to ever smelt bronze. You see, you can jump right to steel by simply doing a few quests.
The Preface: Questing
(Level 1 to 38)
The follow quests will bring you to level 38 Smithing and have relatively easy requirements:
1,000 - Recipe for Disaster (Pirate Pete Subquest) (optional for skillers)
2,500 - The Giant Dwarf (Highly recommended for access to blast furnace)
5,000 - Elemental Workshop I
7,500 - Elemental Workshop II
28,725 - Total (Level 38)
Other quests that have Smithing experience rewards but harder requirements are as follows. I suggest doing all of these as soon as you can, as it's free experience.
2,257: Heroes Quest (Requires 53 Cooking, 53 Fishing, 25 Herblore, 50 Mining)
5,000: Between a Rock... (Requires 30 Defence, 40 Mining, 50 Smithing)
6,500: Devious Minds (Requires 65 Smithing, 50 Runecrafting, 50 Fletching)
7,000: Cabin Fever (Requires 42 Agility, 45 Crafting, 50 Smithing, 40 Ranged)
Finally, there are a few items and skills that will help you gain fat exp, but are not necessary.
Completion of Another Slice of H.A.M. grants access to the Dorgesh-Kaan - Keldagrim Rail System, adding a train station to the grand exchange, to get to the Blast Furnace.
Goldsmith Gauntlets from Family Crest boost the experience given for smelting Gold ore from 22.5 per bar to 56.2
Varrock Platebody 1-4 from Varrock Achievement Diary gives access to the Edgeville Furnace, and completing higher level diaries gives the chance for multiple ores to smelt at once, increasing exp rates.
43/55 Magic gives access to Superheat Item, allowing you to smelt ores without leaving the bank, and High Level Alchemy, allowing you to alch the things you create. More on these later.
Lastly, 44/91 Runecrafting is helpful here, but not necessary, in order to craft your own nature runes to reduce cost or boost profits. Zero. Exp. Waste.
So you did a few quests. Now what?
Well, it really depends on what you want from the skill. If you put cash in, you save time, and if you put time in, you get cash. So, let's get to Smithing.
The Blast Furnace: Your Best Friend
You must first become acquainted with the Blast Furnace. Try not to fall in love, she'll break your heart some day. Use of her requires completion of The Giant Dwarf, which grants players a minigame teleport to the furnace. It is located in Keldagrim, northeast of Rellekka. It can also be easily accessed through the rail system from the Grand Exchange after completion of Another Slice of H.A.M. Alternatively, fairy ring DKS can be used to access Keldagrim.
You can use the blast furnace at any level, but anyone under level 60 smithing will have to pay a small fee (2.5k/10min or 15k/hr) for entrance. This is encouraged as the cost of ore saved will exceed the fee put down greatly.
The Blast Furnace cuts coal costs in half, for the same experience reward. It's almost ridiculous. The ratios are now as follows:
Steel 1:1 coal:ore.
Mithril is 2:1 coal:ore.
Adamant is 3:1 coal:ore.
Runite is 4:1 coal:ore.
The Blast Furnace smelts many bars at once. Up to 28, actually. That's right, a full inventory at once. Bar rates and exp rates can be found here.
The Blast Furnace is really easy to use. So easy, in fact, that I'm not going to do anything further, aside from urging you towards independent research. Once you get your act together, buy some ore, and show up at the blast furnace, we'll be ready to go.
Blast Furnace Method 1: Stackables to Sell
This method involves crafting stackable items (bolts, darts, and knives) to sell.Stackables are nice as each bar turns in to multiple of another item, allowing for potential profit as well as possible fletching experience. However, they take longer to process than platebodies, especially cannonballs, potentially lowering experience rates, as experience is granted per bar.
Level 33, 34, 37: Steel Stackables. Bolts (10); Dart Tips (10); Knives (5)
3,142 Steel bars must be smelted and processed into stackables to get from 38 to 57, requiring 3,142 Iron Ore and 3,142 Coal.
Level 53, 54, 57: Mithril Stackables. Bolts (10); Dart Tips (10); Knives (5)
15,905 Mithril bars must be smelted and processed into stackables to get from 57 to 77, requiring 15,905 Mithril Ore and 31,810 Coal.
Level 73, 74, 77: Adamant Stackables. Bolts (10); Dart Tips (10); Knives (5)
85,622 Adamant bars must be smelted and processed into stackables to get from 77 to 99, requiring 85,622 Adamantite Ore and 256,864 Coal.
Blast Furnace Method 2: Platebodies to Alch
This method is nice because it grants periods of fast experience (when crafting platebodies), but also gives magic experience, potentially runecrafting experience, and moderate profit margins. The idea is to blast smelt a large amount of bars for cheap, craft them into platebodies, and alchemize them for profit. Profit can be increased by crafting ones own nature runes (or mining ore, but mining is for scrubs). It's as simple as that, yielding both good cash and good experience rates in a variety of skills.
Level 48: Steel Platebodies (5 bars change to 1 alch for 1200)
Making 9,491 coal and iron ore into 1,898 platebodies will carry you to 68 smithing.
Level 68: Mithril Platebodies (5 bars change to 1 alch for 3120)
Making 95,420 coal and 47,710 mithril ore into 9,542 platebodies will get you to 88 smithing.
Level 88: Adamant Platebodies (5 bars change to 1 alch for 9984)
The most beautiful item in the game, adamant platebodies can earn you a few millions of gold on the path to 99 smithing. Assuming 1.7k for bar materials, 250 for nature runes, it costs 8,750 to produce an item that alchemizes for 1,234 profit each cast. 88 to 99 will take 13,838 adamant platebodies worth (207,570 coal, 69,190 adamantite ore) granting just over 17m from alchs.
Gold Smithing Method 1: Superheating
For this, it is necessary to complete the Family Crest quest, in order to utilize Goldsmithing gauntlets. Simply withdraw gold ore with the gauntlets on and superheat it. This costs a lot of money. However, the experience rate can break over 110k per hour, and it also trains magic.
Gold Smithing Method 2: Edgeville Furnace
Use of the Edgeville furnace requires completion of at least 1 of the Varrock Achievement Diaries. The better completion of Varrock diary, the faster the experience rate, as multiple ores may be smelted at once when wearing the Varrock platebody. Once again, smelt Gold ore while wearing the Goldsmithing gauntlets, and bask in 100k+/hr experience rates. Just ignore your cash stack, or lack of it.
Gold Smithing Method 3: Hybrid Superheat/Blast Furnace
This is perhaps the fastest smithing experience in the game, clocking in at over 140k per hour. For a detailed guide, check out this guy. I've personally never done it, but it's good to know that it exists.
Classic 1: Cannonballs
Requires level 35 smithing and completion of Dwarf Cannon. This is pretty straightforward. Simply buy or smelt steel bars and craft them into cannonballs, for a terribad 14-15k experience per hour, but decent potential for profit. Think 150-300k cash an hour from 3 clicks every minute or so. Suggested location is Port Phasmatys or Edgeville furnace (requiring some form of Varrock diary completion). Not really suggested for hardcore level grinding, but hey, to each their own. It's always a viable money making method.
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That's just about it. If you guys have any questions, feel free to hit me up in the cc.
~Boyth
Look at you. You're a smithing noob.
You can hardly pick up a hammer. The heat of the forge makes you sweat, and you wouldn't know what to do with an anvil if it fell on you from the sky with 'ACME' written on it.
So, we'll go back to Tutorial Island and start with bron- or not. There's really no reason to ever smelt bronze. You see, you can jump right to steel by simply doing a few quests.
The Preface: Questing
(Level 1 to 38)
The follow quests will bring you to level 38 Smithing and have relatively easy requirements:
- 31 Cooking
- 20 Crafting
- 16 Firemaking
- 33 Magic
- 14 Thieving
- 20 Mining
1,000 - Recipe for Disaster (Pirate Pete Subquest) (optional for skillers)
2,500 - The Giant Dwarf (Highly recommended for access to blast furnace)
5,000 - Elemental Workshop I
7,500 - Elemental Workshop II
28,725 - Total (Level 38)
Other quests that have Smithing experience rewards but harder requirements are as follows. I suggest doing all of these as soon as you can, as it's free experience.
2,257: Heroes Quest (Requires 53 Cooking, 53 Fishing, 25 Herblore, 50 Mining)
5,000: Between a Rock... (Requires 30 Defence, 40 Mining, 50 Smithing)
6,500: Devious Minds (Requires 65 Smithing, 50 Runecrafting, 50 Fletching)
7,000: Cabin Fever (Requires 42 Agility, 45 Crafting, 50 Smithing, 40 Ranged)
Finally, there are a few items and skills that will help you gain fat exp, but are not necessary.
Completion of Another Slice of H.A.M. grants access to the Dorgesh-Kaan - Keldagrim Rail System, adding a train station to the grand exchange, to get to the Blast Furnace.
Goldsmith Gauntlets from Family Crest boost the experience given for smelting Gold ore from 22.5 per bar to 56.2
Varrock Platebody 1-4 from Varrock Achievement Diary gives access to the Edgeville Furnace, and completing higher level diaries gives the chance for multiple ores to smelt at once, increasing exp rates.
43/55 Magic gives access to Superheat Item, allowing you to smelt ores without leaving the bank, and High Level Alchemy, allowing you to alch the things you create. More on these later.
Lastly, 44/91 Runecrafting is helpful here, but not necessary, in order to craft your own nature runes to reduce cost or boost profits. Zero. Exp. Waste.
So you did a few quests. Now what?
Well, it really depends on what you want from the skill. If you put cash in, you save time, and if you put time in, you get cash. So, let's get to Smithing.
The Blast Furnace: Your Best Friend
You must first become acquainted with the Blast Furnace. Try not to fall in love, she'll break your heart some day. Use of her requires completion of The Giant Dwarf, which grants players a minigame teleport to the furnace. It is located in Keldagrim, northeast of Rellekka. It can also be easily accessed through the rail system from the Grand Exchange after completion of Another Slice of H.A.M. Alternatively, fairy ring DKS can be used to access Keldagrim.
You can use the blast furnace at any level, but anyone under level 60 smithing will have to pay a small fee (2.5k/10min or 15k/hr) for entrance. This is encouraged as the cost of ore saved will exceed the fee put down greatly.
The Blast Furnace cuts coal costs in half, for the same experience reward. It's almost ridiculous. The ratios are now as follows:
Steel 1:1 coal:ore.
Mithril is 2:1 coal:ore.
Adamant is 3:1 coal:ore.
Runite is 4:1 coal:ore.
The Blast Furnace smelts many bars at once. Up to 28, actually. That's right, a full inventory at once. Bar rates and exp rates can be found here.
The Blast Furnace is really easy to use. So easy, in fact, that I'm not going to do anything further, aside from urging you towards independent research. Once you get your act together, buy some ore, and show up at the blast furnace, we'll be ready to go.
Blast Furnace Method 1: Stackables to Sell
This method involves crafting stackable items (bolts, darts, and knives) to sell.Stackables are nice as each bar turns in to multiple of another item, allowing for potential profit as well as possible fletching experience. However, they take longer to process than platebodies, especially cannonballs, potentially lowering experience rates, as experience is granted per bar.
Level 33, 34, 37: Steel Stackables. Bolts (10); Dart Tips (10); Knives (5)
3,142 Steel bars must be smelted and processed into stackables to get from 38 to 57, requiring 3,142 Iron Ore and 3,142 Coal.
Level 53, 54, 57: Mithril Stackables. Bolts (10); Dart Tips (10); Knives (5)
15,905 Mithril bars must be smelted and processed into stackables to get from 57 to 77, requiring 15,905 Mithril Ore and 31,810 Coal.
Level 73, 74, 77: Adamant Stackables. Bolts (10); Dart Tips (10); Knives (5)
85,622 Adamant bars must be smelted and processed into stackables to get from 77 to 99, requiring 85,622 Adamantite Ore and 256,864 Coal.
Blast Furnace Method 2: Platebodies to Alch
This method is nice because it grants periods of fast experience (when crafting platebodies), but also gives magic experience, potentially runecrafting experience, and moderate profit margins. The idea is to blast smelt a large amount of bars for cheap, craft them into platebodies, and alchemize them for profit. Profit can be increased by crafting ones own nature runes (or mining ore, but mining is for scrubs). It's as simple as that, yielding both good cash and good experience rates in a variety of skills.
Level 48: Steel Platebodies (5 bars change to 1 alch for 1200)
Making 9,491 coal and iron ore into 1,898 platebodies will carry you to 68 smithing.
Level 68: Mithril Platebodies (5 bars change to 1 alch for 3120)
Making 95,420 coal and 47,710 mithril ore into 9,542 platebodies will get you to 88 smithing.
Level 88: Adamant Platebodies (5 bars change to 1 alch for 9984)
The most beautiful item in the game, adamant platebodies can earn you a few millions of gold on the path to 99 smithing. Assuming 1.7k for bar materials, 250 for nature runes, it costs 8,750 to produce an item that alchemizes for 1,234 profit each cast. 88 to 99 will take 13,838 adamant platebodies worth (207,570 coal, 69,190 adamantite ore) granting just over 17m from alchs.
Gold Smithing Method 1: Superheating
For this, it is necessary to complete the Family Crest quest, in order to utilize Goldsmithing gauntlets. Simply withdraw gold ore with the gauntlets on and superheat it. This costs a lot of money. However, the experience rate can break over 110k per hour, and it also trains magic.
Gold Smithing Method 2: Edgeville Furnace
Use of the Edgeville furnace requires completion of at least 1 of the Varrock Achievement Diaries. The better completion of Varrock diary, the faster the experience rate, as multiple ores may be smelted at once when wearing the Varrock platebody. Once again, smelt Gold ore while wearing the Goldsmithing gauntlets, and bask in 100k+/hr experience rates. Just ignore your cash stack, or lack of it.
Gold Smithing Method 3: Hybrid Superheat/Blast Furnace
This is perhaps the fastest smithing experience in the game, clocking in at over 140k per hour. For a detailed guide, check out this guy. I've personally never done it, but it's good to know that it exists.
Classic 1: Cannonballs
Requires level 35 smithing and completion of Dwarf Cannon. This is pretty straightforward. Simply buy or smelt steel bars and craft them into cannonballs, for a terribad 14-15k experience per hour, but decent potential for profit. Think 150-300k cash an hour from 3 clicks every minute or so. Suggested location is Port Phasmatys or Edgeville furnace (requiring some form of Varrock diary completion). Not really suggested for hardcore level grinding, but hey, to each their own. It's always a viable money making method.
_________________________________
That's just about it. If you guys have any questions, feel free to hit me up in the cc.
~Boyth