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Calador's Smithing Guide (Pub-16, Fast)
This is my guide to GM'ing smithing fast and cheap:
< 35.0% - Buy from Blacksmith Guildmaster (Minoc has one)
35.0% - 43.0% ... Cutlass
43.0% - 47.0% ... Scimitar
47.0% - 52.0% ... Kryss
52.0% - 57.0% ... War Axe
57.0% - 59.0% ... Katana
59.0% - 70.0% ... Spear
70.0% - 100.0% ... Plate Gorget
it took me 4 days and 50k of ingots to GM smithing using this technique.
Important things to know
1) this system assumes your character has GM mining. The reason is because a GM miner will smelt items and get back a 60% return in ingots (so in effect, its not really 50k of ingots, but actually 80k of ingots when you factor in the smelted ingots you will use).
2) your UOAssist macro will look like this:
Use Item Type
Menu selection
Menu selection
Pause 2000
Use Item Type
Menu selection
Target Item Type
Menu selection
to set up your macro, you do this: before you start recording, make one item so your smith hammer has a 'make last' item in its list. now start recording. double click hammer, click 'make last', when the smithy menu returns click 'exit', insert a pause for 2000 (2 seconds), double click hammer again, select smelt, target the item you just made, click 'exit'. stop your macro and change the 'Use Item' to 'Use Item Type' (so it uses any smithy hammer in your pack). change the 'Target Item' to 'Target Item Type' (this is so any item of the type you just made will get smelted). Periodically, as you move from making one item to the next, you have to reset the smelt target type (eg. when you move from Katana's to Spears, you need to set your macro to smelt Spears instead of Katana's).
Too bad there isnt some kind of looping program that you could set to run your macro every 6 seconds. anyway, sometimes you wont have an item of the correct type to smelt and this will slow the macro down, but don't worry about this.
3) the items in your pack should be as follows: 16 smithy hammers and 2600 iron ingots. this will last for hours because when you factor in the extra 60% of ingots you get back from smelting (so its more like you have 4160 ingots in your pack).
What's this About Plate Gorgets?
Yes, that's not a mistake, make plate gorgets from 70% to GM. You will hit a 'wall' sometime in the mid 90's and you will think its because you are making gorgets. its not, you'll hit that wall no matter what you are making (even plate chests) - just 'power' through it stubbornly. Pre-pub16 guides for smithing are no good because they are based around powerhour. To gain well in skills with pub16 you need to succeed more (seeing you rarely gain on fails) and you need to go 'long and steady' (which is exactly what this technique does).
<font color=blue>[Edited by Nadia: Removed embedded reference to an illegal 3rd party program]</font color=blue>
This is my guide to GM'ing smithing fast and cheap:
< 35.0% - Buy from Blacksmith Guildmaster (Minoc has one)
35.0% - 43.0% ... Cutlass
43.0% - 47.0% ... Scimitar
47.0% - 52.0% ... Kryss
52.0% - 57.0% ... War Axe
57.0% - 59.0% ... Katana
59.0% - 70.0% ... Spear
70.0% - 100.0% ... Plate Gorget
it took me 4 days and 50k of ingots to GM smithing using this technique.
Important things to know
1) this system assumes your character has GM mining. The reason is because a GM miner will smelt items and get back a 60% return in ingots (so in effect, its not really 50k of ingots, but actually 80k of ingots when you factor in the smelted ingots you will use).
2) your UOAssist macro will look like this:
Use Item Type
Menu selection
Menu selection
Pause 2000
Use Item Type
Menu selection
Target Item Type
Menu selection
to set up your macro, you do this: before you start recording, make one item so your smith hammer has a 'make last' item in its list. now start recording. double click hammer, click 'make last', when the smithy menu returns click 'exit', insert a pause for 2000 (2 seconds), double click hammer again, select smelt, target the item you just made, click 'exit'. stop your macro and change the 'Use Item' to 'Use Item Type' (so it uses any smithy hammer in your pack). change the 'Target Item' to 'Target Item Type' (this is so any item of the type you just made will get smelted). Periodically, as you move from making one item to the next, you have to reset the smelt target type (eg. when you move from Katana's to Spears, you need to set your macro to smelt Spears instead of Katana's).
Too bad there isnt some kind of looping program that you could set to run your macro every 6 seconds. anyway, sometimes you wont have an item of the correct type to smelt and this will slow the macro down, but don't worry about this.
3) the items in your pack should be as follows: 16 smithy hammers and 2600 iron ingots. this will last for hours because when you factor in the extra 60% of ingots you get back from smelting (so its more like you have 4160 ingots in your pack).
What's this About Plate Gorgets?
Yes, that's not a mistake, make plate gorgets from 70% to GM. You will hit a 'wall' sometime in the mid 90's and you will think its because you are making gorgets. its not, you'll hit that wall no matter what you are making (even plate chests) - just 'power' through it stubbornly. Pre-pub16 guides for smithing are no good because they are based around powerhour. To gain well in skills with pub16 you need to succeed more (seeing you rarely gain on fails) and you need to go 'long and steady' (which is exactly what this technique does).
<font color=blue>[Edited by Nadia: Removed embedded reference to an illegal 3rd party program]</font color=blue>