GM Blacksmithy

[Creager]

So you may be thinking why would I want to gm blacksmithy? Well first of all, its always going to be a source of income now and even more so into the future of the server. At some point you will wish to repair your armor, weapons and shields yourself, instead of having someone else do it for you. You may wish to craft your own weapons. There are a lot of nice things to be made as a blacksmith, some that cannot be looted off monsters!

Blacksmithy/Mining:

• Having around 75 smithy will allow you to make all items at a non exceptional level.
  
• Colored ingots give the crafted item the hue of the ore, and no added AR bonus.
  
• Ingots are gathered by mining or purchasingthem from the vendor for 5gp a pop.
  
• A precise measurement of ingots from 30 smithy to gm is 60k and from 50-100 45k.
  

Character Template:
I personally for stats would start out with high strength and high dex as you are going to be walking around and carrying stuff alot. Two starting skills at 50 would be Blacksmithy and Tinkering(best starting zone is minoc). I start blacksmithy at 50 because who really enjoys mining that extra 15k ingots or even buying them from vendors?Tinkering because you want to be able to make those shovels and utensils on the fly.

Mining was nerfed so it will be a little harder than when I leveled it, but its still an easy skill to gain as you will be doing a lot of it if you decide to go on the free resourceroute. Unless you are into colored ore, or you don't wantto gm smithy as fast as possible(lock mining at 64.9)otherwisepoint that arrow up and keep going ham!

A complete crafting character template for a perfectionist would look something like this:

• Stats 100 Strength/85 Dexterity/40 Intelligence(enough for gate travel)
  
• Blacksmithy
  
• Tinkering
  
• Carpentry
  
• Mining
  
• Lumberjacking
  
• Meditation
  
• Magery
  

This is much more of a futuristic character template because of these skills coincidingwith each other as far as keg making and house addons are concerned. If you make it to 75 tinkering during your mass mining of beautiful ingots lock it up, so later on when you decide to tackle carpentry you can make the first set of two lockboxes that lockpickers can macro off of.

So ive managed to talk alot about other stuff...lets get back on track with some smithy!

Crafting Guide:

• 50 - 65: Cutlass
  
• 65 - 75: Kryss
  
• 75 - 85: Short Spear
  
• 85 - 95: Plate Gorgets
  
• 95 - GM: Plate Gloves
  

I am slightly biased with starting from 50 smithy, for those of you that start from 30 the advice I give you and everyone thats leveling a crafter is that you gain more skill based on success of crafting that item. So I would craft an item that you have a 60% chance to make, that way you get some solid gains and you are able to smelt the remainsof it down and repeat until you've reached the next level of item you are going to craft.


Razor Macro for Blacksmithy:
!Loop
Assistant.Macros.DoubleClickTypeAction|4027|True
Assistant.Macros.WaitForGumpAction|949095101|False|300
Assistant.Macros.GumpResponseAction|14|0|0
Assistant.Macros.WaitForTargetAction|30
Assistant.Macros.TargetTypeAction|False|5140
Assistant.Macros.WaitForGumpAction|949095101|False|1
Assistant.Macros.PauseAction|00:00:01.5000000


This macro will need to be adjusted depending on what item you are crafting.


Razor Macro for Mining:
!Loop
Assistant.Macros.IfAction|5|1|375
Assistant.Macros.SpeechAction|0|906|3|ENU|0|Full!
Assistant.Macros.DoubleClickAction|38119|200
Assistant.Macros.HotKeyAction|1083|
Assistant.Macros.ElseAction
Assistant.Macros.IfAction|4|0|you have worn out your tool
Assistant.Macros.SpeechAction|2|537|3|ENU|0|
Assistant.Macros.DoubleClickTypeAction|7864|True
Assistant.Macros.WaitForGumpAction|2002155655|False|1
Assistant.Macros.GumpResponseAction|8|0|0
Assistant.Macros.WaitForGumpAction|2002155655|False|1
Assistant.Macros.GumpResponseAction|72|0|0
Assistant.Macros.WaitForGumpAction|2002155655|False|1
Assistant.Macros.PauseAction|00:00:00.7500000
Assistant.Macros.ElseAction
Assistant.Macros.DoubleClickTypeAction|3897|True
Assistant.Macros.WaitForTargetAction|1
Assistant.Macros.LastTargetAction
Assistant.Macros.PauseAction|00:00:01
Assistant.Macros.ElseAction
Assistant.Macros.IfAction|4|0|dig some
Assistant.Macros.DoubleClickTypeAction|3897|True
Assistant.Macros.WaitForTargetAction|1
Assistant.Macros.LastTargetAction
Assistant.Macros.PauseAction|00:00:01
Assistant.Macros.ElseAction
Assistant.Macros.IfAction|4|0|no metal
Assistant.Macros.SpeechAction|0|906|3|ENU|0|Move on!
Assistant.Macros.DoubleClickTypeAction|3897|True
Assistant.Macros.PauseAction|00:00:05
Assistant.Macros.EndIfAction
Assistant.Macros.EndIfAction
Assistant.Macros.EndIfAction
Assistant.Macros.EndIfAction

This macro will make mining way easier and also help you level your tinkering at the same time!

So you have some awesome razor macros, time to get rolling!

Happy Smithing!