The Serpent's Spine Smithing Guide
Smithing in Everquest is used for crafting gear for plate and chain users throughout the game. Modern day it's mostly used for crafting basic Prestige gear when they raise the level cap. It has some better rewards here and there but overall.... meh. The route I have chosen for leveling Smithing may not be too costly depending on your server.
Before you go gung ho and start Smithing up a storm - I recommend you stop at 50 - 99 Smithing and complete the
Alternative Route: If
Smithing 1 - 21
Visit the trainer and use your practice's to raise your skill to 21.
You'll want to vendor/destroy all of the Cobalt Studs that you make through this process.
Every item for this combine can be vendor purchased except for the Tungsten Ore. The ore is a common drop off humanoid enemies between the levels of 55 - 70. All of the Plate Bracers Templates that you make through this combine you'll probably just want to vendor.
Any Cobalt Plate Bracer Templates that you make you'll want to destroy or vendor. There's really no reason to do the final combine with them as they reward Attunable group gear which is highly specific and not very good without the cultural augs that go with it.
Additional Information
- After the Gates of Discord expansion pack goes live there's an alternative method to raising every Tradeskill in the game to 54. I believe these quests to be a waste of time, however, they teach you recipes that can't be learned anywhere else and for that reason must be done at least once to reach 350 Smithing. If you're interested in learning more about the GoD Tradeskill Quests then follow the link provided.
- If you choose to use a Draught of the Craftsman you'll have enough juice to max out two Tradeskills usually. So come prepared with a lot of materials before popping a pot!
- If you don't see any materials that you need listed in The Bazaar setup a Buyer on a day when you don't plan on playing much to buy the items you need. Mention in general chat what you're buying (and even pay double what the other barters ask to get peoples attention if you want). Maybe someone who is killing in the zones and reading general will offload their loot to you.
- Aside from the uses mentioned above it's useful for every player to max out all of their Tradeskills for tangible useful benefits. You can only acquire things like Artisan's Prize and Sacred Prayer Shawl of the Duke from maxing out your Tradeskills. Those of you whom are wondering if this is all even worth it, well now you know.
- Under "General" in the AA window get the Salvage AA as soon as you possibly can, preferably before you start raising all of your Tradeskills. It'll save you a lot of plat.
- Every Tradeskill gets an item called a Tradeskill Trophy introduced in the Prophecy of Ro expansion pack. If you'd like to learn more about them prior their introduction then follow the link provided. Here is a list of all 6 quests for the