What's the best thing to craft? I'm a light armor crossbow dude, so I was thinking of the crown, but what standing stone effect would be best?

The lord stone is allways a good thing to have. Other then that im not sure, the ritual perhaps if your evil.

Thief/Mage/Warrior and Lover stone. 35% more skill increase.

I got the staff, at higher levels it's nigh useless. A fun little novelty tho.

I take it that its great if your a smith? (I have read that it sometimes summons dwarven scrap metal).

I've never had that happen before.

steed stone is best. it makes your armor not count towards your carry weight when you have it on, armor doesnt slow you down, plus 100 carrying capacity. so you can carry dragonbone weopons no problem. it becomes really awsome when you have the steed stone + extra pockets perk + carrying cappacity enchanted boots. my cc is 638.

I'm getting de' staff just cause I kinda miss summoning Dwarven Spheres... (Anybody else remember that old book in Morrowind?)

I wonder if in future plug-ins they will add more aetherium. At first I just wanted to keep the aetherium disk as a novelty.

The Aetherial Crown is by far the best of the options, especially considering there's a bug where Circlets can be worn in addition to certain other head pieces. The Lord Stone is by far the best of the Standing Stones for Combat, +50 Armor Rating (6% Damage Reduction) and 25% Resist Magic is just beast, especially considering it carries over to VL/WW Form. The Steed Stone is only really useful if you're a Heavy Armor wearer, and even then, only if you don't have the "Conditioning" perk. The Atronach Stone is pretty useful for combat too if you're a pure Warrior (Extra defense against magic), and/or a Werewolf. The Lady Stone is useful for regenerating Health/Stamina in the daylight as a Vampire.

That happens to me 1/3 of the time. Starting to get annoying seeing it summon garbage all over to clean up.

Breton + Lord Stone + Alteration Perks (If I'm correct) = 80% Resist Magic that works for WW/VL form... I think it is 30% Resist Magic comes from Alteration Perks...