The changes to Smithing are ridiculous. : V - Skyrim

» Fri Jul 06, 2012 7:56 pm

So let me get this straight: you brought it up, but you don't want people responding to it? It don't work that way, buddy.

It's called "practice". No smith ever got any good just making the few things he'd need to use himself. And who ever heard of an armorsmith or weaponsmith making armors and weapons only for himself?

Everybody trains before going into battle. I know this is getting for some of you to hear, but it's true. Even the NPC's train. The mages at the College, the orcs in the strongholds, the bandits in certain camps and the Imperials in Solitude. They all train.

Hell, look at Urma Thurman. She was kicking fence posts for a year on that mountain. Ralph Machio? Wax on wax off and paint the fence...all practice...

Oh gods, Conjuration. I installed a mod that gives my character a conjured familiar at level 1. So she's been continually, incesssantly spamming Conjuration since her wrist ropes were cut off in Helgen. And at level 20 she is still only 30-something in Conjuration. That's just brutally slow. I gave in and adjusted the rate gain to be faster.

My first character was a Breton Conjurer and it took her for ever to get to level 5. Casting one familiar every few minutes was not doing the trick. Then she got the Bound swords. 1 Familiar and two swords every enemy...and Conjuration started flying. then Soul Trap got thrown into the mix and she was a master in no time.

» Fri Jul 06, 2012 12:47 pm

Just cast soul trap on any dead creature to level up conjuration. You'll be 100, depending on your mana, in about an hour or so.

» Fri Jul 06, 2012 2:26 pm

I just leveled it up from 1 to 100 in under 2 hours making just daggers. As long as you have enough money just fast travel from one smith to the next, buy supplies and make your daggers.

Really not that hard.

Before the patch it took between 450 and 485 daggers, pending the character's starting stats. After 1.6 it takes around 4,000 daggers. That is a guestimate, someone can feel free to give an accurate number.

» Fri Jul 06, 2012 1:42 pm

Before the patch it took between 450 and 485 daggers, pending the character's starting stats. After 1.6 it takes around 4,000 daggers. That is a guestimate, someone can feel free to give an accurate number.

I didn't track the number of daggers just the time. It took just under 2 hours making daggers and leather bracers and helmets. All I bought was all iron and leather from the vendors and just went to work.

Make sure you have the warrior stone also.