Originally Posted by
sladewilson
Originally Posted by
NICKLE DIME BAY
Im level 18 and i've only finished 3 main quests
i love this game
How do i get my smithing up? Its at like 23 and i want to make better Dwarven armor.
just make iron daggers...it levels smithing up as fast as making anything else...but with much cheaper ingrediants.
That being said...you don't actually NEED to level smithing or take more then 1 perk in it to get through the game just fine. Going past that can make the game a total joke in fact.
With base smithing + a fortify potion you'll add 5 damage to weapons and 10 AR to armor (but only for steel armor if you take the first perk).
Getting to 30 smithing can allow you to upgrade your equipment that you can smith by 1 degree (basically adding 1 point of damage/2 or ar) and boosts your bonus damage/ar by 3/6 respectively. It's nice...but not needed in a normal game.
Basiclaly only go all out on smithing if you want to make the game absolute cake. You can get quite a big bonus from it at base. Base steel equipment upgraded with smithing (with a fort potion which you can get for free from the blacksmiths house in riverwood) has higher base damage or armor then then deadric equipment which you won't get for along time.