Naria's Smithing Adventures

Here's the plan I intend to use… only level 3 so far.

Tin ore and copper ore are dirt cheap at guild. I lose only crystals so far, really.

*Holy bolt heads are primarily an alchemy synth, like lvl 65 or more. At the current AH rates, it's slightly profitable to make them.

When I got to it, iron ingots were break even or slightly better (but it will vary a lot depending on where you get the ores and current rates on everything). Even if it's not great, save them all for making sheets. When I made them, sheets were an amazing 10K profit per stack. Too bad turing them into scales results in a 16K loss per stack, plus wind crystals. I plan to just make extra sheets enough to make up for the losses. Still 21 now, but I should be 26 soon enough.

I added flame to the degens with my alchemy so as not to take a big loss on them. But that was silly really, with high alchemy I can do the elemental arrowheads and turn them into arrows for break even, more or less. So I did lightning arrowheads to 29.

Cannon Shells are a lvl 94 alchemy synth… so it's not like this guide is useful for a non-alchemist. More that I reaped a small benefit of dual-skilling because I put off my smithing until now.