Smithing.. Smelting vs Selling

Flutter · 23rd October 2005, 07:20 AM

So I am busting my rump working smithing on my new elfy character and am currently at 111.9 and crafting plate gloves.
I have read a couple different methods. One says smelt what you make and the other says sell what you make.
Are the people who are selling their gloves those that have an unlimited amount of ingots?
Or is it cheaper to sell and buy more?
I am currently smelting but have gone through nearly 60K ingots from GM and I am barely half way there.
Any legendary smiths have any input on this?
I am currently spending all of my UO time working smithy and it's not exactly fun.
Legendary tailoring gains went soooooooo much faster!
I wanna get back to my crafting quests LOL

Tukaram · 23rd October 2005, 08:55 AM

I went around and bought up tons of iron ingots when working my smithy skills. I always sold everything I made. I would use Haven because the bank and the blacksmith are next door (pre-Luna) I've GMed at least three smiths (various accounts) and still have over 100K iron ingots at the house. Now days for iron you just have to walk around and pick em up. Everyone seems to be leaving the iron on the ground.

I did the same with carpentry too. Gnarled staffs to GM, selling all the staffs to the Haven smith shop.

The Haven banker buys everything too.

~Edit~
You can also buy iron ingots from Cybenickel. Only $8.99 for 100K ingots. A very fine seller of UO goods.

Flutter · 23rd October 2005, 09:19 AM

Hmmm
I think I am too lazy to take time out of my gains to sell stuff hehe

**Dra'ki Areese** · 23rd October 2005, 01:09 PM

I smelted almost everything.... although i fed my smith with Cybernickel's ingots :-p and i farmed gold to buy ingots from NPC's.... Its funny you say that the tailoring went easier im still waiting to get back to that..... been around 103 forever now...

Tukaram · 23rd October 2005, 04:25 PM

I GMed 2 Carpenters and I don't even have a Lumberjack. I used cybernickels lumber and it was worth every penny!

**Dra'ki Areese** · 23rd October 2005, 06:25 PM

LOL.. im just starting a lumberjack now cause i wanted to get the nifty new woods :-p.. but i gmed my carp forever ago... and yes i bought my lumber

Keven1 · 31st October 2005, 01:42 PM

I smelted all my ingots but somehow at that time my smith/miner was bugged I had 110 mining with my ringmail gloves on and got a good amount of the ingots back that I smelted. I dont remember what % but to me it seemed worth it. Course alot of the ingots I had then were from the AOS personal bless Deeds(xshard trading) and junk bod's when they could be smelted into ingots. I had a ton of ingots

23rd October 2005, 08:55 AM	#2
Tukaram Old & grouchy Join Date: Apr 2004 Shard: Great Lakes Posts: 1,398 Gold: 105 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Smithing.. Smelting vs Selling I went around and bought up tons of iron ingots when working my smithy skills. I always sold everything I made. I would use Haven because the bank and the blacksmith are next door (pre-Luna) I've GMed at least three smiths (various accounts) and still have over 100K iron ingots at the house. Now days for iron you just have to walk around and pick em up. Everyone seems to be leaving the iron on the ground. I did the same with carpentry too. Gnarled staffs to GM, selling all the staffs to the Haven smith shop. The Haven banker buys everything too. ~Edit~ You can also buy iron ingots from Cybenickel. Only $8.99 for 100K ingots. A very fine seller of UO goods. Tuka Kinsmen are born. Friendship is a gift of the gods. Last edited by Tukaram; 23rd October 2005 at 09:05 AM..

23rd October 2005, 01:09 PM	#4
Dra'ki Areese Slave to emptiness Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 343 Gold: 80 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Smithing.. Smelting vs Selling I smelted almost everything.... although i fed my smith with Cybernickel's ingots :-p and i farmed gold to buy ingots from NPC's.... Its funny you say that the tailoring went easier im still waiting to get back to that..... been around 103 forever now... I've never figured out how to be gracefully humble without appearing weak. Nor have I figured out how to be gracefully passionate without appearing arrogant. In the end, I always seem to be arrogant and weak instead of humbly passionate.

23rd October 2005, 04:25 PM	#5
Tukaram Old & grouchy Join Date: Apr 2004 Shard: Great Lakes Posts: 1,398 Gold: 105 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Smithing.. Smelting vs Selling I GMed 2 Carpenters and I don't even have a Lumberjack. I used cybernickels lumber and it was worth every penny! Tuka Kinsmen are born. Friendship is a gift of the gods.

23rd October 2005, 06:25 PM	#6
Dra'ki Areese Slave to emptiness Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 343 Gold: 80 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Smithing.. Smelting vs Selling LOL.. im just starting a lumberjack now cause i wanted to get the nifty new woods :-p.. but i gmed my carp forever ago... and yes i bought my lumber I've never figured out how to be gracefully humble without appearing weak. Nor have I figured out how to be gracefully passionate without appearing arrogant. In the end, I always seem to be arrogant and weak instead of humbly passionate.

31st October 2005, 01:42 PM	#7
Keven1 Join Date: Oct 2002 Shard: Atlantic Posts: 460 Gold: 662 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Smithing.. Smelting vs Selling I smelted all my ingots but somehow at that time my smith/miner was bugged I had 110 mining with my ringmail gloves on and got a good amount of the ingots back that I smelted. I dont remember what % but to me it seemed worth it. Course alot of the ingots I had then were from the AOS personal bless Deeds(xshard trading) and junk bod's when they could be smelted into ingots. I had a ton of ingots

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