EQ 0-188 Blacksmithing Guide
Learn How To Make Weapons and Armor in the Everquest MMORPG
Blacksmithing will not net money for a character, but is necessary for some quests and at high levels can yield raid quality items.
Everquest trade skills do not help a character to make money, but they can produce useful items and give extra depth to a character in the game. Blacksmithing allows an Everquest character to make a variety of weapons and armor.
Some quests and higher level equipment can be produced with the blacksmithing trade skill, so the Everquest character who chooses to raise it to levels past a 200 skill levels may start to turn a profit from his efforts. Getting started as a blacksmith is not difficult.
Where to Raise Blacksmithing in Everquest
Unlike other trade skill in Everquest, blacksmithing must be raised in the city as portable forges do not exist in the game. Sites such as EQ Traders can help a blacksmith find the recipes for an item or in-game books exist to tell characters about the items needed. Once a player has found a suitable forge and the materials, he shouldmake the items in the list below to get his skill up as quickly as possible.
Items to Make to Get a Character’s Blacksmithing Skill to 188
According to Myrron Lifewader, who wrote the guide to Blacksmithing on EQ Traders, a character wishing to raise his blacksmithing in Everquest should take the following steps:
- Sharpen Rusty Weapons to 28
- Steel boning to 37
- Lanterns until 68
- Dairy Spoons until 74
- Banded Gorgets until 85
- Banded Helmets until 115
- Embroidery Needles until 122
- Racial Embroidery Needles until 132
- Fine Plate Helmets to 165
- Fine Plate Visors to 179
- Fine Plate Breastplates to 188
If a character knows how to make racial armors in the game, the character does not need to continue with fine plate. A character must be of the appropriate race and special forges located in a race’s capital city are required to make this item. Half-elves are an exception to this rule, as they can make human, high elf, wood elf, and dark elf racial armors.
Everquest Blacksmithing as a Money Maker
As the SOE representative, Absor, once said, trade skills are not designed to make money when being sold back to a vendor. Because better loot drops throughout the game since the initial blacksmithing recipes were implemented in Everquest, better armor and weapons drop in many areas throughout the game.
Trade skills, like blacksmithing, do not let a character to make money until the blacksmith can make the higher level armor and weapons wanted by the higher level characters. Sticking with blacksmithing as a character’s trade skill can be rewarding for those who enjoy trade skills, or for characters wishing to invest a lot of platinum into raising it.
