I have discovered a method that will
completely revolutionise the way you make money from smithing, and astoundingly,
I’ve not seen anyone else talk about this. I’m going tell you exactly how you can quickly
sell all your crafted weapons hassle free, without the need to spend years
in game going town to town. But first I want everyone on the same page,
so I’ve made my own comprehensive smithing guide that will take you from your first lump of
charcoal to an expansive and flourishing kingdom brimming with prosperity. I will put a timestamp
if you just want to know the selling method. My favourite time to start the smithing grind
is Clan tier 3. At this point you should have 6 companions, a wife, and most importantly,
a heap of weapons from months of battle loot. The first step is to refine wood into charcoal
until you and most of your companions are smithing level 25, where I recommend everyone
choose the ‘Efficient Charcoal Maker’ perk. A good start is to also buy wooden hammers
that provide 3 hardwood each and are cheap. Alternatively, a common place to buy the cheapest
hardwood is the Battanian town of Seonon. Second step is to smelt everything
available. When I finished I reached level 50 and choose the ‘Curious Smelter’
perk - smelting unlocks parts and the more we learn the better we can start the next step.
The simplest way I’d recommend beginners to start smithing, and what I do in my playthroughs, is
to focus on 2 handed swords, they’re the easiest to learn new parts for and can quickly become
valuable trade commodities which brings us into Step three - using every companion, make 2 handed
swords using the highest tier components currently known, then looking at cut damage. Component tier
is more important so choose that over cut damage. One other addition is to only use the handles
that allow both one handed and two handed, even if it’s a lower tier – experience is
almost entirely relative to the value to the item and these handles add a lot to
the finished product. Check the trader for reference and these are worth up to 800.
Smelting weapons unlocks parts the fastest so we’re going to get our main character-only
to smelt these new weapons with his new 100% unlock rate perk and our companions will
continue smithing with the newest components. Repeating step three again, Tier 2 parts
have dropped in so we’ll change the recipe and check the trader to see if we’re going
in the right direction, these ones are worth up to 1,320, but we’ll be reforging these again.
One more cycle and they’re now worth 2 thousand, but we won’t stop until we unlock more tiers.
Its worth noting that if you are running out of crafting materials, you can dedicate one
companion to refining to help make additional higher value materials, or buy Pugios, they
provide one of every bar except Themeskene. Tier 3 parts are appearing, and these are
selling for over 7 thousand. When Tier 4 parts come out, they’re worth upwards
of 10 thousand which means we’re close. Again, focus on the highest tier handle that
allows 1 handed and 2 handed use, then the highest tier of the other components, then as high
cut damage as possible. For this particular one I’m using the Tier 4 Fine Steel Paramerion Blade,
Western Crescent Guard, Reinforced Jewelled Two-Handed Grip,
and Western Lobbed Pommel. This requires 3 fine steel and 4 steel.
A more economical version will be to swap the blade with the Tier
4 Pointed Falchion Blade, it sells for 2 thousand less but swaps fine steel for wrought
iron which is significantly more accessible. Now we’ve unlocked tier 5 handles we
can see they are all 2 handed only, to test it, I made 3 swords with the same parts
apart from the handle, I made 2 with different Tier 5 handles and one with a Tier 4 handle that
also allowed 1 handed use. remarkably the Tier 4 handle contributed an additional 3 thousand
to its overall value compared to the others. We hit smithing 175 and are met with an
interesting choice ‘-50% trade penalty when selling smithed weapons’ or ‘-50%
stamina spent while smithing’ meaning we can craft twice as much. A quick tip to help you
decide: if you’re aiming for your character to reach smithing 275+ and take the perks that
increase the chances of making ‘fine’ and ‘masterwork’ items then you probably want to
be the one smithing, so I’d take the stamina perk – but if you your companions to do most of
the smithing then I’d recommend the trade perk. Currently, our best weapon sells for 23,346.
after taking the Trade Penalty perk it’s now worth 37,076, a 158% increase. Now,
looking at the town Car Benseth, we won’t be able to sell that here. If
we’re lucky we might be able to sell one of the cheaper ones and have to move on, not
anymore. But first, we’re going to need MORE. This might not be the most valuable 2 handed
sword you can smith, but I can never remember the recipe’s I made in previous playthroughs and this
was the best I found while filming this video, I’ll name it ‘Shoe horn’. It sells for 27
thousand and does not require any thameskene. Buy pugios or use a refiner companion
and this is an easy bulk money maker. Which leads us into step 4 – make as many Shoe
horns or any other profitable recipes you know, the higher the value the better, don’t cap your
earning potential by making cheaper swords so you can sell them in towns, use your crafting stamina
efficiently and go for the most valuable weapons. Now here is the revolutionary method,
normally with this amount it would take an in-game year to sell all these but I don’t
want you to waste that amount of time anymore, you don’t want to sell them in a town,
thet would only provide around 40 thousand denars each time, here’s what
you do - you want to find a noble, preferably a clan leader. These are normally
the ones with blue exclamation marks for quests. Heres an army leader, he has 72k! That’s better, and there’s also a clan
leader in there, Vyldur -he has 106k! Found another army, aradwr has 76k,
Melidir has 124k, Ergeon has 151k Here’s not only a clan leader but a kingdom
ruler, king raganvad is willing to trade 160k! This is good but this isn’t even the best way,
now this EVEN BETTER method works best if you are in a kingdom as you can summon lords to you
quickly by creating an army, call all the clan leaders and wait for them to arrive in your army,
barter with them exactly like we just did above: I sold 106 thousand to Sajaruan.
274 thousand to Oros And 838 thousand to Dagunic. Then dismiss
them from your army. This is where the magic happens - wait one week then call them all
back into your army - look at these results: Sajuruan now has 264 thousand, more
than double what they had before. Oros has 567 thousand, more than
double what they had before. And Dagunic has returned with 1.1 million
– we ran out of weapons to sell him, but he still returned with
a huge increase in funds. This goes to demonstrate that regardless of the
quantity of crafted weapons in your possession, a mere in-game week is all it takes. This
efficient approach saves a significant amount of your time, enabling you to proceed
with your endeavours of world domination. I hope you found this video helpful
and if you want to have an NPC named after you in my next video, consider
becoming a member. It would not only contribute to the support of the channel but
also brings me a step closer to being able to dedicate myself to this pursuit
on full time basis. Until next time reinforce Jules tool handed for this particular
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