I made that; crafting classes!

[Kennar]

I got blacksmith to level 10 during 1.0, but every time I tried picking it up again recently I got kind of frustrated. I didn't have any materials to speak of, and buying them from NPCs and the market boards isn't always cost effective. Also, in 1.0 tradecraft levequests gave me the materials to complete the task, but having to hunt around the shops and market boards to complete a leve now made leveling tedious and expensive. Well, I think I solved most of those problems by unlocking miner. I loaded myself down with ores getting MIN to 12, then switched to BSM yesterday evening to smelt everything down. With the 55 ash lumbers I had (I made a mistake on the market boards a while back) I found I was able to make a lot more things than I thought I could. I ended up getting BSM from 11 to 14 in short order yesterday, and had fun doing it. I made myself a new hammer, which was awesome, but I had to buy a few things that made it much more expensive than getting it from an NPC (if indeed an NPC sold it). I guess I can spread that cost out by making more hammers.

My only issue now is what to do with everything I make. The prices on the market boards are way out of whack. I just shake my head in dismay when I see something for sale for less than what an NPC will buy it for, then everyone complains about not having any money. I'm going to to some looking today (perhaps I can get a fair price for my wares), but if there are a bunch of axes selling for 10 gil I'm just going to hold on to everything and hope the economy stabilizes at something profitable in the future



edit: Seriously, this 1000 character limit sucks. I don't talk a lot in person, but I make up for when I have a keyboard in front of me.