Fastest/cheapest way to Blessed Shawl Smithing?

[rosecutter]

Hi all,

I'm looking for a quick (non-farming) and cheap way to get the aprox 180 in smithing needed to make the velium armor for the Blessed Coldain Payer Shawl quest. I know the AS freebee can get 54, and I've read that Embroidering Needle can get to 122, at about 3pp per combine (if you make the CE's yourself). Any suggestions after that? I'm a Troll Shaman, so the troll sewing kit is a posibility at 162 for 20pp each combine, but I would like a cheaper way. Any suggestions?

[Zolina]

If you're willing to buy leather padding in Bazaar, fine steel armor will get you to 188, I think. All the high-end smithing recipes require farming of some sort; Mistletoe Cutting Sickles are the only exception that come to mind.

[mallissah]

But buying Leather padding in the bazaar at least on my server costs more than 20 plat each and some of those combines require more than one leather padding. But if you're willing to farm and make the leather padding it might save you money and since you're on the last shawl I'm sure you have higher than the 31 trivial for those. However this will be VERY time consuming.

You may also wanna look into the DoN armor quests for post 162 smithing. I'm not sure what the drop rate on Globe of Fear is like but you may be able to make some of the plat back on the expert wrist augs / armor in the bazaar and they will take you to 180.

[eqdoctress]

enchanted velium bits, farm velium pieces, buy or make coldain velium temper, get the quest hammer, trivial 222, required skill 165

[Zaltak]

HQ Steel hinges and latches will take you to 150ish and aren't too expensive:-)
The only annoying part is going to abysmal sea or CC to buy the gnomish heat sources:-(

[KyrosKrane]

Smithing in general is not cheap; whichever path you choose will involve an investment in time (farming), money (buying), or both.

Fine Plate is the most efficient route to 188 or so. It's entirely store-bought except for the padding. Successful combines will sell back to vendors for about the cost of the stuff you bought, minus the padding. If you farm your own, you'll more or less break even on fine plate, paying just for failed combines. Note that all fine plate takes a single leather padding per attempt.

See also Secone's guide here.

[BeltiraBelkira]

or if you know someone who has already done the quest just have em MQ it for you since ypu dont actually combine the armor with the shawl....ye turn in yer shawl to the dude at the end of the crawl...just have someone else turn in the armor to get the crawl going and make sure ye did all the neccesary shawl turn ins to get the box.

[mewkus]

Freebies to 54
Banded to 115
Embroidery Needle to 122 (save them for next step)
Bile Spine (troll cultural needle) to 132ish
Troll sewing kit to 163ish
Then it's either Enchanted Velium Bits, Fine Plate, or search bazaar for LDoN tempers.

[mewkus]

Forgot to mention, if you are lucky enough to be a karana worhsiper, you can go from banded to steel arrowheads which will take you to 180 something.

[Nolrog]

Forgot to mention, if you are lucky enough to be a karana worhsiper, you can go from banded to steel arrowheads which will take you to 180 something.

Wood elfs can do the fier'dal fletching kit, which will take them to like 163.

[mac173]

Mq

or if you know someone who has already done the quest just have em MQ it for you since ypu dont actually combine the armor with the shawl....ye turn in yer shawl to the dude at the end of the crawl...just have someone else turn in the armor to get the crawl going and make sure ye did all the neccesary shawl turn ins to get the box.

The armor pieces for the shawl are no drop, are they not? If you change one component they are sellable, but combined for the shawl they are not useable, and no drop.

[BeltiraBelkira]

true but to do the crawl for the final turn in you hand the finished and approved box and the orders to the dwarf to get him moving then hand in the shawl. just make sure you have the preflags of handing in shawl 7 to the dain and that other guy and have someoen else hand in the approved armor and the orders and you turn in the shawl.

[tatanka7th]

true but to do the crawl for the final turn in you hand the finished and approved box and the orders to the dwarf to get him moving then hand in the shawl. just make sure you have the preflags of handing in shawl 7 to the dain and that other guy and have someoen else hand in the approved armor and the orders and you turn in the shawl.

The only caveat here is, the person helping you MQ the shawl (and doing the smithing) has to have the 7th shawl. Once they have the 8th shawl, they can't help MQ any longer. You need the 7th shawl to get the box which you combine the armor pieces into. But it does work, I MQed the 8th shawl for my guildleader back in the day, since my smithing was 180-ish and hers was 0

Tat

[BeltiraBelkira]

unless of course you can find someone that was so obsessed with the shawl that they have both #7 and #8 rotting in the bank lmao

[Ausversucht]

unless of course you can find someone that was so obsessed with the shawl that they have both #7 and #8 rotting in the bank lmao

(looking around sheepishly) ... Who me?



I redid the 7th shawl on my druid so that I could get the 8th for my wife's cleric. Felt it was easier than getting her smithing up at the time (and jewelcraft)