Are shears a viable part of the skill-up path now?

[Quinner Sparrowhawk]

What are the costs on making shears and are they now a viable part of the smithing skill-up path? I have been unable to investigate for myself due to RL complications ( :twisted: Darn those RL responsibilites like a spouse, job, and house). My smithing has been frozen at an embarrassing level due to a lack of serious funds. Thanks for the information.

[Zabu]

IIRC, I paid a bit more than 78p for the molds, the rest of the items were fairly insignificant, so figure roughly 80p per attempt. I made 2 of each below trivial level, but I don't know how long my streak might have held out, had my wife not kept reminding me I was going to be late for work

[kiztent]

No (with caveats).

Shears trivial below FP levels and unless you are paying more than 70pp for padding, making plate will have a lower cost per failure. Cost per success is about the same if you pay ~5pp per padding.

Overall, I'd say they are viable if you are getting severely gouged for padding, or if you have a lot more plat than common sense.

[Sinuuyanea Nocturne]

Well, a Fine Plate cloak combine costs ~80pp (forgive me, it's been nearly a year now), while the shears costs about 80pp and some change (the bowstaff), so it is a toss...but, the molds are only sold in Gunthak, and I havent seen a forge there.

[dennman]

i posted a lil write up here

http://mboards.eqtraders.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4535

net cost was about 700pp to raise from 126 to 142. you do need to run some run around as there's no forge or fletching supplier in gunthak

[kiztent]

So these bad boys trivial in the 1 sheet plate range. I'd have to say not worth skilling up on unless padding is a major problem.