
You double the value if you upgrade the armor to legendary. You increase the value by 50% for upgrading to Exquisite (Level 40 with perk). Upgrading an expensive armor adds a lot of value as your level gets high in smithing. Speech skill and being able to get good deals is somewhat important for this strategy. It has the highest value added ratio, so very likely you will make profit even if you buy Steel and Corundum ingots, make Steel Plate Armor, upgrade it, and sell it back to the blacksmith. With this perk, you can start making Steel Plate Armor. Once you reach Level 30 in Smithing, you can start making Dwarven Bows (2 dwarven ingots + 1 iron ingot) and upgrade (1 dwarven ingot).Īdvanced Armors (Level 50): Useful if you are going up the left side of the tree. If you have Dwarven perk on the right side of the Smithing tree, you can take advantage of this. You can get scrap metals from Dwemer ruins and turn them into dwarven ingots. Dwarven ingots are plentiful in this game. Mid Levelĭwarven Smithing (Level 30): Useful if you're going up the right side of the tree. Training is very inexpensive under Level 50, especially if you sell off all that jewelry you're crafting. Don't sell the gemstones you get from mining and adventuring use them to craft even more valuable jewelry. You can obtain large amounts of gold and silver ingots by buying or mining iron ores, which are cheap and plentiful, and turn them into silver and gold ores with the Transmute Mineral Ore spell. Jewelry is another good way to level up in early stages. It's quite useful when your level is low. Making iron daggers and leather bracers is still good way of leveling up in early stages. If you're further along in the game, completing a certain quest will add another 15% bonus to your Smithing XP gain. Make sure you activate the Warrior's Stone for a 20% XP boost, and get a good night's sleep for a 5% - 15% XP boost. Early Stageįirst, try to stack as many XP boosts as possible. But making something twice as expensive does not give you twice as much experience.

So, making more expensive things and adding more value is a good thing.

25 + (8 * ^0.6) base XP for improving an item.25 + (3 * ^0.65) base XP for constructing an item.It used to take about 400 iron daggers to level up to 100.
