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These are the Perks available in the Smithing perks tree.

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Perk Steel Smithing

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Description Can create Steel armor and weapons at forges, and improve them twice as much. Can create armor and weapons at forges, and improve them twice as much. Can create Elven armor and weapons at forges, and improve them twice as much. Can create Scaled and Plate armor at forges, and improve them twice as much. Can create Orcish armor and weapons at forges, and improve them twice as much. Can improve magical weapons and armor. Can create Glass armor and weapons at forges, and improve them twice as much. Can create Ebony armor and weapons at forges, and improve them twice as much. Can create Daedric armor and weapons at forges, and improve them twice as much. Can create Dragon armor at forges, and improve them twice as much.

Dwarven Smithing

30

Elven Smithing

30

Advanced Armors

50

Orcish Smithing Arcane Blacksmith Glass Smithing

50 60 70

Ebony Smithing

80

Daedric Smithing

90

Dragon Armor

100

How To Get Started

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Forge: Armor, weapons and jewelry can be crafted at any forge. Workbench: Armor can be improved at a Workbench Grindstone: Weapons can be improved at a Grindstone. Smelter: Ores can be refined into Ingots at the Smelter. Tanning Rack: Hides can be turned into Leather, which can be turned into Leather Strips. Most weapons and armour will require Leather Strips, which can be obtained by processing Leather into Leather strips on a tanning rack. Leather is easily and cheaply obtained by hunting any furry animals and also can be purchased for a fairly low price at most blacksmiths. Jewelry can be enchanted. You must have specific raw ingredients in order to make these improvements (gold, silver and jewels). Armor and weaponry often require ingots of various metals as well as leather and/or leather strips. Merchants (particularly blacksmiths) sell many or all of these items, but they can also be found, mined, hunted or looted. Mines will often have *gasp!* ore veins to mine. These also produce gems occasionally. Animal skins to make into leather are usually still in use by the animal inside them, and therefore must be killed. Bear in mind that when searching some animal corpses (particularly sabre cats, goats and deer) you won't always find a pelt. Also, different animal skins produce different amounts of leather, and you can quickly find yourself overburdened by creating too much leather.

To make the ingots that are required to forge armors and jewelry, you can buy/mine the ores and then smelt them at smelting furnaces. The most convenient smelter is just a few feet away from the Fast Travel spot in Whiterun. This smithery has all the stations required to turn every raw ingredient into weapons and armor.

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Types of Armor
Daedric Armor Dragon Armor Dwarven Armor Ebony Armor Elven Armor Glass Armor Hide Armor Imperial Armor Iron Armor Leather Armor Orcish Armor Steel Armor Studded Armor You can also make Jewelry and a variety of Weapons with Smithing.

Tips On Developing Smithing

Just build iron daggers all the way to 100. It might take about 4 hours or so, but the time investment is well worth it. Just fast travel back and forth between towns with blacksmiths and buy out their iron ingots/ore and leather strips. Alternately, the player can wait at one location for 48 hours to refresh vendors' stock. Alternatively, you can create leather bracers, which only require one leather and two leather strips. A great way to get hides for leather is killing giants. They generally have some bear or saber cat pelts on them which grant four leather per pelt. NOTE: As of patch 1.5, this exploit has been removed. The value of the crafted object now has an effect on the experience gained, like in alchemy. Glitch: If you have the unpatched version of the game, you can replenish shopkeepers and NPC's gold and "reshuffle" their inventory by saving your game, killing them and reloading your saved game. As with all skill grinding, be sure to use the standing stones west of Riverwood (in this case, Warrior) and the Well Rested bonus from sleeping for maximum efficiency. After completing the quest Unfathomable Depths an active effect called "Ancient Knowledge" (Smithing skill increases 15% faster) will be

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given. It's very helpful for leveling smithing. As you level blacksmithing (or alchemy or enchanting), watch your overall level gauge. Once you level up, stop what you are doing and visit a trainer to buy 5 skill levels for something you never use (ie destruction magic if you are an archer, two handed if you are a mage). This will help you maximize your top level at the end of the game without having to grind out useless skills. If you are a thief, never purchase your thief skills. If you are a mage, never purchase training in your magic skills. Buy skill gains in opposition to how you actually play. This will make getting level 60+ at end game a lot easier and less tedious. Since Smithing is leveled up higher if the smithed item is more expensive, post-patch 1.5, smithing jewelry is very effective. The Transmute spell is a godsend for this method as you can buy or find iron ingots and convert them into silver or gold ingots. If you can use precious gems(Rubies,diamonds,etc.), the experience is increased exponentially. You can then enchant the jewelry, and then sell them. This is an great way to make money and level your smithing and enchanting, provided you can keep finding/buying iron ingots/ore, precious gems, and soul gems.

How to maximize your weapon and armor enhancement

In short: you must improve your smithing, enchanting, and possibly alchemy to maximize your weapon and armor enhancement. First, you need to cap and have the improvement perks for both your enchanting and smithing skills. Then you will need to enchant a necklace, ring, hand, and chest armor with the "weapons and armor can be improved by 20%". Wear all the items to have an 80 percent weapon and armor ehancement. Before enhancing your weapon and armor on a grindstone or workbench, drink a blacksmith's elixir to increase your weapons and armor enhance for another 50%. Doing so will increase your weapon and armor enhancement to 130%. It could be possible to create a blacksmith's elixir with alchemist x 5 and benefactor perks with a capped alchemly level to create and even stronger potion.

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Note that the armor cap in Skyrim occurs at 567 displayed Armor Rating (80% damage reduction). Armor ratings in excess of this value will not further reduce damage. Particularly with Heavy Armor and Smithing perks, it is possible to reach this value without maxing Enchanting and Alchemy. Smiting perks are not required to create some of the best armor or weapons. You can purchase or loot all armor except for Dragon, and then use a grind stone or work bench to improve them. The hard cap for Smithing is 168, so once at 100 Smithing you only need to have a necklace, ring, chest piece, and bracer with Smithing enchants that equal to 68 points (the Smithing perks at the hard cap have no affect). You can go beyond the hard cap if you use a Smithing potion that can be bought, made, or looted (you can craft better Smithing potions than what are for sale or looted). There is no confirmed cap on weapon damage, so in theory one would need to max four skills (Smithing, Enchanting, Alchemy, and the appropriate weapon) to max out damage. However, note that with fully maxed smithing, enchanting items purchased from vendors, and appropriate potions and buffs the player can one shot most enemies anyway.

Cashing In On Your Smithing Skill

Make and sell Dwarven bows. Even if you don't plan to follow the 'heavy' smithing line of perks, grabbing the Dwarven Smithing can be a cash cow. Here's how it works: Buy a house. You're going to be storing a lot of dwarven metal ingots. Preferably the one in Whiterun (Breezehome) since it's next door to Warmaiden's, which has everything you need. Clear a dwarven ruin. You do this naturally during the course of the Mage's College questline (and that one is bursting with dwemer metal), but any ruin will do. Find a companion and outfit them with the bare essentials, then go to the ruin and bring back every piece of dwemer metal you can carry (that stuff is heavy). Take as many trips as necessary. (Check the smelter for which items you want to smelt. Not all dwemer items are useful.) Hint: If you have a horse you can clearout the ruins in one trip, since you can ride or Fast Travel overloaded. Turn the metal into ingots at the smelter. Forge bows. Sell bows. For the amount of materials, bows are the most cost-effective. Also, dwarven bows are worth noticeably more than Elven, which are the only other class of weapon you probably have access to in the early game. Finally, you can lay hands on a ton of dwemer metal for free, which can't be said for any other raw smithing material in the game.

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This process allows you to increase your smithing (if you haven't maxed it already) and your speechcraft, while raking in the gold. Now, if you want to really bring home that bacon, you need to enchant those bows. To do that, you need soul gems (which you find plenty of in dwemer ruins since that is what the little guardian beasties all run on) and the most lucrative weapon enchantment; Banish. So load up your follower with bows, hike over to Dragonreach (since you're already in Whiterun) and start enchanting. This will significantly increase your enchantment skill while giving you a supply of magical weapons to sell off at your convenience. Hell, if you're feeling generous, you can even put some fire magic on one and let your follower use it.

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I am looking for any information on how to smith chitin armor, there does not seem to be any information on it and not sure where to find this ingredient or mineral what ever it might be anyone know anything about this?

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Im level 81 in smithing and i can only make iron

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you need to put perks in the tree to gain the ability to make other items, however you can still upgrade other items without the perks but you can't upgrade them as much
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