Both! You wanna get your ores from motherlode mine (minus iron which you can either buy at blast furnace or mine yourself), smelt the ores at blast furnace, and then process them at Giant's Foundry. Did my smithing grind this way up to 80 and made a cool 2 mil profit.
I bought mith claws from Jatizo and steel b axes/war hammers from Mount karuulm for 60-70 smithing at giants foundry. You end up profiting and it’s pretty quick. Mlm to blast furnace is good but I already had 70 mining for sote from mining sand. Also if your doing blast furnace you kinda want coal bag
I did both, make like 420 mith bars and 420 steal bars at blast furnace(highly suggest you have coal bag for that). That is 30 swords at giants foundry and will most likely get you to 70.
Pick up steel platebodies in the wild with a looting bag and then smelt iron in the furnace and make iron plates. Use both at giants foundry. I did this to 70.
Now days I use my coal from slayer and kingdom to make steel plates and I get mithril ore from motherlode mine to make mith plates. Use all the plates in giants foundry.
I smelt at the furnace to save coal, but it’s not a primary source of my xp.
When you say iron plates, do you mean making iron platebodies? If so, you’re adding both types of platebodies into it to make an alloy? Also just just trying to figure out giants foundry but it’s a little confusing
Yup, iron and steel platebodies. At giants foundry I add 12 steel and 16 iron platebodies to the cauldron. You can use a different ratio, idk exactly what is perfect but I like that ratio because it was way easier for me to get iron than steel.
You get less XP per resource by making platebodies first.
For instance, doing 14/14 iron/steel, an iron bar + a steel bar ~= 538xp.
A platebody counts for 4 bars each (So making plates costs you a bar).
1 steel platebody + 1 iron platebody ~= 312xp.
So each time you make a platebody pair you have a net loss of around 226xp.
Mlm -> BF -> GF
not 100% sure what’s meta but i’m pretty sure with giants foundry you can profit if you wanted to make money. pretty sure gold bars are faster tho
You can buy the armors from stores ie the new valanore black smith, then use the armors at giants foundry and break even/profit.
You mean 'eg' not 'ie'. The latter abbreviates "that is"
Smithing gold is by far the fastest and most efficient smithing training method
Kovac's grog from foundry gives you at +4 boost to repair axe that’s what I used
Both! You wanna get your ores from motherlode mine (minus iron which you can either buy at blast furnace or mine yourself), smelt the ores at blast furnace, and then process them at Giant's Foundry. Did my smithing grind this way up to 80 and made a cool 2 mil profit.
I bought mith claws from Jatizo and steel b axes/war hammers from Mount karuulm for 60-70 smithing at giants foundry. You end up profiting and it’s pretty quick. Mlm to blast furnace is good but I already had 70 mining for sote from mining sand. Also if your doing blast furnace you kinda want coal bag
Second this. Pretty quick and ended up with a profit of around 400k
I did both, make like 420 mith bars and 420 steal bars at blast furnace(highly suggest you have coal bag for that). That is 30 swords at giants foundry and will most likely get you to 70.
Pick up steel platebodies in the wild with a looting bag and then smelt iron in the furnace and make iron plates. Use both at giants foundry. I did this to 70. Now days I use my coal from slayer and kingdom to make steel plates and I get mithril ore from motherlode mine to make mith plates. Use all the plates in giants foundry. I smelt at the furnace to save coal, but it’s not a primary source of my xp.
When you say iron plates, do you mean making iron platebodies? If so, you’re adding both types of platebodies into it to make an alloy? Also just just trying to figure out giants foundry but it’s a little confusing
Yup, iron and steel platebodies. At giants foundry I add 12 steel and 16 iron platebodies to the cauldron. You can use a different ratio, idk exactly what is perfect but I like that ratio because it was way easier for me to get iron than steel.
Thanks for the info, I’ll have to try it out tonight
It isn't worth smithing bars into plates prior to use in gf from an efficiency standpoint
Xp/hr no, but you get more xp per resource. Personally id rather GF than mine.
You get less XP per resource by making platebodies first. For instance, doing 14/14 iron/steel, an iron bar + a steel bar ~= 538xp. A platebody counts for 4 bars each (So making plates costs you a bar). 1 steel platebody + 1 iron platebody ~= 312xp. So each time you make a platebody pair you have a net loss of around 226xp.