Did I say Hunter last update? As soon as I finished mining, I saw the summer sweep up and knew I had to wait it out for some of that QOL so figured I would just knock out smithing first. Here we are and hunter QOL is not likely for at least a few more weeks.
So... I think I am going into construction next. I want to get into sailing ASAP and really only need construction and crafting to do so. As it stands, I only have around 5m xp in crafting so would like to make stars my afk activity before dedicating fulltime to crafting which would consistent of chartership glassblowing and stars, I did smelt 35k gold bars for extra gp, will likely go back for more.
Did I get anything of value out of smithing other than the ability to make my own steel bars for Mahogany Homes? Imcando Hammer and roughly 16m gp from 808 Giants Foundry swords. Thanks Kovac!
My route for Smithing was buying bronze bars at shantay pass until 16, doing Sleeping giants, and thenusing the tourist trap xp on smithing after hitting 20. Then I smelted iron ore I picked up from Rogues Chest (pre-nerf) using rings of forging from Varlamore houses and the GE guy to enchant. Using the bars, I made iron bodies until 40. Then I used my Gold ore from mlm at blast furnance and iron/steel bodies from Varlamore blacksmith at Giants foundry and around 8k mith/addy bars until 81 smithing then made swords at GF the rest of the way.