Blacksmithing

 is a Crafting (Online) skill in.

Overview
As with other crafting skills, it is necessary to extract raw materials into craftable ingredients before crafting with Blacksmithing. Metals are required and can be gathered throughout Tamriel in ore veins. Once the metal has been extracted into ingots, the player may craft weapons and armors.

To use the Blacksmithing skill, players must use a Blacksmithing Station.

Each craftable item has a minimum and maximum number of bars. For example, a Cuirass may require a minimum of 7 Iron bars, and take a maximum of 13. With each Iron Bar added to the 7, the armor value and level requirement increases.

It is also necessary for players to use crafting stones according to the style they wish to craft. By default they are only able to craft their own race's Armor Sets. The necessary stones may be purchased from any crafting vendor.

Type
There are many types of weapons and armors that players may create.

Weapons

 * Axe
 * Hammer
 * Sword
 * Battleaxe
 * Maul
 * Greatsword
 * Dagger

Armors

 * Cuirass
 * Sabatons
 * Gauntlets
 * Helm
 * Greaves
 * Pauldron
 * Girdle

Material
There is a wide variety of materials that players may use in Blacksmithing. The higher level the material, the better the results. For example a Steel sword will yield better results than an Iron sword.

List of materials:
 * Iron Ingot
 * Steel Ingot
 * Orichalc Ingot
 * Dwarven Ingot
 * Ebony Ingot
 * Calcinium Ingot
 * Galatite Ingot
 * Moonstone Ingot
 * Voidstone Ingot

Style
The style of the armor is determined using Style Materials.

Trait
Traits may be added to weapons and armors using particular gems.

Skills
Each crafting skill yields passive skills related to the skill that can be levelled with the skill. For Blacksmithing, these skills are:


 * Metalworking
 * Keen Eye: Ore
 * Miner Hireling
 * Metal Extraction
 * Metallurgy
 * Temper Expertise