Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-14027812-20130805150433/@comment-25561170-20141114133029

You, good AWC, have spent many long hours smithing your life away instead of gaining combat experience :P I prefer taking what I do find/buy and then going to every mine possible, clearing them and then taking the Notched Pickaxe and collecting ores, until i have about 300 of each (Not all at once of corse) by which time I am level 40-something, which all the correct perks invested in the correct skill tree, for what I will like to craft. Also doing as many deadric quests as possible to get daedra hearts (Peices of the Past is a great quest for this) then going hunting with a bow (at which point I usually have found an Ebony Bow of (random enchantment) or have aquired the Nightengale Bow) to get a butt ton of leather, then get all my smithing stuff from Breezehome, walk my overencumbered self to the forge and smith my way to level 100 in about 10 minutes. Yeah, probably takes more time, but I feel like playing the game then grinding is the most benaficial route. But, its your game, play it the way you want :D May Talos be with you!