Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-70.78.7.114-20130908190053/@comment-88.113.69.102-20140325091705

I´ve noticed it depends on one´s smithing perks (I may be wrong though)? Meaning, that waiting to level up in general doesn´t help much, but waiting to level up one´s smithing?

Example: I want an ebony bow and can´t find it anywhere. Soon after I get a new perk and I put it in to smithing (ebony), bang: every shopkeeper and chest now offers ebony ingots and items of ebony - and I have now bigger chance to find daedric items as well (as I am now one step closer to daedric smithing).

I may be wrong and leveling in general helps too (without adding perks into smithing), but for me it´s been the most effective way - not to mention you get to improve your weapons and armor, too :)