Elbeno,

>Er, you're kidding, right? I agree on the patchwork, but smithing isn't
>cheap. On established servers it's usually cheaper to buy banded or skip
>straight to bronze, given that the smithing market is becoming so depressed,
>and places like Unrest get more low-level players in them by the day...

Actually I'm quite serious. If ye need to armor 3 or 4 players, and they
are willing to pay for the base costs of the materials, you could easily
gain enough skill to make banded reliably. I estimate it would take
roughly 250 to 300 platinum pieces to bring smithing up to the level
necessary to create Banded. With 3 or 4 people, that comes out to 75 to
100pp each for banded.

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