AoS, I'm getting all of your messages twice. Don't know if it's just
mr, or what. You may want to look into this.

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>From: AoS/Aosinator <darshan@...>
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>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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