Re: Blacksmith smelting items

[SighelmofWyrmgard]

An old UO pro , who dropped UO not long before UO:R, has arrived at T2A, and is asking for a skill-call clarification (because I never tried what I am about to ask in the old days, only thought about it).

Does a Blacksmith need Mining skill to smelt manufactured items back into ingots, or is item-smelting success based on Blacksmithy skill; what skill-levels offer what (styles of, percentage-wise) returns?

Why I'm asking: in "the old days", I had a GM Miner/Smith before T-Hunters ever even existed in-game; when I created a T-Hunter, my Smith simply "kept" his Mining.

I am resurrecting both character templates here and, if my Smith won't need Mining skill to recover ingots from manufactures, then I don't need a 2nd character with GM Mining; do I?

I've been looking around for commentary and/or success-tables to answer this question, but I haven't had any luck. Please, please, someone tell me how it is.

Regards,

SS

[Theograd]

I'm not certain on the percentages, but your mining skill is what determines how many ingots you get back from smelting an item.

[Pirul]

I'm not certain on the percentages, but your mining skill is what determines how many ingots you get back from smelting an item.

That is correct, Sir. I would also strongly recomend GM'ing mining before starting to work smithing.

[SighelmofWyrmgard]

I'm not certain on the percentages, but your mining skill is what determines how many ingots you get back from smelting an item.

Thank you; I was afraid of that. For me, that's going to prove to be a bit of a nuisance ...

Any mega-Smithing will be on hold, then, until I'm ready to use my THunter to performing the item-recovery smelting; I'm not going to GM the same resource-gathering skill on 2 toons, and the Smith has other uses for that 100 skill points.

Thanks muchly for the replies.

SS