deadman3000 Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 I need to level up a bit (stuck at level 7) and found I can't beat the hagraven on the mound during the nettlebane quest. I think I need to level up with some smithing but am finding it tough to find iron or steel ingots all of a sudden. Any good places to look? Or am I missing something in order to beat the hagraven? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guss Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 (edited) I need to level up a bit (stuck at level 7) and found I can't beat the hagraven on the mound during the nettlebane quest. I think I need to level up with some smithing but am finding it tough to find iron or steel ingots all of a sudden. Any good places to look? Or am I missing something in order to beat the hagraven? Caves any cave near whiterun / riverwood or buy them to make iron daggers. yea those are a pain at low levels i used a bow to kill it for the 3 times doing that quest from lvl 5-13 warrior characters though. :biggrin: very soon you have money growing everywhere that its pointless. Edited December 11, 2011 by Guss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xlr8films Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Whiterun was always good to me on Iron and Leather. You have three sources to buy from: Warmaiden's (the guy and girl keep separate inventories as long as you catch the girl outside) and the Skyforge. I think you might have to help the gal out at Warmaiden's with a quest before she starts selling to you though. I can't remember. But between the three of them, you can easily weigh yourself down to where you can't run with Iron Ingots and Leather. I've done it plenty of times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patronus Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 (edited) I need to level up a bit (stuck at level 7) and found I can't beat the hagraven on the mound during the nettlebane quest. I think I need to level up with some smithing but am finding it tough to find iron or steel ingots all of a sudden. Any good places to look? Or am I missing something in order to beat the hagraven?Halted stream camp's cave north of Whiterun has got a lot of iron ore veins. You can easily find that place if you take a quest in Whiterun from a redguard called Amren to retrieve his sword from that camp. If you have troubles finding ore veins, install glowing ore veins mod from nexus, you'll start finding veins even outside of mines and caves occasionally.You also can install a mod called Vals crafting meltdown - It will allow you smelt all kind weapons and armor into ingots at the smelter.As for defeating hagraven itself - well, it was kinda easier for me as I'm a breton mage. I used their ability to absorb hagraven's spells avoiding damage and transforming it into mana for myself, hagraven almost stood no chance. If you're playing a warrior - try wearing some armor and drink potions with fire resistance effect - it will protect you against fireballs. Or you can try shoot-and-hide tactic with the bow. And bring a follower with you. Edited December 11, 2011 by Patronus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyHard Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Best way to level Smithing is by: Buying Iron Ignots from Whiterun and make Iron Daggers (There is the Womansmith, Her Farther in the shop, and an Old guy with his smith), Then "wait" 48 hours (2 days), They will restock and buy again. If you are out of gold, Just do some quests on the side, Should take you about 12K-16K Gold to get 100 Smithing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patronus Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 (edited) Best way to level Smithing is by: Buying Iron Ignots from Whiterun and make Iron Daggers (There is the Womansmith, Her Farther in the shop, and an Old guy with his smith), Then "wait" 48 hours (2 days), They will restock and buy again. If you are out of gold, Just do some quests on the side, Should take you about 12K-16K Gold to get 100 Smithing.I disagree, there are better ways to raise smithing and earn at the same time. All you need to do is collect all the pelts you find in your travels (there are plenty of animals and plenty of pelts found in loot) - wolf pelts, bear pelts, sabre cat pelts e t.c. you need to make leather and leather strips of them at the tanning rack. Try to make equal number of leather and leather strips . For example, you have 10 leather, you make 8 leather strips out of 2 leather and you've got 8 leather left. Then start making leather bracers until you're out of leather strips. with 4 leather and 8 leather strips you can make 4 bracers. Then upgrade all the bracers with th 4 leathers you've got left. Allright, you get the principle. Why i recommend not only crafting, but also upgrading - because it seems to me that upgrading improves your skill more. Edited December 12, 2011 by Patronus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadman3000 Posted December 13, 2011 Author Share Posted December 13, 2011 Thanks it's given me some help there I completely forgot about trading at the warmaidens. Also the tip about using the armor etc. Stupid stuff I forget about (I was walking around naked for a while lol). No wonder I was dying too easy. I got to learn how to sell too which helped greatly and I now understand that portion of the gameplay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patronus Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Thanks it's given me some help there I completely forgot about trading at the warmaidens. Also the tip about using the armor etc. Stupid stuff I forget about (I was walking around naked for a while lol). No wonder I was dying too easy. I got to learn how to sell too which helped greatly and I now understand that portion of the gameplay.You got that part of my advice about armor wrong. I wasn't referring to just any armor. I was referring to specific fire-resistance enchanted armor, if you have any. If you don't... well, only potions then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flobalob Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Best way to level Smithing is by: Buying Iron Ignots from Whiterun and make Iron Daggers (There is the Womansmith, Her Farther in the shop, and an Old guy with his smith), Then "wait" 48 hours (2 days), They will restock and buy again. If you are out of gold, Just do some quests on the side, Should take you about 12K-16K Gold to get 100 Smithing. I find that once you get smithing to the level that you can craft dwarven stuff I just stick to that. The reason being it doesn't cost anything to get dwarven ore, just grab all of the metal bits from a dwarven ruin and smelt them down. One ruin, Mzulft I think, I had to make 9 trips back to town to smelt the metal down and ended up with over 400 ingots. Create a suit of dwarven armor, upgrade it, and flog it. The only problem comes in finding vendors with sufficient gold to buy the suits :) A full suit (Armor, Helm, Boots, Gauntlets, Shield) upgraded to a reasonable level nets about 1200gp, more than enough cash to buy the Iron, Steel, Leather that is also needed to fabricate the next batch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susurruss Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 To beat the Hagraven, I took Lydia and she tanked for me. She got knocked down quick, but not before I got enough licks in to kill it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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