If you're pragmatic, don't bother with the tradeskills until you are higher level and have money to burn. If you must and also need some armor, tailoring is easy and practical to make poor quality leather armor. Combine a ruined bear/cat/wolf pelt with a pattern for large/medium/small races respectively in a tailoring kit or at a loom (scattered around in most cities).
It's also very easy to buy sharpening stones in most cities and combine with rusty weapons to make them tarnished and a bit lower delay in forges. Blacksmithing gets more involved and expensive after those go trivial. Bigger weapons have slightly higher trivials than smaller ones.
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