When i did my GM blacksmithing, I didn't find any other way outside of cultural and Fine Steel. Overall, Fine Steel isn't that hard to work. Tailoring skill ups are pretty easy to make leather padding trivial, but farming pelts can be a little bit of a pain. i'd suggest farming the critters in Stonebrunt Mts. Never found less than LQ there.
The added benefit of Fine Steel is that the risk is minimal. Once you cross the 200 threshold, most of the stuff you are getting skill ups on will already be at 80%+ success chance, but yes, failures mean a hundred or more plat in instant loss.
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12-05-2017, 11:36 AM
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