cultural smithing question

[elwing]

Nope... All tradeskill can use int or wis, in addition smithing can use STR, a few other tradeskill can use other stat, but I am unsure which. What is certain is that only the highest count, meaning smithing will use your higher stat, be it int, wis or str... Since smith are frequently melee, str is an obvious choice... Also FOS is long lasting and gives a major boost, past 180 I would definitely recomand to cap str to 255, with cheapo str gear and fos it's easy for most melee, for pure int caster int might be better if you have good gear, the same goes for wis caster, through given the number and potency of str buffs, even for them str might be a good choice...