When improving alot of things at once, get a lump and start improving them, use the same lump throughout. You should improve them untill you cant improve them with lumps anymore. Once done with that, put the lump back and imp them all back to needing lump again. Lumps need to be glowing hot to improve items with, so its a good idea to put them back when you are done with them. Its a good idea to always have 2 or more lumps for improving so that if one cools, you have another.
Blacksmithing is the most important smithing skill, followed by weapon smithing. This will cover all your tools and allows If you to work faster and better. Black is more important because your hammer and anvils use this and these tools need to be good to make the other smithing skills easier. The better the quality of your tools, the more chance you have to succeed at imping. If your tool is significantly lower quality than the tool you are imping (say 30 points lower), your chance to improve the item is very slim. You will most likely end up lowering the quality of the item though fails & repairs. If you want to train a particular smithing skill, the best way is to make 20 alot of a the small item items that uses this skill, then imp improve them all to 5, quality then 10, quality then 15, etc. Reasons: 1)Having a large number of tools to imp allows you to gain skill faster with relation to the following reasons 2)Making the item a small one means that you will use less lump on them. 3)There is a 'magic' point at which you gain skill fastest, so by hitting this point with many items at once makes your skill jump fastest. By the time you have gone through this 'magic' point in all the items, the magic point has moved ahead of you again and you get to hit it all over again. Use a cauldron to keep lumps/chains/small tools in & you are able to keep more than 100 items in your forge. quality
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