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Anyone else agree that this profession is much harder to level?
Not I. I think the only issue is how the game delutes you. there is all this talk of money and profit from smithing, yet the reality is vastly diffrent. My first smith made seirous cash, but thats when the concept of "Endgame" was UBRS, and super fancy gear was not accassable. The game has changed since then, with PvP rewards,giant raids, reputation rewards, Dire Maul(it was not open when the game first came out)world dragons..... well there is just more gear that is "Better" than what you can make with smithing.
Sure smihting is a lot harder than say....alchemy, or tribal leatherworking(most likely elemental and dragonscale as well), it is marginaly more difficult than blowing crap up(it would be a lot eazer but engeneering folks have to compeat with smiths for ore and stone). Yet smihting dose not hold a candle to enchanting in the difficult department.
Guess my point is smihging is more difficult than some trades, but it is not "Too Hard" heck I was able to level 0-300 and become a soward smithih for my MAGE within the timespan of 2 weeks, sure i was already level 60 but i farmed all the mats myself and pushed it hard.