Mikus, thank you very much for the tips! Having a bit of an idea on how to build my characters is very helpful. I hadn't yet done any blacksmithing, as even the starter weapons seem to require 5 blacksmithing skill, and I hadn't yet seen an item with even +1 blacksmithing, and from what I'd seen so far, it's 1 points for the first skill point, and 2 points for the 2nd, and I assume it goes up from there, so investing anything in it at this point looks pretty wasteful.
