Er, can anyone who knows how to play merchants help me? I'm 32/27, and I have no clue where to hunt. Merchants aren't very offensive, so I can't really kill anything above Spores. Some help please?

*cough* not very offencive? <_<
Anyways, go to culvert level 2 ish, bring a sword that costed you at least 20k and kill around there until job level 33ish? Thats what I did. Pm "Tramp" ingame I'll be a bit more help.

Battle smiths rock hard core..... Just pump up str agi and dex and you will do fine. Honestly you don't need to have a build to make stuff until you are a white smith, if that is what you are going to do....I think battle White Smiths are more fun than forging ones though. hehe....but yeah, Culverts is only good cuz of the amount of stuff there, hope you don't mind grinding!