diablo-3
I'm playing with my boyfriend, and he recommended one of us go Smithing and the other go Jewelcrafting, however I still haven't found the jewelcrafting guy yet and have a decent amount of money, so have been considering putting some money into smithing anyways for when hes not around.
Are you capable of easily leveling Blacksmithing and Jewelcrafting at the same time? Or if playing with someone else, is it a better idea to have each person focus on one of the two?
No. While every class has the same number of abilities, passives, and runes, which skills unlock in which order vary from class to class, with a few exceptions. For instance:
You will always unlock a skill for a skill slot at the same level you unlock that skill slot
You will learn your final class ability at level 30.
Here's an Imgur gallery of the class progression charts.
Yes, but there are some significant caveats.
There is a very helpful table here which lists the experience scaling for your level compared to a given monsters level. It is also untrue that you can't determine the level of a monster - but I don't think there is a way to determine it in game. I've also been taking measurements for other questions in various parties, and I've found the output to be consistent with the conclusion that monsters of the same level always award the same amount of experience.
Best Answer
The Blacksmith costs more gold to level than the Jeweler.
Much more.
At all likelyhood, you'll be easily able to keep the Jeweler at a similar level to your character (that is, making gems of the appropriate level) while the blacksmith will start to lag behind.
At any rate, the bottleneck and primary gold sink is definitely the blacksmith, so leveling up the two at the same time is definitely viable, simply because the total cost of the Jewler is essentially an afterthought.