World of Warcraft Profession Guide: Blacksmithing 1-375

Increasing your Blacksmithing Skill

As your skill increases, it will be a good idea to equip yourself and your friends as well. You will always have the opportunity to make items that you can equip at their minimum level. This is assuming that you are able to maintain your skill at 25 added to your level multiplied by five. Along with the items that you create to carry out the quests or that you create just for fun, there are also a variety of items that you can create so as to advance your skill. These items are of minimum material and they are usually made of stone and low-material armor items.

Being an Apprentice Blacksmith

When being an apprentice blacksmith, you don’t use your copper and bronze bars and instead focus on stone. Your copper and bronze is only when you need to equip clients, friends, or yourself. First you will be making Rough Sharpening Stones until you make it to 25. Then you will be making Rough Grinding Stones, making sure that you keep those Sharpening Stones so that you will be able to use them as a combat buff. You will continue doing this until you get to a skill of 65. You should keep these stones as well as you will need them in time to make other objects. Next you will be making Coarse Sharpening Stones. By working up to a skill of 75, you will finally be a Journeyman Blacksmith. Copper Chain Pants, Copper Chain Belts, and Copper Bracers are items that you will find useful as you increase your skill.

Being a Journeyman Blacksmith

You will learn Coarse Grinding Stone when you reach a skill of 75. These will be green as you learn them. You should continue doing this until they reach 100 and change to grey. Save these items as you will need them in time to create other items. Also, you should change copper and tin into bronze bars. These you should save as well. Next create Silver Rods until they get to 105 and sell these items to Enchanters. After this create Rough Bronze Leggings out of your bronze bars until they reach 145 or even 175. You will need 6 Bronze Bars for these and you should also sell these to vendors for around 9.62 s each. You will be able to profit from this as long as you can get 20 Bronze Bars for at most 30 s. Upon reaching 125 you will take on Heavy Grinding Stone. You should continue creating these until they change to grey. You will also need to save these for upcoming items. Also you can profit if you are able to tackle the Deadly Bronze Poniard plan. You will need the Bronze Bracer for a Badlands quest. Also, at 145 you will be able to create your first rare item.

Being an Expert Blacksmith

You will be learning Rough Bronze Leggings until when you reach 150. Golden skeleton keys turn green when they are learned at turn grey upon reaching 170. Also, Iron Buckles get to grey when they reach 155 and Golden Rods go green at 155 and grey when reaching 160. The Green Iron Set will be useful in giving you and your friends skill ups. At 150, you could also get the chance of learning the Iron Shield Spike plan. You should take advantage of this as you can profit from this. The Iron Counterweight is another way to make some profit. Upon reaching 200 you will be able to learn Solid Grinding Stone, which you should create until they go grey. You will need to create Golden Scale bracers to get to 215 and Steel Plate Helms to get to 225. Moreover, you will need to be equipped with the Golden Scale armor set along with the Moonsteel Broadsword, which you will need for a Dustwallow Marsh quest.

Being an Artisan Blacksmith

Upon reaching 225 you will be making Steel Plate Helms up until they go green. Next you will create Mithril Spurs until 250 and Dense Sharpening Stones until 260. When it comes to the Mithril Order quests, the Ornate and Heavy Mithril items will come in handy. The Ornate Mithril Helm and the Ornate Mithril Boots reach green at 265. You should also take a step back to the Mithril Spurs until 275 and continue on to Thorium Bracers until 280. Next you should create Thorium Helms until 300. You can also choose to do the Imperial Plate armor set instead. Here you will be making the Imperial Plate Belt and Shoulders, Bracers, and the Helm and Boots. These you will be doing at 265, 270, and 295 respectively. You can sell these for profit even though they essentially use more thorium than the actual Thorium armor items.

Taking the Specialty Path

You can make the items for your specialty quest by being a Weaponsmith or Armorsmith. You should opt to make these items right when you learn them. Also, make sure to save these so that you will be able to turn them in for your quest and acquire your skill ups as well. You can skill up by making use of the Truesilver Gauntlets at 245 or 265 along with the Truesilver Breastplate at 365 or 285 if you are an Armorsmith. You can sell both of these. On the other hand, if you are a Weaponsmith, you can get skill ups by making use of the Blight and Truesilver Champion, the Shatterer, and the Phantom Blade, all being saleable as well.

Other Notes

There isn’t one necessary way to go which is considered the best. This is due to the fact that it all depends on different factors such as your specialty, the items that you can create, and the dropped plans that you take. Also, it matters if you decided to learn every plan or instead just took the minimum.

You should note that trying to skill up faster is not the best approach. It will cost you a great amount, as you will probably have to vendor a lot of it. A better choice is to spread out your items over time or create an assortment of your items. This will make it easier for you to sell, as you will reduce overloading the market. Also, you can get an easy heads up by going to the Auction House and checking up on which skill up giving items are in short supply. This way you will be able to costcut, avoiding spending money to make items that are already readily found in the market. Also it’s better to make an item which will cost much but profit greatly instead of an item which will cost less but not profit at all.

You can see this in the comparison of the Imperial Plate Armor set and the Thorium or Radiant armor items. The latter uses fewer materials but does not sell at all, while the first, although costing much more, can be sold for a profit.

Also, you might want to have one of your characters to be an Enchanter. This can be quite useful as they can disenchant the green items that you have that won’t sell, allowing you to sell the reagents instead. You will actually be able to sell the reagents for more than the vendor would be willing to pay for the original green item. This is actually a better option than making cheaper white items that won’t be able to disenchant.

Older Rare Blacksmithing Plans

There is a rare plan dropped by Garr in Molten Core: Elemental Sharpening Stone, which is Bind on Pickup. This plan isn’t one that focuses on sharp weapons, so it might apply to all.

Elemental Sharpening Stone [300] Use: Increase critical chance on a melee weapon by 2% for 30 minutes, Requires Level 50 (uncommon) (Rare dropped Bind on Pickup plan from Garr in MC)
- 2 Elemental Earth, 3 Dense Stone (2.5 s)

Along with this is one from Lord Kazzak and Risen Warrior:

Helm of the Great Chief [300 Armorsmith] 292 AC, +12 Stamina, +30 Spirit, L 56, Mail (Rare) (Rare drop)
- 40 Thorium Bars, 4 Enchanted Thorium Bars, 60 Jet Black Feathers, 6 Large Opals, 2 Huge Emeralds (242.85 s)

Soulfuron Hammer

You will acquire this plan by going to the BRD bar and turning in a Sulfuron Ingot to Lokhtos Darkbargainer. Golemagg the Incinerator, Molton core Boss drops the Sulfron Ingots only once in every 6 kills. Upon getting a Sulfuron Ingot in you inventory, you will acquire a new dialogue option with Lohktos Darkbargainer. You should follow this dialogue so that you will be able to get the Thorium Brotherhood Contract.

After getting this Contract you will have to talk to him once more so that you will be able to turn it in along with the Sulfuron Ingot for the plans.

Sulfuron Hammer [Blacksmithing 300]
2H Hammer (143-239) Spd 3.00 Proc: Hurl fiery ball for 83-101 fire + 16 damage over 8 sec. Level 60, 63.7 dps (Epic, Bind on Equip) (Unique BoE plan sold by Lokhtos Darkbargainer in BRD bar for 1 Sulfuron Ingot via the Thorium Brotherhood Contract)
- 8 Sulfuron Ingots, 20 Dark Iron Bars, 50 Arcanite bars, 25 Essence of Fire, 10 Blood of the Mountain, 10 Lava Core, 10 Fiery Core.  

 

 

Although this requires only Artisan Blacksmith, the materials demanded are quite tremendous. However, you will need to get the materials to be able to make the Sulfuron Hammer and kill Ragnaros. By doing this you will hopefully get the Eye of Sulfuras drop, as there is a 6% drop chance.

 

 

With both the Eye of Sulfuras and the Sulfuron Hammer, you will be able to create the Legendary 2H Hammer.

You can make the Sulfuron Hammer, and then transfer it, as it is not BoP.

Blacksmithing 300 to 375

Blacksmithing 300 - 315
Imperial Plate Boots (18 x Thorium Bar) x 15

Blacksmithing 315 - 320
Imperial Plate Chest (20 x Thorium Bar) x 5

You may also do this instead:

Blacksmithing 300 - 320
Enchanted Thorium Blades (2 x Enchanted Thorium Bars, 6 x Thorium Bars, 1 x Rugged Leather) x 20

All of this rides on the price along with the effort that it takes to acquire Enchanted Thorium Bars on your server.

After reaching 320, you can carry on by following this:

Blacksmithing 325 - 330
Lesser Rune of Warding (1 x Adamantite Bar) x 10

Blacksmithing 330 - 340
Adamantite Cleaver (8 x Adamantite Bar) x 10

This is a limited supply recipe sold by either of the following:

Aaron Hollman - Shattrath City
Arras - The Exodar
Eriden - Silvermoon City

Blacksmithing 340 - 350
Lesser Rune of Shielding (1 x Adamantite Bar) x 20
This is a limited supply recipe sold by either of the following:
Mari Stonehand - Wildhammer Stronghold (Shadowmoon Valley)
Rohok - Thrallmar (Hellfire Peninsula)

Blacksmithing 350 - 360
Adamantite Weightstone (1 x Adamantite Bar, 2 x Netherweave Cloth) x 20
Requires Honoured rep along with cenarion Expedition, which you won’t find much trouble to find.

It’s difficult to find the right recipies to skill you up after reaching 360. This is because the trainers aren’t going to teach you much that is valuable. You will be able to skill up past 360 by a rep reward or a random drop pattern. The best options are the Aldors and Scryer’s reps. These are also the cheapest as well.

Aldor’s Rep

Blacksmithing 360 - 370
Flamebane Gloves (8 x Fel Iron Bars, 4 x Primal Water, 4 x Primal fire) x 10
It needs the Aldor honored rep to buy pattern and it’s BoP

Blacksmithing 370 - 375
Flamebane Breastplate (16 x Fel Iron Bars, 6 x Primal Water, 4 x Primal Fire) x 5
It needs the Aldor revered rep to buy pattern and it's BoP

Scryer’s Rep

Blacksmithing 360 - 370
Enchanted Adamantite Boots (3 x Hardened Adamantite Bars, 12 x Arcane Dust, 2 x Large Prismatic Shards) x 10
It needs the Scryer honoured rep to buy pattern and it's BoP

Blacksmithing 370 - 375
Enchanted Adamantite Breastplate (4 x Hardened Adamantite Bars, 20 x Arcane Dust, 4 x Large Prismatic Shards) x 5
It needs the Scryer revered rep to buy pattern and it's BoP

You could also choosed to keep running Auchenai Crypts for the Felsteel Gloves plans like so:

Blacksmithing 361 - 375
Felsteel Gloves (6 x Felsteel Bars) x 15

Estimated Materials Needed

Aldor’s Rep

370 X Thorium Bars (or 120 if you made Blades)
199 x Fel Iron Bar
130 x Adamantite Bar
40 x Netherweave Cloth
70 x Primal Water
60 x Primal Fire
If you chose to make the Enchanged Thorium Blades over the Imperial Plate Chest, then you will also need these:
40 x Enchanted Thorium Bars
20 x Rugged Leather

Scryer’s Rep

370 X Thorium Bars (or 120 if you made Blades)
39 x Fel Iron Bar
130 x Adamantite Bar
40 x Netherweave Cloth
50 x Hardened Adamantite Bars (That's 600 x Adamantite Bars)
220 x Arcane Dust
40 x Large Prismatic Shards
If you chose to make the Enchanged Thorium Blades over the Imperial Plate Chest, then you will also need these:
40 x Enchanted Thorium Bars
20 x Rugged Leather

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