Blacksmithing Guide 1-450

Welcome to Warcraft Tavern’s Blacksmithing guide! In this guide, we’ll provide everything you need to max out your Blacksmithing skill, from the materials required to level up your profession to the best recipes to follow.

While Blacksmithing may not be the top profession when going for BiS, it provides strong personal bonuses with Socket Gloves and Socket Bracers. Besides extra gem sockets, Blacksmiths can craft useful enhancements like Titanium Weapon Chain, Eternal Belt Buckle, and Titanium Plating. Once 440 skill is reached, you can begin crafting epic Titansteel items. These include weapons (Titansteel Bonecrusher), helms (Spiked Titansteel Helm), and boots (Brilliant Titansteel Treads). These pieces are generally pre-raid BiS for the classes that can use them, and both these epic items and the item enhancements should sell steadily at the Auction House.

Because Blacksmithing relies on smelted ore and stone, Mining is the gathering skill associated with this profession. WotLK Blacksmiths also need crystallized elements found on the corresponding elemental and revenant mobs found throughout Northrend. Additionally, you’ll need some Titanium Bars that are transmuted by Alchemists.

Required Materials

Below you can find the materials you’ll need to level from 1-450, as well as a few tips and things to keep in mind.

• Sometimes we will have to craft yellow recipes that don’t guarantee a level up on every craft, therefore the materials required are estimates, rather than exact figures.
• Specific recipes will require items you have previously crafted, so check the lists before getting rid of crafts!
• Some recipes aren’t taught by trainers, but instead are acquired from drops or vendors.

All of these things are accounted for in the materials listed below. Listed separately from the material list are those recipes not acquired from a trainer, but rather from a vendor or world drop.

Blacksmithing Trainers

You can click on a Trainer’s name from the lists below to see its exact location. If you use TomTom, you can copy-paste the location and coordinates provided (after the name) to track down the trainer you need more easily. For example:

/way Orgrimmar 75.8 24.6

Leveling

Certain crafts need to be used later to further level up the profession. Other times, the materials can be bought from a vendor instead of the Auction House, or the crafting recipe is not acquired from a trainer. Some recipes turn yellow and as such do not have a 100% chance to level up your profession with every craft; this means some randomness enters the equation when it comes to materials. We indicate all of these situations with the following icons:

	Keep crafted items for later crafts.
	Buy material from the vendor.
	Bought Recipe.
	Craft amount depends on variance.

• Classic (1-300)
• Master (300-350)
• Grand Master (350-450)

Apprentice (1-75)

Materials

• 125 Rough Stone
• 35 Coarse Stone

Crafting

• Make all of Rough Grinding Stone as we will use them later.

Level	Amount	Materials
1 – 35	45 Rough Sharpening Stone	45 Rough Stone
35 – 65	40 Rough Grinding Stone	80 Rough Stone
65 – 75	35 Coarse Sharpening Stone	35 Coarse Stone

Journeyman (75-150)

Materials

• 80 Coarse Stone
• 250 Copper Bar
• 5 Silver Bar
• 70 Heavy Stone
• 75 Bronze Bar

Crafting

• Keep making Coarse Grinding Stone past grey, we’ll use these later.
• Hang on to all of the Heavy Grinding Stone.

75-90	40 Coarse Grinding Stone	80 Coarse Stone
90-100	10 Runed Copper Belt	100 Copper Bar
100-105	5 Silver Rod	10 Rough Grinding Stone 5 Silver Bar
105-110	5 Runed Copper Belt	50 Copper Bar
110-120	10 Runed Copper Bracers	30 Rough Grinding Stone 100 Copper Bar
120-125	5 Patterned Bronze Bracers	25 Bronze Bar 10 Coarse Grinding Stone
125-130	10 Heavy Sharpening Stone	10 Heavy Stone
130-140	20 Heavy Grinding Stone	60 Heavy Stone
140-150	10 Patterned Bronze Bracers	50 Bronze Bar 20 Coarse Grinding Stone

Expert (150-225)

Materials

• 5 Gold Bar
• 230 Iron Bar
• 35 Green Dye
• 50 Steel Bar
• 220 Solid Stone
• 90 Mithril Bar
• 60 Mageweave Cloth

Crafting

• Make all 55 Solid Grinding Stone as we will use them later.

Level	Amount	Materials
150-155	5 Golden Rod	5 Gold Bar
155-165	10 Green Iron Leggings	80 Iron Bar 10 Heavy Grinding Stone 10 Green Dye
165-190	25 Green Iron Bracers	150 Iron Bar 25 Green Dye
190-200	10 Golden Scale Bracers	50 Steel Bar 10 Heavy Grinding Stone
200-210	55 Solid Grinding Stone	220 Solid Stone
210-225	15 Heavy Mithril Gauntlet	90 Mithril Bar 60 Mageweave Cloth

Artisan (225-300)

Materials

Recipes

• 140 Steel Bar
• 10 Citrine
• 60 Mithril Bar (210 if Plans: Mithril Spurs is too expensive)
• 90 Mageweave Cloth (Only if Plans: Mithril Spurs is too expensive)
• 20 Dense Stone
• 420 Thorium Bar
• 10 Star Ruby

• Plans: Imperial Plate Bracers
  • Reward for Imperial Plate Bracer from Derotain Mudsipper in Tanaris. Requires 10 Thorium Bar.
• Plans: Mithril Spurs
  • Random world drop

Crafting

• Horde players should keep 4 Steel Plate Helm if they want to pursue Armorsmithing.

Level	Amount	Materials
225-250	10 Steel Plate Helm	140 Steel Bar 10 Citrine 10 Solid Grinding Stone
235-250	15 Mithril Spurs	60 Mithril Bar 45 Solid Grinding Stone
235-250 (Alternate)	15 Mithril Coif	150 Mithril Bar 90 Mageweave Cloth
250-260	20 Dense Sharpening Stone	20 Dense Stone
260-270	10 Thorium Belt	80 Thorium Bar
270-275	5 Thorium Bracers	40 Thorium Bar
275-290	15 Imperial Plate Bracers	180 Thorium Bar
290-300	10 Thorium Helm	120 Thorium Bar 10 Star Ruby

Materials

Recipes

• 142 Fel Iron Bar
• 7 Netherweave Cloth
• 55 Adamantite Bar

• Plans: Lesser Ward of Shielding
  • This is a limited-supply item sold by Rohok (H) in Hellfire Peninsula and Mari Stonehand (A) in Shadowmoon Valley

Crafting

Level	Amount	Materials
300-305	7 Fel Weightstone	7 Fel Iron Bar 7 Netherweave Cloth
305-320	15 Fel Iron Plate Belt	60 Fel Iron Bar
320-325	5 Fel Iron Plate Boots	30 Fel Iron Bar
325-335	30 Lesser Rune of Warding	30 Adamantite Bar
335-340	5 Fel Iron Chain Tunic	45 Fel Iron Bar
340-350	25 Lesser Ward of Shielding	25 Adamantite Bar

Materials

Recipes

• 320 Cobalt Bar (408 with alternate recipe)
• 52 Crystallized Water (Alternate recipe)
• 22 Crystallized Air (Not needed for alternate recipe)
• 38 Eternal Earth
• 13 Eternal Water
• 13 Eternal Shadow
• 578 Saronite Bar (476 with alternate recipe)
• 22 Titanium Bar

• Plans: Reinforced Cobalt Chestpiece
  • Alternate recipe that drops off Venture Co. Excavator in Sholazar Basin. This takes about 30 minutes to farm, so you can follow the main path we’ve outlined if you don’t want to spend the time.

Crafting

• If you take the time to farm Plans: Reinforced Cobalt Chestpiece off of Venture Co. Excavator in Sholazar Basin, you can use this recipe to skill from 390-416 cheaper than the path we’ve laid out. It should take 30 minutes of grinding for the plans to drop — they are BoP, so you must farm them yourself.
• At 400 skill you can train Socket Gloves and Socket Bracers, which allows the Blacksmith to add sockets to their own gloves and bracers.
• 450 skill won’t matter until Trial of the Crusader in phase 3, so you can stop at 440 unless you want to reach max level right away.
• At 440 skill, you can learn Titansteel weapons and armor plans. These are more expensive than Daunting Legplates, but can sell for a lot on the Auction House, or be used for pre-raid BiS.

Level	Amount	Materials
350-360	10 Cobalt Boots	40 Cobalt Bar
360-370	10 Cobalt Triangle Shield	40 Cobalt Bar
370-375	5 Cobalt Legplates	25 Cobalt Bar
375-380	5 Cobalt Helm	25 Cobalt Bar
380-385	15 Spiked Cobalt Boots	35 Cobalt Bar
385-390	5 Spiked Cobalt Shoulders	35 Cobalt Bar
390-416 (Alternate)	26 Reinforced Cobalt Chestpiece	208 Cobalt Bar 52 Crystallized Water
390-395	5 Notched Cobalt War Axe	50 Cobalt Bar
395-400	5 Brilliant Saronite Belt	30 Cobalt Bar 25 Saronite Bar
400-405	5 Horned Cobalt Helm	40 Cobalt Bar
405-416	11 Deadly Saronite Dirk	77 Saronite Bar 22 Crystallized Air
416-425	13 (±2) Eternal Belt Buckle	52 Saronite Bar 13 Eternal Earth 13 Eternal Water 13 Eternal Shadow
425-430	7 Titanium Weapon Chain	14 Saronite Bar 7 Titanium Bar
430-440	15 Titanium Skeleton Key	60 Saronite Bar 15 Titanium Bar
440-450	25 Daunting Legplates	350 Saronite Bar 25 Eternal Earth

Congratulations on reaching 450 Blacksmithing skill! We hope you enjoyed our guide, please comment below with any feedback!