WoW Forever Blacksmithing Guide

Blacksmithing in WoW Forever covers a lot more than simply making weapons. You can craft mail and plate armor, profession components, and several high-level equipment sets, but the profession burns through a serious amount of metal bars and stone along the way. Pairing it with Mining is therefore the most practical way to keep costs under control instead of buying every material from the Auction House.

This WoW Forever Blacksmithing leveling guide takes you from 1 to 300 step by step. You'll also find the materials needed for each skill range, Blacksmithing trainer locations for both factions, and alternative recipes for the points where plan availability or realm prices can make another route cheaper.

WoW Forever Blacksmithing Overview

Most equipment recipes require a Blacksmith Hammer, and many of them also need access to an anvil. Buy the hammer as soon as you learn Blacksmithing. It is a small thing, but forgetting it usually means an annoying trip back to a profession supply vendor later.

Blacksmithing is split into Apprentice, Journeyman, Expert, and Artisan ranks. Journeyman increases the skill cap to 150, Expert to 225, and Artisan to 300. One important difference in WoW Forever is that recipe skill-up ranges do not always match older Classic routes, so blindly following a Classic Era 1-300 guide can waste materials or leave you crafting recipes that are no longer efficient.

Mining is the obvious gathering profession to pair with Blacksmithing. Most of this route runs through Copper, Bronze, Iron, Steel, Mithril, and Thorium, and buying all of those bars from the Auction House can make Blacksmithing one of the more expensive professions to level.

WoW Forever Blacksmithing Materials

The totals below are approximate. Once recipes turn yellow or green, a craft is no longer guaranteed to give a skill point, so buying only the absolute minimum can leave you short. A small reserve of bars and secondary reagents saves a lot of backtracking.

Approximate Materials for Blacksmithing 1-225

Artisan Materials 225-300

The last 75 points are less tidy. You will need a mix of Mithril, Truesilver, Thorium, leather, gems, grinding stones, and several recipe-specific reagents, and yellow or green crafts can easily push the totals higher. For this part, it makes more sense to buy materials step by step instead of committing to one huge shopping list before you begin.

Blacksmithing can get expensive fast if you buy the wrong bars, miss a recipe breakpoint, or run short on materials halfway through a yellow-skill range.

WoW Forever Blacksmithing Trainer Locations

Apprentice Blacksmithing currently has no character level requirement in WoW Forever. Most characters can learn it in a capital city, while a few starting areas also have nearby trainers.

There is no Blacksmithing trainer in Teldrassil or Darnassus, so Night Elf characters can use Delfrum Flintbeard in Auberdine. Tauren characters can train in Thunder Bluff rather than Mulgore.

Blacksmithing Rank Trainers

Apprentice Blacksmithing 1-75

Before you start making equipment, pick up a Blacksmith Hammer. Also keep the grinding stones specifically mentioned below. Several later recipes use them as reagents, and selling them early only means crafting them again.

Blacksmithing 1-25

The recipe turns yellow before you finish this range, so the exact number of crafts may vary slightly.

Blacksmithing 25-50

Keep at least 10 Rough Grinding Stones. They are needed for Runed Copper Gauntlets at 70-75.

Blacksmithing 50-70

Craft all 60. Patterned Bronze Bracers later consume the Coarse Grinding Stones made here.

Blacksmithing 70-75

From this point onward, most equipment crafts require a Blacksmith Hammer.

Journeyman Blacksmithing 75-150

Train Journeyman Blacksmithing once you have at least 50 Blacksmithing and character level 10.

Blacksmithing 75-80

If Silver Bars happen to be cheaper on your realm, Silver Rod is another option. Each Silver Rod requires 1 Silver Bar and 2 Rough Grinding Stones.

Blacksmithing 80-95

Blacksmithing 95-125

This is where the Coarse Grinding Stones from the 50-70 section get used.

Blacksmithing 125-150

Strong Flux is sold by Blacksmithing Supply vendors near profession trainers in the capital cities.

Expert Blacksmithing 150-225

Expert Blacksmithing becomes available at 125 skill and character level 20. Horde players can train with Saru Steelfury in Orgrimmar, while Alliance players use Bengus Deepforge in Ironforge.

Blacksmithing 150-165

Green Dye is sold by Tailoring and Leatherworking Supply vendors.

Blacksmithing 165-185

Alliance players planning to complete Armorsmithing-related content may want to keep several of these rather than vendoring them immediately.

Blacksmithing 185-200

Alternative: craft 15x Heavy Mithril Shoulder using 120x Mithril Bar and 90x Heavy Leather if that combination is cheaper on your realm.

Blacksmithing 200-210

Blacksmithing 210-225

Plans: Mithril Spurs is a world drop and is commonly obtained through the Auction House. If the plan is unavailable or simply too expensive, keep crafting Steel Plate Helm instead. Expect some additional crafts because it is no longer a guaranteed skill-up for the whole range.

The final 75 points are the most time-consuming part: recipe access, realm prices, and failed yellow skill-ups can force extra farming and additional Auction House purchases.

Artisan Blacksmithing 225-300

Train Artisan Blacksmithing from Brikk Keencraft in Booty Bay once you reach 200 Blacksmithing and character level 35. This is where the route becomes much more dependent on plan access and realm prices, so the steps below focus on recipes with clearly documented acquisition methods and current WoW Forever reagent data.

Blacksmithing 225-230

Plans: Ornate Mithril Shoulders comes from the Blacksmithing quest The Art of the Imbue. Six crafts leave a little room in case one attempt does not award the final skill point.

Blacksmithing 230-235

Mithril Coif is taught by Brikk Keencraft. Bringing one extra craft worth of materials can save you another trip if the skill-up does not land exactly when expected.

Blacksmithing 235-250

Shining Mithril Helm is a WoW Forever Blacksmithing recipe. It remains useful throughout this stretch, although the last few points are not guaranteed, so the final number of crafts can vary.

Blacksmithing 250-265

Blight is trainer-taught in WoW Forever and gives you a fairly direct way out of the Mithril range. It begins losing guaranteed skill-ups before 265, though, so have extra reagents ready.

Blacksmithing 265-280

Imperial Plate Bracers have much simpler material requirements if you already have the plan from the Imperial Plate quest line. Thorium Greatmace is another option: its plan costs 90 Merchant's Favor from the profession camp exchange and can make sense when reliable plan access matters more than raw material cost.

Blacksmithing 280-300

Plans: Huge Thorium Battleaxe is sold by Magnus Frostwake in Western Plaguelands. The recipe does not guarantee a skill point for the entire 280-300 stretch, so buying materials in smaller batches is safer. Stop as soon as you hit 300.

Alternative Recipes for 275-300

If Thorium Bars or Rugged Leather are expensive on your realm, it is worth checking other high-skill plans before committing to Huge Thorium Battleaxe. Several WoW Forever recipes can still provide skill-ups here, although their plan requirements may make them less convenient if your only goal is reaching 300 quickly.

WoW Forever Blacksmithing Leveling Tips

• Level Mining alongside Blacksmithing if possible. Bars are the biggest expense in almost every skill range.
• Do not vendor every grinding stone you make. Later recipes consume Rough, Coarse, Heavy, Solid, and Dense Grinding Stones.
• Buy materials for yellow and green recipes in smaller batches. The number of crafts you need depends on skill-up luck.
• Check the Auction House before paying heavily for a rare plan. Sometimes staying with a trainer recipe is cheaper, even if it takes a few more crafts.
• Keep a Blacksmith Hammer in your bags, and remember that many equipment recipes also require an anvil or Black Anvil.
• For 265-300, compare the cost of Thorium, Truesilver, Dark Iron, gems, and Merchant's Favor recipes on your realm before locking yourself into the final route.

Good luck reaching 300 Blacksmithing, conquer! Leveling Mining alongside it already removes a large part of the cost, and a few price checks before the Mithril and Thorium ranges can save you from most of the expensive detours.

WoW Forever Blacksmithing FAQ