WoW Forever Blacksmithing Leveling Guide

This WoW Forever Blacksmithing leveling guide provides a cost-efficient path from skill 1 to 300. The route is calculated using estimated material costs together with each recipe's skill-up range, so it may continue using a cheaper recipe after it stops guaranteeing a skill point when doing so is expected to reduce the overall cost of leveling.

Items marked (keep) are required by a later step, so don't sell or discard them. Quantities marked with an asterisk are estimates because yellow and green recipes don't guarantee a skill point on every craft.

Aggressive

Level	Craft
0-16	16Rough Sharpening Stone (or Rough Weightsone) Requires 16 Rough Stone
16-25	9Copper Bracers Requires* 18 Copper Bar
25-50	25Rough Grinding Stone (keep)* Requires 50 Rough Stone
50-51	1Coarse Grinding Stone (keep) Requires 2 Coarse Stone
51-75	24Copper Chain Belt Requires* 144 Copper Bar
Train Journeyman 75-150 (req. L10)
75-86	11Runed Copper Belt Requires 110 Copper Bar
86-100	16Runed Copper Bracers Requires* 160 Copper Bar 48 Rough Grinding Stone
100-101	1Heavy Grinding Stone (keep) Requires 3 Heavy Stone
101-126	25Patterned Bronze Bracers Requires 125 Bronze Bar 50 Coarse Grinding Stone
126-136	10Silvered Bronze Boots Requires 60 Bronze Bar 10 Silver Bar 20 Coarse Grinding Stone
Train Expert 150-225 (req. L20)
136-175	52Green Iron Leggings Requires* 416 Iron Bar 52 Heavy Grinding Stone 52 Green Dye
175-185	20Solid Grinding Stone (keep)* Requires 80 Solid Stone
185-191	6Green Iron Bracers Requires 36 Iron Bar 6 Green Dye
191-201	10Heavy Mithril Gauntlets Requires 60 Mithril Bar 40 Mageweave Cloth
201-211	10Steel Plate Helm Requires 140 Steel Bar 10 Solid Grinding Stone
211-225	14Mithril Coif Requires 140 Mithril Bar 84 Mageweave Cloth
Train Artisan 225-300 (req. L35)
225-235	15Dense Sharpening Stone Requires* 15 Dense Stone
235-250	35Heavy Mithril Boots Requires* 490 Mithril Bar 140 Thick Leather
265-270	6Imperial Plate Belt Requires* 132 Thorium Bar 36 Rugged Leather 6 Aquamarine
270-285	30Imperial Plate Bracers Requires* 600 Thorium Bar 30 Star Ruby
295-300	6Imperial Plate Boots Requires* 204 Thorium Bar 6 Star Ruby 6 Aquamarine
*May require a few more or a few less depending on your luck

Blacksmithing Leveling Tips

Blacksmithing can consume large quantities of bars and stone, so material prices have a significant effect on the cheapest route to 300. Don't assume that the recipe requiring the fewest crafts is automatically the cheapest. A recipe that has already turned yellow can still be worthwhile when its materials are substantially cheaper than the alternatives.

Keep any intermediate materials identified by the guide. Blacksmithing frequently uses grinding stones made at earlier skill levels as reagents for later crafts. For example, this route keeps Coarse Grinding Stones and later uses them when crafting Patterned Bronze Bracers and Golden Rods.

Planning Your Materials

The later levels become considerably more material-intensive, particularly once the route reaches Mithril and Thorium recipes. If you're buying materials from the Auction House, check the quantities required by the later stages before starting rather than purchasing each step individually. Changes in bar, stone, leather and gem prices can make alternative recipes more economical.

Normal vs Aggressive Leveling

Enable Aggressive if you're willing to continue crafting recipes after their skill-up chance begins to fall when the estimated material savings justify the additional risk. The standard route is more conservative. Because these skill-ups are probabilistic, your actual material requirements can be slightly higher or lower than the quantities shown.