PROFESSIONS · 1 TO 300 GUIDE
Blacksmithing
Crafting · Updated October 30, 2026
Weapons, mail and plate armor, sharpening stones and weightstones, enchanting rods and keys. Forever adds close to 200 new plans, many aimed at hybrids and useful from low level. Best for warriors and paladins, especially tanks.
What to pair it with: Mining: the whole climb runs on stone and bars, and buying all of it is very expensive.
What changes in Forever
- About 197 new plans (437 in total). Examples: Strange Copper Boots, Glowing Copper Boots and the Guard's, Crusader's and Veteran's mail sets… Several Mithril Scale pieces are renamed Mithril Plate (pants, bracers, gloves and shoulders).
- Forever moved the skill-up points of more than 180 recipes. Example: Heavy Grinding Stone now comes at 100 (was 125) and Solid Grinding Stone at 175 (was 200). Many recipes turn grey about 25 points earlier than in Classic.
- Merchant's Favor plans in four tiers (30, 60, 90 and 120 Favor): mail sets for leveling, gauntlets and shoulders at 175-210, bracers/boots/belts at 225-250 and, at 300, the Enriched Thorium set. Sold by Stondry Darkhammer (Alliance, Redridge) and Gor'mak (Horde, near the Crossroads).
- Blizzard added blacksmithing plans as random dungeon drops (1 October beta build).
- Sharpening stones and weightstones stack with poisons and Windfury.
- Camping: Sharpening Wheel (20; 6 to 34 Strength depending on your level, does not stack with Strength of Earth Totem), Anvil (140; an anvil at camp) and Master Forge (300; advanced recipes). The last two come from blueprints.
- Legacy points at 150, 225 and 300. At 300, the certification (1,000 Favor) gives the account-wide title "the Blacksmith".
From 1 to 300, step by step
| 1-25 | Rough Sharpening Stone ~30 Total: 30 Rough Stone Buy a Blacksmith Hammer when you learn the profession: you need it from 67. |
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| 25-50 | Rough Grinding Stone ~30 Total: 60 Rough Stone Keep 26: 16 for the gauntlets and 10 in case you make Silver Rods. |
| 50-67 | Coarse Grinding Stone ~36 Total: 72 Coarse Stone Make all 36 even if you overshoot: the bracers at 95 and 112 need them. Train Journeyman (skill 50, level 10). |
| 67-75 | Runed Copper Gauntlets ~8 Total: 64 Copper Bar, 16 Rough Grinding Stone You need an anvil and the hammer. |
| 75-80 | Runed Copper Belt ~5 Total: 50 Copper Bar If silver is cheap, make Silver Rod (1 Silver Bar and 2 Rough Grinding Stone): enchanters buy them. |
| 80-95 | Rough Bronze Leggings ~15 Total: 90 Bronze Bar Bronze is smelted from Copper and Tin (Mining). |
| 95-100 | Patterned Bronze Bracers ~5 Total: 25 Bronze Bar, 10 Coarse Grinding Stone Use the stones you kept. |
| 100-112 | Heavy Grinding Stone ~20 Total: 60 Heavy Stone In Forever it unlocks at 100. Keep all 20 for Golden Scale Bracers. |
| 112-125 | Patterned Bronze Bracers ~13 Total: 65 Bronze Bar, 26 Coarse Grinding Stone At 125, train Expert (level 20, 50 silver). |
| 125-140 | Bronze Shortsword ~24 Total: 120 Bronze Bar, 96 Weak Flux, 48 Medium Leather Weak and Strong Flux are sold by the blacksmithing vendor next to the trainer. |
| 140-165 | Bronze Warhammer ~29 Total: 232 Bronze Bar, 29 Strong Flux, 29 Medium Leather The most bronze-hungry step: smelt as you go. |
| 165-175 | Green Iron Bracers ~15 Total: 90 Iron Bar, 15 Green Dye Green Dye from Tamar (Orgrimmar) or Bombus Finespindle (Ironforge). |
| 175-185 | Golden Scale Bracers ~10 Total: 50 Steel Bar, 20 Heavy Grinding Stone With Mining 165 you smelt Steel yourself (Iron Bar and Coal; the blacksmithing vendor sells Coal). |
| 185-215 | Mithril Plate Pants ~36 Total: 432 Mithril Bar Formerly Mithril Scale Pants. If mithril is pricey: Steel Breastplate to 200, then Steel Plate Helm to 215. Train Artisan at 200 (level 35). |
| 215-225 | Heavy Mithril Breastplate ~10 Total: 160 Mithril Bar If you find Mithril Spurs plans (world drop, check the auction house), they are cheaper: 40 Mithril Bar and 30 Solid Grinding Stone for 10. |
| 225-235 | Mithril Coif — Per craft: 10 Mithril Bar, 6 Mageweave Cloth Taught by the Artisan trainer. Alternative: Dense Sharpening Stone. |
| 235-250 | Heavy Mithril Boots — Per craft: 14 Mithril Bar, 4 Thick Leather From the trainer. |
| 250-265 | Blight — Per craft: 28 Mithril Bar, 10 Truesilver Bar, 10 Ichor of Undeath, 6 Solid Grinding Stone, 6 Thick Leather From the trainer. It is pricey: compare it with other orange recipes on your realm first. |
| 265-300 | Huge Thorium Battleaxe — Per craft: 40 Thorium Bar, 6 Dense Grinding Stone, 6 Rugged Leather Plans from Magnus Frostwake (Western Plaguelands). For 265-280 you can also use Thorium Greatmace, bought for 90 Merchant's Favor. |
Trainers
- Apprentice (1-75): no level requirement. Ug'thok (Orgrimmar), Basil Frye (Undercity), Thrag Stonehoof (Thunder Bluff), Dane Lindgren (Stormwind), Groum Stonebeard (Ironforge). Starting zones: Dwukk (Razor Hill), Angus Hammerhand (Tirisfal), Smith Argus (Goldshire), Tognus Flintfire (Kharanos), Delfrum Flintbeard (Auberdine) and, on Zephras Isle, Daeann Steelwind or Aedi Thriceforged. Darnassus has none.
- Journeyman (up to 150; skill 50 and level 10): Snarl (Orgrimmar), James Van Brunt (Undercity), Karn Stonehoof (Thunder Bluff), Angus Hammerhand (Tirisfal), Therum Deepforge (Stormwind), Rotgath Stonebeard (Ironforge).
- Expert (up to 225; skill 125 and level 20, 50 silver): Saru Steelfury (Orgrimmar) or Bengus Deepforge (Ironforge).
- Artisan (up to 300; skill 200 and level 35): Brikk Keencraft in Booty Bay, for both factions.
What is worth the most
- Sharpening stones and weightstones: every melee uses them, and in Forever they stack with poisons and Windfury.
- Favor gear for leveling (mail from skill 45 to 125): gears you and your group on the way up.
- The Enriched Thorium set (300, 120 Favor), which uses new materials: Azerothium Bar and Heavy Thorium Bar (Mining) and Legionite Bar (Alchemy transmute).
- Enchanting rods (Silver, Golden, Truesilver, Arcanite) and skeleton keys: there are always enchanters and rogues buying.
Tips
- Level Mining alongside it: the route burns over a thousand bars across bronze, mithril and thorium.
- Keep every grinding stone the route tells you to: several steps reuse them.
- You need an anvil for almost everything except stones and reagents: craft in town or at camp with the Anvil.
- Train Artisan at 200 with Brikk Keencraft (Booty Bay) so you don't stall at 225.
- Fill Waylaid Supplies that ask for bars: Favor buys plans you can't get any other way.
- Don't follow a Classic guide past 225: recipes go grey sooner and you'll waste materials.
What we don't know yet
- 225-300 could not be tested (the beta was capped at level 30). Guides disagree: some use Heavy Mithril Boots and Blight, others random-drop plans (Blessed Plate Bracers, Thorium Bracers). We'll fix it in launch week.
- How many crafts each step from 225 to 300 needs.
- Armorsmith and Weaponsmith requirements (Master Axesmith, Swordsmith, Hammersmith): they're in the client, but it's unknown whether they match Classic.
- Where the Anvil and Master Forge blueprints drop.
This guide is updated every time Blizzard publishes changes. Whatever is still missing goes in as soon as it is known, and the date at the top tells you when we last touched it.
Sources: Blizzard: repaso a fondo de Forever (profesiones y acampada) · Warcraft Tavern: Blacksmithing en Forever · WoW-Professions: Blacksmithing 1-300 en Forever · LFCarry: Blacksmithing en Forever (Favor y 225-300) · RankedBoost: Blacksmithing en Forever (cambios del cliente) · Conquest Capped: Blacksmithing en Forever · Warcraft Tavern: Blacksmithing 1-300 en Classic.