WOTLK Classic Blacksmithing Guide

Professions in World of Warcraft add crafting skills to your heroes, complementing different classes differently. For example, Alchemy allows you to make powerful potions and enhances your buff duration from them. Blacksmithing allows you to craft powerful gear while being the only profession that can add sockets into their gear. This way, you can complement your Heroes’ class with one of these professions to help you progress faster and make more money from it. This WOTLK Classic Blacksmithing Guide is about how to progress faster if you have chosen Blacksmithing as a profession in WOTLK Classic.

Introduction to Blacksmithing

Before we go to this article’s juicy part, let’s first see what Blacksmithing is and its benefits.

What Does it Do?

The profession helps you turn different metals into weapons and other gear like mail and plate armor. They can also add sockets to equipment, and this profession is best paired with Mining because, at higher skills, craft ingredients cost a lot more if you can’t gather them yourself through Mining.

Does Your Class Need any Gear for Blacksmithing?

Not specifically, but you need crafting recipes to make them, which can only be done at a forge available at different locations. Recipes tell you which ingredients you need and how to farm them.

Does Blacksmithing Get You Anything Extra?

Other than crafting armor and gear, Blacksmiths are the only profession who can add sockets to their gear, making it highly beneficial to heavy classes like Paladin, Death Knights, and Warriors.

Why Should I Choose Blacksmithing Profession?

Blacksmithing is the profession for you if you wear Plate and other heavy armor as it allows you to craft your gear and some special equipment that isn’t open to anyone else.

What is the Best Paired with Blacksmithing?

As we said, Mining is a Blacksmithing companion as it allows you to mine essential minerals and metals that otherwise cost a lot when crafting so many gear and items. Most of these ingredients are now shared with Engineering, but with Mining, your costs are meager for full benefit.

Are The Specializations for Blacksmithing Still Viable for WOTLK?

Even though Blizzard made changes to the mechanics, which causes the reason to choose a specialization that much less important, there are reasons to do so. If you want to make level 78 solid gear or gear up alts, you should choose one.

Armorsmithing – This specialization is to make mid to high-tier plate armor and unique special gear like the Chestplate of Conquest and Legplates of Conquest.

Weaponsmithing – These are specific to weapons and can help you make special weapons.

Blacksmithing Bonuses and Benefits

As mentioned, Blacksmithing allows you to add sockets to your gear like epic gems, which can enhance your stats like giving your Strength, Agility, or Intellect a +40 boost, enhancing your ATK Power by +80, Spell Power by +46, getting +60 to your stamina and +40 to any secondary stat.

Following is the powerful gear your profession can help you make:

Eternal Belt Buckle – Helps you add a socket to your belts or can be sold in AH for a reasonable sum.
Titanium Weapon Chain – Can be attached to weapons, allowing your hero to reduce the disarmed duration and increase hit rating. You can also sell it in AH for a sum of WOTLK gold.
Tank Specific – Titanium Shield Wall for defense rating, Indestructible Plate Girdle for Def, Dodge, Parry rating, and more.
DPS Specific – Spiked Titansteel Treads for Crit Strike rating, Titanium Razorplate for Crit rating, and Armor Pen.
Healer Specific – Brilliant Titansteel Treads for mana restore, crit rating, and spell power.

WOTLK Classic Blacksmithing Leveling Guide

Below we have broken down the amount of crafting each material to progress faster in different brackets of the leveling journey. The craft changes materials with each bracket as it is associated with your class/hero level and the content you are tackling. This means that the crafting requirement becomes harder, supplemented by your increased level.

Apprentice Blacksmithing – From Level 1 to 75

During the journey of apprentice blacksmith, you need to go through 3 Blacksmithing leveling brackets which are as below with their crafts:

Level Bracket	Special Requirement	Quest	Amount	Ingredients	Amount
1-30	None	Rough Sharpening Stone	40	Rought Stone	40
30-65	None	Rough Grinding Stone	55	Rought Stone	110
65-75	None	Coarse Sharpening Stone	25	Coarse Stone	25

Journeyman Blacksmithing – From Level 75 to 125

At level 75, you need to visit a trainer to unlock Journeyman Blacksmithing which is available at Character Level 10. In this expertise, you have five brackets you need to progress through.

Level Bracket	Special Requirement	Quest	Amount	Ingredients	Amount
75-90	Save crafts for future	Coarse Grinding Stone	35	Coarse Stone	70
90-100	None	Runed Copper Belt	10	Copper Bar	100
100-105	None	Silver rod	5	-Silver Bar -Rought Grinding Stone	-5 -10
105-110	None	Runed Copper Belt	5	Copper Bar	50
110-125	None	Rought Bronze Legging	15	Bronze Bar	90

Expert Blacksmithing – From Level 125-225

Again, you need to visit a trainer to unlock this expertise available when you hit character level 20.

Level Bracket	Special Requirement	Quest	Amount	Ingredients	Amount
125-140	Save some	Heavy Grinding Stone	35	Heavy Stone	-105
140-150	None	Patterned Bronze Bracers	10	-Bronze Bars -Coarse Grinding Stone	-50 -20
150-155	None	Golden Rods	5	-Gold Bars Coarse -Grinding Stone	-5 -10
155-165	Green Dye is sold by Tailoring and Leatherworking Vendors	Green Iron Leggings	10	-Iron Bars -Heavy Grinding Stones -Green Dyes	-80 -10 -10
165-190	None	Green Iron Bracers	25	-Iron Bars -Green Dye	-150 -25
190-200	None	Golden Scale Bracers	10	-Steel Bar -Heavy Grinding Stone	-50 -20
200-210	Keep the crafts for future	Solid Grinding Stone	30	Solid Stone	120
210-225	None	Heavy Mithril Gauntlet	15	-Mithril Bar -Mageweave Cloth	-90 -60

Artisan Blacksmithing – From Level 225 to 300

You unlock Artisan expertise at a character level of 35.

Level Bracket	Special Requirement	Quest	Amount	Ingredients	Amount
225-235	None	Steel Plate Helm	10	-Steel Bar -Citrine -Solid Grinding Stone	-140 -10 -10
235-250	Buy Mithril Spurs Plans from AH	Mithril Spurs	20	-Mithril Bar -Solid Grinding Stone	-80 -60
250-260	None	Dense Sharpening Stones	20	Dense Stones	20
260-270	None	Thorium Belt	10	Thorium Bar	80
270-275	None	Thorium Bracers	5	Thorium Bar	40
275-290	Complete Imperial Plate Bracers quest to acquire its plans	Imperial Plate Bracers	15	Thorium Bar	180
290-300	None	Thorium Boots	10	-Thorium Bar -Rugged Leather	-120 -80

Master Blacksmithing – Level 300 to 350

This expertise is available to you at character level 50, and the trainer can be found at hellfire peninsula.

This expertise is available to you at level 50 for your character, and the trainers for this expertise can be found in Hellfire Peninsula.

Level Bracket	Special Requirement	Quest	Amount	Ingredients	Amount
300-305	We need to make more of these due to randomness	Fel Weightstone	7	-Fel Iron Bar -Netherweave	-7 -7
305-316	None	Fel Iron Plate Belt	11	Fel Iron Bar	44
316-321	None	Fel Iron Chain Gloves	5	Fel Iron Bar	25
321-325	None	Fel Iron Plate Boots	4	Fel Iron Bar	24
325-335	We May Need to Craft more	Lesser Rune of Warding	45	Adamantite Bar	45
335-340	Yellow Recipe, so may need to make more	Fel Iron Chain Tunic	7	Fel Iron Bar	63
340-350	Available from Rohok and Mari but limited, so you may need to wait 15-60 min to respawn	Lesser Ward of Shielding	45	Adamantite Bar	45

WOTLK Classic Blacksmithing – From Level 350-450

To unlock this expertise, you need to learn a new recipe from visiting trainer at Northrend, which requires your character level to be 65.

Level Bracket	Special Requirement	Quest	Amount	Ingredients	Amount
350-360	None	Cobalt Boots	10	Cobalt Bar	40
360-370	None	Cobalt Triangle Shield	10	Cobalt Bar	40
370-375	None	Cobalt Legplates	5	Cobalt Bar	25
370-375	None	Cobalt Gauntlets	5	Cobalt Bar	25
375-380	None	Spiked Cobalt Boots	5	Cobalt Bar	35
380-385	None	Spiked Cobalt Shoulders	5	Cobalt Bar	35
385-390	None	Notched Cobalt War Axe	5	Cobalt Bar	50
390-395	None	Brilliant Saronite Belt	5	-Cobalt Bar -Saronite Bar	-30 -25
400-405	None	Horned Cobalt Helm	5	Cobalt Bar	40
405-416	None	Deadly Saronite Dirk	11	-Saronite Bar -Crystallized Air	-77 -22

WOTLK Classic Blacksmithing Trainers and Their Locations

For the Wrath of Lich King expansion, you will find trainers at different locations, which are:

Horde:

Vengeance Landing – Kristen Smythe is found in Howling Fjord.
Warsong Hold – Crog Steelspine is located in Borean Tundra.

Alliance:

Valgarde – Rosina Rivet is found in Howling Fjord.
Valiance Keep – Argo Strongstout is located in Borean Tundra.
Alard Schmied is a neutral trainer open to both and is found at Dalaran.

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