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WoW Blacksmithing Guide 1 - 450

This WoW Blacksmithing guide will show you the fastest and easiest way to level your Blacksmithing skill up from 1 to 450. Updated for WoW patch 3.3

Blacksmithing is the best combined with Mining and I highly recommend to level Mining and Blacksmithing at the same time, because you will need a lot of gold if you want to buy everything from AH. It will take a lot of dedication to get to the end and get those epic items. Also, like other crafting trades, the benefits only really start showing at the end, so this Blacksmithing guide will be a massive gold drain all the way up to 450.

If you are low on gold, I recommend you to try this Gold Making Guide, it can help you to make loads of gold. If you are still leveling your character or you just started a new alt, I recommend you to use a leveling guide. You can level your character from 1 to 80 in 7 days with this guide. My personal record is 4 days 5 hours played time, but it was with heirlooms.

Blacksmithing guide sections:

Blacksmithing Apprentice 1 - 75
Blacksmithing Journeyman 75 - 125
Blacksmithing Expert 125 - 210
Blacksmithing Artisan 210 - 285
Blacksmithing Master 285 - 350
Blacksmithing Grand Master 350 - 450

Approximate Materials Required for 1-450:

  • 133 Rough Stone
  • 190 Copper Bar
  • 24 Coarse Stone
  • 5 Silver Bar
  • 120 Bronze Bar
  • 150 Heavy Stone
  • 5 Gold Bar
  • 230 Iron Bar
  • 35 Green Dye
  • 50 Steel Bar
  • 5 Truesilver Bar
  • 60 Solid Stones
  • 150 Mageweave Cloth
  • 320 Mithril Bar
  • 20 Dense Stone
  • 430 Thorium Bar
  • 80 Rugged Leather or 10 Star Ruby
  • 155 Fel Iron Bar
  • 10 Netherweave Cloth
  • 85 Adamantite Bar
  • 320 Cobalt Bar
  • 441 Saronite Bar
  • 20 Crystallized Air
  • 7 Titanium Bar
  • 33 Eternal Earth
  • 13 Eternal Shadow
  • 13 Eternal Water

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WoW Blacksmithing Leveling Guide 1 - 450

First, visit any trainer in the main cities of old Azeroth - just ask a guard, and learn Apprentice Blacksmithing.


75 - 125

Learn Blacksmithing Journeyman.

  • 100 - 105
    5 x [Silver Rod] - 5 Silver Bar, 10 Rough Grinding Stone


125 - 200

Learn Blacksmithing Expert.

  • 125 - 150
    50 x [Heavy Grinding Stone] - 150 Heavy Stone

    You should stop at 150 though if you reach that before making all 50, as the recipe goes grey at this point - then if you need all 50 later on make them at that point instead.

  • 150 - 155
    5 x [Golden Rod] - 5 Gold Bar, 10 Coarse Grinding Stone


200 - 275

Learn Blacksmithing Artisan.



At skill level 200 and character level 40, Blacksmiths can choose to specialize as an Armorsmith or a Weaponsmith. Weaponsmiths can later further specialize into Hammer-, Axe- or Swordsmiths. All specialized armor and weapons are Bind on Pickup and can only be used by the blacksmith that made them. Most specialization recipes require difficult components, such as Primal Mights, Primal Nethers, and Nether Vortexes. If you want to read more about Blacksmith specialization, please visit these pages: Armorsmithing or Weaponsmithing.

  • 235 - 250
    Check AH, if you can see the Mithril Spurs recipe and it's not that expensive, buy it and make those until 255.

    15 x [Mithril Coif] - 150 Mithril Bar, 90 Mageweave Cloth


275 - 350

Go to Outland and learn Blacksmithing Master.

  • 275 - 290

    Between 275-280, you can make [Arcanite Rods] and sell them at the Auction House. This way you will need 55 less [Thorium Bars]. The recipe is yellow, so it really depends on your luck, maybe you will only need to make 5 maybe 10. One [Arcanite Rod] costs around 18 gold to make if you buy the [Arcane Crystals] and find any Alchemist who transmute them into [Arcanite Bars]. The 55 [Thorium Bars] cost around 140 gold usually, but this way if you have to make only 5 [Arcanite Rod], you will end up around 90 gold spent, and you can also sell them for profit. I can usually sell them for around 70-80 gold, but you have to be patient because the demand for them isn't that big. Anyway this is a great way if you want to reduce the gold spent while you level your Blacksmithing, but if you want to level the profession faster and you don't really feel you are lucky or you are not really into selling things at the Auction House, you should just make the Bracers mentioned below.

    15 x [Imperial Plate Bracers] 180 Thorium Bar

    The recipe is a reward from this quest. - 10 Thorium Bar

  • 290 - 300
    Choose one from the recipes listed below. They both requires 12 Thorium Bar for each craft, the only difference between them is that you need 1 Star Ruby for the Helm and 8 Rugged Leather for the Boots.

    10 x [Thorium Boots] - 120 Thorium Bar, 80 Rugged Leather

    or

    10 x [Thorium Helm] - 120 Thorium Bar, 10 Star Ruby

  • 325 - 330
    10 x [Lesser Rune of Warding] - 10 Adamantite Bar

    If Adamantite Bar is cheap on your server, then you can make this one up to 335.


350 - 450

Go to Northrend and learn Blacksmithing Grand Master.

  • 415 - 425
    13 x [Eternal Belt Buckle] - 52 Saronite Bar, 13 Eternal Earth, 13 Eternal Shadow, 13 Eternal Water

    • Make these until 425. You can sell these at the auction house, so you will get most of your gold back.

  • 445 - 450
    You can continue to make [Daunting Legplates], but the recipe will be green. Other option is to craft epic items for other players, or you can buy the materials and try to sell the crafted items on the Auction House

I hope you liked this WoW Blacksmithing Guide, GZ to 450!

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