Vanilla Blacksmithing Leveling Guide 1-300 (Midnight)

This Vanilla Blacksmithing leveling guide will show you the fastest way how to level your Blacksmithing skill up from 1 to 300 as inexpensively as possible.

This guide has two versions. Make sure you pick the one that matches the game you are playing:

WoW Classic Classic Era, Hardcore, Season of Discovery
Retail WoW "Vanilla" 1-300 skill bar in current Retail (Midnight)

Often the materials are based on a case that you will gain one skill point each craft. This won't happen, so you will have to buy a few extra materials while you are leveling your Blacksmithing.

Approximate Materials Required for 1-300:

This is NOT a WoW Classic guide. If you play on a Classic Era, Hardcore, or Season of Discovery realm (the standalone WoW Classic client), use my WoW Classic Blacksmithing Leveling Guide 1-300 instead.

This page is for the "Classic" 1-300 skill bar in Retail WoW (Midnight). In your in-game profession window in Retail, this is the first skill bar labeled Classic. I call this guide "Vanilla" in the title only to keep it apart from the actual WoW Classic guide above (Blizzard naming both Classic is the reason these two guides get mixed up so often).

Racial Bonuses

Some races have a profession skill bonus as a racial trait, allowing recipes to remain orange for 2-5 extra points. This means you can save gold by crafting lower-level recipes to gain additional skill points.

These races are:

  • Lightforged Draenei: +5 skill
  • Dark Iron Dwarves:+5 skill
  • Kul Tiran: +2 skill

1 - 90

Check out my Copper Ore farming guide and Tin Ore farming guide if you have mining, you will get the stones below by mining Copper or Tin.

  • 1 - 25
    25 x Rough Sharpening Stone - 25 x Rough Stone

    This recipe will be yellow for the last 5 points, so you might have to make more.

  • 25 - 65
    50 x Rough Grinding Stone - 100 x Rough Stone

    If you still have some Rough Stone left from farming, or they are really cheap at the Auction House, then you should make this one up to 75.

  • 65 - 75
    16 x Coarse Sharpening Stone - 16 Coarse Stone

    This recipe will be yellow first, then green for the last 3 points, so you might have to make more.

90 - 155

Check out my Copper Ore farming guide and Tin Ore farming guide if you have Mining.

  • 100 - 105
    5-7 x Silver Skeleton Key - 7 Silver Bar, 14 Rough Grinding Stone

    You can skip this part and just make Runed Copper Belt if you don't have any Silver Bar.

  • 125 - 140
    35 x Heavy Grinding Stone - 105 Heavy Stone

    Keep the Heavy Grinding Stones. Make this one up to 150 if Heavy Stone is cheap.

  • 140 - 145
    5 x Rough Bronze Shoulders - 25 Bronze Bar, 5 Coarse Grinding Stone

    If you were lucky with the Heavy Grinding Stones, you are already at 145 and you can skip this part.

155 - 200

Visit my Iron Ore farming guide if you want to farm Iron Ore.

  • 155 - 165
    10 x Green Iron Leggings - 80 Iron Bar, 10 Heavy Grinding Stone, 10 Green Dye

    Green Dye is sold by Tailoring and Leatherworking supply vendors. Just ask a guard in any major city where a Tailoring or Leatherworking trainer is located, and a vendor will be near those trainers.

200 - 260

Check out my Mithril Ore farming guide.

  • 200 - 210
    20 x Solid Sharpening Stone - 20 Solid Stone

    This recipe will be green for the last few points, so you might have to make more or fewer.

  • 250 - 260
    20 x Dense Sharpening Stone - 20 Dense Stone

    This recipe will be green for the last few points, so you might have to make more or fewer.

260 - 300

Visit my Thorium Ore farming guide if you need places for farming Thorium.

  • 291 - 300
    Choose one from the recipes listed below. They both require 12 Thorium Bar, but you need 1 Star Ruby for the Helm and 8 Rugged Leather for the Boots.

    9x Thorium Boots - 108x Thorium Bar, 72x Rugged Leather

    or

    9x Thorium Helm - 108x Thorium Bar, 9x Star Ruby

I hope you liked this Blacksmithing leveling guide, congratulations on reaching 300!

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