[WotLK] Blacksmithing 1-450

if you use plans that only need bars and nothing else you can go up faster and its cheaper
always use plans u just learned and use them for 5 - 10 levels make sure there is a blacksmithing trainer nearby because with the WotLK upgrade you can learn new things every 5 levels

Onslaught Masons level 72 to 73 in Lights Trust, Dragonblight. It does not contain Onslaught Masons,

Lights Trust is an Argent Crusade quest hub.

This guide is kinda out of date atm. I was using this to level my black smithing and all was great, until i got to 380. The items you have suggested to go from 380 to 415 require double the Ore/Bars now, and 2 eternal waters a piece to craft. So either you will have to change the mat's list or come up with new items for the 380 - 415 void. I'll report on the items i used to "git'r'done".

Great guide!!! I just skimmed over it but it looks very good, the only thing I don't like is the fact that you put your lists below the tables, I find that it helps if they are above the tables so then you can get all the mats first. Anyways great guide.

If you mined all your Thorium, like I did, you should have a few Arcane Crystals. I saved about 8 of them and had someone transmute them, and 8 Thorium Bars, into Arcanite Bars. With the 8 Arcanite Bars, and 8 Dense Grinding Stones, you can easily, and for a lower cost of Thorium, get 275-80 just as fast.

"Like sands through an hourglass, so are the the days of our lives." Yet, you can't flip life upside-down and restart.

Around level 100 blacksmithing you could replace some of the levels with silver rods which cost only one silver ore to make(you'll probably have tons of silver ore if you're mining at any decent rate).

Haytred

Instead of doing that with all those mats do Rough Bronze Shoulders because they use less bronze bars and less Coarse Grinding Stones

Farm the copper and tin and you get lots of stones and just farm a little bit here and there i got to 150 from farming and i farmed for 1 hour and got everything i needed and i used this guide soo it saves loads of money.

Just posting to say:
-getting some arcanite to level using arcanite rod/keys is way cheaper than using more thorium (rod is actually sellable on the ah but keys if you dont have that much)
-fel iron plate belt from 310-315 is better
-lesser ward of shielding from 340-345 (it's yellow but it takes ONE adamantite bar, no one cares if it doesn't give a guaranteed skill for each, it will still be ten times cheaper to make)

Just suggesting you might want to change these suggestions - in 3.0.8 the mats were increased to 8x Cobalt Bar, 2x Crystalized Water for both of them, and there might be a cheaper way to get to about 415 than making these.

Just a heads up for anyone going to farm the patterns in the hope of cheap BS levels

for the levels 330 to 340 the best way to lvl this is to get http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=29568

this is learn by a pattern sold in shattrath city

and to go to the lvl 345 you can learn http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=29571 also learned in shattrath city for only 4g

The materials cost for Reinforced cobalt has changed. I will reevaluate these soon and update the materials costs and add or remove items as necessary. I knew those mat costs were to good to be true or last for very long. *snaps fingers*

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Leveling up my DK as a blacksmith right now using this and I have a quick note for the to 300 portion. You use a lot of grinding stones why not make those all at once when they are still available to give skill points save you a little ore? I know in the long run it isn't a ton of money saved but still can make a difference. just my 2 copper.

Graven

You know every time I look at my guide I notice that I put the base numbers on the 300 to 450 section and not the totals... I just now got it updated! *facepalm*

Don't be famous, be infamous

Ok, I am in the process of levelling my 2nd blacksmith from 1-450 so I will make comments as I note them.

The first I would say is that going 45-95 with this guide is fairly expensive. You use 380 copper bars for that 50 points. A much cheaper alternative is to make Rough Grinding Stone up until skill 65 (it turns Green at 65 and is yellow up until then) at which point you can make Coarse Sharpening Stone to 75 and Coarse Grinding Stone to 95.

This should easily be doable with 60 rough stone and 80 coarse stone. On AH the copper version you have listed is very expensive right now, Copper bars seem to vary from 40s to 1g each on most servers giving a cost of 150-380g to buy all that copper on the AH, the stone will cost you 10-15g on most servers which is quite a substantial saving.

This is quite nice, looking forward to the rest of it when you complete it!