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Blacksmithing in World of Warcraft: Forever

484 recipes in Forever, 176 of them (36%) new since Classic Era, reaching Bagh Nakh, Enriched Thorium Helm, Enriched Thorium Leggings. What Blacksmithing makes, what it buys, the cheapest way through each skill bracket, what of it sells, and every recipe with its reagents.

Blacksmithing forges mail and plate armor, weapons, and the sharpening and weight stones that add weapon damage. It consumes bars from Mining and a long list of stones, gems, and leather from other professions.

Most of its gear binds when equipped, so it trades once and then leaves the market. The steady auction house income is in the consumables: stones every melee class buys, and the bars a leveling smith cannot mine fast enough.

What Forever changes about Blacksmithing

More than a third of the Blacksmithing recipe list is new to Forever, and the additions are not stones and buckles: the highest new plans make weapons and plate with names of their own, Stormcarver, Breastplate of Salvation, Martyr’s Legplates, and a fist weapon, Bagh Nakh, a type Era smiths never forged.

The pattern in the list is that the Expert and Artisan brackets gain crafted gear that is worth wearing, where Era mostly gave a smith stones to sell and a mail set nobody kept past the next dungeon.

The highest-skill recipes new to Forever: Bagh Nakh (280), Enriched Thorium Helm (280), Enriched Thorium Leggings (280), Legionite Glaive (280), Stormcarver (280). Everything new is also listed under New in Forever.

What Blacksmithing makes, and what it buys

Paying now on Normal Alliance EU

57 of 120 Blacksmithing recipes with every reagent priced pay at the median after the auction house cut. The best margin is Massive Iron Axe at +2g 49s a craft (134% on its reagents).

From player scans, refreshed hourly. Every Blacksmithing recipe ranked by margin, on any market, is on the crafting profit page; how the rest compare is in which professions make money.

Makes

326 armor (149 new), 119 weapon (24 new), 24 consumable (3 new), 15 trade goods. 101 of the results bind when picked up and never reach the auction house; 383 can be listed.

  • Armor326 · 149 new
  • Weapon119 · 24 new
  • Consumable24 · 3 new
  • Trade Goods15

Buys most

The reagents the most recipes call for, with the units those recipes consume between them. 15 of them are made by Blacksmithing itself, so a crafter climbs on their own output.

Leveling Blacksmithing in Forever

Blacksmithing eats bars, and bars are the most contested commodity on a fresh economy, because Engineering wants the same ones. Level Mining alongside it or accept that the first month of skill points is paid for at the auction house.

The cheapest craft per bracket below is the one with the fewest reagent units; for a smith that is usually a stone or a rough weapon rather than a piece of armor, and it will not sell, but it will not cost much either.

The cheapest craft in each bracket, by reagent units

Fewest reagent units is not always cheapest in gold; it is the measure that holds on every market, scanned or not. The crafting table ranks every recipe by what it costs and what it makes at the current medians.

What a blacksmithing sells

The gear does not trade the way it looks like it should. Most of the named pieces bind when picked up, so they are made for the smith or for a customer standing at the anvil with the materials, which is a trade-window business, not an auction house one.

What reaches the auction house every day is the consumable half of the list: sharpening and weight stones every melee class uses, and the bars that a smith who is not also a miner has to buy. The counts of tradeable and bound results are on this page.

How AHledger prices a craft · Every profession compared

Every Blacksmithing recipe, lowest skill first

Apprentice · 83 recipesshow
RecipeSkill
Coarse Weightstone1
Copper Bracers1
Copper Rod1
Gemmed Copper Bootsnew1
Glowing Copper Bootsnew1
Rough Copper Vest1
Rough Sharpening Stone1
Rough Weightstone1
Sharpening Wheelnew1
Strange Copper Bootsnew1
Rough Grinding Stone5
Coarse Grinding Stone10
Azure Skyforged Chainnew15
Azure Skyforged Wristguardsnew15
Cloudy Skyforged Chainnew15
Cloudy Skyforged Wristguardsnew15
Copper Mace15
Azure Skyforged Gauntletsnew20
Azure Skyforged Greavesnew20
Cloudy Skyforged Gauntletsnew20
Cloudy Skyforged Greavesnew20
Copper Axe20
Copper Chain Boots20
Rough Copper Chain Bootsnew20
Azure Skyforged Chainmailnew25
Azure Skyforged Legguardsnew25
Cloudy Skyforged Chainmailnew25
Cloudy Skyforged Legguardsnew25
Copper Claymore25
Copper Dagger25
Copper Battle Axe30
Copper Chain Belt30
Copper Chain Vest30
Gemmed Copper Gauntlets
8 × Copper Bar, 1 × Malachite, 1 × Tigerseye
35
Runed Copper Gauntlets35
Runed Copper Pants35
Silver Skeleton Key35
Copper Chain Pants40
Copper Shortsword40
Heavy Copper Maul40
Ironforge Chain40
Silver Rod40
Acolyte's Chain Beltnew45
Acolyte's Chain Shirtnew45
Crusader's Chain Beltnew45
Crusader's Chain Shirtnew45
Guard's Chain Beltnew45
Guard's Chain Shirtnew45
Protector's Chain Beltnew45
Protector's Chain Shirtnew45
Thick War Axe45
Veteran's Chain Beltnew45
Veteran's Chain Shirtnew45
Runed Copper Bracers50
Acolyte's Chain Leggingsnew60
Blackfathom Sharpening Stone60
Crusader's Chain Leggingsnew60
Guard's Chain Leggingsnew60
Heavy Grinding Stone60
Heavy Weightstone60
Protector's Chain Leggingsnew60
Rough Bronze Boots60
Veteran's Chain Leggingsnew60
Acolyte's Glovesnew70
Big Bronze Knife70
Brass Knucklesnew70
Crusader's Glovesnew70
Guard's Glovesnew70
Heavy Copper Broadsword70
Protector's Glovesnew70
Veteran's Glovesnew70
Acolyte's Bootsnew75
Bronze Mace75
Coarse Sharpening Stone75
Cracked Blacksmith Hammernew
18 × Bronze Bar, 2 × Silver Bar, 1 × Tigerseye
75
Crusader's Bootsnew75
Guard's Bootsnew75
Ironforge Breastplate75
Pearl-handled Dagger75
Protector's Bootsnew75
Rough Bronze Bracers75
Rough Bronze Shoulders75
Veteran's Bootsnew75
Journeyman · 104 recipesshow
RecipeSkill
Runed Copper Belt80
Acolyte's Silvered Chain Helmnew85
Bronze Axe85
Bronze Dorynew85
Crusader's Silvered Chain Helmnew85
Golden Skeleton Key85
Guard's Silvered Chain Helmnew85
Iron Buckle85
Protector's Silvered Chain Helmnew85
Veteran's Silvered Chain Helmnew85
Acolyte's Chain Helmnew90
Crusader's Chain Helmnew90
Deadly Bronze Poniard90
Golden Rod90
Guard's Chain Helmnew90
Protector's Chain Helmnew90
Runed Copper Breastplate90
Silvered Bronze Shoulders90
Sterling Silver Bootsnew90
Veteran's Chain Helmnew90
Bronze Greatsword95
Bronze Shortsword95
Heavy Bronze Mace95
Rough Bronze Leggings95
Silvered Bronze Boots95
Silvered Bronze Breastplate95
Sterling Silver Gauntletnew95
Sterling Silver Leggingsnew95
Acolyte's Silvered Chain Shirtnew100
Anvilnew100
Bronze Battle Axe100
Crusader's Silvered Chain Shirtnew100
Guard's Silvered Chain Shirtnew100
Ironforge Gauntlets100
Mantle of the Second War100
Protector's Silvered Chain Shirtnew100
Silvered Bronze Gauntlets100
Sterling Silver Shouldersnew100
Veteran's Silvered Chain Shirtnew100
Iridescent Hammer105
Rough Bronze Cuirass105
Green Iron Boots110
Mighty Iron Hammer110
Acolyte's Silvered Chain Leggingsnew115
Bronze Warhammer115
Crusader's Silvered Chain Leggingsnew115
Green Iron Gauntlets115
Green Iron Leggings115
Guard's Silvered Chain Leggingsnew115
Iron Fistsnew115
Iron Shield Spike115
Justicar's Beltnew115
Officer's Beltnew115
Prefect's Beltnew115
Protector's Silvered Chain Leggingsnew115
Sentinel's Beltnew115
Silvered Bronze Leggings115
Solid Iron Maul115
Sterling Silver Breastplatenew115
Veteran's Silvered Chain Leggingsnew115
Warder's Beltnew115
Barbaric Iron Breastplate120
Barbaric Iron Shoulders120
Green Iron Shoulders120
Hardened Iron Shortsword120
Patterned Bronze Bracers120
Green Iron Bracers
6 × Iron Bar, 1 × Green Dye
125
Heavy Sharpening Stone125
Iron Counterweight125
Golden Iron Destroyer130
Golden Scale Leggings130
Green Iron Helm
12 × Iron Bar, 1 × Citrine, 1 × Green Dye
130
Hard Gold Cuirassnew130
Barbaric Iron Helm
10 × Iron Bar, 2 × Large Fang, 2 × Sharp Claw
135
Golden Scale Shoulders135
Hard Gold Bootsnew135
Jade Serpentblade135
Shifting Silver Breastplate135
Shining Silver Breastplate135
Solid Grinding Stone135
Solid Sharpening Stone135
Solid Weightstone135
Truesilver Skeleton Key135
Barbaric Iron Boots140
Glinting Steel Dagger140
Green Iron Hauberk140
Moonsteel Broadsword140
Truesilver Rod140
Azure Skyforged Helmnew145
Azure Skyforged Pauldronsnew145
Barbaric Iron Gloves145
Cloudy Skyforged Helmnew145
Cloudy Skyforged Pauldronsnew145
Golden Scale Bracers145
Hard Gold Bracersnew145
Massive Iron Axe145
Polished Steel Boots145
Steel Spearnew145
Edge of Winter150
Golden Scale Coif150
Hard Gold Leggingsnew150
Iron Morningstarnew150
Searing Golden Blade150
Steel Weapon Chain150
Expert · 119 recipesshow
RecipeSkill
Golden Scale Cuirass155
Golden Scale Leggings155
Hard Gold Coifnew155
Frost Tiger Blade160
Golden Scale Boots160
Golden Scale Gauntlets160
Golden Scale Shoulders160
Hard Gold Gauntletnew160
Hard Gold Pauldronsnew160
Heavy Mithril Gauntlet160
Heavy Mithril Shoulder160
Inlaid Mithril Cylinder160
Justicar's Gauntletnew160
Low-Background Truesilver Plates160
Mithril Blacksmith Hammernew
10 × Mithril Bar, 2 × Gold Bar, 1 × Star Ruby
160
Mithril Shortswordnew160
Officer's Gauntletnew160
Prefect's Gauntletnew160
Sentinel's Gauntletnew160
Shadow Crescent Axe160
Steel Breastplate160
Warder's Gauntletnew160
Heavy Mithril Pants165
Justicar's Bootsnew165
Mithril Plate Pants165
Moonsteel Broadsword165
Officer's Bootsnew165
Prefect's Bootsnew165
Sentinel's Bootsnew165
Warder's Bootsnew165
Heavy Mithril Axe170
Mithril Plate Bracers
8 × Mithril Bar, 2 × Citrine
170
Mithril Shield Spike170
Mithril Warhammernew170
Steel Plate Helm170
Golden Scale Coif175
Mithril Clawsnew175
Mithril Claymorenew175
Mithril Plate Gloves175
Ornate Mithril Gloves175
Ornate Mithril Pants175
Shining Mithril Breastplatenew175
Shining Mithril Pauldronsnew175
Blue Glittering Axe180
Golden Scale Cuirass180
Ornate Mithril Shoulders180
Shining Mithril Bootsnew180
Truesilver Gauntlets180
Golden Scale Boots185
Golden Scale Gauntlets185
Heavy Mithril Breastplate185
Mithril Coif185
Orcish War Leggings185
Wicked Mithril Blade185
Big Black Mace190
Dense Grinding Stone190
Dense Sharpening Stone190
Dense Weightstone190
Heavy Mithril Boots190
Heavy Mithril Helm190
Justicar's Pauldronsnew190
Mithril Plate Shoulders190
Mithril Spurs190
Mithril Stilettonew190
Officer's Pauldronsnew190
Prefect's Pauldronsnew190
Sentinel's Pauldronsnew190
Warder's Pauldronsnew190
Charged Mithril Battleaxenew195
Ornate Mithril Breastplate195
Shining Mithril Helmnew195
The Shatterer195
Dazzling Mithril Rapier200
Ornate Mithril Boots200
Ornate Mithril Helm200
Shining Mithril Gauntletnew200
Shining Mithril Pantsnew200
Truesilver Breastplate200
Phantom Blade205
Runed Mithril Hammer205
Thorium Armor205
Thorium Belt205
Arcanite Rod210
Arcanite Skeleton Key210
Baleful Pauldrons210
Blight210
Fearmonger's Shoulderguards210
Justicar's Wristguardsnew210
Officer's Wristguardsnew210
Prefect's Wristguardsnew210
Sentinel's Wristguardsnew210
Shoulderplates of Dread210
Thorium Bracers210
Warder's Wristguardsnew210
Ebon Shiv215
Justicar's Glovesnew215
Officer's Glovesnew215
Prefect's Glovesnew215
Radiant Belt215
Sentinel's Glovesnew215
Warder's Glovesnew215
Blessed Plate Bootsnew220
Blessed Plate Pauldronsnew220
Dark Iron Pulverizer220
Imperial Plate Belt220
Imperial Plate Shoulders220
Justicar's Sabatonsnew220
Officer's Sabatonsnew220
Prefect's Sabatonsnew220
Scarlet Soldier's Protectors220
Scarlet Soldier's Waistguard220
Sentinel's Sabatonsnew220
Thorium Greatsword220
Truesilver Champion220
Warder's Sabatonsnew220
Blessed Plate Gauntletnew225
Dark Iron Mail225
Imperial Plate Bracers225
Radiant Breastplate225
Artisan · 178 recipesshow
RecipeSkill
Bleakwood Hew230
Dark Iron Sunderer230
Inlaid Thorium Hammer230
Justicar's Waistguardnew230
Officer's Waistguardnew230
Prefect's Waistguardnew230
Scarlet Soldier's Grips230
Scarlet Soldier's Stompers230
Sentinel's Waistguardnew230
Thorium Cestusnew230
Thorium Greatmacenew230
Thorium Shield Spike230
Warder's Waistguardnew230
Arcanite Blacksmith Hammernew235
Blessed Plate Bracersnew235
Dark Iron Shoulders235
Dawn's Edge235
Elemental Sharpening Stone235
Imperial Plate Gauntletsnew235
Ornate Thorium Handaxe235
Thorium Boots235
Thorium Helm235
Blazing Rapier240
Dark Iron Plate240
Demon Forged Breastplate240
Enchanted Battlehammer240
Huge Thorium Battleaxe240
Radiant Gloves240
Scarlet Soldier's Legplates240
Thorium Poleaxenew240
Dawnbringer Shoulders245
Fiery Plate Gauntlets245
Girdle of the Dawn245
Radiant Boots245
Rune Edge245
Scarlet Soldier's Chestplate245
Scarlet Soldier's Helmet245
Scarlet Soldier's Spaulders245
Serenity245
Blessed Plate Beltnew250
Blessed Plate Leggingsnew250
Bold Dirknew250
Clutchlord's Gripsnew250
Corruption250
Dark Iron Bracers250
Fiery Chain Girdle250
Goregasher Gripsnew250
Imperial Plate Boots
34 × Thorium Bar, 1 × Aquamarine, 1 × Star Ruby
250
Imperial Plate Helm250
Radiant Circlet250
Volcanic Hammer250
Annihilator255
Blackguard255
Blessed Plate Helmnew255
Clutchlord's Stompersnew255
Clutchlord's Supportnew255
Ebon Hand255
Goregasher Stompersnew255
Goregasher Supportnew255
Imperial Plate Chest255
Nightfall255
Runic Plate Boots255
Runic Plate Shoulders255
Thorium Leggings255
Blessed Plate Chestnew260
Imperial Plate Leggings260
Master Forgenew260
Radiant Leggings260
Runic Plate Helm260
Finely-Enchanted Battlehammer265
Runic Breastplate265
Runic Plate Leggings265
Tempered Dark Iron Plate265
Azerothium Legplatesnew270
Depleted Thorium Sabatonsnew270
Evergreen Shieldnew270
Fiery Plate Gauntlets of the Hidden Technique270
Forest Defender's Axenew270
Greenhammernew270
Heavy Thorium Gauntletsnew270
Ironwood Bladenew270
Tranquility270
Whitesoul Helm270
Desecration275
Obsidian Grinding Stone275
Tempest Gauntlets275
Arcanite Champion280
Arcanite Reaper280
Bagh Nakhnew280
Black Amnesty280
Black Grasp of the Destroyer280
Black Grasp of the Destroyer280
Blackfury280
Bloodsoul Breastplate
20 × Thorium Bar, 10 × Souldarite, 2 × Bloodvine, 2 × Star Ruby
280
Bloodsoul Gauntlets280
Bloodsoul Shoulders
16 × Thorium Bar, 8 × Souldarite, 2 × Bloodvine, 1 × Star Ruby
280
Breastplate of Salvationnew280
Champion's Legplatesnew280
Dark Iron Boots280
Dark Iron Destroyer280
Dark Iron Gauntlets280
Dark Iron Helm280
Dark Iron Leggings280
Dark Iron Reaver280
Darkrune Breastplate280
Darkrune Gauntlets280
Darkrune Helm280
Darksoul Breastplate
20 × Thorium Bar, 14 × Souldarite, 2 × Large Opal
280
Darksoul Leggings
18 × Thorium Bar, 12 × Souldarite, 2 × Large Opal
280
Darksoul Shoulders
16 × Thorium Bar, 10 × Souldarite, 1 × Large Opal
280
Deadly Heartseeker280
Dreamscale Visor280
Enchanted Thorium Breastplate280
Enchanted Thorium Helm280
Enchanted Thorium Leggings280
Enriched Thorium Breastplatenew280
Enriched Thorium Helmnew280
Enriched Thorium Leggingsnew280
Fiery Chain Shoulders280
Frostguard280
Gloves of the Dawn280
Hammer of the Titans280
Hardened Frostguard280
Heartseeker280
Heavy Obsidian Belt280
Heavy Obsidian Belt280
Icebane Bracers280
Icebane Bracers280
Icebane Breastplate280
Icebane Breastplate280
Icebane Gauntlets280
Icebane Gauntlets280
Invincible Mail280
Ironvine Belt280
Ironvine Belt280
Ironvine Breastplate280
Ironvine Breastplate280
Ironvine Gloves280
Ironvine Gloves280
Jagged Obsidian Shield280
Jagged Obsidian Shield280
Legionite Glaivenew280
Light Obsidian Belt280
Light Obsidian Belt280
Lionheart Helm280
Martyr's Legplatesnew280
Masterwork Stormhammer280
Obsidian Champion280
Obsidian Defender280
Obsidian Destroyer280
Obsidian Heartseeker280
Obsidian Mail Tunic280
Obsidian Mail Tunic280
Obsidian Reaver280
Obsidian Sageblade280
Obsidian Stormhammer280
Persuader280
Razorspike Battleplate280
Razorspike Headcage280
Razorspike Shoulderplate280
Refined Arcanite Champion280
Refined Arcanite Reaper280
Refined Hammer of the Titans280
Sageblade280
Sageblade of the Archmagus280
Skyrider's Masterwork Stormhammer280
Stalwart Helmnew280
Stormcarvernew280
Stronger-hold Gauntlets280
Stronghold Gauntlets280
Thick Obsidian Breastplate280
Thick Obsidian Breastplate280
Titanic Leggings280
Warcrest of the Great Chief280
Blood Talon285
Darkspear285
Sulfuron Hammer285
Sulfuron Hammer285

Questions

Can Blacksmithing make money in Forever?
Yes, from the consumables: sharpening and weight stones sell to every melee character continuously, and the margin on smelting bars for other smiths and engineers is a steady one. The crafted armor and weapons mostly bind when picked up and are made to order rather than listed.
What does Blacksmithing make that is new in Forever?
Named plate and weapons at the top of the Artisan bracket, including a fist weapon, plus more gear in the middle brackets than Classic Era had. The exact list, with skill and reagents, is the table on this page.

Source: World of Warcraft: Forever game data, compared with the Classic Era catalog. Counts update with each game build.