Blacksmithing

Recommended for

Good fit

• Paladin (1st choice, for levelling, with Mining): Blacksmithing makes plate (Steel Plate Helm at 40, Imperial Plate Gauntlets at 52) and a skill-20 Sharpening Wheel that adds Strength to the group.
• Warrior (1st choice, for levelling, with Mining): Blacksmithing makes plate (Steel Plate Helm at 40) and weapons, and the skill-20 Sharpening Wheel adds Strength to the group.

Works

• Paladin (2nd choice, at the level cap, with Enchanting): Enchanting makes Paladin-only librams, bind on pickup by beta tooltips: Tenets of the Silver Hand (20), Libram of Invocation (40, Seal cost -5%) and Libram of Holy Alacrity (55).
• Rogue (2nd choice, at the level cap, with Mining): Blacksmithing makes Sharpening Stones, Weightstones and Skeleton Keys, and Blizzard says poisons now stack with the stones on the same weapon.
• Warrior (2nd choice, at the level cap, with Mining): Plate and weapon upgrades stay worth making because Blacksmithing recipes run past skill 300.
• Shaman (3rd choice, alt-friendly, with Mining): Blacksmithing makes chain armor and weapons, though the Sharpening Wheel's Strength overlaps Strength of Earth Totem and gives an Enhancement Shaman little.

What Forever changes

Camp items

Blacksmithing places a Sharpening Wheel at skill 20 (a Strength buff for those sitting nearby), an Anvil at 140 and a Master Forge at 300. Tier 2 and tier 3 items each need a Blueprint recipe item first.

Master Forge recipes

65 recipes need a Master Forge, a workstation that is new in Forever; 22 existing recipes moved from the Anvil to it.

Faster skill-ups

Of 185 recipes whose yellow threshold changed, 169 turn yellow exactly 25 skill earlier than in Classic Era.

Crafted gear

Some crafted items were raised to Uncommon quality and made bind on equip, for example the Copper Chain Belt; 208 abilities are new and 220 changed.

Dungeon recipes

Blizzard enabled a number of Blacksmithing recipes intended as random dungeon drops in the 1 October beta notes.

Camp items

Blacksmithing camp items

Item	Skill	Reagents	Learned from
Sharpening Wheel	20	1 × Rough Stone, 1 × Copper Bar	Not in the client data
Anvil	140	5 × Bronze Bar, 2 × Coarse Grinding Stone, 2 × Medium Leather	Blueprint: Anvil
Master Forge	300	1 × Golem Heart, 5 × Thorium Bar, 2 × Rugged Leather	Blueprint: Master Forge

Not surveyed yet

Trainers, recipe vendors, where recipes drop come from our own in-game survey, which has not reached Blacksmithing yet. Until it does, this page shows only what the game client records and what we have written ourselves.