WoW Forever Blacksmithing Leveling Guide

Blacksmithing Route by Skill

Craft each recipe to the end of its band, then switch. Don't copy a Classic route. The client stores lower yellow and gray values than Classic Era on 19 of this route's 22 rows, usually 25 points lower.Source: Wago SkillLineAbility, Forever build 1.60.1.70862 and Classic Era build 1.15.9.70576, checked Nov 8, 2026.

Planned crafts add expected misses to one craft per point. We assume the Classic rule, where the chance of a point falls evenly from 100% at yellow to 0% at gray. That rule isn't confirmed for Forever, so treat the counts as estimates. The client doesn't store green, so the green column is our midpoint of yellow and gray.Source: Wago SkillLineAbility, build 1.60.1.70862, checked Nov 8, 2026.

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Share Image: Blacksmithing window in the beta client on Rough Grinding Stone, which takes two Rough Stone, listed under Reagents above Weapon Stones

Make the extra grinding stones when the table says so. The 36 Coarse Grinding Stones feed the bracers at 95 and 112, and the 36 Heavy Grinding Stones feed the Golden Scale Bracers at 180. Buy a Blacksmith Hammer before 67. WoW-Professions says you need it from that row on.Source: WoW-Professions Blacksmithing route, checked Nov 8, 2026.

For the camp objects and Forever's changes to the craft, use the Blacksmithing guide. To compare professions, see Profession leveling. To look up another plan, use the Profession Recipes tool.

What to Buy Before Each Rank Cap

Buy one trip at a time. Counts are planned crafts times reagents, with stones the route makes already taken out. Each row lists materials for bands that start in that range, so a band can run past the cap shown.

Add 140 more Thorium Bars if you take the four Imperial Plate quests below, which brings the total close to 1,900. Smelting Steel Bars needs Mining 165, plus Iron Bar and Coal.Source: WoW-Professions Blacksmithing route, checked Nov 8, 2026. This is a heavy metal bill, so pair the craft with Mining if you can. Character leveling is a separate job: RestedXP's WoW Forever leveling guide handles that route.

Metal and Stone Totals

Added together, the shopping list above comes to:

WoW-Professions recommends leveling Blacksmithing alongside Mining, because buying everything would take a lot of gold.Source: WoW-Professions Blacksmithing route, checked Nov 8, 2026.

What Flux and Dye Cost

Three reagents here come from vendors at a client-stored price: Weak Flux at 1 silver, Strong Flux at 20 silver and Green Dye at 1 silver.

What the Finished Gear Is Worth

Selling everything the route leaves over to a vendor returns about 94 gold 8 silver at client-stored prices. Imperial Plate Boots are 24 gold 12 silver of that, Imperial Plate Leggings 17 gold 92 silver and Imperial Plate Bracers 15 gold 71 silver.Source: Wago ItemSparse, build 1.60.1.70862, checked Nov 8, 2026. That's a small return on about 1,900 Thorium Bars, so check the Auction House before you vendor anything.

Where to Train Each Rank

Apprentice has no level requirement, and every capital city has a trainer except Darnassus.Source: WoW-Professions Blacksmithing route, checked Nov 8, 2026.

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Night Elf smiths have no trainer in Teldrassil or Darnassus. WoW-Professions points them to Delfrum Flintbeard in Auberdine, Darkshore.

Swaps When a Material Is Short

The client lists no recipe item for these, which points to a trainer. Confirm with yours before you buy materials.Source: Wago ItemSparse, build 1.60.1.70862, no "Plans:" item with these names, checked Nov 8, 2026.

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The Imperial Plate Problem at 240

The route's top rows rely on four plans from Imperial Plate quests given by Derotain Mudsipper in Tanaris, and the first needs level 50. The quests cost 20, 20, 40 and 60 Thorium Bars. In Classic these quests needed Blacksmithing 265, while the client now stores 240 on the first plans, and WoW-Professions couldn't test whether the quests moved with it.Source: WoW-Professions Blacksmithing route, checked Nov 8, 2026.

If the quests still need 265, WoW-Professions suggests this fallback from Magnus Frostwake in Western Plaguelands:

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Then rejoin the table at Imperial Plate Boots, skill 270.

Where the Sources Disagree

The client's minimum-skill field adds a warning for three rows. It stores 80 for Runed Copper Belt, 95 for Bronze Shortsword and 120 for Patterned Bronze Bracers, and 1 for the rest of this route.Source: Wago SkillLineAbility, build 1.60.1.70862, checked Nov 8, 2026. The route starts the belt at 75 and the bracers at 95, so a trainer may refuse them. If yours does, use these fallbacks:

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WoW-Professions gives the Silver Rod swap itself. The other two come from the client thresholds above, and they cost more bars than the Bracers.

MetaBot calculates a different route, with Heavy Weightstone at 83, Solid Sharpening Stone at 155, Dense Weightstone at 210 and Dark Iron Shoulders from 256. Its learn skills are mostly labeled estimates, because the client doesn't reliably say when a trainer offers a recipe.Source: MetaBot.GG Blacksmithing leveling route, checked Nov 8, 2026. If your trainer doesn't offer a row yet, keep crafting the previous one while it still gives points.

WoW-Professions says it couldn't test above 225 and built those rows from game data. Treat them as a plan, not a tested path. Our Blacksmithing guide keeps a Classic baseline route, so don't mix its rows with these.