Vanilla Blacksmithing Leveling Guide 1-300

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.

Professions skills are split between expansions now, you'll have a separate skill bar for each expansion. This guide is for the "Vanilla" Blacksmithing skill in the current retail version of World of Warcraft. I have a separate guide for Classic WoW, so if you are looking for that, visit my Classic WoW Blacksmithing Leveling Guide.

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:

• 133x Rough Stone
• 210x Copper Bar
• 80x Coarse Stone
• 7x Silver Bar
• 180x Bronze Bar - You can make these with 90 Tin Bar + 90 Copper Bar if you have Mining.
• 105x Heavy Stone
• 35 x Green Dye (sold by Tailoring and Leatherworking supply vendors)
• 230x Iron Bar
• 50x Steel Bar - You can make these with 50 Iron Bar + 50 Coal if you have Mining. The Coal is sold by Blacksmithing Supply vendors near your trainer.
• 20x Solid Stone
• 150x Mageweave Cloth
• 320x Mithril Bar
• 20x Dense Stone
• 420x Thorium Bar
• 72x Rugged Leather or 9x Star Ruby

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.

• 75 - 90
  40 x Coarse Grinding Stone - 80 Coarse Stone

  Save these. You will need them later!

90 - 155

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

• 90 - 100
  10 x Runed Copper Belt - 100 Copper Bar

• 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.

• 105 - 110
  5 x Rough Bronze Leggings - 30 Bronze Bar

• 110 - 125
  15 x Rough Bronze Shoulders - 75 Bronze Bar, 15 Coarse Grinding Stone

• 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.

• 145 - 155
  10 x Patterned Bronze Bracers - 50 Bronze Bar, 20 Coarse Grinding Stone

  Make Golden Skeleton Key between 150-160 if you can get cheap Gold Bars.

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.

• 165 - 190
  25 x Green Iron Bracers - 150 Iron Bar, 25 Green Dye

• 190 - 200
  10 x Golden Scale Bracers - 50 Steel Bar, 20 Heavy Grinding Stone

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.

• 210 - 225
  15 x Heavy Mithril Gauntlet - 90 Mithril Bar, 60 Mageweave Cloth

• 225 - 236
  11 x Mithril Scale Bracers - 88 Mithril Bar

  Plans: Mithril Scale Bracers is sold by Gharash at Swamp of Sorrows (Horde) and by Harggan at The Hinterlands (Alliance). There is around 30-60 minutes respawn time, this means you have to wait if someone bought it before you.

  Make Mithril Scale Pants if you do not want to wait for the recipe to respawn or check the Auction House and look for Plans: Heavy Mithril Pants

• 236 - 250
  Check the Auction House, and buy Plans: Mithril Spurs if you can get it for a reasonable price, then make Mithril Spurs until 250.

  14 x Mithril Coif - 140 Mithril Bar, 84 Mageweave Cloth

• 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.

• 260 - 276
  16 x Thorium Bracers - 128 Thorium Bar

• 276 - 291
  15 x Imperial Plate Bracers 180 Thorium Bar

• 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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