WOW FOREVER · BLACKSMITHING 1-300 · BETA DATA 2026-11-02

Blacksmithing 1-300. Every plan moved down 25 points. Bring a lot of bars.

Forever made Blacksmithing the hungriest route in the game. Plans, stones and weightstones all moved about 25 points down the skill ladder: you learn them sooner and they go grey sooner, and every stone past Rough only gives skill for 10 to 15 points. The route below still does 1 to 84 almost for free on Rough Stone. After that you are feeding bars into gear and selling what you can.

Crafts~479

Recipes17

Materials18

New in Forever4

SHOPPING LIST · 1 TO 300

Everything you need, before you start.

The total for the whole route below, with anything you craft along the way already broken down into what you buy or gather. Items marked Vendor come from trade or profession suppliers. Hover any item for its Wowhead Forever tooltip.

Crafted along the way

Already counted in the list above. Make them when the step needs them.

Split by trainer rank, if you buy as you go

Apprentice 1-75

326Rough Stone

Journeyman 75-150

228Iron Bar
221Bronze Bar
132Heavy Stone
100Coarse Stone
38Green DyeVendor

Expert 150-225

Artisan 225-300

THE ROUTE

Craft this, this many times.

Craft counts are the expected number for that range at Forever's skill-up colours, rounded up. The small numbers are the skill where the recipe turns yellow, green and grey; below the yellow number every craft is a guaranteed point. If a step finishes early, move on.

1-35skill
Rough Sharpening Stone
Trainerlearn at 1153555
42crafts
- 42Rough Stone
35-84skill
Rough Grinding Stone
Trainerlearn at 25456585
142crafts
- 284Rough Stone
84-100skill
Rough Bronze Leggings
Trainerlearn at 80120135150
16crafts
- 96Bronze Bar
100-121skill
Heavy Grinding Stone
Trainerlearn at 100100112125
44crafts
- 132Heavy Stone
121-140skill
Patterned Bronze Bracers
Trainerlearn at 95125140155
25crafts
- 125Bronze Bar
- 50Coarse Grinding Stone
140-175skill
Green Iron Bracers
Trainerlearn at 140165177190
38crafts
- 228Iron Bar
- 38Green Dye
175-185skill
Solid Sharpening Stone
Trainerlearn at 175175180185
30crafts
- 30Solid Stone
185-196skill
Golden Scale Bracers
Trainerlearn at 160185197210
15crafts
- 75Steel Bar
- 30Heavy Grinding Stone
196-208skill
Heavy Mithril Gauntlet
Trainerlearn at 180200210220
14crafts
- 84Mithril Bar
- 56Mageweave Cloth
208-225skill
Heavy Mithril Breastplate
Trainerlearn at 205225235245
17crafts
- 272Mithril Bar
225-235skill
Dense Weightstone
Trainerlearn at 225230232235
17crafts
- 17Dense Stone
235-245skill
Heavy Mithril Boots
Trainerlearn at 210230240250
21crafts
- 294Mithril Bar
- 84Thick Leather
245-250skill
Blessed Plate Pauldrons
New in Foreverlearn at 240260270280
5crafts
- 100Thorium Bar
- 5Blue Sapphire
- 30Rugged Leather
250-255skill
Sentinel's Gloves
New in Foreverlearn at 250255255255
5crafts
- 40Thorium Bar
- 20Solid Grinding Stone
- 20Purple Lotus
255-281skill
Blessed Plate Bracers
New in Foreverlearn at 255275285295
27crafts
- 432Thorium Bar
- 27Blue Sapphire
281-295skill
Blessed Plate Belt
New in Foreverlearn at 270290300310
15crafts
- 270Thorium Bar
- 15Blue Sapphire
- 15Iron Buckle
- 90Rugged Leather
295-300skill
Imperial Plate Boots
Quest rewardlearn at 295295300310
6crafts
- 204Thorium Bar
- 6Star Ruby
- 6Aquamarine

Trainer taught by your profession trainerVendor pattern bought from a supplierQuest reward from a quest, per WowheadNew in Forever in the beta data, how you learn it is not confirmed

WHAT FOREVER CHANGED

Why a Classic guide gets this wrong.

Coarse, Heavy, Solid and Dense stones are learned 25 points earlier than in Classic and go grey 10 to 15 points later. That is enough for Heavy Grinding Stone (100 to 121), Solid Sharpening Stone (175 to 185) and Dense Weightstone (225 to 235) to earn a place in the route. Beta data
Rough Grinding Stone runs orange to 45 and grey at 85, which makes it the 35 to 84 recipe. Beta data
Older plate and mail plans moved down about 25 points. Green Iron Bracers is learned at 140 and goes grey at 190, against 165 and 215 in Classic. Beta data
New sets appear from Skyforged at 55 through Sterling Silver, Hard Gold and Shining Mithril to Blessed Plate at 260 to 300. Blizzard has not said whether trainers teach them or Merchant’s Favor buys them. Beta data
Removed plans: Wildthorn Mail, Storm Gauntlets, Helm of the Great Chief, Invulnerable Mail and the Heavy Timbermaw Belt and Boots. Beta data
Camp objects: Sharpening Wheel at 20 (an Attack Power buff), Anvil at 140, Master Forge at 300. Blizzard

Blizzard official panel or recapBeta data Wowhead's Forever databaseReported community write-upsClassic Classic rule, not shown to have changed

TIPS

Before you spend a copper.

Take Mining with it. Buying 1,046 Thorium and 650 Mithril Bars on a launch auction house is how guilds go bankrupt.
Ornate Mithril and Imperial Plate plans are quest rewards. Look the quests up before 225 and 265 so the plans are waiting when you get there.
Keep the Blessed Plate and Imperial pieces you make: they vendor, disenchant or go on alts.

Training ranks

Journeyman unlocks at skill 50, Expert at 125 and Artisan at 200, each raising the cap by 75. Beta data
Character level gates of 5, 10, 20 and 35 for the four ranks carry over from Classic. Beta players report Cooking reaching 150 before level 10, and a forum moderator called that a bug. Reported
Hitting 150, 225 and 300 in a profession each award a Legacy point the first time you do it on the account. Blizzard

How this was built

Every skill-up colour, reagent and recipe on these pages comes from Wowhead’s Forever database, which is mined from the beta client. Nothing is copied from a Classic guide.
A skill point is certain while a recipe is orange. From yellow to grey the chance falls in a straight line: (grey − skill) ÷ (grey − yellow). The craft counts are the expected number of crafts under that rule, rounded up, so real runs land a few either side.
The route is the cheapest expected path through all 300 points, costed with rough early-Classic auction and vendor prices, with a small cost for every recipe change so you are not buying a new pattern every three points. Recipes a trainer teaches win ties. Vendor patterns and quest rewards are allowed. Recipes that are new in Forever are only picked when they are clearly cheaper, and they are flagged, because Blizzard has not said how you learn them.
The shopping list expands anything you craft along the way (bolts, cured hides, grinding stones, blasting powder) into the raw goods, and counts crafted leftovers against later steps. Those intermediate crafts can give a few free points of their own, so you usually finish slightly early.
These routes were rebuilt on November 2 from Wowhead’s last Forever data before launch (the beta closed on October 23). Since the September version, most Tailoring, Blacksmithing and Leatherworking recipes became learnable 20 to 35 points earlier, with their colours moving down by the same amount. Launch hotfixes can still move colours, most likely above skill 225.