This guide is based on previous work by Willhelm, Highlander and Celaborn. Much appreciation to them for their excellent Blacksmithing guides.
I've mapped out what I believe to be the best route to take in order to minimize wasted time and gold when leveling your Blacksmithing profession.
This guide is based upon the following assumptions:
1. You have reached level 60 (or are close to it) and want to powerlevel your Blacksmithing skill to 300 as quickly as possible.
2. You are only interested in trainer recipes and/or recipes that can be obtained with minimal effort.
3. You have an alt set aside to hold all of the materials you'll need to level up your Blacksmithing. I recommend sending mats to your alt in the order provided below, and when you're ready, returning them in reverse order.
4. Whenever possible, you'll only want to craft items that are Orange or Yellow difficulty, for maximum skill gain. When required to craft Yellow and/or Green difficulty items, I've adjusted the required materials to account for less than 100% skill gain per item created. I've also listed alternate recipes and materials in red to give you additional options to consider.
Total Materials Needed to Get to 300 Blacksmithing
Listed below are the materials you'll need and the order in which you should craft items to get to 300 Blacksmithing as efficiently as possible. It's highly recommended that you farm some of these materials yourself and/or purchase them from the auction house over a span of several days, because your need for certain items (Iron/Steel Bars, Solid Stone, Mithril Bars, Thorium Bars, etc.) will most likely surpass the available supply on the AH at any given time.
Rough Stone 260
Coarse Stone 240
Silver Bar 5
Bronze Bar 115
Heavy Stone 300
Gold Bar 21
Iron Bar 336
Green Dye 35
Steel Bar 519
Strong Flux 16
Lesser Moonstone 12
Heavy Leather 28
Solid Stone 908 (Alternatively, buy up any cheap Solid Grinding Stone on the AH as a substitute for 4 Solid Stone, for use in making Mithril Spurs)
Mithril Bar 316
Citrine 4
Black Pearl 2
Shadowgem 8
Thick Leather 4
Dense Stone 30
Thorium Bar 420
Recipes you should try to acquire before you start
Moonsteel Broadsword (Zarena Cromwind, Booty Bay) - Limited Supply (1)
Massive Iron Axe (Jaquilina Dramet, Stranglethorn Vale - Alliance) / (Vharr, Stranglethorn Vale - Horde) - Limited Supply (1)
Mithril Spurs (Random World Drop Recipe) - Check the AH for this one or you're going to have a *really* hard time leveling past 275
Step-by-Step: 0 to 300 Blacksmithing
Listed below is a step-by-step route for powerleveling Blacksmithing using optimum recipes and expected quantities.
Learn Apprentice Blacksmithing.
1 - 25 Rough Sharpening Stone (1
Rough Stone) x 60
26 - 65 Rough Grinding Stone (2
Rough Stone) x 100 (Make these until level 65. Save them until level 180)
66 - 75 Coarse Sharpening Stone (1
Coarse Stone) x 40
After level 75, learn Journeyman Blacksmithing from an Expert/Artisan Blacksmith and buy a Blacksmith Hammer.
76 - 100 Coarse Grinding Stone (2
Coarse Stone) x 100 (Make these until level 100. Save them until level 215)
101 - 105 Silver Rod (1
Silver Bar, 2
Rough Grinding Stone) x 5
106 - 120 Rough Bronze Leggings (6
Bronze Bar) x 15
121 - 125 Patterned Bronze Bracers (5
Bronze Bar, 2
Coarse Grinding Stone) x 5 (Can also be used as an alternate for levels 141 - 150)
126 - 150 Heavy Grinding Stone (3
Heavy Stone) x 100 (Make these until level 150. Save them until level 250.)
After level 150, learn Expert Blacksmithing from an Artisan Blacksmith.
151 - 155 Golden Rod (1
Gold Bar, 2
Coarse Grinding Stone) x 5
156 - 185 Green Iron Leggings (8
Iron Bar, 1
Heavy Grinding Stone, 1
Green Dye) x 35
(ALT) 166 - 190 Iron Counterweight (4 Iron Bar, 2 Coarse Grinding Stone, 1 Lesser Moonstone) x 5 (Check AH for recipe)
186 - 192 Golden Scale Bracers (5
Steel Bar, 2
Heavy Grinding Stone) x 7
Travel to Stranglethorn Vale / Booty Bay to complete the next few steps. Use the forge located in
Brikk Keencraft's room in Booty Bay. A Bank/Mailbox is also available in Booty Bay.
Get the limited supply recipes for
Moonsteel Broadsword (
Zarena Cromwind, Booty Bay) and
Massive Iron Axe (
Jaquilina Dramet, Stranglethorn Vale - Alliance) / (
Vharr, Stranglethorn Vale - Horde)
193 - 196 Moonsteel Broadsword (8
Steel Bar, 2
Strong Flux, 2
Heavy Grinding Stone, 3
Lesser Moonstone, 3
Heavy Leather) x 4 (Save for Weaponsmith quest)
197 - 200 Massive Iron Axe (14
Iron Bar, 2
Strong Flux, 2
Heavy Grinding Stone, 4
Gold Bar, 2
Heavy Leather) x 4 (Save for Weaponsmith quest)
After level 200, learn Artisan Blacksmithing from
Brikk Keencraft in Booty Bay. He also provides level 200+ recipes.
201 - 210 Solid Grinding Stone (4
Solid Stone) x 227 (You will need most or all of these later - save them until level 300)
211 - 213 Golden Scale Bracers (5
Steel Bar, 2
Heavy Grinding Stone) x 12 (Make the minimum necessary to reach level 213)
214 - 215 Heavy Mithril Axe (12
Mithril Bar, 2
Citrine, 1
Solid Grinding Stone, 4
Heavy Leather) x 2 (Need for Weaponsmith quest)
216 - 233 Steel Plate Helm (14
Steel Bar, 1
Solid Grinding Stone) x 28
(ALT) 216 - 233 Mithril Scale Bracers (8 Mithril Bar) x 18 (Limited Supply Recipe from Harggan in Hinterlands - Alliance / Gharash in Swamp of Sorrows - Horde)
234 - 235 Big Black Mace (16
Mithril Bar, 1
Black Pearl, 4
Shadowgem, 1
Solid Grinding Stone, 2
Thick Leather) x 2 (Need for Weaponsmith quest)
After level 235 (
Big Black Mace), learn Weaponsmithing by turning in the weapons you crafted to
Myolor Sunderfury - Alliance,
Krathok Moltenfist - Horde
236 - 250 Mithril Spurs (4
Mithril Bar, 3
Solid Grinding Stone) x 15 (Get this recipe off the AH or you're going to have a *really* hard time leveling to 275)
(ALT) 238 - 250 Mithril Coif (10 Mithril Bar, 6x Mageweave Cloth) x 15 (Only make these if you are unable to find the Mithril Spurs recipe)
251 - 260 Dense Sharpening Stone (1
Dense Stone) x 30
After level 265, turn in 30
Thorium Bar to
Derotain Mudsipper in Gadgetzan to get the Imperial Plate Boots/Bracers recipes.
261 - 275 Mithril Spurs (4
Mithril Bar, 3
Solid Grinding Stone) x 50
(ALT) 271 - 275 Imperial Plate Bracers (12 Thorium Bar) x 5
276 - 295 Imperial Plate Bracers (12
Thorium Bar) x 25
296 - 300 Imperial Plate Boots (18 Thorium Bar) x 5
