Blacksmithing 1–300 in WoW: Forever: the stones-first route

Datamined Route for Forever build 70532 · checked in beta to skill 124 · beyond that, Forever's client files · craft counts are estimates (emulator rule)

The route at a glance

What you’ll need

Before you start

Stones first. Every ore tier has its stones, and a sharpening stone takes one stone and nothing else. Our copper, tin and iron veins gave their stone alongside the ore. Datamined Our beta play That makes stones the cheapest points in each tier: on this route they carry 90 of the 299 points. Bars and gear fill the stretches between stone tiers.

What Forever moved. From the Coarse tier on, most stone recipes come about 25 skill earlier than in Classic. Datamined Forever's client files Forever’s trainer teaches Heavy Grinding Stone at 100. Datamined Our beta play

Plans no trainer teaches. A few cards use a plan sold by a vendor, dropped, or given by a quest; the card says which. Where the plan takes more than gold, “Don’t have the plan?” under the card gives the same skill range by recipes you can learn with gold alone. Some of the recipes meant to drop at random in dungeons became available in the October 1 beta build. Confirmed Blizzard, Oct 1 beta notes

Campsite objects. Each profession has three campsite objects, learned at different skill levels; a blacksmith’s Sharpening Wheel raises Attack Power. Confirmed Blizzard, Deep Dive recap Forever’s files list the Sharpening Wheel from skill 1, the Anvil from 140 and the Master Forge at 300, the last two taught by Blueprints. Datamined Forever's client files

Working Overtime. Legacy’s Working Overtime perk raises the chance of a skill point in every tradeskill. Confirmed Blizzard, Legacy article Blizzard has not given its numbers, so our counts leave it out; with it you need fewer crafts.

Specialization. The route assumes none: Forever has not confirmed Armorsmith or Weaponsmith.

Above 225. The beta caps characters at level 30 Confirmed Blizzard, Oct 1 beta notes, and Artisan training needs level 35 Community cMaNGOS trainer data, so nothing past 225 has been checked in play. Those brackets come from Forever’s client files, and they keep every recipe source: Dense Sharpening Stone (trainer), Radiant Belt (a dropped plan), Imperial Plate Bracers (a quest reward), Girdle of the Dawn (a plan sold for gold), Radiant Leggings (a dropped plan). A card whose plan takes more than gold, or whose reagent only drops, shows its gold-only fallback under it. In the 1.12 vendor lists, the Argent Dawn’s quartermasters sell the Girdle of the Dawn’s plan: Argent Quartermaster Hasana and Argent Quartermaster Lightspark in Western Plaguelands, and Quartermaster Miranda Breechlock in Eastern Plaguelands. Community 1.12 vendor lists (cMaNGOS) Forever’s files say the plan needs Honored with the Argent Dawn. Datamined Forever's item table We will recheck this stretch when the beta allows it.

The route

Shopping, tier by tier

Trainers

Already partway up?

The professions planner starts from your skill and lets you leave out the plans you don’t have. Give it your skill here and it opens with every plan allowed:

Your skill

Plan from my skill

How the counts are made

In the open emulator, a craft always raises the skill while the recipe is orange, three times in four while yellow, once in four while green, never once grey. Community cMaNGOS SkillGainChance Our counts use the emulator's steps. We have not yet measured Forever's chances, so every count is an estimate. “Unlucky” is the count nine players in ten finish within.

Reagents are costed in raw materials, by our own rule: one gathered unit is 1, a dropped one 3, a vendor item 1 for every 10 silver. A bar costs its ore, so a stone that gives the same points wins. An item made only by a crafting spell with a cooldown of an hour or more costs one extra unit per hour of its cooldown, so an Arcanite Bar, from a 47-hour transmute, is priced far above its reagents; that is our rule too (ADR-014 §2, note of 2026-10-10).