Blacksmiths are known for creating powerful weapons, mail armor, and plate armor. They can also make other useful items for enhancing those items such as sharpening stones, weight stones, and shield spikes. Blacksmithing is very useful to mail and plate wearing classes, as well as any class that uses melee weapons. This is one of the most difficult and expensive trade skills to level to 375, and also one of the more difficult ones to make money with. Although there are a few ways to generate income, this should not be the primary objective considered when taking blacksmithing.
SHOPPING LIST
Approximate Materials Required
| [Rough Stone] | x 90 |
| [Coarse Stone] | x 20 |
| [Copper Bar] | x 320 |
| [Silver Bar] | x 5 |
| [Bronze Bar] | x 150 |
| [Heavy Stone] | x 180 |
| [Gold Bar] | x 5 |
| [Iron Bar] | x 200 |
| [Green Dye] | x 30 |
| [Steel Bar] | x 380 |
| [Solid Stone] | x 80 |
| [Mithril Bar] | x 270 (+40 for Armorsmith) |
| [Mageweave Cloth] | x 90 |
| [Dense Stone] | x 20 |
| [Core of Earth] | x 20 (Armorsmith only) |
| [Heart of Fire] | x 40 (Weaponsmith only) |
| [Thorium Bar] | x 390 |
| [Fel Iron Bar] | x 145 (+160 for Aldor) |
| [Adamantite Bar] | x 90 |
| [Netherweave Cloth] | x 45 |
| [Primal Water] | x 70 (Aldor only) |
| [Primal Fire] | x 60 (Aldor only) |
| [Hardened Adamantite Bar] | x 40 (Scryer only) |
| [Arcane Dust] | x 160 (Scryer only) |
| [Large Prismatic Shard] | x 40 (Scryer only) |
COMPLEMENTARY PROFESSIONS
Mining
Almost a necessity to afford the cost of leveling up blacksmithing as a low level character, mining will allow a blacksmith to collect many of the materials needed for plans. Products of mining are also highly sought after by other Blacksmiths, Engineers, and Jewelcrafters.
Enchanting
Picking up enchanting along with blacksmithing will allow one character to make uncommon, rare, or epic items which may not sell well on the auction house and disenchant them into something that will make him more money than vendoring the item. Also, any time an enchanter finds an upgrade to a soulbound item, he can disenchant it, again for a larger profit than an NPC would give him. Additionally, this will allow the blacksmith to make his own enchanting rods from raw materials.
MONEY
While some recipes are restricted to blacksmiths only, such as Master Axesmith, Hammersmith, and Swordsmith products, blacksmiths can create some useful pieces of armor and weapons for others as well. Raiding blacksmiths should be able to pick up some great epic recipes for BoE items that are very good money makers. Other than those, enchanters will continuously need new rods while leveling up, so there is usually demand for those items. Blacksmiths can create sets of BoE gear with high amounts of resistance to certain schools of magic. These are used by raiding guilds in some encounters. If you can find a guild who needs these, you can craft them for profit. In addition, shield spikes, weightstones, sharpening stones, and weapon chains are also great ways to make money, especially since weightstones and sharpening stones are consumables used often by raiders.
