I planned my recipes to take the lowest number of bars for each 5-pt wave. Sadly they are selling for nothing on the Beta server (5g compared to 100g for a cut green gem) but presumably players won’t be so bone-headed and stupid on a real server. I also made a couple of Cobalt Rods, just so I’d have one for my enchanter and a couple to sell. And if you decide to make one of the other 365+ blue items, I wouldn’t try for more than five for points unless you just have a ton of BC mats on hand. When I arrived in Northrend that recipe was gray, so don’t bother stockpiling eternium. The Eternium Rod is not an option in WotLK, even though it appears to be now.

I figure the Death Knights will give us a market for some low level gear. So if you want to save up mats to make these early items you can. I made a couple Ragesteel Shoulders and got skill points for both. There are even a few BC recipes you can use for the first few points. The process of skilling up is pretty easy and straightforward, I personally haven’t felt it was nearly as painful as the 350-375 range from BC. Hopefully Blacksmiths will be able to take advantage of the influx of plate wearers. There will be lots of newly minted Death Knights roaming around and they’ll be needing some gear. So if you decide to use a bit more ore per skill point, you can likely sell some of your wares instead of sending them off for disenchantment or vendoring. The other good news is that we’ll be able to make blue(rare) items fairly early in the progression.

And the vast majority of those 120 Eternals are used in the last 10 points in Blacksmithing, so if you decide not to push through beyond crafting the gear you need, that’s an option. The only thing you need 450 to craft is the belt buckle. The other good bit of news is that you don’t need to cap to get the nice items, once you hit 440 you’ll be able to make epic gear. The final 25 points will take about 380 ore in addition to 120 Eternals (aka primals).īut there’s some good news here: the Eternals you need will be available via mining much like motes of earth are now. The first 25 points of Blacksmithing will run you about 350 ore, the next 25 points will require another 350 or so. The biggest task, as you might imagine, is collecting all the ore. For the last week or so I’ve been working on Blacksmithing (in addition to Jewelcrafting) on the Beta realm.

Eternium rod recipe