WoW Blacksmithing Guide 1-450

Blacksmithing creates armor and weapons using metals gained from mining. Blacksmithing will cost a lot of gold to level if your buying everything from the auction house, so I'd recommend mining some of the materials yourself to save some gold.

First, go to the blacksmith trainer in any of your factions main cities in Eastern Kingdoms or Kalimdor to learn Apprentice Blacksmithing.

1 - 75

1 - 30
33 Rough Sharpening Stones - 33 Rough Stone

30 - 65
50 Rough Grinding Stones - 100 Rough Stone
Save 10 of these, you will need them later.

65 - 75
10 Copper Chain Belt - 60 Copper Bar


Go back to the trainer and learn Blacksmithing Journeyman.

75 - 125

75 - 87
12 Coarse Grinding Stones - 24 Coarse Stones
Save 10 of these, you will need them later.


87 - 100
13 Runed Copper Belt - 130 Copper Bar

100 - 105
5 Silver Rod - 5 Silver Bar, 10 Rough Grinding Stone

105 - 125
20 Rough Bronze Leggings - 120 Bronze Bar


Go back to the trainer and learn Blacksmithing Expert.

125 - 200

125 - 150
50 Heavy Grinding Stone - 150 Heavy Stone
Keep making these until you reach 150, you might not need to make them all.

150 - 155
5 Golden Rod - 5 Gold Bar, 10 Coarse Grinding Stone

155 - 165
10 Green Iron Leggings - 80 Iron Bar, 10 Heavy Grinding Stone, 10 Green Dye

165 - 190
25 Green Iron Bracers - 150 Iron Bar, 25 Green Dye

190 - 200
10 Golden Scale Bracers - 50 Steel Bar, 20 Heavy Grinding Stone


Go back to the trainer and learn Blacksmithing Artisan.

200 - 275

200 - 205
5 Truesilver Rod - 5 TrueSilver Bar, 5 Heavy Grinding Stone

205 - 210
15 Solid Grinding Stone - 60 Solid Stone

210 - 225
15 Heavy Mithril Gauntlet - 90 Mithril Bar, 60 Mageweave Cloth

225 - 235
10 Mithril Scale Bracers - 80 Mithril Bar - Recipe is sold by Gharash in Swamp of Sorrows, it's limited supply so it can be hard to come by.
or
10 Steel Plate Helm - 114 Steel Bar, 10 Citrine

235 - 250
15 Mithril Coif - 150 Mithril Bar, 90 Mageweave Cloth

250 - 260
20 Dense Sharpening Stones - 20 Dense Stone

260 - 275
15 Thorium Bracers - 120 Thorium Bar


Go to the Outlands and learn Blacksmithing Master.

275 - 350

275 - 290
15 Imperial Plate Bracers - 180 Thorium Bar
The recipe for this is a quest reward. You get the quest from Derotain Mudsipper and it will cost you 10 Thorium Bars.

290 - 300
10 Thorium Boots - 120 Thorium Bar, 80 Rugged Leather
or
10 Thorium Helm - 120 Thorium Bar, 10 Star Ruby

300 - 305
10 Fel Weightstone - 10 Fel Iron Bar, 10 Netherweave Cloth

305 - 315
10 Fel Iron Plate Belt - 40 Fel Iron Bar

315 - 320
5 Fel Iron Chain Gloves - 25 Fel Iron Bar

320 - 325
5 Fel Iron Plate Boots - 30 Fel Iron Bar

325 - 330
10 Lesser Rune of Warding - 10 Adamantite Bar

330 - 335
5 Fel Iron Breastplate - 50 Fel Iron Bar

335 - 340
5 Adamantite Cleaver - 40 Adamantite Bar - Recipe is sold in Shattrath, Exodar and Silvermoon City.

340 - 350
35 Lesser Ward of Shielding - 35 Adamantite Bar - Recipe is sold in Hellfire Peninsula and Shadowmoon Valley.

Travel to Northrend and learn Blacksmithing Grand Master. There are trainers located in Howling Fjord, Borean Tundra and Dalaran.

350 - 450

350 - 360
10 Cobalt Boots - 40 Cobalt Bar

360 - 370
10 Cobalt Triangle Shield - 40 Cobalt Bar

370 - 375
5 Cobalt Legplates - 25 Cobalt Bar

375 - 380
5 Cobalt Gauntlets - 25 Cobalt Bar

380 - 385
5 Spiked Cobalt Boots - 35 Cobalt Bar

385 - 390
5 Sure-fire Shuriken - 35 Cobalt Bar

390 - 395
5 Notched Cobalt War Axe - 50 Cobalt Bar

395 - 400
5 Brilliant Saronite Belt - 30 Cobalt Bar, 25 Saronite Bar

400 - 405
5 Horned Cobalt Helm - 40 Cobalt Bar

405 - 415
10 Deadly Saronite Dirk - 70 Saronite Bar, 20 Crystallized Air

415 - 425
13 Eternal Belt Buckle - 52 Saronite Bar, 13 Eternal Earth, 13 Eternal Shadow, 13 Eternal Water

425 - 430 Sell these at the Auction House too.
7 Titanium Weapon Chain - 14 Saronite Bar, 7 Titanium Bar

430 - 435
5 Savage Saronite Hauberk - 70 Saronite Bar, 5 Eternal Earth

435 - 445
15 Daunting Legplates - 210 Saronite Bar, 15 Eternal Earth

445 - 450
Craft epic items that you learned from the trainer and then sell them to other players.

Congratulations on 450 blacksmithing. If you need some tips for making gold with blacksmithing check out this article: Make Gold with Blacksmithing

WoW Alchemy Guide 1-450

Alchemy mixes herbs with other reagents to create elixirs, flasks and potions. Unless your going to buy everything you need to use alchemy it's best to also have a herbalist. Alchemy is one of the better gold making professions, since anyone can use the items you create.

First go to any of your factions cities in the Eastern Kingdoms or Kalimdor and become an apprentice alchemist. If you can't find the alchemy trainer just ask any of the guards and they will show you where to go on the mini map.

1-140

1-60
60  Minor Healing Potions - 60 Peacebloom and 60 Silverleaf
Hang onto these potions because you will need them in the next step.  
Go to the trainer and learn Journeyman Alchemist and all of the other skills.


60 - 110
55-60  Lesser Healing Potion - 55-60 Minor Healing Potion, 55-60 Briarthorn. Once you reach level 105 you can make 5 x Elixir of Wisdom - 5 Mageroyal, 10 Briarthorn, 5 Empty Vial if you prefer. 

110 - 140
35  Healing Potion - 35 Bruiseweed, 35 Briarthorn, 35 Leaded Vial
Go back to the trainer and learn Alchemy Expert.

140 - 205

140 - 155

15  Lesser Mana Potion - 15 Mageroyal, 15 Stranglekelp, 15 Empty Vial

155 - 185

30  Greater Healing Potion - 30 Liferoot, 30 Kingsblood, 30 Leaded Vial

185 - 205

20  Elixir of Agility - 20 Stranglekelp, 20 Goldthorn, 20 Leaded Vial

Go back to the trainer and learn Alchemy Artisan.  

205 - 300

205 - 215

10  Elixir of Greater Defence - 10 Wild Steelbloom, 10 Goldthorn and 10 Leaded Vial.

215 - 230

15  Superior Healing Potion - 15 Sungrass, 15 Khadgar's Whisker and 15 Crystal Vial. 

230 - 245

15  Elixir of Detect Undead - 15 Arthas' Tears, 15 Crystal Vial.

245 - 260

15  Elixir of Greater Agility - 15 Sungrass, 15 Goldthorn, 15 Crystal Vial.

260 - 275

15  Superior Mana Potions - 30 Sungrass, 30 Blindweed.

275 - 300

25-30  Major Healing Potions - 50-60 Golden Sansam, 25-30 Mountain Silversage.

300 - 350 

300-310  

10  Volatile Healing Potion - 10 Golden Sansam, 10 Felweed, 10 Imbued Vial 

310-325

15  Elixir of Healing Power - 15 Golden Sansam, 15 Dreaming Glory, 15 Imbued Vial 

325-335

10  Mad Alchemists's Potion - 20 Ragveil, 10 Crystal Vial

335-340

5  Super Healing Potion - 10 Netherbloom, 5 Felweed, 5 Imbued Vial

340-350

10  Super Mana Potion - 20 Dreaming Glory, 10 Felweed, 10 Imbued Vial

Recipe: Super Mana Potion can be bought from Haalrun in Teledor, Zangarmarsh.

350-450 

350 - 360

15  Resurgent Healing Potion - 30 Goldclover, 15 Imbued Vial

360 - 365

5  Icy Mana Potion - 10 Talandra's Rose, 5 Imbued Vial

365 - 375

10  Spellpower Elixir - 10 Goldclover, 10 Tiger Lily, 10 Imbued Vial

375 - 380

5  Pygmy Oil - 5 Pygmy Suckerfish

380 - 385

5  Potion of Nightmares - 5 Goldclover, 10 Talandra's Rose, 5 Imbued Vial

385 - 390

5  Elixir of Mighty Strength - 10 Tiger Lilly, 5 Imbued Vial

390-395

5  Elixir of Mighty Fortitude - 20 Goldclover, 5 Imbued Vial

395 - 405

12  Elixir of Mighty Agility - 24 Goldcover, 24 Adder's Tongue, 12 Imbued Vial

405 - 415

10  Indestructible Potion - 20 Icethorn, 10 Imbued Vial

415 - 425

20  Runic Mana Potion - 20 Goldcover, 40 Lichbloom, 20 Imbued Vial

425 - 430

7  Transmute: Titanium - 56 Saronite Bar

The Titanium Bars you create should give you a profit after buying the saronite bars.

430 - 435

5  Transmute: Earthsiege Diamond - 5 Dark Jade, 5 Huge Citrine, 5 Eternal Fire

435-450    

15 Flask of the Frost Wyrm - 75 Icethorn, 75 Lichbloom & 15 Frost Lotus

or

Any other level 435 flask that you want to use or sell.

Congratulations on 450 alchemy skill. If you need some tips on making gold with alchemy check out this article: Make Gold with Alchemy.

WoW Mining Guide 1-450

Mining, one of the three primary gathering professions is a great money maker. Blacksmithing, Engineering and Jewelcrafting are dependent upon the ore provided by mining.

This guide will show you the fastest way the level mining. It's possible to level mining in two ways. You can go around mining all of the nodes, or you can smelt ore that you get from the auction house. Also you can do a combination by gathering some ore, then smelting it.

First you need to become a miner. Visit a mining trainer that is in any of your factions main cities in Eastern Kingdoms or Kalimdor. If you can't find the trainer in a particular city just ask a guard, they will tell you where to go.

1-65

Gather Copper Ore.

There is a lot of copper ore spread across all of the starting zones.

Elwynn Forest

Durotar

Additional zone maps:

Dun Morogh

Azuremyst Isle

Ghostlands

Mulgore

Tirisfal Glades

66-125

 Gather Tin Ore and Silver Ore.

Go to the mining trainer and learn Mining (Journeyman).
Tin can be hard to come by, so this is one of the toughest parts of leveling mining. The best place for both alliance and horde to go to is The Barrens. There will still be copper to mine and occasionally you will come across iron, which you won't be able to gather until 125 mining skill.

The Barrens

126-175

Gather Iron Ore and Gold Ore.

Learn Mining(Expert).

Arathi Highlands

Stranglethorn Vale

176-230

Gather Mithril Ore and Truesilver Ore.

Remember to visit the mining trainer at level 225.

The Hinterlands

Tanaris

231-275
Gather Thorium Ore.

Un'Goro Crater is by far the best place to get thorium. If there are no other players around you can get to 275 very quickly.

Un'Goro Crater

Additional zone maps:
Silithus

276-325  

Gather Fel Iron Ore.

Go to Outlands and learn Mining(Master). There is Fel Iron Ore all over the place in Hellfire Peninsula, as you can tell from the map below. You can follow the route shown or just go around the outskirts. Leveling mining gets easier from here on out because you can use a flying mount.

Hellfire Peninsula

 326-350

Gather Adamantite Ore.

Nagrand 

351-450

Gather Cobalt Ore.

Travel to Northrend and learn Mining(Grand Master).

Borean Tundra 

401-450

Gather Saronite Ore.

Sholazar Basin

Congratulations on 450 mining skill. Mining can make a lot of gold, especially if you also have herbalism. For tips on making gold with mining and herbalism check out this article: Make 900+ Gold with Mining and Herbalism. 

Cataclysm Changes to Warriors, Death Knights and Rogues

Today more information was revealed about the upcoming changes to Warriors Death Knights and Rogues. These are some of the key changes:



New Warrior Abilities

Inner Rage (Level 81): Whenever the character reaches a full 100 Rage, he or she will gain a buff that causes attacks to consume 50% more Rage and do 15% more damage for a short amount of time. This is a passive ability so it won't need to be activated by the player. The goal for this ability is to provide a benefit for hitting max Rage instead of it feeling like a penalty. However, we also don't want warriors to feel like they're supposed to pool Rage and do nothing until they hit 100, so we'll be closely monitoring how this plays out during the beta testing, and making adjustments as needed.

Gushing Wound (Level 83): This ability will apply a bleed effect to the target. If the target moves, the bleed gains an extra stack and refreshes its duration, up to a maximum of three stacks. The ability is currently planned to have no cooldown, cost 10 Rage, and have a 9-second duration. Gushing Wound is designed to be weaker than Rend with one stack, but better with three stacks, which will be reached when fighting a moving target.

Heroic Leap (Level 85): This ability makes the character leap at their target and apply the Thunder Clap ability to all enemies in the area when they land. Heroic Leap will be usable in Battle Stance and shares a cooldown with Charge, but the Juggernaut and Warbringer talents will allow Heroic Leap to be used in any stance and possibly while in combat. The cooldown for this ability might be longer than the Charge ability, but it will also apply a stun effect so you can make sure the target will still be there when you land.

Mastery Passive Talent Tree Bonuses

Arms
Melee Damage
Armor Penetration
Bonus Swing

Fury
Melee Damage
Melee Haste
Enrage Intensity

Protection
Damage Reduction
Vengeance
Critical Block Chance

Bonus Swing: This is similar to the Sword Specialization talent that is currently in the game, but Bonus Swing will work on all attacks and with all weapons. You have a chance to proc a free, instant weapon swing that hits for 50% damage.

Enrage Intensity: Every benefit of being enraged is increased. This includes doing more damage/healing/ etc. from abilities like Bloodrage, Death Wish, Enrage, Berserker Rage, and Enraged Regeneration.

Critical Block Chance: As we mentioned in the stat changes preview, block rating is changing to a chance to block 30% of a melee swing's damage. Protection warriors have a chance that the block will be a critical block and block for 60% of a melee swing's damage instead. There will likely be talents available to push the amount blocked even higher.



New Death Knight Abilities

Outbreak (level 81): Outbreak infects the target with both Frost Fever and Blood Plague at no rune cost. This ability allows death knights to apply diseases quickly when they are switching targets or when their diseases have been dispelled.

Necrotic Strike (level 83): Necrotic Strike is a new attack that deals weapon damage and applies a debuff that absorbs an amount of healing based on the damage done. For context, imagine that the death knight can choose between doing 8,000 damage outright with a certain ability, or dealing 6,000 damage and absorbing 4,000 points in incoming heals with Necrotic Strike -- the burst is smaller, but a larger overall amount of healing would be required to bring the target back to full health.

This ability is meant to bring back some of the old flavor from when death knights could dispel heal-over-time (HoT) effects. It also gives the class a bit more PvP utility without simply replicating a Mortal Strike-style effect.

Dark Simulacrum (level 85): The death knight strikes a target, applying a debuff that allows the death knight to copy the opponent's next spell cast and unleash it. Unlike Spell Reflection, Dark Simulacrum does not cancel the incoming spell. In general, if you can't reflect an ability, you won't be able to copy it either.

Mastery Passive Talent Tree Bonuses

Blood
Damage reduction
Vengeance
Healing Absorption

Frost
Melee damage
Melee Haste
Runic Power Generation

Unholy
Melee damage
Melee and spell critical damage
Disease Damage

Healing Absorption: When you heal yourself, you'll receive an additional effect that absorbs incoming damage.

Runic Power Generation: This will function as the name implies, and the new rune system will make generating Runic Power more appealing.

Disease Damage: Unholy death knights will be able to get more out of their diseases, which are integral to the tree's play style. 

New Rogue Abilities

Redirect (available at level 81): Rogues will be getting a new ability to help them deal with changing targets. Redirect will transfer any active combo points to the rogue's current target, helping to ensure combo points aren't wasted when swapping targets or when targets die. In addition, self-buff abilities like Slice and Dice will no longer require a target, so rogues can spend extra combo points on those types of abilities (more on this below). Redirect will have a 1-minute cooldown and no other costs.

Combat Readiness (level 83): Combat Readiness is a new ability that we intend rogues to trigger defensively. While this ability is active, whenever the rogue is struck by a melee or ranged attack, he or she will gain a stacking buff called Combat Insight that results in a 10% reduction in damage taken. Combat Insight will stack up to 5 times and the timer will be refreshed whenever a new stack is applied. Our goal is to make rogues better equipped to go toe-to-toe with other melee classes when Evasion or stuns are not in play. This ability lasts 6 seconds and has a 2-minute cooldown.

Smoke Bomb (level 85): The rogue drops a Smoke Bomb, creating a cloud that interferes with enemy targeting. Enemies who are outside the cloud will find themselves unable to target units inside the cloud with single-target abilities. Enemies can move inside the cloud to attack, or they can use area-of-effect (AoE) abilities at any time to attack opponents in a cloud. In PvP, this will open up new dimensions of tactical positional gameplay, as the ability offers a variety of offensive and defensive uses. In PvE, Smoke Cloud can serve to shield your group from hostile ranged attacks, while also drawing enemies closer without the need to rely on conventional line-of-sight obstructions. Smoke Cloud lasts 10 seconds and has a 3-minute cooldown. 


Mastery Passive Talent Tree Bonuses

Assassination
Melee damage
Melee critical damage
Poison damage

Combat
Melee damage
Melee Haste
Harder-hitting combo-point generators

Subtlety
Melee damage
Armor Penetration
Harder-hitting finishers

The initial tier of rogue Mastery bonuses will be very similar between the trees. However, the deeper that a player goes into any tree, the more specialized and beneficial the Masteries will be to the play style for that spec. Assassination will have better poisons than the other two specs. Combat will have very steady and consistent overall damage. Subtlety will have strong finishers.

For more changes coming to these classes go to this blue post on the forums.

Cataclysm Press Beta Invites Going Out

Blizzard has sent out pre-invites for the Cataclysm beta to members of the media. The emails were confirmed to be legit and not a phishing scam. Blizzard will be accepting sign ups until April.15, although the date that the beta goes live has not been released.

Also, today information was released about the upcoming changes to shamans, priests and warlocks in cataclysm.

Blizzard Quote

Beginning Wednesday, April 7 we will begin releasing class previews containing an overview of some of the changes currently being planned for each of the 10 World of Warcraft classes. The type of information you can expect from these posts are a list of the new spells from 80-85, the new passive mastery bonuses for all talent trees, a brief outline of some of the talent changes we're currently planning, and in some cases new low level spells for select classes.

Below is the schedule for each class:

Shaman - April 7 
Priest - April 7
Warlock - April 7 

Warrior - April 8
Death Knight - April 8**
Rogue - April 8

Hunter - April 9
Druid - April 9
Mage - April 9

Paladin - April 16*

You can see the full post here.

So far we know that shamans will be getting five new spells: Primal Strike (available at level 3), Healing Wave (level 4), Unleash Weapon (level 81), Healing Rain (level 83) and Spiritwalker's Grace (level 85).

Warlocks will be getting Fel Flame (level 81), Dark Intent (level 83), Demon Soul (level 85) and a major overhaul of soul shards.

Priests will be getting Heal (available at level 16), Mind Spike (level 81), Inner Will (level 83) and Leap of Faith (level 85).

It's still early and all of these spells may change as we get closer to the launch of cataclysm. Keep in mind that the invites to the cataclysm beta are only going out to the press. Some people will no doubt try to take advantage of players with phishing emails asking for account information to join the beta.

Make Gold with Engineering

Engineering is a fun profession that is used to create all kinds of toys and gizmos. A lot of the items that can be made with engineering are bind on pickup, which isn't good if you want to make gold. If you want to make serious amounts of gold I wouldn't recommend engineering, but it's not all about gold for everyone. Many players like using gadgets like Nitro Boosts, Parachute Cloak and Hand-Mounted Pyro Rocket. However there are a few things that you can sell to make some supplemental income.

As of patch 3.3.3 Pet Bombling and Lil' Smoky are no longer bind on pickup and can be sold to other players. The price has already dropped a bit on my realm but you can still get 100 gold or more for them.
  
The Mekgineer's Chopper/Mechano-hog cost about 13 000g to make, but can usually be sold for around 16 000 or more gold. Selling these mounts used to be able to make an engineer a fortune shortly after the launch of WOTLK, but now there isn't a lot of demand for them so it can be difficult to find a buyer.

There is a quest in Borean Tundra and The Storm Peaks which require Overcharged Capacitors. These go for about 20 gold and they sell fairly quickly.

Make Gold with Inscription

Inscription is the newest of the professions and was added to the game in patch 3.02. Inscription lets scribes mill herbs for inks, and then use the inks to create scrolls, glyphs and vellums.

One way to make gold is by using Darkmoon Card of the North. This will create a random card from one of four decks: Nobles, Prisms, Undeath and Chaos. Darkmoon Card of the North is expensive to use and its effectiveness at making gold has always sparked a lot of conversation. The cards it creates sell anywhere from 40g to over a 1000g, with cards from the Nobles Deck being the most expensive. The cost of the materials to use Darkmoon Card of the North cost about 100 gold on my realm. Check out your auction house and see if doing this is worth the risk for you.

Another option is to make glyphs. All characters need a set of glyphs for each talent spec and therefore glyphs sell very well in the auction house. The price of glyphs have gone down a lot but some rare glyphs will still bring in a lot of gold. The usual price range for glyphs on my realm is about 20g- 120g.

Also you can create Armor Vellum III and Weapon Vellum III and sell those. These items are great for enchanters who want to make gold or save their enchants.