Blacksmithing Guide for Dragonflight (2024)

The main addition of Season 3 is the new Embellishment helm, Flourishing Dream Helm.Its pattern is obtained randomly from Tindral Sageswift in Amirdrassiland while it is too early to say if this helm will end up being widely used, itis not currently listed as a best in slot helm in any of the Icy Veins plate tankgear guides, which is a grim outlook.

The main addition to Blacksmithing are the new Plans: Shadowed Alloy and Plans: Shadowed Belt Clasp recipes, which allow you to create a new beltenchant, Shadowed Belt Clasp, which can increase your stamina significantlyand has no competition, as it is the only end-game belt enchant currently in-game!

These can be obtained from Ponzo in the new Zaralek Cavern zone.There are also a few new Blacksmithing raid patterns for Shadowed Impact Bucklerand Shadowed Razing Annihilator.

All of these new Shadowflame crafts need to be crafted at ShadowflameForge or Shadowflame Anvil locations, which can be found within theweekly active Fyrakk Assault.

Like always, Blacksmithing is responsible for creating plate gear and meleeweapons, but now it also creates caster weapons gear enchants such as Shadowed Belt Clasp, and temporary enhancements such as Primal Razorstone.

Dragonflight introduces Crafting Specializations, which youare able to unlock once your profession skill hits 25. These serve as a professiontalent tree system fueled by Blacksmithing Knowledge, obtained from weekly quests,one-time treasures in the Dragon Isles, Draconic Treatises, and first-time crafts.

While you will eventually be able to unlock all talents, doing so will requirea long time as the sources of knowledge are very limited, especially once one-timetreasures and first-crafts are exhausted.

Due to its depth of knowledge talents and many specializations available, itcan be useful to have multiple Blacksmithing characters, as it will take a significanttime to specialize in each type of plate armor, let alone also chase all the differentweapon types, profession gear, or consumables.

If you are a Horde player, none of the races have any smithing advantage,but Alliance players can be Lightforged Draenei for +5 skill pointsand the ability to summon an anvil anywhere, or Dark Iron Dwarf for +5 skillpoints and 10% increased Blacksmithing speed.

Dragonflight introduces a few new concepts to professions, which wedelve deeper into in the specialized guide below:

Dragonflight introduces four new stats specific to crafting professions:Multicraft, Resourcefulness, Inspiration, and Crafting Speed.

We explain what each stat does and how to maximize them in the specialized guidebelow:

Blacksmithing, in particular, can make great use of all four stats, but you mightwant to focus on specific stats for different playstyles. We go into detail withBlacksmithing stats and the gear you can use to boost them in the specialized guidebelow:

The most important source of Blacksmithing skill is your profession level, whichis increased by performing difficult crafts. While leveling is generally straightforward,you should still take into account the racials of the character you are levelingon and any special recipes that can help you along the way, both of which are discussedin our specialized guide below:

Often more important than raw skill, profession knowledge allows you to progressthrough the new profession knowledge talent trees of Dragonflight. It comes frommany sources, some one-time, others weekly, and you will generally want to farmas much of it as you can to make your Blacksmithing crafts as efficient as possible andunlock unique perks!

We detail where and how to best farm these points in the guide below:

Blacksmithing Specializations are divided into four disciplines, which containmultiple sub-specializations which can be unlocked as you put points into theirpre-requisite disciplines, akin to talent trees.

The best specialization for you depends on what your goals are: are looking tocraft plate gear and shields, weapons, consumables, and enchants, or just to improveyour overall Blacksmithing results? Each tree has its own unique perks which canhelp you reach these goals.

Go with Armorsmithingif you want to be able to craft plate armor and shields. While the tree is extremelydeep, you can always start with Large Armor(chests, shields, legs), Sculpted Armor(helms, shoulders, boots), or Fine Armor(belts, bracers, gloves), and fill out the rest as you gain weekly points.

Weaponsmithing allowsyou to specialize into creating all types of weapons, both one-hand and two-hand,for physical specializations and magic users. It will also increase your skill atmaking profession tools of the type you specialize in.

We recommend you to specialize in a specific type of weapon first in order tobe able to perform it to the best skill as quickly as possible. Thus, either gowith Blades(swords, daggers, profession knifes) or Hafted(maces, profession hammers, and pickaxes) first, and you can always take the otherpath later.

Speciality Smithingis responsible for the profession gear and consumable parts of Blacksmithingand has two main builds: one for toolsmithingand one for consumablecrafting.

Hammer Control isresponsible for improving your general Blacksmithing skills, and has two sub-nodesthat improve your Inspiration and Resourcefulness benefits.

Ideally, Blacksmithing allows you to convert cheap ores and essences intoexpensive consumables, strong armor and shields, or weapons, which can be solddirectly on the auction house or, for the Spark gear, to other players directlythrough the Crafting Orders system.

We have a specialized guide for Dragonflight gold-making below, which containsa gold-making tier list and goes deeper into techniques and habits for successfulgold making, as well as websites and addons that can help you on your journey!