Is there a way to level the last 3 points of Outland blacksmithing without spending 50k on mats or farming for many hours? All of the recipes I can find are green for the last 3 points and require lots of primal water and fire, which are super expensive and take hours to farm. I tried doing the Darkmoon Faire blacksmithing quest but that increased my Cataclysm blacksmithing skill instead of Outland because I didn’t know I would be punished for training Cata before finishing Outland.
Anyone know a better way please?
Not sure if you’ve atttained the final 3 points yet or not, but there ARE guides for this. WoWprofessions has one for the quickest logical leveling of the profession. They list a method where you hit a dungeon for the recipe for Felsteel Gloves, which sadly drops at a >2% rate and is in a rather high lvl dungeon, so you aren’t left with any great options unless you can get someone to help run you through the Auchenai Crypts (60-80), if it is too high for you to run right now. Your best bet material wise is the Felsteel Gloves.
Darkmoon Fair, which is up this week, should give you the +5 bonus once again. Not sure how exactly it would apply, whether it just gives the three points you need, the three points plus two to the next tier, or five points towards the most recent tier you have trained.
I haven’t attained the last 3 yet because I don’t have the gold. I was using the WoWprofessions guide but I was looking at the Aldor recipes, maybe the Felsteel Gloves will be slightly cheaper. Thanks for the suggestion.
I mentioned that I tried the Darkmoon Faire quest to get +5, but it doesn’t work because it now only gives +5 to your highest learned tier of blacksmithing, which for me is Cataclysm not Outland. Is there a way to unlearn Cata and Northrend Blacksmithing?
So the +5 points went to Cataclysm Blacksmithing then? That stinks. Wasn’t sure how that was going to work out in practice.
Unfortunately you can’t drop specific tiers, it is all or nothing.
The last 25 points or so in each tier are normally going to be a PITA, especially with limited supplies of high-end crafting materials like khorium. You might consider working on Northrend and Cataclysm Blacksmithing to get them leveled or close to it, then use the next few fairs to cap the tiers, working backwards. Of course that assumes you aren’t looking for a specific item that requires a max skill to craft.
You can farm primals on the elemental plateau in Nagrand. It should be empty, and it’s the fastest way to get most primals.
Getting to max skill meant something in BC (i.e. the BS only weapons), so it won’t be easy.
The other options are Ragesteel BP or Swiftsteel Gloves, which are also drops. They might be easier, or the Primal Nether recipes (that are all random drops).
Thanks, I’ve tried a few different farming spots including that one, but depending on my green skill up luck it could take 10+ hours of really boring farming that I don’t want to do.
This is my first Alliance character and I saved all of my gold so far from auctioning stuff I looted while leveling. I had saved up to 60k, spent 20k to get from 65 to 72 and realized I don’t think I even have enough gold to finish the last 3 points. And I’ve been watching the AH and only buying on the low end. Every other profession I’ve leveled has been at least 10x cheaper than this.
For every character you have that can run Shattered Halls heroic, do so every day. The executioner behind the last boss (if you make the speed run which you easily should) drops Primals.
BC professions were difficult, and BS was particularly so because it actually had good max-level gear in the BS only weapons. The 2h sword and mace were particularly popular for arenas.
Before BFA you could just skip the last 5-10 points approaching an expansion cap by going to the next expansion’s recipes, but with the new system you have to suffer. I’ve got no idea if Darkmoon quests will backfill skills either.
Certain other dungeons and professions were good sources of primals, too. So you might be able to mine your way to what you need and sell the extra ore. Frankly, expect this to happen every time you get near a cap for BS or Eng.