When I rolled my warrior a year ago I thought being an armorsmith was smart,. I could make myself my own gear and sell stuff on the AH. well that didn’t work out. over the last months I’ve made 4 moonsteel swords and sharpening stones for raiding. that’s it.
My questions: If I chose armorsmith will I have to relevel 0 - 300 to become a Swordsmith in TBC?
is engineering more rewarding for a warrior in TBC? how bout Jewelcrafting?
Are Fireguard/ Lionheart swords worthy of going for?
Weapon smith is fairly good, for your self mostly. Although they can make some stuff for sale. You should google TBC database, and have a look at the craftables vs what you can get from raid. Some of the craftables are very good.
Fireguard is ok for tanking, Lionheart is ok for arms.
Hammersmith is probably a better bet for arms/fury tbh, as you can craft 2 solid 1H maces and the best pre tier 6 weapon in Skillherald.
Maces are king in TBC. You’ll want to go hammersmith. This also holds true for WoTLk, as Titansteel Destroyer will be BiS for a long time.
Swordsmith is probably the least useful of the 3. The 2h mace from Macecrafting is amazing in PVP for the first few phases and the 1h mace is BIS throughout.
Engineering is garbage in TBC from a combat standpoint. You get utility upgrades (Gnomish knife, mote extractor, mobile mailbox etc) but its the reverse of classic. Literally nothing that does anything new and the classic engi items are nerfed into the ground or weak relative to other options.
As a JC you cam craft epic gems that are BIS until very late in the game, but they’re unique, though you can equip different versions so as a war I think there are 2 or 3 relevant ones.
Does anybody remember how the 2nd part of his question works in tbc? Switching from armor to weaponsmith?
Gets replaced by any naxx 10 drop. Just about every single weapon in there is miles superior.
Pretty sure they added the ability to drop the specific “school” in TBC, I just can’t remember the exact mechanics for it.
Swordsmith is best for PVE. There is no debate on that, fury or arms.
Hammersmith is best for PVP, but you will need to raid to craft Stormherald at least until the mats are purchaseable.
You can change your specialization without relearning BS:
Swordsmith is best for PVE? maybe if 2 handed fury works. Otherwise Dual Dragonstrikes are BiS from what I have read, plus Stunherald. Trust me I would rather have the sword, but I wanna be viable in both PVP AND PVE.
If you are warrior with blacksmithing, and you aren’t going to craft Stormherald…what are you actually doing?
Necro but… yes you will have to relevel blacksmith entirely to change specialization.
This is not correct
Mace spec is what you want for TBC. “Skillherald” is a beast in PVP and the 1h maces are BIS for warrior PVE dps, and you can upgrade both at T5 to a better version.
Engi is entirely convenience in TBC, its probably one of the least worthwhile professions (the BIS helm technically comes from engi, but its a SWP pattern drop so…) LW for drums (pending any changes) would be the second most useful, and after that enchant for ring enchants is probably the next best for pure stat increase. JC is ok for the purple gems but they’re unique and lose their relative value as content progresses and new gems are available.
Crafting has always been mostly a bad design joke in WoW.
TBC crafting is useful from tier 4 to the end of sunwell. Theres something for every crafting profession which makes it infinitely better than any iteration of it from wrath to present.
BiS plate chest also makes it worthwhile to keep it if you’re a platey in sunwell.
The SWP recipe is BOE I believe. The armorsmithing BOP chestpiece is still arguably BIS before the SWP patterns though. Its just that weapons tend to give a larger dps benefit, are harder to come by, and you can equip 2 of them (though the value of having DS in offhand is reduced somwhat.)
The macesmith weapon, Stormherald, is pretty amazing in pvp…if you like ret…or arms.
Crafting was arguably the strongest in TBC, I really wished Blizz went back to it on retail (with the specializations and everything), it would make leveling them worthwhile again.
Ehhh, axes were best for Horde, swords for Alliance. At least that’s what we TC back in the day, but I was a sweaty player.
If you’re not an orc or human though, maces were the go to I believe.
The axe and sword are mediocre. If you’re picking a profession based off weapon choice, you go mace 100% of the time. Humans have mace spec anyway so really none of what you said makes any sense.
Depending on which patch, when they changed to expertise over +skill it swung to a combination of weapon stats + speed.
Mace spec for fury and ret, sword spec for arms. Blazefury is hot garbage thanks to being too slow for tanking/rogue offhanding, Too fast for fury and rogue mainhanding.
You can change your specialization without relearning BS:
To clarify this, the book ‘Soothsaying for Dummies’ that lets you change specialisations without relearning 1-300 didn’t work for blacksmithing until around TBC patch 2.1.
Hopefully it is added in the TBC Classic pre-patch, or else it may be a bit of a wait into TBC (unless you go 1-300 again).