Blacksmithing: I just don't get why...Follow

It doesn't get any better.

360-375 is AWFUL.

The only guranteed recipes are from Aldor/Scryer reputation and those require Primals to do.

It currently costs me 200g+ to get a single point in Blacksmithing. I need 4 Primal Fire and 4 Primal Water for each point.

It's ridiculous.

Its not that its "Difficult", its just that its slow and boring.

Doing the same recipe for 10-15+ levels when the gain of materials is slow gets old after awhile. That, and when you get the Weaponsmithing Quest... you get the Weaponsmithing Quest at 225/Lv40, right?

You need 230 for the Big Black Mace, one of the weapons they ask you to make, right?

So you need 230 to Finish Weaponsmithing.

BUT, once you DO Finish Weaponsmithing, you can't make any actual Weaponsmithing Weapons, until 250!

That's 20 levels... of needing 10 Mithril Bars and 6 Mageweave each level. Assuming it doesn't turn yellow at 245 like I suspect it will.

I dunno, it just seems that for 20 levels, no new recipes except those boots seems a bit much. I think they could add something in there to help us out a little, or put another weapon in there somewhere.

Oh, on the Weaponsmithing Weapons...

Why are there Lv45 weapons (Blight, Truesilver Champion I believe is 45 too) and then Lv58+ weapons... but nothing in between?

They could have added a Lv50 or such weapon too..

--Xylia

How about replying to the actual question, instead of turning this into a WoW vs FFXI debate? *rolls eyes*

All I'm asking for, is something New to make between Lv230 and Lv250, AND, a Weapon out of Weaponsmithing to make for a Lv50ish character. Like I said, they have 2-3 Lv45 weapons, and then nothing till the high 50s.

--Xylia

The only reason to specialize now is the lvl 70 epic items you can craft and upgrade.

Mats are insane, but can do it at 350 for the first and then 375 for the upgrades.

Awesome weapons and armor.


I'd doublecheck the weaponsmith trainer, cause after TBC I noticed that there were new trainable armorsmithing recipes for mid-50s.


Also, Bliz reworked it so that the specialization recipes are trainable and drop recipes are usable by the profession.

oh look....

xylia made another ***** thread...

I haven't tried Spurs or Shield Spikes yet, thanks for the suggestion.

I was thinking of getting the recipes, but as you said, they are world drops, and people usually want simply outrageous prices on the AH for them, and they are usually kinda rare...

But I'll look for em.

I *expect* 300+ to be assinine; such is to be expected... just like anything else in Outland, its all Extremes. 6000g for Epic Flying Mount, Big "omgwtf" crafting stuff, etc.

--Xylia

http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=13121383&pageNo=1&sid=1#9

Try this guide it really helped me, maybe it will help you.

It has leveling guide for all professions btw.

My blacksmithing is a lot lower than that – around 270 I think – but it’s painfully slow going now. My main ingredients are mithril bars, which come slow as anything – I generally need a dozen to make a single item which means I need to find on average 4 separate places to mine – and then 4 breath of wind/core of earth/heart of fire. After several solid hours of grinding in Silithus, I might have enough of these to make 1 item… then again, I might grind away all that time and not get anything useful. It’s happened before.

Or I could go to the auction house and buy what I need. The mithril bars aren’t too bad but each breath of wind sells for 5+ gold. Core of earth and heart of fire sells for more. So to get enough ingredients together to make 1 item, I’m looking at between 20-30 gold. No doubt that will only get worse later on. The items which cost me 20-30 gold to make then sell to vendors for just over 3 gold and at auction, if I’m lucky, for about 4-5 gold.

Eventually I know I’ll get to the fabled 375 and be making the uber epic end game gear, but it seems like that might be so far off that another expansion pack will have been made in the meantime and everything I can make will be redundant by then.

In a way I can understand Blizzard making it so time consuming and expensive to make the great weapons because if it was easy, everyone playing the game would be running around with these weapons. But at the same time, the thought of how long it’s going to take, and how much it’s going to cost, just makes me wince.

I certainly haven’t got the patience to grind away enemies until I get the drops I need – not every single day – so the only option left to me is to just do quests and the like until I get enough gold together to buy them from the auction house. Assuming I could even get enough gold together to boost my blacksmithing by +1 per day, at my current position it would take me over 3 months to get there. And that’s grinding away every single day for 3 months for nothing other than simply boosting my blacksmithing. Not really my idea of fun.

I suppose one advantage of sticking with blacksmithing right through to the bitter end is that one day I’ll be one of very few people running around with the best weapons in the game :)

A pity they’re all bind on pickup because I’d really like to sell them at auction or give them to my alts to use.