WoW Forever Blacksmithing: New Recipes and Crafts That Make Gold (Nov 11)

Quick answer: In WoW Forever, Blacksmithing gold comes from Bind on Equip weapons and armor (plus a tradable weapon chain), not from the new leveling sets: all 31 set pieces we checked are Bind on Pickup. We priced 83 crafts at Nov 11 Auction House prices. Among those listed on at least 3 US markets, the best was an old trainer recipe, the Green Iron Hauberk: about 3.15g estimated profit per craft with 95 listed. The best new ones were the Shining Mithril Helm (+1.98g US), Steel Spear (+1.68g US), Shining Mithril Breastplate (+1.60g US) and Mithril Warhammer (+1.49g US, +1.71g EU). The famous Classic money-maker, Mithril Spurs, was listed below its mat cost in both regions (about 48s loss per craft in the US).

Last verified: Nov 11, 2026, 15:20 UTC against Wowhead's WoW Forever spell, plan and item database, Wowhead's Forever Blacksmithing overview guide, Blizzard's Nov 10 hotfix notes and live Auction House data from AH Ledger (8 US and 8 EU markets, scanned Nov 11 between 00:15 and 15:04 UTC). Prices are the median of each market's median asking price; "listed" is the number of units offered on the markets in that region. Profit is an estimate if you buy every mat at the median and sell at the median after the 5% Auction House cut, not a record of sales.

Key takeaways

• 197 new recipes. Wowhead's Forever spell list marks 197 Blacksmithing recipes as new and 8 as changed.
• The leveling sets are for wearing. All 31 leveling-set pieces we checked, from all ten set families, are Bind on Pickup, and Blizzard's Nov 10 hotfix cut the vendor price of some bind-on-pickup crafted Blacksmithing armor.
• Old recipes still lead. Green Iron Hauberk (+3.15g US) beat every new craft listed on 3+ US markets, and the Steel Weapon Chain had the highest estimated EU profit among the crafts we priced with complete mat costs and more than 50 listed (+1.99g).
• The new weapons are BoE. 14 of the 17 new weapons we checked bind on equip. Of the new crafts we priced, only the Mithril Warhammer and Steel Spear had 10+ listings in each region and cleared 1g estimated profit in both.
• Mithril Spurs lose money. 640 were listed in the US at a 47s median, against about 93s of mats.
• Skip the new 300 crafts for now. Legionite Bar, Elemental Flux and Malleable Essence of Nature had zero listings on all 16 markets.

What is new in WoW Forever Blacksmithing?

Blizzard promised more than 600 new profession recipes for Forever. Wowhead's Forever data puts 197 of them in Blacksmithing, in six groups:

• Camping objects. The Sharpening Wheel (skill 20) gives you and anyone sitting nearby up to +34 Strength at level 60, and does not stack with Strength of Earth Totem. The Anvil (skill 140) gives the same buff and adds an anvil to your camp; our calculator lists its blueprint at the Happy Camper vendor in Dun Morogh for 15s. The Master Forge (skill 300, made with a Golem Heart) gives the same buff, can be placed over a Sharpening Wheel and is needed for the hardest recipes: Wowhead's guide counts 65 of them. All camp features share a 1-hour cooldown.
• Leveling sets. The Veteran's, Guard's, Protector's, Acolyte's and Crusader's chain sets (skill 45-125) and the Officer's, Sentinel's, Warder's, Prefect's and Justicar's sets (skill 150-250). Many of the plans cost Merchant's Favor: Wowhead's guide lists 61 Commerce Authority plans at 30, 60, 90 or 120 Favor. Our calculator names Stondry Darkhammer (Alliance) and Gor'mak (Horde) as the quartermasters.
• New green armor. Sterling Silver (100-125), Hard Gold (145-175), Shining Mithril (195-220) and Blessed Plate (240-280), plus the Skyforged mail pieces at 50-60 and 175.
• New weapons. From Brass Knuckles and the Bronze Dory at 80-95 up to the Thorium Poleaxe, Bold Dirk and Stormcarver at 260-300.
• Blacksmith hammers you can throw. The Mithril (skill 195) and Arcanite (skill 270) Blacksmith Hammers are Bind on Pickup thrown weapons. Each tooltip reads "Serves as a Blacksmith Hammer."
• Skill-300 endgame crafts. The epic Paladin Justice set and Warrior Glory set, the Ironwood Blade, Greenhammer and other Malleable Essence pieces, and the Legionite crafts (the epic Champion's Legplates and Stalwart Helm, plus rare weapons like Stormcarver).

Older plans changed too. Wowhead lists 96 plans with a lower Blacksmithing requirement than in Classic, 89 of them by exactly 25 points. Plans: Mithril Spurs now needs 210 instead of 235. Blizzard's Nov 10 hotfix also made the Coarse Grinding Stone give skill-ups to 90 (was 75).

If you are still choosing professions, start with our best professions to pick in WoW Forever. Our WoW Forever Blacksmithing calculator put 1-300 at at least 287g on the US Alliance Auction House on Nov 11: about 264g of reagents plus 22g 56s of training, over 490 crafts. It is a lower bound, because Dark Iron Bar, Fiery Core and Lava Core were not listed. If you would rather skip the grind, our WoW Forever professions page covers done-for-you profession leveling.

Which WoW Forever Blacksmithing crafts make the most gold?

Bind on Equip two-handers, a few chest and head pieces, and one tradable weapon attachment. The table shows the top 11 of the 83 crafts we priced by US profit, among crafts listed on at least 3 US markets, plus Mithril Spurs. "Learn at" is the skill on the trainer or plans in Wowhead's Forever data. Every mat is bought at the Nov 11 median and sold at the median after the 5% cut.

Craft	New?	Learn at	US median	US listed	US profit	EU median	EU profit
Green Iron Hauberk	Classic	155	5.85g	95	+3.15g	2.40g	-57s
Shining Mithril Helm	New	215	5.49g	32	+1.98g	3.87g	+43s
Steel Weapon Chain	Classic	165	3.00g	75	+1.69g	3.39g	+1.99g
Steel Spear	New	160	4.00g	19	+1.68g	3.54g	+1.04g
Massive Iron Axe	Classic	160	3.44g	64	+1.61g	2.38g	+48s
Shining Mithril Breastplate	New	195	5.74g	12	+1.60g	5.85g	+1.33g
Blue Glittering Axe	Classic	195	4.36g	27	+1.49g	3.00g	+18s
Mithril Warhammer	New	190	3.63g	34	+1.49g	3.75g	+1.71g
Dense Grinding Stone	Classic	225	2.40g	14	+1.32g	99s	+62s
Bronze Dory	New	95	1.49g	27	+1.20g	1.08g	+80s
Moonsteel Broadsword	Classic	155	3.05g	158	+1.17g	2.25g	+30s
Mithril Spurs	Classic	210	47s	640	-48s	49s	-42s

Profit per craft on Nov 11, US vs EU, with every mat bought at the median. Source: timesaver.gg from AH Ledger data.

Why the Green Iron Hauberk wins in the US. It is a trainer recipe (75s) that costs about 2.41g in US mats: 20 Iron Bars, 4 Heavy Grinding Stones, 2 Jade, 2 Moss Agate and one Leatherworking-made Green Leather Armor. It was listed at a 5.85g median on 7 US markets. In the EU the median was only 2.40g, so it lost money there.

Three new weapons that pay. All three bind on equip:

• Mithril Warhammer (skill 190, required level 38): 12 Mithril Bars, 2 Citrine, a Solid Grinding Stone and 4 Heavy Leather, about 1.96g in the US. Our calculator lists the plans at Martha Wellsworth in The Riverglades for 75s, so this is the easiest of the three to learn.
• Steel Spear (skill 160, required level 32): 10 Steel Bars, 2 Strong Flux, an Elemental Air, 4 Heavy Grinding Stones and a Heavy Leather, about 2.12g in the US. The plans drop from Saltstone Crystalhide in Thousand Needles, per our calculator.
• Bronze Dory (skill 95, required level 20): only 21s of Bronze, Weak Flux and Medium Leather, listed at 1.49g in the US. Only 27 were listed on 3 US markets, so the price is fragile. The plans drop from Dark Strand Enforcers in Ashenvale, per our calculator.

The Shining Mithril Helm. At skill 215 it costs about 3.23g in the US (8 Mithril Bars, 9 Truesilver Bars, 2 Heavy Grinding Stones, a Core of Earth). It was listed at 5.49g in the US but only 3.87g in the EU. The Shining Mithril Breastplate showed +1.60g in the US and +1.33g in the EU, but only 12 and 8 were listed.

Ornate Mithril is a thin market. The Ornate Mithril Helm, Boots and Breastplate showed bigger margins (the Helm about +6.47g in the US), but each was listed on a single US market, so we left them out of the table.

Plans you can buy, with a catch. The Moonsteel Broadsword and Massive Iron Axe plans are sold in Stranglethorn Vale for 44s in limited supply, per our calculator. Wowhead's Forever data shows both plans now bind on pickup (they did not in Classic), so you cannot buy extra copies to resell.

Why do Mithril Spurs lose gold in WoW Forever?

Because they are listed below cost. Mithril Spurs cost 4 Mithril Bars and 3 Solid Grinding Stones, about 93s in the US and 89s in the EU at Nov 11 medians. They were listed at a 47s median in the US (640 units) and 49s in the EU (1,100 units). That is a loss of about 48s per craft in the US and 42s in the EU, before you count the time.

Wowhead's tooltip also says using Mithril Spurs "Requires Blacksmithing (215)", so only a blacksmith can apply them. If you have the plans (a drop, now learnable at 210), use them to level, not to sell. The same applies to Mithril Plate Pants (the renamed Mithril Scale Pants): 99s median in the US against about 1.50g of Mithril.

The Steel Weapon Chain shows the opposite. It is a tradable weapon attachment, not a weapon, and its tooltip also requires Blacksmithing (190) to use, yet it had the highest estimated EU profit among the crafts we priced with complete mat costs and more than 50 listed (+1.99g, 188 listed). Its plans are a rare drop (0.02% from the mobs our calculator lists), which may explain the thinner supply.

Can you sell the new Blacksmithing leveling sets?

Not the pieces we checked. We checked 31 leveling-set pieces on Wowhead, covering all ten set families: Veteran's, Guard's, Protector's, Acolyte's and Crusader's (skill 45-125) and Officer's, Sentinel's, Warder's, Prefect's and Justicar's (skill 150-250). All 31 bind on pickup.

Blizzard's Nov 10 hotfix "reduced the price vendors pay for some crafted armor items from Leatherworking, Tailoring, and Blacksmithing." The developer note explains why:

"The adjusted items were all bind-on-pickup items that a player was intended to craft only once for themselves." (Blizzard, WoW: Forever Hotfixes, November 10, 2026)

Blizzard did not list the items. On Nov 11 our calculator found no Blacksmithing craft that a vendor paid more for than its US Alliance mat cost, so vendoring crafts is not a gold plan. Make the sets for your own mail or plate wearer while you level, and use our WoW Forever leveling gear tool to see which piece suits your spec.

Which new Blacksmithing crafts are BoE?

We checked the tooltips on Wowhead. These new crafts bind on equip:

• Weapons: Brass Knuckles, Bronze Dory, Iron Fists, Steel Spear, Iron Morningstar, Mithril Shortsword, Mithril Warhammer, Mithril Claws, Mithril Claymore, Mithril Stiletto, Charged Mithril Battleaxe, Thorium Poleaxe, Bold Dirk and Stormcarver.
• Armor: Sterling Silver Breastplate, Hard Gold Cuirass, Shining Mithril Breastplate, Helm and Pauldrons, Blessed Plate Pauldrons, Bracers and Chest, Imperial Plate Gauntlets, the Goregasher and Clutchlord's Grips, the Skyforged pieces we checked, Champion's Legplates and Stalwart Helm.
• Skill-300 endgame crafts: Justice Leggings (Paladin), Legplates of Glory (Warrior), the Ironwood Blade and Azerothium Legplates. The two set pieces are "Unique-Equipped: Artisan's Tier (1)".

These bind on pickup: the 31 leveling-set pieces we checked, the Thorium Greatmace and Thorium Cestus (plans cost 90 Merchant's Favor) and the Legionite Glaive (plans cost 120), the Enriched Thorium Breastplate, Gemmed Copper Boots and the three Blacksmith Hammers.

Most new BoE crafts had few or no listings. The Charged Mithril Battleaxe needs 6 Essence of Air (only 3 listed in the US, 14.07g median), and the Goregasher and Clutchlord's pieces need Elemental Flux (none listed). If you farm your own essences, our Essence of Air and Earth farm and Essence of Fire farm guides cover the routes, and the Living Essence farm covers the Thorium Poleaxe's 4 Living Essence.

Are the skill-300 Blacksmithing crafts worth it yet?

Not on Nov 11. The new top-end crafts depend on reagents almost nobody was selling:

Reagent, Nov 11	Where it comes from	US listed	EU listed
Legionite Bar	Alchemy transmute that uses Heavy Thorium Bar	0	0
Heavy Thorium Bar	Mining smelt at skill 300	0	39 (8.23g)
Elemental Flux	reagent for the Goregasher, Clutchlord's, Justice and Glory pieces	0	0
Malleable Essence of Nature	disenchanting Hyjal Summit and Barrow Deeps items	0	0

Hyjal Summit and Barrow Deeps open with the raids on Dec 9, so the Justice and Glory sets are a December product. Thorium Bar is the other problem for US smiths: the US median was 99s against 31s in the EU. The old Arcanite Reaper needs 20 Arcanite Bars, which were 45g each in the US (28 listed) and 39g in the EU (64 listed), so roughly 900g of bars per craft in the US. No Arcanite Reapers were listed.

One cheap thing worth watching is the Elemental Sharpening Stone (2 Elemental Earth and 3 Dense Stone, about 1.12g in US mats). Its plans are a drop, and none were listed on any of the 16 markets on Nov 11. It is a raid consumable, so demand should come with the Dec 9 raids. That is our expectation, not a price.

Is Blacksmithing worth it for gold in WoW Forever?

Yes, if you treat it as a weapon and chest-piece shop, not a vendor-flip or Spurs business:

• Pair it with Mining. Most weapons and armor above need bars, Mining also supplies the stone for grinding and sharpening stones, and Heavy Thorium and Azerothium Bars are Mining smelts. Wowhead's guide also suggests Engineering if you want to share materials.
• Craft BoE two-handers and weapon chains with real listings. The Mithril Warhammer, Steel Spear and Steel Weapon Chain showed estimated profits in both regions on Nov 11. Green Iron Hauberk lost money in the EU, and Massive Iron Axe made only 48s there.
• Do not sell Mithril Spurs or Mithril Plate Pants at these prices. Use them for skill-ups.
• Buy the Certification at 300. It costs 1,000 Merchant's Favor and unlocks the title "the Blacksmith". Reaching 150, 225 and 300 Blacksmithing for the first time gives one Legacy Point each.
• Track prices. See the WoW Forever gold farming guide, our launch-week Auction House report, the Leatherworking gold guide and the Tailoring gold guide. For the real-money price of gold, see WoW Forever gold price today.

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FAQ

Is Blacksmithing good for gold in WoW Forever? It can be, on Nov 11 numbers. The Green Iron Hauberk (about 3.15g estimated profit per craft in the US), the Steel Weapon Chain (+1.69g US, +1.99g EU) and the new Mithril Warhammer (+1.49g US, +1.71g EU) showed estimated profits at listed prices. The 31 leveling-set pieces we checked are Bind on Pickup, and Mithril Spurs were listed below their mat cost.

How many new Blacksmithing recipes are in WoW Forever? Wowhead's Forever spell list marks 197 Blacksmithing recipes as new and 8 as changed.

Do Mithril Spurs make gold in WoW Forever? Not on Nov 11. They cost about 93s in US mats and were listed at a 47s median (640 units), a loss of about 48s per craft. Using them requires Blacksmithing 215.

Are the WoW Forever Blacksmithing leveling sets BoE? Not the ones we checked. All 31 leveling-set pieces we checked on Wowhead, from all ten set families, are Bind on Pickup, and Blizzard's Nov 10 hotfix cut the vendor price of some bind-on-pickup crafted Blacksmithing armor.

How much does it cost to level Blacksmithing 1-300 in WoW Forever? At least 287g on the US Alliance Auction House on Nov 11, 2026 (about 264g of reagents and 22g 56s of training, 490 crafts), per our Blacksmithing calculator. Dark Iron Bar, Fiery Core and Lava Core were not listed, so the real cost is higher.