You will want to equip yourself and your friends as your skill rises. If you keep your skill at 25 plus five times your level then you will always be able to make items you can equip at their minimum level. Outside of the items you make because you want to, or to fulfill the Blacksmith quests, there are a series of minimum-material items you can make to advance your skill, mostly consisting of stone, misc. items, and some low-material armor items.
Before you decide that maxing Blacksmithing power leveling is for you, prepare yourself for some serious expense. Figure out if this really is the profession that you want. The first step is getting from skill level 1 to 300. To do this will take in the neighborhood of 500 gold in supplies, so be prepared.
For the skill 1 - 300 trip you will need the following main ingredients and many more minor ones: many (100 each) Rough, Course and Heavy Stones, 10 Silver Bars, 300 Bronze Bars, 120 Iron Bars, 440 Solid Stones, 340 Steel Bars, 140 Mithril Bars, 26 Star Rubies, and 600 Thorium Bars. As you can see the material requirements are fairly steep. If you’re near the Auction House then you can pretty much figure out how much you’ll need to spend.
Once you reach 300, things are just getting started. The trip from 300-375 is at least 10x harder and can be up to 10x more expensive as well! Depending on your server you could pay up to 5000 gold for the mats to hit skill level 375. On most servers it will end up costing you around 3,000 to 4,000 gold unless you spend a long time farming on your own.
For skill levels 300 - 375 the exact materials depend on the faction that you choose in Shattrath. For Aldor Blacksmiths the base materials you will need are: 370 Thorium Bars, 199 Fel Iron Bars, 130 Adamantite Bars, 40 Netherweave Cloth, 70 Primal Water, 60 Primal Fire. For Scryer Blacksmiths the base materials are as follows: 370 Thorium Bars, 39 Fel Iron Bars, 130 Adamantite Bars, 40 Netherweave Cloth, 50 Hardened Adamantite Bars (made from 600 Adamantite Bars), 220 Arcane Dust, 40 Large Prismatic Shards. The primal water alone will run you almost 1500 gold on many servers if you are Aldor.
It may be a wise idea if you’re level 70 to farm for allot of the materials yourself to save on the very expensive costs. However if you have the wow gold, buying in the auction house will save you a significant amount of time.
