What does it cost to level Blacksmithing right now?

27kg in reagents at today's EU auction prices, over about 71 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 26.6kg.

Where do these numbers come from?

The skill thresholds are read from the game client data for build 12.1.0.68914. The prices are the region-wide auction house, refreshed every few minutes; these are the snapshot taken at 17:31 UTC.

Why does the route change when I reload?

Because the prices did. The cheapest recipe for a stretch of skill is whichever one's reagents are cheapest at that moment, and that moves through the day.

Profession leveling · Dragon Isles Blacksmithing · EU · prices as of 17:31 UTC

Blacksmithing leveling 1 → 100 · Dragon Isles Blacksmithing

27kg in reagents over about 71 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 26.6kg.

Start skill

Trainer recipes only

Recipe names carry the colour the profession window gives them: orange is a point every craft, yellow is three in four, green is one in four.

Before the first craft — buy it all at once

One trip to the auction house. Vendor lines are cheaper from the profession vendor than from the board.

ReagentNeedEachTotal

Primal Molten Alloy×156128

Total27,034

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 5

Orange

Explorer's Plate Bracers

first craft: +Knowledge

About 2 crafts.278

per skill point69

Primal Flux×4

Draconium Ore×6

Serevite Ore×16

Step 2 · Skill 5 → 15

Orange

Explorer's Plate Chestguard

trainerfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 4 crafts.612

per skill point61

Primal Flux×8

Draconium Ore×12

Serevite Ore×40

Step 3 · Skill 15 → 50

Orange→Yellow

Primal Razorstone

needs the recipe itemfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 37 crafts.2,016

per skill point57

Glossy Stone×148

Silken Gemdust×37

Step 4 · Skill 50 → 65

Orange→Green

Explorer's Expert Helm

trainerfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 16 crafts.4,159

per skill point277

Primal Flux×32

Draconium Ore×112

Serevite Ore×224

Step 5 · Skill 65 → 100

Orange

Primal Molten Greatbelt

specializationfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 12 crafts.19,968

per skill point570

Primal Molten Alloy×156

Skill 100 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Explorer's Expert Helm1625

404

16404

Explorer's Plate Bracers228

256

Explorer's Plate Chestguard43

412

Primal Razorstone3712

374

Capped at what the market takes in 3 days, so a route never pretends to sell hundreds at once.

Back in your pocket26,557

What's worth crafting with Blacksmithing right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Blacksmithing right now?: 27kg in reagents at today's EU auction prices, over about 71 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 26.6kg.
Where do these numbers come from?: The skill thresholds are read from the game client data for build 12.1.0.68914. The prices are the region-wide auction house, refreshed every few minutes; these are the snapshot taken at 17:31 UTC.
Why does the route change when I reload?: Because the prices did. The cheapest recipe for a stretch of skill is whichever one's reagents are cheapest at that moment, and that moves through the day.

A first craft pays Knowledge, not skill, so it is shown as a badge and left out of the craft count. Vendor reagents are priced at the lower of the vendor and the auction house.