What does it cost to level Blacksmithing right now?

45.2kg in reagents at today's TW auction prices, over about 60 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 45.1kg. 91% of the route is priced

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 17:54 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 · Khaz Algar Blacksmithing · TW · prices as of 17:54 UTC

Blacksmithing leveling 1 → 110 · Khaz Algar Blacksmithing

45.2kg in reagents over about 60 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 45.1kg. 91% of the route is priced

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

Sanctified Alloy×96249

Gloomfathom Hide×1210

129

×12129

Ringing Deeps Ingot×123

×1239

Crystalline Powder×121

×1212

Total45,235

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 5

Orange

Coreforged Skeleton Key

needs the recipe itemfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 4 crafts.789

per skill point197

Bismuth×32

Ironclaw Ore×16

Step 2 · Skill 5 → 15

Orange

Coreforged Repair Hammer

trainerfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 10 crafts.2,166

per skill point216

Bismuth×100

Ironclaw Ore×20

Step 3 · Skill 15 → 30

Orange

Ironclaw Stiletto

trainerfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 8 crafts.4,400

per skill point293

Core Alloy×8

Ironclaw Ore×40

Step 4 · Skill 30 → 55

Orange→Yellow

Ironclaw Knuckles

trainerfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 14 crafts.7,700

per skill point308

Ironclaw Ore×70

Core Alloy×14

Step 5 · Skill 55 → 65

Orange→Yellow

Forged Framework

specializationfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 12 crafts.6,012

per skill point601

Crystalline Powder×12

Core Alloy×12

Step 6 · Skill 65 → 100

Orange

Beledar's Bulwark

needs the recipe itemfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 12 crafts.24,168

per skill point690

Gloomfathom Hide×12

Ringing Deeps Ingot×12

Sanctified Alloy×96

Skill 100 → 110

Every recipe over this stretch has a reagent nobody is selling right now, so it is left out of the totals.

Skill 110 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Coreforged Repair Hammer101

1011

Coreforged Skeleton Key41

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

Back in your pocket45,120

What's worth crafting with Blacksmithing right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Blacksmithing right now?: 45.2kg in reagents at today's TW auction prices, over about 60 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 45.1kg. 91% of the route is priced
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 17:54 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.