What does it cost to level Blacksmithing right now?

7.2kg in reagents at today's US auction prices, over about 58 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 7.1kg. 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 16:57 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 · US · prices as of 16:57 UTC

Blacksmithing leveling 1 → 110 · Khaz Algar Blacksmithing

7.2kg in reagents over about 58 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 7.1kg. 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×8058

Profaned Tinderbox×172

×1736

Ringing Deeps Ingot×102

×1020

Echoing Flux×3515

×355

Crystalline Powder×1223

×122

Total7,208

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 30

Orange

Ironclaw Stiletto

trainerfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 15 crafts.750

per skill point25

Core Alloy×15

Ironclaw Ore×75

Step 2 · Skill 30 → 55

Orange→Yellow

Ironclaw Knuckles

trainerfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 14 crafts.700

per skill point28

Ironclaw Ore×70

Core Alloy×14

Step 3 · Skill 55 → 65

Orange→Yellow

Forged Framework

specializationfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 12 crafts.482

per skill point48

Crystalline Powder×12

Core Alloy×12

Step 4 · Skill 65 → 70

Yellow

Sanctified Alloy

trainerfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 7 crafts.594

per skill point118

Step 5 · Skill 70 → 100

Orange

Sanctified Steps

needs the recipe itemfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 10 crafts.4,681

per skill point156

Profaned Tinderbox×10

Ringing Deeps Ingot×10

Sanctified Alloy×80

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

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

Back in your pocket7,060

What's worth crafting with Blacksmithing right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Blacksmithing right now?: 7.2kg in reagents at today's US auction prices, over about 58 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 7.1kg. 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 16:57 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.