What does it cost to level Blacksmithing right now?

1.9kg in reagents at today's US auction prices, over about 80 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 1.9kg. 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 · Legion Blacksmithing · US · prices as of 16:57 UTC

Blacksmithing leveling 1 → 110 · Legion Blacksmithing

1.9kg in reagents over about 80 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 1.9kg. 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

Total1,946

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 67

Orange→Yellow

Demonsteel Bar

needs the recipe item

About 69 crafts.1,121

per skill point16

Felslate×138

Leystone Ore×69

Step 2 · Skill 67 → 100

Orange

Demonsteel Boots

needs the recipe item

About 11 crafts.825

per skill point25

Demonsteel Bar×44

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 pocket1,933

What's worth crafting with Blacksmithing right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Blacksmithing right now?: 1.9kg in reagents at today's US auction prices, over about 80 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 1.9kg. 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.