0 to Drakefist: A Powerleveling Guide for Blacksmithing
0 to Drakefist
A Powerleveling Guide
for Blacksmithing
The Drakefist Hammer is the best main hand weapon a Rogue can make, at least until you upgrade to a Dragonmaw/Dragonstrike. This mace hits like a truck and has a nice haste proc effect. However, in order to wield this weapon, you must give up one of your professions to become a Master Hammersmith. And the journey from 0 to Drakefist (350 Blacksmithing) is not an easy one. You'll need to spend a great deal of resources to aquire the necessary materials to powerlevel your Blacksmithing skill and eventually craft this mighty hammer. Having recently done the research and completed a Drakefist for myself, I've mapped out what I believe to be the best route to take in order to minimize wasted time and gold.
This guide is based upon the following assumptions:
1. You have reached level 70 (or are close to it) and want to powerlevel your Blacksmithing skill to 350 as quickly as possible.
2. You are only interested in trainer recipes and/or recipes that can be obtained with minimal effort.
3. You have an alt set aside to hold all of the materials you'll need to level up your blacksmithing. I recommend sending mats to your alt in the order provided below, and when you're ready, returning them in reverse order.
4. Whenever possible, you'll only want to craft items that are Orange difficulty, for 100% skill gain. When required to craft Yellow and/or Green difficulty items, I've adjusted the required materials to account for less than 100% skill gain per item created. I've also listed alternate recipes and materials in red to give you additional options to consider.
Total Materials Needed to Get From 0 to Drakefist
Listed below are the materials you'll need and the order in which you should craft items to get to 350 Blacksmithing as efficiently as possible. It's highly recommended that you farm some of these materials yourself and/or purchase them from the auction house over a span of several days or weeks, because your need for certain items (Iron/Steel Bars, Solid Stone, Mithril Bars, Thorium Bars, etc.) will most likely surpass the available supply on the AH at any given time.
Rough Stone 260
Coarse Stone 240
Silver Bar 5
Bronze Bar 115
Heavy Stone 300
Gold Bar 21
Iron Bar 336
Green Dye 35
Steel Bar 519
Strong Flux 16
Lesser Moonstone 12
Heavy Leather 28
Solid Stone 908 (Alternatively, buy up any cheap Solid Grinding Stone on the AH as a substitute for 4 Solid Stone, for use in making Mithril Spurs)
Mithril Bar 316
Citrine 4
Black Pearl 2
Shadowgem 8
Thick Leather 4
Dense Stone 30
Thorium Bar 420
Fel Iron Bar 210
Adamantite Bar 90
Netherweave Cloth 40
Primal Fire 20
Primal Earth 20
Eternium Bar 12
Khorium Bar 8
Recipes you may want to acquire before you start
Moonsteel Broadsword (Zarena Cromwind, Booty Bay) - Limited Supply (1)
Massive Iron Axe (Jaquilina Dramet, Stranglethorn Vale - Alliance) / (Vharr, Stranglethorn Vale - Horde) - Limited Supply (1)
Mithril Spurs (Random World Drop Recipe) - Check the AH for this one or you’re going to have a *really* hard time leveling past 275
Adamantite Cleaver (Aaron Hollman - Shattrath City, Arras - The Exodar, Eriden - Silvermoon City) - Limited Supply (1)
Lesser Ward of Shielding (Mari Stonehand, Shadowmoon Valley - Alliance / Rohok, Hellfire Peninsula - Horde) - Limited Supply (1)
Adamantite Weightstone (Fedryen Swiftspear, Zangarmarsh - Requires Honored rep with Cenarion Expedition which is easy to get)
Step-by-Step: 0 to Drakefist
Listed below is a step-by-step route for powerleveling Blacksmithing using optimum recipes and expected quantities.
Learn Apprentice Blacksmithing.
After level 75, learn Journeyman Blacksmithing from an Expert/Artisan Blacksmith and buy a Blacksmith Hammer.
After level 150, learn Expert Blacksmithing from an Artisan Blacksmith.
Travel to Stranglethorn Vale / Booty Bay to complete the next few steps. Use the forge located in Brikk Keencraft’s room in Booty Bay. A Bank/Mailbox is also available in Booty Bay.
Get the limited supply recipes for Moonsteel Broadsword (Zarena Cromwind, Booty Bay) and Massive Iron Axe (Jaquilina Dramet, Stranglethorn Vale - Alliance) / (Vharr, Stranglethorn Vale - Horde)
After level 200, learn Artisan Blacksmithing from Brikk Keencraft in Booty Bay. He also provides level 200+ recipes.
Wait until level 265+ to knock out the next few steps all at one time:
After level 235 (Big Black Mace), learn Weaponsmithing by turning in the weapons you crafted to Myolor Sunderfury - Alliance, Krathok Moltenfist - Horde
After level 260, get the Light Skyforged / Earthforged / Emberforged recipes from Ironus Coldsteel - Alliance, Kelgruk Bloodaxe - Horde if you plan on making any of those alternate recipe items (see notes below).
After level 265, turn in 30 Thorium Bar to Derotain Mudsipper in Gadgetzan to get the Imperial Plate Boots/Bracers recipes.
After level 250, learn Master Hammersmithing by talking to Lilith the Lithe in Everlook (The Sweet Serenity quest is no longer a requirement.)
After level 275, learn Master Blacksmithing and pick up recipes below from the Grand Master Blacksmith in Hellfire Peninsula (Humphry - Alliance, Rohok - Horde)
Yay! Time to make your Drakefist Hammer now, right? Wrong. Drakefist Hammer is a guaranteed skill point between 351-360, so save it until that 360th point, assuming you want to keep leveling Blacksmithing and upgrade to Dragonmaw someday.
Total Materials Needed to Get From Drakefist to Dragonmaw
Khorium Bar 50
Primal Water 35
Primal Mana 35
Scyers
Hardened Adamantite Bar 50
Arcane Dust 260
Large Prismatic Shard 50
Aldor
Fel Iron Bar 160
Primal Water 70
Primal Fire 60
Primal Nether 8 (Drops from Heroic Instance End Bosses)
Primal Might 2
Step-by-Step: Drakefist to Dragonmaw
Beyond 360, you'll need to acquire Primal Nethers (through Heroics or the AH), grind faction with Scryers/Aldor and/or collect rare/epic recipes to reach 375 Blacksmithing to make Dragonmaw. The path from Drakefist to Dragonmaw could take a while and you may have to farm a lot of materials and/or spend hundreds or even thousands of gold to get there.
Dragonmaw to Dragonstrike
To upgrade to Dragonstrike, you'll need to acquire Nether Vortexes, which drop off random mobs in Serpentshrine Cavern or you can purchase them with Badges or on the AH.
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