WoWconomics

Lvl 1-25

Rough Sharpening Stone – Very cheap skill ups in the beginning, They are hard to resell and will most likely needed to be vendored.

25 Rough Stones

Lvl 26-75

Rough Grinding Stone – You will need these later, if you can get the rough stones for cheap compared to coarse stones, feel free to make until gray.

100 Rough Stones

Lvl 76-90

Coarse Grinding Stone – You will need 95 of these later on.  If you run out of stones you can go to the next level.

190  Coarse Stone

Lvl 90-100

Runed Copper Pants – DE them, the DE value is almost the same as the Sell value of the item. Save money on listing fees and just DE them to make money back.

80 Copper Bars, 20 Fine Thread, 30 Rough Grinding Stones

Lvl 101-105

Silver Rod – Make as many of these as possible. The mats cost around 1.05g and the Rod’s sell for as much if not more. These can usually make a profit, just don’t list all of them on the same day, it will flood the market and most won’t sell.

5 Silver bars, 10 Rough Grinding Stones.

Lvl 106-120

Rough Bronze Leggings – DE them, The DE value is worth more than the mats. If you DE for profit continue to make till gray.

90 Bronze Bars

Lvl 121-135

Patterned Bronze Bracers – Craft these to use up your Coarse Grinding stones and Disenchant. Once you have no more stones proceed to the next level

75 Bronze Bars, 15 Coarse Grinding Stones

Lvl 136-150

Heavy Grinding Stone – Make as long as you can get the stones for cheap. You will need 30 to use later on

90 Heavy stones

Lvl 151-155

Golden Rod – Craft these to resell. If you can make a profit selling these, craft until gray. This is a lot cheaper per level than the next level. You may not skill up every time but it may be cheaper to craft until gray.

5 Gold Bars, 10 Coarse Grinding Stone

Lvl 156-165

Green Iron Leggings – DE them, The DE value is around 1g while the normal sell price across servers is around .75 silver

240 Iron Bars, 30 Heavy Grinding Stones, 30 Green Dye

Lvl 166-200

Iron Counterweight – This is one of the rare times I recommend not making a green level item. In this Level range the difference between material cost and DE value is not any higher than crafting these and just vendoring them.

140 Iron Bars, 70 Coarse Grinding Stones, 35 Lesser Moonstone

Lvl 201-205

Truesilver Rod – Craft for profit, if you make a profit off them make until gray.

5 Truesilver Bars, 5 Heavy Grinding Stone

Lvl 206-210

Solid Grinding Stone – Cheap skill ups, You will need 45 later on, make until gray.

20 Solid Stone

Lvl 211-235

Heavy Mithril Gauntlet – Craft and DE, the DE value is about 4g on these and the crafting cost is around 7-8g per

150 Mithril Bars, 100 Mageweave

Lvl 236-250

Mithril Spurs – these do not sell well not that they cannot be used after level 70 so you will most likely vendor these. Even when you consider resale value, or DE value of other items in this range, you will lose more gold on anything else than just vendoring these. This is a drop recipe that you will need to get off the auction house.

60 Mithril Bars, 45 Solid Grinding stones

Lvl 251-260

Dense Grinding Stone – A very cheap level up, Make until gray

10 Dense Stones

This is when you can pick a specialty for blacksmithing. You will need to choose between Weaponsmithing and Armorsmithing. If you are not sure choose Weaponsmithing since it is less gold to drop and pick up Armorsmithing than it is the other way around.  You will need to chose one unless you can get the recipe for Thorium Bracers on the Auction House

Lvl 261-270

Thorium Belt – According to wowecon prices this is cheaper to use to level due to most Core of earth, Breath of Wind, or Hearts of Fire costing 6 gold each.

80 Thorium Bars

Weaponsmithing – Light Earthforged Blade, Light Skyforged Axe, and Light Emberforged Hammer – make the one that it is easiest for you to get the components too.

120 Mithril Bars, 10 Sets of 4 Core of earth, Breath of Wind, or Heart of Fire

Armorsmith -  Earthforged Leggings or Windforged Leggings

160 Mithril Bars. 10 sets of 2 Core of earth or Breath of Wind

Lvl 271-295

Imperial Plate Bracers – This recipe costs 10 Thorium Bars to purchase. You can probably sell them on the Auction house, but the DE value is around 5g.

**At Level 275-285 you can craft Arcanite Rod – These sell for large profits on my server if you buy the Arcanite bars on the AH. Even if you can break even it is better than using thorium to level.**

Lvl 296-300

Thorium Boots – Choose the cheaper of the two The DE values is around 8 gold, so pick which is cheaper for mats or choose one that may have a better auction house value.

60 Thorium Bars, 40 Rugged Leather

Thorium Helm – Choose the cheaper of the two The DE values is around 8 gold, so pick which is cheaper for mats or choose one that may have a better auction house value.

60 Thorium Bars, 5 Star Rubies

Lvl 301-310

Fel Iron Rod – Craft to sell for profit. Craft until Gray.

60 Fel Iron bars

Lvl 311-325

Fel Iron Plate Belt – Costs about 8g to make and DE’s into about 5g in Enchanting mats.

60 Fel Iron Bars

Lvl 326-330

Lesser Rune of Warding – You can try and sell them on the AH but I ended up vendoring mine due to the low sell rate.

5 Adamantite bars

Lvl 331-340

Adamantite Cleaver – The DE value is around 15g so you may want to consider DEing over AH’ing it. But compare the AH price first.

80 Adamantite Bars

Lvl 341-350

Lesser Ward of Shielding – You can try and sell them on the AH but I ended up vendoring mine due to the low sell rate. Make until gray, it will take several to get there but it will be less expensive than

20ish Adamantite bars

Lvl 351-360

Adamantite Rod – These are selling for profit on the Auction House, Craft until Gray to get free skill ups with a profit

100 Adamantite bars

Lvl 361-365

Cobalt Belt – DE them, you will be close to breaking even.  (You can make these from 350-375 if you do not want to craft rods)

20 Cobalt Bars

Lvl 366-375

Eternium Rod – You can sell these for profit. Craft them and list 1-2 a day.

40 Eternium Bars

Lvl 376-380

Cobalt Gauntlets – DE them

25 Cobalt Bars

Lvl 381-395

Spiked Cobalt Boots – Check the AH for the value, and compare to the DE value to choose what to do.

35 Cobalt Bars

Lvl 396-400

Socket Bracer – These have no return value, but socket any gear you may have. It’s a very cheap skill up. If you do not want to do this you can continue with the Spiked Cobalt Boots

20 Saronite Bars, 5 Eternal Earth

Lvl 400-405

Horned Cobalt Helm – Check the AH for the value, and compare to the DE value to choose what to do.

40 Cobalt Bar

Lvl 406-415

Deadly Saronite Dirk – Cheapest item to make in this level. You can choose to craft other weapons if they sell well on your server. Sell value will most likely be worth more than DE value (DE’ing will produce 1 dream shard)

105 Saronite Bars, 30 Crystallized Earth

Lvl 416-420

Eternal Belt Buckle – Craft for profit, continue to make till gray and sell them a couple a day

20 Saronite Bars, 5 Eternal Earth, 5 Eternal Water, 5 Eternal Shadow

Lvl 421-430

Eternal Belt Buckle – Craft for profit, continue to make till gray and sell them a couple a day

40 Saronite Bars, 10 Eternal Earth, 10 Eternal Water, 10 Eternal Shadow

Titanium Rod – Craft for profit, continue to make till gray and sell them a couple a day ( you can craft until 435)

20 Titanium Rod, 10 Titanium Bar

Lvl 431-445

Titanium Skeleton Key – a cheap level up plus you get an item that you can use to open locks. Make until gray because it is the cheapest way you are going to be able to level this high up.

60 Saronite Bars, 15 Titanium Bars

Lvl 446-450

The best way to level in this range is to craft epics for people.  Advertise in trade channel. If you really want to craft items to get to 450 you can choose to craft epic that you can make a profit off selling on the AH, or craft Daunting Legplates or Savage Saronite Hauberk which both cost 14 Saronite Bars and 1 Eternal Earth to level.