Guide to obtaining every blacksmithing recipe This is a guide to obtaining every blacksmithing recipe in order to be the most complete Blacksmith . It has been designed primarily around Blacksmithing skill level rather than character level . There are times , though , where character level will intrude — where you must be a particular level if you wish to learn a given rank of Blacksmithing skill or where you must face foes of a particular level should you want to do some particular task . This guide specifically omits recipes learned from trainers . If you cannot find Blacksmithing Trainers , this guide is probably not of much value to you . What to do ? Method 1 - Shopping : When the going gets tough , the tough go shopping ! Many recipes are available from vendors , in limited quantities or not . Part of the point of this article is to tell you where to go to get them . . . Method 2 - Auction House trawling : Many recipes are world drops . That is , anything , anywhere , of the appropriate level can drop the recipe . Since there are many more tradeskills available than you can take , the odds that a given recipe drop being one that you can use is small . Your odds are much better looking to the auction house . Method 3 - Hunting : As opposed to the above , some recipes are looted off of only a select number of creatures . For some , you need defeat only one ( or a very few ) . Others are more elusive and you may find yourself devoting days to the hunt . For some , you must defeat a boss in some instance to acquire the given recipe . Still , some ( but not all ) of these are Bind on Equip and so may be found in the auction house . Method 4 - Questing : Sometimes , the only way to learn a recipe is to do " favors " for people ( or " work the right lever on the right machine " ) . Also , there are some quests that require the fruits of some tradeskill . While this article is primarily about gaining recipes , these quests may ( or may not ) provide opportunity to gain skill in your craft . Note that some of these recipes are tradeable , whilst others are not . While it is mechanically possible to find these recipes on the neutral auction house ( or even the opposite faction one ) , it is vanishingly rare to actually find them there . Method 5 - Reputation : Many recipes are privately held by a group and you may only acquire it when you reach some level of favor with that group . As gaining reputation is more arduous ( generally ) than either gaining levels or gaining skill , these recipes have been listed separately . Method 6 - Other : Some things just do not fall into neat categories ( for , you see , " everything is miscellaneous " ) . Some schematics fall into several categories . Where possible , the easiest means of acquiring the schematic is the one mentioned or given to you . Also , schematics that are Bind - on - Pickup ( BoP ) are noted as such . All schematics requiring reputation ( and some vendor - sold ones ) are Bind on Pickup . Followed by all of : Artisan skill : 300 . 300 was the skill cap prior to Burning Crusade . A lot of items require 300 skill to learn / craft . A lot of those required adventuring rather than simply asking a vendor . . .