Diablo3 Blacksmith Smithing Guide

TLDR Introduction


Leveling your smith:Source
Total Blacksmith Leveling Cost and Materials
*will update soon since patch 1.0.3 made it cheaper*



Salvage list:
Normal: ilvl1-39
-Subtle Essence: 100% drop from both magic and rare equips
-Fallen Tooth: 100% drop from rare BUT chance drop from magic equips, x3 from salvaged legendary equips

Nightmare: ilvl40-49
-Shimmering Essence: 100% drop from both magic and rare equips
-Lizard eyes: 100% drop from rare BUT chance drop from magic equips, x3 from salvaged legendary equips

Hell: ilvl50-59
-Wishful Essence: 100% drop from both magic and rare equips
-Encrusted Hoofs: 100% drop from rare BUT chance drop from magic equips, x3 from salvaged legendary equips

Inferno: ilvl60-?
-Exquisite Essence: 100% drop from both magic and rare equips
-Iridescent Tears: 100% drop from rare BUT chance drop from magic equips
-Fiery Brimstone:100% from Legendary lvl60 equips BUT low chance drop from lvl60 rare, VERY low chance from lvl60 magic equips



Types of plans:

Full list of Recipe

-normal ilvl plans (for example: staff of herding)

-magic ilvl plans

-rare ilvl plans
*there are 3 lvls for rare ilvl plans (Exalted, Fine Exalted, and Grand Exalted)
*the difference are normal Exalted plans have only 4 attributes, Fine Exalted has 5 attributes and Grand Exalted has 6 attributes (thats why Grand usually cost much more)

-legendary ilvl plans

-set plans
*when you learn this plan, you learn the whole combo recipe


p/s:Weapon/armor damage, defense, stats, slots, attributes etc etc are totally random

Smithers List
Current weapon smith service available:
Exalted Grand Massacre Axe (1 hand mighty) PM me
Exalted Grand Galraki (1 hand axe) PM me
Exalted Grand Piercer (1 hand dagger) PM me
Exalted Grand Strike Wand (1hand wand) PM Azurues
Exalted Grand Crag Hammer (1hand wand) PM eehtsitna

Current armor smith service available:
Exalted Grand Sovereign Mail (Torso) PM VinluV
Huge list of other armors and weapons PM ifourtos
Helm of Command (helm) PM heaven

This post has been edited by The Amateur Working Bee: Jul 27 2012, 02:12 PM

thx bro! good info! interesting, id nvr expect 3 hoofs lololol Mr Haedrig scammed u

but yeah, if i manage to get my hands on some proper plans ill do smithing services for the ppl here n friends, proper plans dont come cheap lol even the cheapest proper legendary ilvl60 plan cost like 3m the lowest in AH (gahena something*pants) fiery brimstone cost like 30k for 5 or so i think, or 30k for 1, forgot, gonna observe the market abit when i get back home xD now no gold

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Added on June 8, 2012, 11:57 amiirc we did purchase a tome back then coz a friend of mine was mad, he wanted to make higher lvl gems lol, and we actually manage to purchase 5 to upgrade, but honestly imo i wouldnt suggest upgrading artisans, unless ur already in Hell mode, thats prolly when u have that extra gold to spend and roll out all the smithing and jewelry

This post has been edited by The Amateur Working Bee: Jun 8 2012, 11:57 AM

if im not mistaken ilvl61-63 not yet released yet, prolly future patch since it was stated there? so far i only notice while salvaging based on the lvl requirement only xD ill try to dig up more info when i get back, or hopefully someone can give us an answer on that

im not gonna do jewelry yet till the future patch when they tone down the gold requirement lol, my gold bag pain~ xD sumore i wanna save up for purchasing smith plans

thx xD i do have that list at home, but damn office dont let me open bnet pages luuulz blocked every single link i wanted to add here

its a fixed set of items that you are gonna be able to craft when you lvl your smith xD so you do automatically get rare recipe when u lvl it till 10, so for example when u hit lvl7 smith u get to craft a rare belt, the other players that hit lvl7 smith will get the same thing, the only part where the differences are is the attributes you get when u craft that belt, its random

go bro! when you go black, u cant turn back!

wife that plays D3, i envy you son LOL

wanna sell the plan? ;D

blacksmith plans are random drops in Inferno lvls

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Added on June 8, 2012, 7:01 pmive updated the 1st post with the details and cost of the blacksmith lvling, apprentice till master lvl yes it will only cost u gold to lvl up, after that it will start adding pages of blacksmith as requirements, and then tomes etc etc accordingly

basically there is no specific tools required, the only thing you need is the materials and/or plans required to craft. All you need to do is have the required materials in your inventory, go to the blacksmith, choose the equip you want to craft and just click and it will appear in your inventory when done

This post has been edited by The Amateur Working Bee: Jun 8 2012, 07:02 PM

when u say decent, id say lvl10 lol, i honestly nvr touched the ones bellow lvl10, my friend forged one for me when we were low lvl, we easily outgrew it in a short period of time, so yeah, so far i forged some exalted sovereign mail, got some decent stats

on the side note, anyone has any idea which grand plan is worth buying? saw a WD helm and monk helm grand plan going for less than 400k, if the request is there, id buy it and do some smithing services, abit tired of killing stuff everyday for gold, feel like doing some trade stuff more

id suggest waitin for the next patch 1st, they said they are going to reduce BOTH artisan cost, but so far they've only revealed the reduced cost for gems, so idk, no problem waiting i guess, i think currently my problem is how plans are so over priced lately, i rly wish i can get one decent one thru hunting, but so far only get non fine or grand ones...which is quite a bummer lol

when you max your smith, it allows you to learn certain blacksmith plans(have to hunt) depending on the ilvl plan, some weapons even thou the shown base dmg is like 300+, when you forge, its a random chance of rolling the dmg, some ppl get 3xx,7xx, if you are lucky you get 9xx dmg, so far havent heard of ppl rolling 1k dmg yet, so yeah...the reason why smithed weapons would out class farmed weapons would be coz its 6 attributes, meaning its CONFIRMED 6 attributes, sure you can farm a 9xx weapon from mobs, but what are the chances that the weapon has 6 attributes or socket?

thats my logic in thinking smithing high tier weapons is worth it IF YOU ARE LUCKY to get 9xx. LOL!

from my experience it drops in inferno only regardless of your smith level, smith lvl comes to play when you want to learn the plans since some plans have lvl requirement for smith, other than that the plan still drops randomly inferno.

so far ive havent heard from any confirm source that plans do drop outside inferno yet, have to check

ive added a link at the 1st post of the official page of the recipes and plan lists, sry cant check that link now, in office lol! they block

yep, found out bout that last week, ive updated it on the salvage list already lul

well honestly, sometimes i feel salvaging is not worth it, depends on the market, if you can get mats cheaper than the total sale amount that you npc, might as well npc all the items u wanna salvage and buy the mats lol

This post has been edited by The Amateur Working Bee: Jun 12 2012, 08:08 PM

inferno lvl mats in AH? whats your pricing on it? O.o

interesting, have to go home and check the market again, if the numbers are favourable, salvage might actually earn more lulz


This post has been edited by The Amateur Working Bee: Jun 19 2012, 02:00 AM

welcome to the club mate! if u can list me the plans you own, ill add your name to the list of service available

sadly NV does not affect the smithing results

will add your name to the list of forging service, welcome to the club mate!

prolly just the quivers and Grand Doomcaster, the rest....not worth it imo lol