Stats Guide for Blacksmithing in Midnight

All stats have their uses, and Blacksmithing can make great use out of Multicraft and Ingenuity when crafting Consumables or Reagents, and of Ingenuity and Resourcefulness when crafting gear for combat or professions.

Keep in mind that once you are fully maxed with profession skill, gear, and talents, you will be able to produce maximum rank items when using the best materials naturally, without needing to use Concentration, so at that point you should either swap all of your Ingenuity gear to Resourcefulness or use lower rank materials plus Concentration, instead.

For more information on profession stats and gear, please refer to our dedicated guide below:

Blacksmiths, like most other professions, can use three pieces of gear at once, 1 tool and 2 accessories. Epic-quality gear is best in slot.

Item	Type	Source
Sunforged Blacksmith's Hammer	Tool	Blacksmithing
Thalassian Ironbender's Regalia	Accessory	Leatherworking
Sunforged Blacksmith's Toolbox	Accessory	Blacksmithing

Quality is a big factor in the stats you can get from the gear. Green versions are bind on equip and from trainer recipes, but blue and higher versions require specialization, faction, or renown grinding for their recipe and are bind on pickup, requiring you to submit a Crafting Order for them.

Remember to enchant your crafting tool with Enchant Tool - Haranir Multicrafting if you are focusing on reagents and consumables, Enchant Tool - Ren'dorei Ingenuity if focusing on Concentration crafting, or Enchant Tool - Amani Resourcefulness for public / chat orders without Concentration.

You can also use the Alchemy-crafted Phial Haranir Phial of Ingenuity to temporarily increase your crafting stats.

Finally, consider using optional reagents such as Multicraft Matrix or Multicraft Manifold on expensive crafts that can benefit from the extra Multicraft, as these are bind on pickup anyway. Skill increasing items such as Mentor's Helpful Handiwork can be used to force a better crafting result and these can be bought and sold on the Auction House, making them useful for some of the most valuable crafts when they are being sold for cheap.

Below, you will find a list of gear that Blacksmithing can make for other professions.

Item	Type	Source
Sunforged Sickle	Tool	Herbalism
Sunforged Pickaxe	Tool	Mining
Sunforged Skinning Knife	Tool	Skinning
Sunforged Leatherworker's Knife	Tool	Leatherworking
Sunforged Leatherworker's Toolset	Accessory	Leatherworking
Sunforged Needle Set	Accessory	Tailoring