At the request of one of the members of our guild alliance, I focused in on leveling blacksmithing last night. Jaimie had spent way too much time mining saronite, eternals, and the odd bit of titanium so thanks to her I had the raw materials to proceed.
I didn’t bother following any leveling guides. If I could make an item from the Tempered Saronite set I made two so that both my paladin and my warrior would be geared for tanking. The exceptions were the two Daunting pieces, which are better than the Tempered Saronite equivalents for tanking. I wound up disenchanting about 8 items and now I have tons of Titanium Skeleton Keys but I’m almost at the point of being able to craft any blacksmithing item in the game. I should hit that point tonight.
Blacksmithing is expensive to level and so far the good stuff seems to be all BOE. I suspect that if I had taken mining instead and used the money from that to buy the pieces I need, I’d have been way, way ahead. Nevertheless, leveling professions is something I enjoy so that’s what I choose to spend my in game gold on. Next big money sink is engineering!