Blacksmiths won't be left behind in the Sunwell
by Alex Ziebart 
Feb 10th 2008 at 11:30AM
Blacksmiths aren't being left out of the crafting spree and receive some new recipes of their own. Additionally, Miners get a new type of metal! Sort of.Hardened Khorium can be made by Miners as of patch 2.4, and is used in the new Smithing plans. Hardened Khorium isn't as frightening as it sounds, it doesn't require 10 bars like its Adamantite counterpart. The bad news is, Hardened Khorium Bars require Hardened Adamantite Bars. 3 Khorium Bars and 1 Hardened Adamantite Bar will net you a Hardened Khorium Bar. Who knew smelting was such a confusing process?
Now the good stuff: Like Tailoring, Blacksmithing is receiving at least two new sets consisting of a breastplate and some gloves. The Hardened Khorium set is a set of DPS plate, and the Sunblessed set is Healing plate. Both sets have a total of 5 sockets, but they're a little less focused than the tailored gear. Red, blue and yellow sockets are all present here.
Like the other new crafted gloves, the Blacksmithing gauntlets take a handful of Sunmotes. Aside from the Sunmotes, all of the other materials can be acquired in-game before the launch of 2.4. Primals, metals, nethers, those sorts of things.
If you care to see the stats, go ahead and check them out after the jump. A special thanks goes out to MMO Champion for these images.
Filed under: Paladin, Warrior, Mining, Blacksmithing, Items, News items
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ninjasuperspy Feb 10th 2008 11:45AM
And the Sunblessed gantlets are BoE. Whoo hoo! Engineering still rocks the house!
Welshboff Feb 10th 2008 12:24PM
Yet again, no mail stuff
p-diddy Feb 10th 2008 2:36PM
Ummm, you DO realize Paladins can start wearing plate at 40, right?
Other classes? What other classes? There are other classes??
-p-
Mats Feb 10th 2008 2:02PM
where the hell is my tanking gloves and tanking chest!?
dan Feb 10th 2008 4:03PM
agreed. more tank options please.
chris Feb 10th 2008 2:09PM
Where do these patterns come from?
Milktub Feb 10th 2008 3:45PM
That's super ... more ... DPS blacksmithing stuff.
Super.
Really.
Guess I'll keep holding my breath for a BoP tanking set I can craft.
Marcus Feb 10th 2008 4:33PM
Everytime I see something "new" for blacksmithing it shows me Blizzard doesn't give a damn about the profession. DPS and healing gear. Yippie. So tanks are SOL. Making a set like Tailors and Leatherworkers, think again.
Juwon Feb 10th 2008 5:54PM
I am not still impressed with those gears. what happened to set gears, what happened to reti gear that requiers Str, Stm and Int?
where are they. looking at it it only warrior and healadin will benefit this and the odd reti paladins with plenty of int to spear.
alex Feb 10th 2008 7:50PM
do we know anything more about this stuff? like is it from trainers? does it require rep? does it require armorsmithing? im reffering to the BoP stuff...
Rudolphe Feb 11th 2008 12:46PM
Screw tanks... finally some healer stuff.
Archex Feb 14th 2008 10:41AM
Any word on where the Plans come from? SSO rep or...? Rather than trying to get 10 Nethers to upgrade BP of Kings, just get 4 to craft this chestpiece instead. That is, unless you need exalted SSO which could take a while...
Badfrog Feb 26th 2008 9:28AM
it would be nice if they would make craftable tanking gear for armorcrafters... all the specialized stuff is DPS.