Blacksmithing is easily the worst profession out there in terms of gold. Honestly the supplies gathered for the darkmoon faire are already the most annoying ones to get. 7 heavy grinding stones for one turn in compared to 5 torn bear pelts or some stuff that’s easy to make in engineering.
But also, made stones useless thanks to windfury procs not working with them.
Why Blizzard must you always make Blacksmithing so damn useless? Why can’t we have any nice things???
You barely get any money if none at all if you decide to invest into materials and make gear and put it on the ah.
Blacksmithing should be very very expensive to craft weapons and armor, but also very good.
And require BoP materials, so the value of the items are based more on time, than funnelling gold into it.
Demon-forged breastplate was like this and was very cool.
but yeah for now your stuck with crapy greens that aren’t good at all or white items lol.
I’m playing SoD because I want to see what WoW Vanilla looks like when it has changes, personally i think revamping the game would be great.
ERA exists for purists.
I don’t even want them to completely revamp vanilla, I’m just wondering why windfury doesn’t work with stones. What’s the point of adding stones to the game. their only use is in solo content.
So you get a benefit if you are missing a feral of course 
And for your offhand if you’re dual wielding.
Yeah, Blizzard again. They wanted to make the BS a little more dynamic, but it didn’t work out. For example, the two new recipes, one Blackfathom SS and Formula for mana oil. While ench has everything for their formula, the BS plan needs stuff from ench, completely zero logic…which leads to this either you make another ench hero or buy from AH…
It’s the most expensive profession to level up, then the chest gear you get from it spending a ton of gold is terrible.
Unbelievable how that EPIC chest is actually worse than most blue items you get.
no one wears plate yet… it gets better, but its a prof to make some gear, not to make cash really. u mite make something of it, but not like a potionmaker.
if u get mats later on, there are a couple of very big moneymakers to make. not so for leatherworking really.
I have news for you, friend. It’s always been useless, but in SoD at least there is an epic chest you can craft at 25.
In vanilla and classic it was a money sink and not worth leveling at all.
I noticed way back in 2006 that any item I could make was worse than what I already had. By the time I could make something that was an upgrade I already had better.
If blizzard improves it for SoD, which they have a bit, it might be amazing at 60. But there is still a chance it’s useless. As long as there is one person playing with the plans you need you’d save money by having them craft it and tipping them well. Shield spikes, spurs, rods, mail gloves for hunters or shaman and that’s about it.