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7.1.5 Transmog Updates: Tier 19 Armor, Blacksmithing Weapons, Brawler's Guild Shirts
Transmog is a favorite topic among Wowhead users so we rounded up all the interesting armor updates coming soon in 7.1.5 including new shirts, more items to fill out Tier 19 appearances, and old-school Blacksmithing weapons.
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5.2 PTR: Blacksmithing Leveling Revamp, Megaera Video
In today's news round up, we found some big changes to blacksmithing on the 5.2 PTR! Blizzard is also conducting a ton of raid testing this week, for which we have a preview video, and launched a
Patch 5.2 Under Development
site that has information on the new raid, world bosses, factions, and PvP changes.
New Blacksmithing Training Projects
If leveling Blacksmithing always seemed daunting, 5.2 should make this a bit easier. There is a series of new
Training Projects
requiring
Ghost Iron Bar
that should get you from 1 to 500--no more flying around Azeroth for
Mithril Ore
.
This reminds us of the Pandaria leveling recipes added to
Cooking
at the start of Mists of Pandaria, which allowed players to level up cooking mostly from vendor materials and cut out the need for old-world reagent farming. So far, no other professions appear to have received a similar revamp on the PTR.
These training projects, such as
Training Project: Ghost Iron Wok
, can be learnt by players level 85 or higher, from Pandaria trainers in
Vale of Eternal Blossoms
:
Cullen Hammerbrow
and
Jorunga Stonehoof
. Upon learning the skill, they w
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5.2 Crafted Vanity Items: Lightning-Forged Weapons, Engineering Pet
Patch 5.2 has a lot of serious raid content, but there's also some vanity items being added to professions. Blacksmiths get to craft replica versions of all those distinctive (and sadly removed) Burning Crusade weapons!
Blacksmithing: Lightning Forged Weapons
If you always wanted to craft iconic Blacksmithing weapons like
Stormherald
or
Drakefist Hammer
but didn't learn the plans prior to Cataclysm, it looks like you'll be able to create replica weapons in Patch 5.2 like
Fireguard, Reborn
!
In the last PTR build, we datamined
new blacksmithing plans
that were named after distinctive weapons from the Burning Crusade. These BoP weapons were only craftable by Weaponsmiths, and when specializations were removed in Cataclysm, players were no longer able to learn these plans. In addition, players couldn't learn all the weapons in Burning Crusade even if they were Weaponsmiths because there were further weapon subsets, such as Master Hammersmith.
Blizzard has already told us that there will be a special Lightning Forge on the
Isle of Thunder
, which wi
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