Garrison: The Forge Guide (WoD 6.2)

Table of Contents

• 1. Main Perks
• 2. Description
• +3. Unlocking the Forge
  • 3.1. Unlocking the Forge, Level 1
  • 3.2. Unlocking the Forge, Level 2
  • 3.3. Unlocking the Forge, Level 3
• +4. Work Orders
  • 4.1. Unlocking Work Orders
  • 4.2. Increasing Yield
  • 4.3. Increasing Queue Size
  • 4.4. Cost Comparison Between Work Orders and Blacksmithing Recipe
• +5. Resident Blacksmith
  • 5.1. For Blacksmiths
  • 5.2. For Non-Blacksmiths
• 6. Extra Perk from Follower
• 7. Changelog

The Forge is a Small Garrison building that Blacksmiths and Non-Blacksmiths can use to craft Draenor-specific Blacksmithing recipes.

While we explain, in this article, how to unlock all levels of the Forge, you may be interested in our guide to unlocking all the Garrison buildings. We also have a guide to leveling Blacksmithing in Draenor.

For Blacksmiths, the main perk of the Forge is that it allows you to create a maximum of 12x Truesteel Ingots per day, in addition to the 10x you can already craft with Truesteel Ingot (less with a Blacksmithing skill lower than 700). These extra Ingots are really useful, because they allow you to craft more Draenor recipes, which means you make more money off the Auction House and you level up Blacksmithing to 700 faster. The Forge is also where you buy your Draenor-specific Blacksmithing recipes.

For Non-Blacksmiths, the main perk of the Forge is that the resident Blacksmith can craft most of the Draenor-specific Blacksmithing recipes for you, with the exception of the weapon enchants.

Level	Cost	Perks
Level 1	150x 50x 1 hour	Allows the production of Blacksmithing items and work orders.
Level 2	300x 100x 1 hour	Allows followers with the Blacksmithing trait to work here, granting a unique bonus. Also allows up to 14 work orders at one time.
Level 3	500x 300x 1 hour	Allows up to 21 work orders at one time.

In this section, we are going to tell you how to unlock the Forge, Level 1, 2, and 3.

The Forge Level 1 is unlocked when you upgrade your Town Hall to Level 2.

Blacksmiths can build this building with a Town Hall Level 1, because they have a chance to loot Haephest's Satchel (Alliance) and Fractured Forge Hammer (Horde). This item drops from humanoid mobs around Draenor and starts a quest line that eventually rewards the plan to build the Forge, Garrison Blueprint: The Forge, Level 1, and Draenor Blacksmithing, which teaches basic Draenor recipes that can be used to level up the profession.

If you are a Blacksmith and the quest item does not drop for you, then you can buy your Draenor Blacksmithing for 100 from the Blacksmith at your Forge, after upgrading your Town Hall to Level 2.

Garrison Blueprint: The Forge, Level 2 is sold by the blueprint vendor at your Garrison once you reach level 96 or once you complete your Talador Outpost. You can buy it with 750 . You can also buy it from the blueprint vendor in Ashran without restrictions with an Outpost Building Assembly Notes, which can only be obtained twice, once when questing in Gorgrond and once when questing in the Spires of Arak. so the purpose of this Below, you will find the Alliance and Horde vendors.

Vendor	Faction	Location	Cost
Sparz Boltwist	Alliance	Garrison, next to Architect Table	750
Kinkade Jakobs	Alliance	Ashran, next to Flightmaster	1x Outpost Building Assembly Notes
Rezlak	Horde	Garrison, next to Architect Table	750
Torgg Flexington	Horde	Ashran, next to Flightmaster	1x Outpost Building Assembly Notes

Garrison Blueprint: The Forge, Level 3 is a reward from completing the Working More Orders achievement, which requires you to complete 250 Work Orders at your Garrison. This achievement is account-wide.

Once you complete the achievement, the blueprint is not directly handed over to you. You still need to buy it from Sparz Boltwist (Alliance) or Rezlak (Horde) for 1,000 .

Work Orders are unlocked with your Forge Level 1 and allow you to create Truesteel Ingots. A Work Order takes 4 hours to complete and transforms 5x True Iron Ore into 1x Truesteel Ingot (2x with a level 100 follower assigned to the Forge). This means that you can complete a maximum of 6 Work Orders per day for a total yield of 6 to 12 Truesteel Ingots.

When you first build the Forge on a character, the resident Blacksmith at the building gives you Your First Blacksmithing Work Order. To complete it, talk to the Blacksmith's Assistant and give the required 5x True Iron Ore. The small box outside the Forge should activate immediately and you can loot the Blacksmithing Work Order that you need to turn in to complete the quest. Doing so rewards you with 5x Truesteel Ingots.

After upgrading the Forge to Level 2, you can assign a follower with the Blacksmithing trait to work at the Forge. The higher the level of your follower, the higher the chance that the Work Order will generate 2 Truesteel Ingots instead of only 1. With a level 100 follower, you are guaranteed to get 2 Truesteel Ingots.

While working at the Forge, your follower receives experience for every Work Order completed.

You can queue up to a certain number of Work Orders, depending on your Forge's level (7 at Level 1, 14 at Level 2, 21 at Level 3).

Having a Storehouse Level 3 increases the maximum number of Work Orders by 15, which means a maximum of 22 Work Orders at Level 1, 29 at Level 2, and 36 at Level 3.

Being able to queue more Work Orders does not increase your yield, but it does allow you to let more time pass before you have to go back to the Forge to refill your queue of Work Orders.

Truesteel Ingot costs 20x True Iron Ore and 10x Blackrock Ore, and produces between 4 and 10 Truesteel Ingots, depending on your Blacksmithing skill. Below level 600, you only produce 4. Between level 600 and 700 the yield slowly increases to reach 10 at level 700.

Work Orders cost 5x True Iron Ore and produce between 1 and 2 Truesteel Ingots. With no follower or a level 90 follower, you produce only 1. The closer your follower is to 100, the higher the chance that the yield will be 2. With a follower level 100, you always produce 2.

As you can see, using Work Orders to craft Truesteel Ingots is less expensive than using the Blacksmithing recipe. So, if you are short on materials, you should prioritise Work Orders (unless, of course, you have reached Blacksmithing level 700 and have no follower, or a low-level follower, in your Forge). That said, the Mine in your Garrison should provide you with more than enough materials to allow you to use the Blacksmithing recipe every day and to keep your Work Orders queue full.

The Blacksmith at the Forge interacts with you in one of two ways, depending on whether or not you have the Blacksmithing profession.

Buying the Draenor Blacksmithing recipes from the Blacksmith in your Forge is the only way to obtain them. Each recipe costs a number of Secrets of Draenor Blacksmithing. You can make one of these items every day using the Secrets of Draenor Blacksmithing Blacksmithing recipe, which costs 5x True Iron Ore. The table below lists all of the recipes you can buy and the amount of Secrets of Draenor Blacksmithing it costs to buy them.

Recipe	Cost
Draenor Blacksmithing	100
Small Pouch of Coins	1x Secrets of Draenor Blacksmithing
Recipe: Soul of the Forge	1x Secret of Draenor Blacksmithing
Recipe: Steelforged Aegis	1x Secret of Draenor Blacksmithing
Recipe: Steelforged Axe	1x Secret of Draenor Blacksmithing
Recipe: Steelforged Dagger	1x Secret of Draenor Blacksmithing
Recipe: Steelforged Greataxe	1x Secret of Draenor Blacksmithing
Recipe: Steelforged Hammer	1x Secret of Draenor Blacksmithing
Recipe: Steelforged Saber	1x Secret of Draenor Blacksmithing
Recipe: Steelforged Shield	1x Secret of Draenor Blacksmithing
Recipe: Truesteel Armguards	1x Secret of Draenor Blacksmithing
Recipe: Truesteel Boots	1x Secret of Draenor Blacksmithing
Recipe: Truesteel Breastplate	1x Secret of Draenor Blacksmithing
Recipe: Truesteel Gauntlets	1x Secret of Draenor Blacksmithing
Recipe: Truesteel Greaves	1x Secret of Draenor Blacksmithing
Recipe: Truesteel Grinder	1x Secret of Draenor Blacksmithing
Recipe: Truesteel Helm	1x Secret of Draenor Blacksmithing
Recipe: Truesteel Pauldrons	1x Secret of Draenor Blacksmithing
Recipe: Truesteel Reshaper	1x Secret of Draenor Blacksmithing
Recipe: Truesteel Waistguard	1x Secret of Draenor Blacksmithing
Recipe: Steelforged Essence	5x Secret of Draenor Blacksmithing
Recipe: Greater Steelforged Essence	5x Secret of Draenor Blacksmithing
Recipe: Truesteel Essence	5x Secret of Draenor Blacksmithing
Recipe: Greater Truesteel Essence	5x Secret of Draenor Blacksmithing

Small Pouch of Coins is not a recipe, but an item that contains a bit of Gold (approximately 2 ). This is a way to spend your Secrets of Draenor Blacksmithing, once you have acquired all the recipes.

For Non-Blacksmiths, the Blacksmith in your Forge can craft most of the high-end Draenor Blacksmithing recipes, except for Soul of the Forge, Draenic Steel items, item upgrades, and Truesteel Ingot (which can be obtained only through Work Orders). Crafting an item through your Blacksmith costs exactly the same quantity of materials it does when a regular Blacksmith crafts it. Some of the recipes are locked until you reach a certain level with the Forge (see table below).

Recipe	Unlock Level
Smoldering Breastplate	Level 1
Smoldering Greaves	Level 1
Smoldering Helm	Level 1
Truesteel Grinder	Level 2
Truesteel Reshaper	Level 2
Steelforged Aegis	Level 2
Steelforged Axe	Level 2
Steelforged Dagger	Level 2
Steelforged Greataxe	Level 2
Steelforged Hammer	Level 2
Steelforged Saber	Level 2
Steelforged Shield	Level 2
Truesteel Armguards	Level 3
Truesteel Boots	Level 3
Truesteel Breastplate	Level 3
Truesteel Gauntlets	Level 3
Truesteel Greaves	Level 3
Truesteel Helm	Level 3
Truesteel Pauldrons	Level 3
Truesteel Waistguard	Level 3

In addition to increasing your yield of Truesteel Ingots, your follower grants you 2 buffs: Song of the Anvil and Solace of the Forge. To get these buffs, talk to your follower at the Forge. It should be noted that the buffs do not persist through death.

• 24 Feb. 2015: Mentioned that followers working at the Forge now gain experience for each completed Work Order.
• 14 Nov. 2014: Clarified requirements for Level 2.
• 13 Nov. 2014: Mentioned that unlocking Level 1 requires a Town Hall Level 2, except for Blacksmiths who can build a Forge Level 1 with a Town Hall Level 1. Also added Draenor Blacksmithing to the list of items sold by the Blacksmith at the Forge.

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