Blacksmith

The Blacksmith is an NPC entirely focused on item customisation and improvement. From breaking down old gear for crafting materials and Legendary Aspects to repairing items, adding affixes and upgrading existing affixes to boost your item's powers. They are probably the busiest NPC in town.

Repair Loss of Durability

Repairing

Items have a durability maximum of 100 but this is reduced by 10% every time you die and resurrect yourself. If someone else ressurects you items don't lose durability.

If an item reaches zero durability all the benefits the item provides will stop. You can still use the item in the case of weapons but any stats it has are ignored. Visit the Blacksmith to repair it. They can repair individual items or everything you have equipped in exchange for Gold. Jewelry never needs repairing.

Salvaging

Items no longer required can be salvaged for free by the Blacksmith and broken down into useful crafting materials which are stored virtually in the 'Stats & Materials' tab of your Character Profile. All gear types and tiers can be salvaged at the Blacksmith.

The better the item grade, the better the salvaged materials.

Potion	Req Lvl	Description	Cost
Abstruse Sigil	Legendary	Abstruse Sigils are used by the Blacksmith to improve Legendary Jewlery at the Blacksmith and Jeweler. Fragments from storied relics and talismans with truly unusual properties.	Salvaging Legendary, Unique and Mythic Jewelry at the Blacksmith. Cache rewards from the Tree of Whispers.	x 10 100 Veiled Crystals 50,000 Gold
Baleful Fragment	Legendary	Baleful Fragments are used by the Blacksmith to improve Legendary Jewlery at the Blacksmith and Jeweler. Shards from storied weapons with truly unusual properties	Salvaging Legendary, Unique and Mythic Jewelry at the Blacksmith. Cache rewards from the Tree of Whispers.	x 10 100 Veiled Crystals 50,000 Gold
Coiling Ward	Legendary	Coiling Wards are used to improve Legendary Armor at the Blacksmith and Jeweler. "Fragments from storied armor with truly unusual properties".	Salvaging Legendary, Unique and Mythic Armor at the Blacksmith. Cache rewards from the Tree of Whispers.	x 10 100 Veiled Crystals 50,000 Gold
Forgotten Soul	Legendary	Forgotten Souls are used by the Blacksmith and Occultist to improve Ancestral Legendary items. Is it a stone, an organ, or something else? Indescribably, it is all of those things.	Salvaging Ancestral Legendary items at the Blacksmith. Legion Events Tortured Gift Chests in Helltides Infernal Hordes Undercity in Kurast Cache rewards from the Tree of Whispers	x 10 100 Veiled Crystals 500,000 Gold
Resplendent Spark	Unique	Salvaged from Uber Unique items at the Blacksmith, and used to craft other Uber Unique items at the Alchemist	Uber Uniques
Veiled Crystal	Rare	Veiled Crystals are used by the Alchemist to craft Incense and refine materials, at the Blacksmith to upgrade gear, at the Occultist to Enchant and the Jeweler to add sockets to items.	Salvaging Rare, Legendary and Unique equipment at the Blacksmith. Cache rewards from the Tree of Whispers Legion Events Infernal Hordes Elite Monsters	x 10 11 Rawhide 100 Iron Chunk 25,000 Gold

Note: Nightmare Sigils can also be salvaged but at the Occultist.

What to upgrade

As with previous games, it's only worth upgrading Rare, Legendary or Unique items.

Blacksmith

Upgrade Materials

• Iron Chunk Tier 1 - Weapon, Jewelry
• Rawhide Tier 1 - Armor
• Silver Ore Tier 2 - Weapon, Jewelry
• Superior Leather Tier 2 - Armor
• Veiled Crystal Tier 3 - Weapon, Armor, Jewelry
• Baleful Fragment Tier 4 - Weapon
• Coiling Ward Tier 4 - Armor
• Abstruse Sigil Tier 4 - Jewelry
• Forgotten Soul Tier 5 - Weapon, Armor, Jewelry (Sacred, Ancestral)

Transmogs

Salvaging items is required to unlock their appearance for transmogs for the Wardrobe.

Marking Items

Players can mark items as "Junk" which makes it easier to salvage the useless items quickly at the Blacksmith.