So you want level 375 blacksmithing and stormherald. Well I did all the math and this is what you should do....
NOTE---- THIS IS ALL NER'ZHUL AH PRICES SO PRICES WILL VARY
Plan 1: 360-375 Blacksmithing.
- Farm Crypts for Plans: Felsteel Gloves ( you can solo this as a 70 if you're good dps since you only need the monks in the instance ).
- After these drop ( probably will take a while ) you should start buying / farming eternium and fel iron. I suggest buying it so heres the math for that, on my server its 2 gold per eternium bar and 4 gold per fel iron bar ( usually is cheaper to buy felsteel bar mats than the bars themselves ) so if thats the case with your server too it will cost 16 gold a bar which is 96 gold a helmet or 96 gold a level. Now once you hit level 370 blacksmithing I believe it goes green / yellow so if you want to play it safe farm for one of the other felsteel plans and that will cost you 128 gold per leggings or helmet you make. NOTE: You can get them DE'd for a Large Prismatic Shard which I believe drops 100% so they go for about 23g on my server so we can subtract 345gold from our ending price if you can sell the shards. If not the vendor price for the leggings is 6 gold, the gloves are 3 gold, and the helmet is 4.5 gold. And they probably won;t sell on the auction house because on my server there are a ton of them.
- All in all it'll cost roughly 1400 gold ( with selling the shards ) to get from lvl360-375 blacksmithing if you buy felsteel mats and not the bars.
Plan 2: Stormherald
The mats for the whole entire set is...
20 Primal Airs--33g each.
20 Primal Water--27g each.
6 Hardened Adamantite Bars--30g each.
12 Khorium Bars--2g each.
8 Primal Nethers--40g/10 badges of justice/free with heroics each.
10 Primal Manas--17g each.
5 Nether Vortexs--150g/15 badges of justice/free with 25man raids each.
- My plan for tackling those mats are farm the primals if you have time or buy them. I personally bought them because I find farming boring and repetitve. For the bars hopefully you have enough for those from your mining skill if you have the mining skill if not you basically have to AH it. The nethers I suggest you run heroics and just make sure that you get dibs on it by letting the group aware that you're only in it for that. And last but not least the vortexs, your best bet here since most people who are aiming for this dont run 25 mans is to badge or justice these if you're good enough for a kara/heroic group but in case you aren't you're stuck with the AH prices.
- All in all if you buy the primals, and are able to farm/buy everything else with a badge of justice which is probably the most effecient plan it'll cost you around 1,200g according to Ner'Zhul AH.
-Overall
Overall if you buy all the felsteel mats,primals only it'll still cost you a wopping 2,600gold to get from lvl360-375 Blacksmithing and make the epic Stormherald.
GOODLUCK!
NOTE---- THIS IS ALL NER'ZHUL AH PRICES SO PRICES WILL VARY
Plan 1: 360-375 Blacksmithing.
- Farm Crypts for Plans: Felsteel Gloves ( you can solo this as a 70 if you're good dps since you only need the monks in the instance ).
- After these drop ( probably will take a while ) you should start buying / farming eternium and fel iron. I suggest buying it so heres the math for that, on my server its 2 gold per eternium bar and 4 gold per fel iron bar ( usually is cheaper to buy felsteel bar mats than the bars themselves ) so if thats the case with your server too it will cost 16 gold a bar which is 96 gold a helmet or 96 gold a level. Now once you hit level 370 blacksmithing I believe it goes green / yellow so if you want to play it safe farm for one of the other felsteel plans and that will cost you 128 gold per leggings or helmet you make. NOTE: You can get them DE'd for a Large Prismatic Shard which I believe drops 100% so they go for about 23g on my server so we can subtract 345gold from our ending price if you can sell the shards. If not the vendor price for the leggings is 6 gold, the gloves are 3 gold, and the helmet is 4.5 gold. And they probably won;t sell on the auction house because on my server there are a ton of them.
- All in all it'll cost roughly 1400 gold ( with selling the shards ) to get from lvl360-375 blacksmithing if you buy felsteel mats and not the bars.
Plan 2: Stormherald
The mats for the whole entire set is...
20 Primal Airs--33g each.
20 Primal Water--27g each.
6 Hardened Adamantite Bars--30g each.
12 Khorium Bars--2g each.
8 Primal Nethers--40g/10 badges of justice/free with heroics each.
10 Primal Manas--17g each.
5 Nether Vortexs--150g/15 badges of justice/free with 25man raids each.
- My plan for tackling those mats are farm the primals if you have time or buy them. I personally bought them because I find farming boring and repetitve. For the bars hopefully you have enough for those from your mining skill if you have the mining skill if not you basically have to AH it. The nethers I suggest you run heroics and just make sure that you get dibs on it by letting the group aware that you're only in it for that. And last but not least the vortexs, your best bet here since most people who are aiming for this dont run 25 mans is to badge or justice these if you're good enough for a kara/heroic group but in case you aren't you're stuck with the AH prices.
- All in all if you buy the primals, and are able to farm/buy everything else with a badge of justice which is probably the most effecient plan it'll cost you around 1,200g according to Ner'Zhul AH.
-Overall
Overall if you buy all the felsteel mats,primals only it'll still cost you a wopping 2,600gold to get from lvl360-375 Blacksmithing and make the epic Stormherald.
GOODLUCK!