Learning Smelt Azerothium
Smelt Azerothium is one of two smelting recipes WoW: Forever adds; the other is Smelt Heavy Thorium at Mining 300. Zockify's Mining guide says Mining trainers teach the new smelts once you meet the skill requirement, which for Azerothium is 275, and it lists no other source.
| Recipe | Mining skill | Reagents | Taught by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smelt Azerothium | 275 | 2 Pitchblende, 1 Coal | Mining trainers |
| Smelt Heavy Thorium | 300 | Heavy Thorium Ore | Mining trainers |
Finding Pitchblende
Pitchblende is the part to watch, because it isn't one of Classic's ores. Zockify's Mining guide names it as one of three Mining Scarce materials in current beta data, alongside Pyrite and Bauxite, and says Scarce materials turn up as extra drops while you mine ore veins. The Legacy perk Bountiful Harvest increases how many Scarce materials you find. The guide doesn't say which veins give Pitchblende or how often, so keep every piece you get while your skill climbs toward 275.
What Azerothium is for
Zockify lists Azerothium Bar in new Blacksmithing, Enchanting and Engineering recipes. The one named in the data read for this guide is Enchant 2H Weapon – Mighty Healing Power, an Enchanting 300 formula sold for 240 Merchant's Favor. It takes 4 Azerothium Bars alongside 4 Fel Crystal, 6 Greater Eternal Essence, 4 Stranglevine, 4 Nexus Crystal and 4 Torbernite, and Blizzard Watch's beta list puts its effect at up to +100 healing and +34 damage.
That single enchant is a big ask. If each smelt makes one bar, it needs 8 Pitchblende and 4 Coal before you touch the other five reagents. The Blacksmithing and Engineering recipes that use the bar aren't named in the sources read here.
Smelt now, or hold the ore?
If you mine but don't use the bar yourself, there's no rush to smelt. Keep the Pitchblende, and decide once the Blacksmithing and Engineering recipes are public.
If you are an enchanter planning Mighty Healing Power for a healer, line up a miner at 275 early. The bars are only one of six reagents, and Fel Crystal also goes into the Legionite Bar transmute, so both recipes draw on the same reagent.
Still to come
Not yet settled by our sources or tested in game:
- How many bars each smelt produces.
- The Blacksmithing and Engineering recipes that use Azerothium Bar, and how many each takes.
- Which ore veins yield Pitchblende, and how often it drops.
- Where Fel Crystal and Torbernite, two of Mighty Healing Power's other reagents, come from.
Sources
Beta notes are dated because Forever is still changing.
- Zockify: WoW Forever Mining guide, read 13 October 2026Community guide from current beta data: Smelt Azerothium at Mining 275 and Smelt Heavy Thorium at 300, both taught by Mining trainers; Azerothium Bar smelted from 2 Pitchblende and 1 Coal and used in new Blacksmithing, Enchanting and Engineering recipes; Pyrite, Bauxite and Pitchblende as the three Mining Scarce materials, found as extra drops while mining ore veins; the Bountiful Harvest perk; and Fel Crystal in the Legionite Bar transmute.
- Zockify: Enchanting recipe database from beta client data, read 13 October 2026Lists Enchant 2H Weapon – Mighty Healing Power at Enchanting 300 with 4 Azerothium Bar among its reagents, sold for 240 Merchant's Favor.
- Blizzard Watch: Every new enchant in WoW Forever, 21 September 2026Beta enchant list giving Mighty Healing Power's effect as up to +100 healing and +34 damage, with a warning that enchants can change before launch.