You Better Level Blacksmithing Fast
The Reinforced Cobalt Chestpiece is one of the staples of leveling the Blacksmithing profession from 375 to 420. As it currently stands, you only need four Cobalt Bars to make one of these and they sell pretty well on the Auction House. I say “as it currently stands” because in patch 3.0.8 they’re bumping the materials cost on this to eight Cobalt Bars and two Crystallized Waters. That’s way more than twice the previous cost.
If you’re trying to level your Blacksmithing and are in the 375 range I highly suggest you hustle over to Sholazar Basin and starting grinding for the Plans for this item before the next patch is released. It’s dropped by the Venture Company Excavators milling around the Suntouched Pillar that is slightly northeast of Nesingwary’s Base Camp.
It wasn’t too long ago that I took the challenge of leveling up Engineering from 0 to 375 in a few days. I swore that I would never, ever subject myself to such a miserable grind again…
Since the release of Wrath I’ve been thinking about dropping Engineering in favor of Mining. The only reason I went with Engineering oh-so-many months ago was for the 
