Blacksmith

Haedrig Eamon is an Artisan Blacksmith in Diablo 3. He is encountered in New Tristram, then joins the Caravan and serves as the game's Blacksmith, making weapons, armor and anything that is required for the hero during his or her travels throughout Sanctuary. He also salvages items into Materials that he can then use to fashion the items for you.

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Salvaging

The blacksmith's salvage interface.

Salvaging is breaking down equipment into materials. All magic, rare, set, and legendary items can be salvaged, but not superior, normal, or inferior items. Every item is associated with one of the four difficulty levels, based on its item level, and yields materials based on that and its rarity.

The Blacksmith does this for free and he requires no training to do so.

• A list of all materials can be seen on the Materials article.

Training

The Blacksmith can be trained up through 10 levels of proficiency. As he increases in skill he gains new titles and access to higher level plans to craft better itmes for your character.

Their appearance improves as well, with their wagons growing more elaborately-decorated, and more cool stuff appearing in their displays.

Training the Blacksmith is not free; each level requires progressively more materials and gold.

Blacksmith Training Cost in Pages, Tomes of Blacksmithing/Secrets & Gold

Level[e]	Gold to train to that level	# of Pages of B'Smith	# of Tomes of B'Smith	# of Tomes of Secrets
1. Apprentice	0	0	0	0
2. Journeyman	5k	0	0	0
3. Adept	6k	0	0	0
4. Master	10k	0	0	0
5. Grand Master	12k	2	0	0
6. Illustrious	20k	6	0	0
7. Magnificent	22k	4	2	0
8. Resplendent	30k	0	6	0
9. Glorious	28k	0	4	2
10. Exalted	40k	0	0	9

• Check the Training article for more details.

Crafting

The Blacksmith is able to craft weapons and armour as long as you have the correct materials and enough gold. He needs to be trained to learn new recipes and the higher level he is the better equipment he can create.

• The the Crafting article for more details.

Lore/Backstory

Haedrig's quest.

Haedrig was a young husband and father in New Tristram, when the fiery Meteor crashed down through the Monastery. In the chaos and demonic uprising that followed, his wife and child were slain, then returned to half-life as hideous zombies. Brokenhearted over their undead fate, Haedrig beseeches the hero to find them and destroy them, putting their souls to rest.

Once the deed is done, Haedrig agrees to use his blacksmithing skills to assist your hero in the battle against evil. Like the other important NPCs, Haedrig travels with the caravan throughout the entire game, and is present in town in each act.

Features

The Blacksmith's interface, Training.

Haedrig handles all salvaging, and also crafting. He makes numerous types of armor and weapons, and learns new recipes as he levels up, as well as from crafting plans found by players. He does not buy or sell items.

• Training

Haedrig formerly handled socketing but that talent was given to the Jeweler. He also lost his repair monopoly, and now various NPC merchants provide that, along with selling and buying weapons and armor.

Appearance and Upgrades

Haedrig's wagon and general shop appearance will change, growing more shiny and impressive, as he is leveled up. Each of the Artisans in Diablo III has 10 levels to upgrade through.

This happens for all of the Artisans, but Haedrig's are the best documented as he's been trainable up to level 5 during the beta test, and other higher level wagon images have been released by Blizzard.

Comparisons of the smithy at the first, second, and highest level of upgrades. (At the time of this image, there were only 5 Artisan levels. There are now 10, so the looks of each level now differ slightly.)

A video of his upgrade animation:

References

• Artisan Presentation Video
• Interview with Jay Wilson

Gallery

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  Four levels of the 10 potential upgrades.

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  Haedrig's Wagon in-game.

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  Wagon upgrade concept art.

During development, many of his talents were redistributed.

• Haedrig initially socketed items. This is now handled by the jeweler, who also removes gems from sockets.
• Haedrig initially made all repairs. These are now available from several NPC merchants in town.
• Haedrig was formerly the source of the Nephalem Cube (used to Salvage items) as a quest reward. That object was removed from the game in the big interface revisions of Beta Patch 10.