How to Smelt Bronze Bars in WoW Classic

In WoW Classic Era, one Copper Bar and one Tin Bar make two Bronze Bars. Learn Smelt Bronze from a Mining trainer at Mining 65, bring the bars to a forge, and use the recipe in your smelting window. The recipe uses bars rather than raw ore, so process any ore you gathered before counting how much bronze you can make.

Get the recipe and the materials

1. Raise Mining to 65 and visit a Mining trainer. Learn Smelt Bronze. Check that you have also learned Smelt Tin if your material is still in ore form.
2. Get a Copper Bar and a Tin Bar for each craft. Use bars you already have, buy them, or smelt the appropriate ore.
3. Stand near a forge and open the Smelting ability. Select Smelt Bronze in the recipe list.
4. Check the material count and start with one craft. Look in your bags for the two Bronze Bars before starting a larger batch.

You don't need Blacksmithing or Engineering to smelt the bars. Those are separate professions that can use bronze in recipes. If you're supplying another player, confirm whether they asked for a number of bars or for enough material to make a specific item. It is easy to spend too much when someone says they need a stack but really only needs enough for one recipe.

Decide how many crafts to queue

Count pairs of Copper and Tin Bars. If you have eight Copper Bars and five Tin Bars, you can do five crafts and get ten Bronze Bars, with three Copper Bars left over. If you need an odd number, round the craft count up. To make at least seven Bronze Bars, queue four crafts; you'll end up with eight. That extra bar can stay in your bags for the next recipe.

Don't convert everything by default. If your next profession recipe also needs Copper Bars on their own, set those aside before starting a bronze batch. This is especially useful when you are leveling more than one profession and both are drawing from the same supply of metal.

If you are buying materials, compare the price of two finished Bronze Bars with the combined price of a Copper Bar and a Tin Bar. If buying ore instead, include the time it takes to smelt both metals and confirm the quantities before buying. Crafting can make sense when you want Mining skill or already have the materials, even when the price difference is small.

Smelt for skill without overbuying

Smelt Bronze can help advance Mining after you learn it, but the recipe becomes less useful for skill gains as your skill rises. Watch the recipe color and look for a skill gain after a craft instead of assuming that every pair of bars grants a point. If your goal is a specific skill threshold, start with a small batch, check your current skill, and decide whether to keep smelting or go back to gathering.

Check your Mining cap, too. If your profession is already at its current cap, another craft won't push it above the limit. Visit a trainer to see whether you can learn the next profession rank. If all you need is the metal, a lack of skill gains isn't a problem as long as the recipe is still producing the bars.

Fix a missing recipe or a forge error

If Smelt Bronze isn't in the list, confirm that you're using Smelting and that you bought the recipe from a Mining trainer. Recheck your skill and any recipe filters. If the recipe appears but the craft button isn't available, hover the requirements and check for bars in your bags. Copper Ore or Tin Ore in the bag doesn't count as a finished bar.

If the message says a forge is required, move closer to the forge before trying again. Standing next to a trainer or a vendor doesn't necessarily put you within range of one. Try a single craft after moving so you know that the position works before queuing several.

If you made fewer bars than expected, compare the starting counts for both metals. The smaller pile determines the number of crafts. Finally, remember that the recipe applies to Classic Era. Check your own profession window rather than relying on a recipe from a later expansion if you are playing on a different Classic ruleset.