Everforged Stabber — Transmog Set Guide

Everforged Stabber is an epic one-hand dagger added to World of Warcraft with the release of The War Within expansion (patch 11.0.2). This is a crafted weapon: it doesn't drop from bosses and isn't bought from a vendor, but is forged by blacksmiths themselves using a Khaz Algar Blacksmithing recipe.

Visually, the blade keeps to the rugged smithing aesthetic of the Earthen of Khaz Algar: a broad blade with a deep fuller, a banded steel grip with a massive guard, and a large pommel. The silhouette is deliberately "sturdy" and heavy — it's a soldier's working weapon, not a ceremonial dagger. The model belongs to the "Everforged" series — a shared graphic set of five smithing recipes for the season, which also includes a sword, a war blade, a greataxe, and a paired dagger.

The dagger is among the most collected transmog models for players who use Agility: it's picked up by Rogues, Survival Hunters, Enhancement Shamans, and Druids in cat form. Its main strength is a recognizable powerful shape without an overload of magical effects, so the Everforged Stabber looks equally at home in plate, mail, and leather sets.

The Everforged Stabber is a crafted weapon. It's forged by a blacksmith who has learned the Khaz Algar Blacksmithing profession and the right specialization branch. You don't need to buy a separate schematic — the recipe is learned automatically when you invest knowledge points into the "Shortblades" sub-specialization.

Step 1. Learn Khaz Algar Blacksmithing

Any blacksmithing trainer in Dornogal — the Earthen capital on the Isle of Dorn — teaches The War Within expansion profession. After training, you gain access to the basic recipes and to the specialization wheel.

Specializations in The War Within professions unlock at skill 25. Below that threshold, blacksmithing skill is leveled on simple recipes — bars and basic blanks.

Step 2. Level up the "Shortblades" branch

The Everforged Stabber recipe is granted by the "Shortblades" sub-specialization. The path to it in the specialization window is built like this:

1. Open the blacksmithing window and switch to the specializations tab.
2. Invest knowledge points into the main "Armament" wheel — it's responsible for crafted weapons.
3. In "Armament", accumulate 10 points in the "Blades" node — this unlocks both branches: "Longblades" and "Shortblades".
4. Invest points into the "Shortblades" sub-node (it has 15 ranks in total). Even the first points are enough to learn the dagger recipe.

As soon as "Shortblades" opens, you receive the recipes for both daggers of the series — the Everforged Stabber and its paired Everforged Dagger. Knowledge points accumulate slowly: they're awarded for leveling the skill, completing orders from NPCs, rare knowledge caches, and weekly profession quests.

Crafting materials

The Everforged Stabber recipe requires the following set of reagents for a single copy of the dagger:

In addition to the mandatory reagents, the recipe accepts optional ones: a concentration stone locks in secondary stats (critical strike, haste, mastery, versatility), an embellishment grants a special combat effect, and a master crafter's mark raises the final item level. None of these are needed for transmog — the appearance will appear in the wardrobe with any set of optional reagents.

How to get the Spark of Omens

Spark of Omens is a special seasonal reagent without which the epic craft won't start. A whole spark can't be bought directly: it's assembled from two halves — Splintered Spark of Omens items.

One splintered spark is granted roughly once a week — it sits in the weekly reward chest and in rewards for max-level activities. When you have two splintered sparks in hand, you combine them in Dornogal, adding Valorstones. Since the Stabber needs only one whole spark, collecting it takes about two weeks.

If your character doesn't have leveled blacksmithing, the dagger can be obtained through the work order system — a player-blacksmith will forge the model for you, and you provide the materials.

1. Gather the reagents from the table above — yourself, through your guild, or at the auction house.
2. Walk up to a crafting orders board in a major city: in Dornogal, Stormwind, or Orgrimmar it's marked by an anvil icon.
3. Open the blacksmithing tab and find the Everforged Stabber in the list.
4. Create an order. A public order will be seen by any blacksmith on the server, a personal one — only by the player you choose, which is convenient when arranging with a guildmate.
5. Set a reward for the crafting blacksmith and confirm the order. It's usually fulfilled within anywhere from a few minutes to a day.

You'll still have to provide the Spark of Omens and the splintered sparks from your side — these are personal items, and you can't buy them secondhand. But you don't need to level the profession for the sake of one appearance.

The Everforged Stabber belongs to the shared "Everforged" graphic series — five crafted weapon models for the season with a single smithing style. All of them are forged using Khaz Algar Blacksmithing recipes.

The Stabber's paired dagger — the Everforged Dagger — is granted by the same "Shortblades" sub-specialization, so it's convenient to forge both blades in one go. If you're collecting the full set of the series, start with the "Shortblades" and "Longblades" branches: together they unlock four models out of five.

• It matches Khaz Algar plate sets in gray-steel tones — the dagger doesn't clash with The War Within aesthetic and supports the Earthen "smithing" theme.
• It looks good with dark mail sets of hunters and shamans: the rough steel of the blade echoes the color of the mail.
• It's appropriate in rogue leather sets kept in a cold palette — the neutral metal model doesn't argue with cloth and leather.
• It suits paired weapons of a single silhouette: the Stabber and the Everforged Dagger in the main and off hand give a whole, symmetrical look.
• It contrasts with bright glowing daggers — calm steel without effects works as a restrained, "realistic" choice.