So I'm not sure if anyone put this up yet, but when I talk to the crafting smith in lakeview for new recipes the game will glitch and softlock with a note reading the equivalent of failed to load character image. I also noticed that the quest sound would play but no banner would display so it may be related to that.
At first I thought it was the memory error which causes some interactions to glitch like that but it turns out that the blacksmith is completly broken. I've tried all the fixes I could think off (in-game and with the files), so I think we can add the blacksmith to the "Shits that don't work at all" list