MoP Classic item

Recipe: Transmute Arcanite

Item 12958 on MoP Classic (Mists of Pandaria progression realms), client 5.5.4.70631

Item Level 55
Requires Alchemy (275)
Turns a bar of Thorium and an Arcane Crystal into Arcanite.
"Teaches you how to transmute Thorium and Arcane Crystals into Arcanite."
Sell Price: 1 gold25 silver

About Recipe: Transmute Arcanite

Recipe: Transmute Arcanite is a common Alchemy recipe on MoP Classic at item level 55. It teaches Arcanite Bar, made from 1 Thorium Bar and 1 Arcane Crystal; learning it takes Alchemy skill 275. Other alchemy recipes listed on the MoP Classic Auction House include Recipe: Transmute Undeath to Water, Recipe: Transmute Water to Undeath and Recipe: Transmute Earth to Life. The latest scan finds it on 4 MoP Classic realms (EU 2, US 2); the cheapest buyout is 9 gold on Lakeshire (EU). A vendor pays 1 gold25 silver for it.

MoP Classic Auction House prices

Cheapest realm9 goldLakeshire (EU)

Typical market (EU)10 gold5 silver

Median min buyout43 gold11 silver

Realms with listings4EU 2, US 2

Latest snapshot2026-11-03 11:08 UTCBlizzard Last-Modified

Prices across MoP Classic realms

Realm	Min buyout	Market (median)	Qty	Listings	Snapshot
LakeshireEU · Legacy	9 gold	9 gold	1	1	2026-11-03 11:08 UTC
Garalon, Hoptallus, Mirage Raceway, Norushen, Shek'zeerEU · Active	11 gold11 silver	11 gold11 silver	8	8	2026-11-03 10:08 UTC
Galakras, Immerseus, Lei Shen, Nazgrim, Pagle, Ra-denUS · Active	75 gold11 silver	90 gold1 silver	9	9	2026-11-03 10:29 UTC
MankrikUS · Legacy	248 gold	248 gold	2	2	2026-11-03 10:29 UTC

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Crafting

Teaches

Arcanite Bar

Requires Alchemy (275)

Reagents

1x Thorium Bar
1x Arcane Crystal

Reagent cost on MoP Classic

Thorium Bar and Arcane Crystal have no current listing in our MoP Classic scans, so the reagent total is not known.
Arcanite Bar is item level 55.
Arcanite Bar is itself a reagent in Plans: Dawnbringer Shoulders, Plans: Runic Plate Shoulders, Plans: Runic Plate Boots, Plans: Runic Plate Helm, Plans: Lionheart Helm, Plans: Runic Plate Leggings.
Arcanite Bar has no current listing in our MoP Classic scans.
Thorium Bar is also a reagent in 40 other MoP Classic recipe items: Design: Emerald Crown of Destruction, Design: Emerald Owl, Plans: Annihilator, Plans: Corruption, Plans: Darkrune Breastplate, Plans: Darkrune Gauntlets and 34 more.
Arcane Crystal is also a reagent in 1 other MoP Classic recipe item: Design: Ring of Bitter Shadows.
Other Alchemy recipes near skill 275 in our MoP Classic item table, which holds 75 Alchemy recipe items: Recipe: Superior Mana Potion (260), Recipe: Elixir of Superior Defense (265), Recipe: Elixir of the Sages (270), Recipe: Elixir of Brute Force (275), Recipe: Major Healing Potion (275), Recipe: Transmute Earth to Life (275), Recipe: Transmute Life to Earth (275), Recipe: Transmute Undeath to Water (275), Recipe: Transmute Water to Undeath (275), Recipe: Elixir of the Mongoose (280), Recipe: Greater Stoneshield Potion (280), Recipe: Purification Potion (285).

Reagent	Qty	Lowest listed	Median realm low	Realms
Thorium Bar	1	-	-	-
Arcane Crystal	1	-	-	-

Where Recipe: Transmute Arcanite Fits

Items That Share Recipe: Transmute Arcanite's Icon

Recipe: Transmute Arcanite uses the same icon art, which 247 other items also use. The 8 closest by item ID:

Plans: Heartseeker ID 12839 · Recipe · item level 63 · lowest 13g on 2 realms
Plans: Arcanite Reaper ID 12838 · Recipe · item level 63
Plans: Masterwork Stormhammer ID 12837 · Recipe · item level 63 · lowest 199g on 1 realm
Plans: Frostguard ID 12836 · Recipe · item level 63 · lowest 99g on 4 realms
Plans: Annihilator ID 12835 · Recipe · item level 63 · lowest 699g on 1 realm
Plans: Arcanite Champion ID 12834 · Recipe · item level 63 · lowest 1,950g on 2 realms
Plans: Hammer of the Titans ID 12833 · Recipe · item level 63 · lowest 5g on 3 realms
Plans: Corruption ID 12830 · Recipe · item level 58 · lowest 50,000g on 1 realm

Items Numbered Next to Recipe: Transmute Arcanite

Blizzard numbers items as they are created, so the named items next to ID 12958 (12974 to 12978) were usually added in the same batch as Recipe: Transmute Arcanite: the same quest line, zone, vendor or reward set.

The Black Knight ID 12974 · Weapon - One-Handed Sword · item level 31 · lowest 49g on 2 realms
Prospector Axe ID 12975 · Weapon - Two-Handed Axe · item level 20 · lowest 455g on 4 realms
Ironpatch Blade ID 12976 · Weapon - One-Handed Sword · item level 20 · lowest 900g on 3 realms
Magefist Gloves ID 12977 · Armor - Cloth · item level 20 · lowest 9,500g on 2 realms
Stormbringer Belt ID 12978 · Armor - Mail · item level 20 · lowest 700g on 2 realms

Built from Blizzard's Game Data API item documents for this game version and recorded Auction House snapshots.

Across game versions

Item 12958	Classic Era	MoP Classic	Retail (Midnight)
Item level	55	55	1
Effects	Use: Teaches you how to transmute Thorium and Arcane Crystals into Arcanite.	Turns a bar of Thorium and an Arcane Crystal into Arcanite.	-
Sell price	1 gold25 silver	1 gold25 silver	1 gold25 silver

MoP Classic price history

First seen in a scan: 2026-10-04 12:00 UTC
Realms that have listed it: 9
Lowest buyout seen: 1 gold49 silverGaralon, Hoptallus, Mirage Raceway, Norushen, Shek'zeer (EU), 2026-10-15 22:00 UTC
Highest realm minimum seen: 450 goldFlamegor (EU)
Realm-hours listed, last 30 days: 2,845

US median, latest 89gEU median, latest 11g
Each line is one region's daily median of the cheapest buyout on every realm that listed it, from our hourly scans.

Last 7 days

Day (UTC)	EU low	EU median	EU realms	US low	US median	US realms
2026-11-03	9 gold	11 gold11 silver	2	75 gold11 silver	89 gold11 silver	2
2026-11-02	9 gold	11 gold11 silver	2	7 gold20 silver	89 gold11 silver	3
2026-11-01	9 gold	21 gold11 silver	3	7 gold20 silver	15 gold85 silver	3
2026-10-31	21 gold11 silver	21 gold11 silver	2	7 gold20 silver	150 gold74 silver	3
2026-10-30	22 gold	49 gold99 silver	2	4 gold75 silver	150 gold74 silver	2
2026-10-29	2 gold	50 gold	2	4 gold75 silver	5 gold75 silver	2
2026-10-28	2 gold	2 gold	2	5 gold	5 gold75 silver	3

Comments

Connected realms with a listing in the latest MoP Classic scan: EU 2 of 25, KR 0 of 5, TW 0 of 8, US 2 of 23.

Item data: Blizzard's MoP Classic Game Data API (static data 5.5.4.67732). Prices: per-unit buyouts from one Blizzard Auction House snapshot per connected realm per hour; market is the quantity-weighted median of a realm's listings. Retail column: the retail client datamine.

Quick facts

Item ID	12958
Game version	MoP Classic (client 5.5.4.70631)
Type	Recipe
Subtype	Alchemy
Item level	55
Max stack	1
Vendor sell	1 gold25 silver
Data source	Blizzard static API (wow_classic)