MoP Classic item

Recipe: Transmute Iron to Gold

Item 9304 on MoP Classic (Mists of Pandaria progression realms), client 5.5.4.70631

Item Level 45
Requires Alchemy (225)
Turns a bar of Iron into a bar of Gold.
"Teaches you how to transmute Iron into Gold."
Sell Price: 20 silver

About Recipe: Transmute Iron to Gold

Recipe: Transmute Iron to Gold is a common Alchemy recipe on MoP Classic at item level 45. It teaches Gold Bar, made from 1 Iron Bar; learning it takes Alchemy skill 225. Other alchemy recipes listed on the MoP Classic Auction House include Recipe: Philosopher's Stone, Recipe: Transmute Mithril to Truesilver and Recipe: Wildvine Potion. The latest scan finds it on 4 MoP Classic realms (EU 2, US 2); the cheapest buyout is 29 gold99 silver on Garalon, Hoptallus, Mirage Raceway, Norushen, Shek'zeer (EU). A vendor pays 20 silver for it.

MoP Classic Auction House prices

Cheapest realm29 gold99 silverGaralon, Hoptallus, Mirage Raceway, Norushen, Shek'zeer (EU)

Typical market (EU)115 gold48 silver

Median min buyout65 gold41 silver

Realms with listings4EU 2, US 2

Latest snapshot2026-11-04 05:13 UTCBlizzard Last-Modified

Prices across MoP Classic realms

Realm	Min buyout	Market (median)	Qty	Listings	Snapshot
Garalon, Hoptallus, Mirage Raceway, Norushen, Shek'zeerEU · Active	29 gold99 silver	29 gold99 silver	5	5	2026-11-04 05:13 UTC
FlamegorEU · Russian	200 gold96 silver	200 gold96 silver	1	1	2026-11-04 05:13 UTC
MankrikUS · Legacy	56 gold59 silver	56 gold59 silver	1	1	2026-11-04 04:15 UTC
Galakras, Immerseus, Lei Shen, Nazgrim, Pagle, Ra-denUS · Active	74 gold24 silver	74 gold24 silver	4	4	2026-11-04 04:15 UTC

Downloads

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Crafting

Teaches

Gold Bar

Requires Alchemy (225)

Reagents

1x Iron Bar

Reagent cost on MoP Classic

Iron Bar has no current listing in our MoP Classic scans, so the reagent total is not known.
Gold Bar is item level 30.
Gold Bar is itself a reagent in Plans: Golden Iron Destroyer, Plans: Golden Scale Shoulders, Plans: Golden Scale Leggings, Plans: Golden Scale Cuirass, Plans: Golden Scale Boots, Plans: Golden Scale Coif.
Gold Bar has no current listing in our MoP Classic scans.
Iron Bar is also a reagent in 22 other MoP Classic recipe items: Design: Heavy Iron Knuckles, Design: Wicked Moonstone Ring, Plans: Barbaric Iron Boots, Plans: Barbaric Iron Breastplate, Plans: Barbaric Iron Gloves, Plans: Barbaric Iron Helm and 16 more.
Other Alchemy recipes near skill 225 in our MoP Classic item table, which holds 75 Alchemy recipe items: Recipe: Frost Oil (200), Recipe: Goblin Rocket Fuel (210), Recipe: Lesser Stoneshield Potion (215), Recipe: Philosopher's Stone (225), Recipe: Transmute Mithril to Truesilver (225), Recipe: Wildvine Potion (225), Recipe: Invisibility Potion (235), Recipe: Elixir of Dream Vision (240), Recipe: Gift of Arthas (240), Recipe: Elixir of Giants (245), Recipe: Ghost Dye (245), Recipe: Elixir of Demonslaying (250).

Reagent	Qty	Lowest listed	Median realm low	Realms
Iron Bar	1	-	-	-

Where Recipe: Transmute Iron to Gold Fits

Items That Share Recipe: Transmute Iron to Gold's Icon

Recipe: Transmute Iron to Gold uses the same icon art, which 117 other items also use. The 8 closest by item ID:

Recipe: Philosopher's Stone ID 9303 · Recipe · item level 45 · lowest 5g on 6 realms
Recipe: Transmute Mithril to Truesilver ID 9305 · Recipe · item level 45 · lowest 1g on 2 realms
Recipe: Elixir of Demonslaying ID 9300 · Recipe · item level 50 · lowest 55g on 3 realms
Pattern: Comfortable Leather Hat ID 8384 · Recipe · item level 40 · lowest 45,083g on 1 realm
Schematic: Mithril Mechanical Dragonling ID 10609 · Recipe · item level 50 · lowest 80g on 2 realms
Plans: Mithril Scale Shoulders ID 7991 · Recipe · item level 47 · lowest 811g on 1 realm
Pattern: Swift Boots ID 7453 · Recipe · item level 40 · lowest 5g on 3 realms
Pattern: Green Whelp Armor ID 7450 · Recipe · item level 35 · lowest 4g on 4 realms

Items Numbered Next to Recipe: Transmute Iron to Gold

Blizzard numbers items as they are created, so the named items next to ID 9304 (9298 to 9315) were usually added in the same batch as Recipe: Transmute Iron to Gold: the same quest line, zone, vendor or reward set.

Recipe: Elixir of Giants ID 9298 · Recipe · item level 49 · lowest 85s on 4 realms
Recipe: Elixir of Demonslaying ID 9300 · Recipe · item level 50 · lowest 55g on 3 realms
Recipe: Elixir of Shadow Power ID 9301 · Recipe · item level 50 · lowest 3g on 3 realms
Recipe: Ghost Dye ID 9302 · Recipe · item level 49 · lowest 499g on 2 realms
Recipe: Philosopher's Stone ID 9303 · Recipe · item level 45 · lowest 5g on 6 realms
Recipe: Transmute Mithril to Truesilver ID 9305 · Recipe · item level 45 · lowest 1g on 2 realms
Blue Firework ID 9312 · Consumable · item level 20
Green Firework ID 9313 · Consumable · item level 20
Red Streaks Firework ID 9314 · Consumable · item level 20
Yellow Rose Firework ID 9315 · Consumable · item level 20

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

Across game versions

Item 9304	Classic Era	MoP Classic	Retail (Midnight)
Item level	45	45	1
Effects	Use: Teaches you how to transmute Iron into Gold.	Turns a bar of Iron into a bar of Gold.	-
Sell price	20 silver	20 silver	20 silver

MoP Classic price history

First seen in a scan: 2026-10-05 06:00 UTC
Realms that have listed it: 7
Lowest buyout seen: 1 goldGalakras, Immerseus, Lei Shen, Nazgrim, Pagle, Ra-den (US), 2026-10-27 15:00 UTC
Highest realm minimum seen: 2,355 goldLakeshire (EU)
Realm-hours listed, last 30 days: 2,332

US median, latest 57gEU median, latest 30g
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
2026-11-04	9 gold	30 gold	3	56 gold59 silver	56 gold59 silver	2
2026-11-03	9 gold	30 gold	4	56 gold59 silver	56 gold59 silver	2
2026-11-02	9 gold	31 gold11 silver	2	56 gold59 silver	56 gold59 silver	2
2026-11-01	9 gold	41 gold11 silver	3	56 gold59 silver	116 gold42 silver	2
2026-10-31	9 gold99 silver	41 gold11 silver	3	117 gold60 silver	119 gold99 silver	2
2026-10-30	9 gold99 silver	65 gold99 silver	2	17 gold97 silver	119 gold99 silver	2
2026-10-29	9 gold99 silver	65 gold99 silver	2	119 gold99 silver	119 gold99 silver	2

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	9304
Game version	MoP Classic (client 5.5.4.70631)
Type	Recipe
Subtype	Alchemy
Item level	45
Max stack	1
Vendor sell	20 silver
Data source	Blizzard static API (wow_classic)