Plans: Foundations of Courage

What One Craft Returns: Foundations of Courage

Plans: Foundations of Courage teaches the Cataclysm Blacksmithing recipe Foundations of Courage, which makes Foundations of Courage. At the lowest US listings, the reagents for one craft cost 6,001g 32s, and Truegold is the largest share at 73%. Foundations of Courage lists from 21,874g 57s each, so one craft sold at that price returns 14,779g 52s after the 5% auction cut, a 246% margin over its reagents. At that return, the lowest listing for Plans: Foundations of Courage itself (100g, the lowest of 51 realms listing it) is paid back after 1 craft.

Reagent	Needed	Lowest listed	Cost
Truegold	8	547 gold	4,376 gold
Hardened Elementium Bar	10	161 gold98 silver	1,619 gold80 silver
Chaos Orb	4	98 silver	3 gold92 silver
Essence of Destruction	8	20 silver	1 gold60 silver
Reagents for one craft			6,001 gold32 silver
Foundations of Courage at its lowest listing			21,874 gold57 silver
Return after the 5% auction cut			14,779 gold52 silver

What Else the Reagents Make

• Truegold goes into 40 other recipes across Blacksmithing, Engineering, Alchemy and Jewelcrafting, including Brainsplinter, Elementium-Edged Scalper, Lightforged Elementium Hammer and Vial of the Sands. It is itself made by the recipe Transmute: Truegold.
• Hardened Elementium Bar goes into 46 other recipes across Blacksmithing, Engineering and Enchanting, including Emberforged Elementium Boots, Eternal Elementium Handguards, Fists of Fury and Holy Flame Gauntlets. It is itself made by the recipe Smelt Hardened Elementium.
• Chaos Orb goes into 75 other recipes across Blacksmithing, Leatherworking, Engineering, Tailoring and Jewelcrafting, including Brainsplinter, Elementium-Edged Scalper, Lightforged Elementium Hammer and Masterwork Elementium Deathblade.
• Essence of Destruction goes into 17 other recipes across Leatherworking, Blacksmithing and Tailoring, including Pyrium Legplates of Purified Evil, Bladeshadow Leggings, Deathscale Leggings and Lavaquake Legwraps.