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Plans: Golden Scale Cuirass
Item Level 1Recipe
Use: Learning
Effect: Golden Scale Cuirass
“Teaches you how to make a Golden Scale Cuirass.”
Sell price: 11 silver
Current price
499 gold92 silver
- Cheapest realm right now is 95% under the 59-realm average.live market
- Today's price is cheaper than 81% of recorded snapshots.live market
Plans: Golden Scale Cuirass Price History on Emerald Dream
Emerald Dream Auction HouseSupply & Availability
Emerald Dream Auction House5Units listed
5Sellers
499 gold92 silverCheapest now
Thin supply
On Plans: Golden Scale Cuirass's most active realm, the lowest Auction House listing has typically been around 1,365 gold1 silver across its tracked history (Sep 2022 to Jun 2026), ranging from 254 gold87 silver to 70,968 gold9 silver. About 5 were available in the latest snapshot.
The current lowest price is 63% below typical, against a All-Time typical of 1,365 gold1 silver.
Plans: Golden Scale Cuirass Effects
- Use: Learning
- Effect: Golden Scale Cuirass
Spell effects bound to this item, from first-party game data.
Teaches
Creates 
Golden Scale Cuirass Uncommon Mail Chest, item level 22
Using Plans: Golden Scale Cuirass teaches this recipe. The Classic Blacksmithing recipe Golden Scale Cuirass takes 12 Steel Bar, 2 Gold Bar and 4 Heavy Grinding Stone.
Requirements & Properties
- Requires
- Classic Blacksmithing (195)
Read from the World of Warcraft client build files.
What One Craft Returns: Golden Scale Cuirass
Plans: Golden Scale Cuirass teaches the Classic Blacksmithing recipe Golden Scale Cuirass, which makes Golden Scale Cuirass. At the lowest US listings, the reagents for one craft cost 82g 26s, and Steel Bar is the largest share at 74%. Golden Scale Cuirass lists from 360g 29s each, so one craft sold at that price returns 260g 1s after the 5% auction cut, a 316% margin over its reagents. At that return, the lowest listing for Plans: Golden Scale Cuirass itself (99g, the lowest of 63 realms listing it) is paid back after 1 craft. It turns yellow at Classic Blacksmithing skill 220 and grey at 245.
| Reagent | Needed | Lowest listed | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
 Steel Bar | 12 | 5 gold9 silver | 61 gold8 silver |
 Gold Bar | 2 | 8 gold75 silver | 17 gold50 silver |
 Heavy Grinding Stone | 4 | 92 silver | 3 gold68 silver |
| Reagents for one craft | 82 gold26 silver | ||
| Golden Scale Cuirass at its lowest listing | 360 gold29 silver | ||
| Return after the 5% auction cut | 260 gold1 silver | ||
What Else the Reagents Make
- Steel Bar goes into 16 other recipes across Blacksmithing and Engineering, including Steel Breastplate, Steel Plate Helm, Frost Tiger Blade and Edge of Winter. It is itself made by the recipe Smelt Steel.
- Gold Bar goes into 33 other recipes across Blacksmithing, Jewelcrafting, Tailoring, Inscription, Cooking and Engineering, including Blade of Unholy Might, Widow's Weep, Stygian Shield and Soulscryer. It is itself made by the recipes Smelt Gold and Transmute: Iron to Gold.
- Heavy Grinding Stone goes into 23 other recipes in Blacksmithing, including Barbaric Iron Breastplate, Golden Scale Boots, Golden Scale Gauntlets and Green Iron Hauberk. It is itself made by the recipe Heavy Grinding Stone.
Prices are the lowest listed prices in the latest US Auction House snapshot, not sales. Recipes, reagents, yields and skill levels come from the World of Warcraft client build files.
Similar Items
The 10 recipes nearest to Plans: Golden Scale Cuirass in required skill among Recipe > Blacksmithing, all from Classic like Plans: Golden Scale Cuirass.
| Item | Creates | Required Skill | Lowest Listed Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plans: Golden Scale Cuirass (this item) | Golden Scale Cuirass | 195 | 99 gold on 63 realms |
| Plans: Frost Tiger Blade |  Frost Tiger Blade | 200 | 89 gold on 72 realms |
| Plans: Shadow Crescent Axe |  Shadow Crescent Axe | 200 | 100 gold on 66 realms |
| Plans: Edge of Winter |  Edge of Winter | 190 | 15 silver on 75 realms |
 Plans: Inlaid Mithril Cylinder |  Inlaid Mithril Cylinder | 200 | 10 gold on 65 realms |
| Plans: Polished Steel Boots |  Polished Steel Boots | 185 | 50 gold on 61 realms |
| Plans: Heavy Mithril Pants |  Heavy Mithril Pants | 210 | 39 gold on 63 realms |
 Plans: Moonsteel Broadsword |  Moonsteel Broadsword | 180 | 42 gold on 55 realms |
| Plans: Jade Serpentblade |  Jade Serpentblade | 175 | 74 gold on 67 realms |
| Plans: Mithril Shield Spike |  Mithril Shield Spike | 215 | 50 gold on 66 realms |
| Plans: Golden Iron Destroyer |  Golden Iron Destroyer | 170 | 100 gold on 59 realms |
The lowest listed price among them is Plans: Edge of Winter at 15 silver in the US Auction House.
Built from the World of Warcraft client build files and recorded Auction House snapshots.
Plans: Golden Scale Cuirass in WoW Classic and World of Warcraft: Forever
Plans: Golden Scale Cuirass is in the Classic Era game data, the era World of Warcraft: Forever is built on. Blizzard describes Forever as vanilla World of Warcraft plussed up: its story sits in year one, characters level to 60 and stay there, and it launches November 4, 2026. Blizzard has not said which vanilla items appear in Forever, so nothing here is a Forever claim; it is the Classic Era record for Plans: Golden Scale Cuirass next to the live retail market on this page.
- Is Plans: Golden Scale Cuirass in World of Warcraft: Forever?
- Not confirmed. Blizzard has not published Forever's item list. Plans: Golden Scale Cuirass is a Classic Era item and Forever is built on vanilla World of Warcraft with its story set in year one and a level 60 cap, so this page tracks it. Forever launches November 4, 2026.
- What level is Plans: Golden Scale Cuirass in WoW Classic?
- In Classic Era, Plans: Golden Scale Cuirass is Uncommon quality, item level 39 with no level requirement.
- What does Plans: Golden Scale Cuirass sell for to a vendor in Classic?
- A vendor pays 11s for one Plans: Golden Scale Cuirass in Classic Era.
- How much is Plans: Golden Scale Cuirass on the auction house right now?
- 499g 92s on Emerald Dream, on live retail servers, from the latest Blizzard auction house snapshot. Blizzard publishes no Classic Era auction house feed, and Forever has not launched, so those two have no price here yet.
Read next: World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4 · Forever's Professions, Legacy, Camping and Honor changes · Classic Era page for Plans: Golden Scale Cuirass