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Plans: Golden Scale Shoulders
Item Level 1Recipe
Use: Learning
Effect: Golden Scale Shoulders
“Teaches you how to make Golden Scale Shoulders.”
Sell price: 8 silver50 copper
Current price
50,151 gold16 silver
Plans: Golden Scale Shoulders Price History on Alexstrasza
Alexstrasza Auction HouseSupply & Availability
Alexstrasza Auction House4Units listed
4Sellers
50,151 gold16 silverCheapest now
Thin supply
On Plans: Golden Scale Shoulders's most active realm, the lowest Auction House listing has typically been around 45,664 gold55 silver across its tracked history (Sep 2022 to Jun 2026), ranging from 32,319 gold84 silver to 79,053 gold97 silver. About 4 were available in the latest snapshot.
The current lowest price is 10% above typical, against a All-Time typical of 45,664 gold55 silver.
Plans: Golden Scale Shoulders Effects
- Use: Learning
- Effect: Golden Scale Shoulders
Spell effects bound to this item, from first-party game data.
Teaches
Creates 
Golden Scale Shoulders Uncommon Mail Shoulder, item level 20
Using Plans: Golden Scale Shoulders teaches this recipe. The Classic Blacksmithing recipe Golden Scale Shoulders takes 6 Steel Bar, 2 Gold Bar and 1 Heavy Grinding Stone.
Requirements & Properties
- Requires
- Classic Blacksmithing (175)
Read from the World of Warcraft client build files.
What One Craft Returns: Golden Scale Shoulders
Plans: Golden Scale Shoulders teaches the Classic Blacksmithing recipe Golden Scale Shoulders, which makes Golden Scale Shoulders. At the lowest US listings, the reagents for one craft cost 62g 89s, and Steel Bar is the largest share at 57%. Golden Scale Shoulders lists from 221g 91s each, so one craft sold at that price returns 147g 92s after the 5% auction cut, a 235% margin over its reagents. At that return, the lowest listing for Plans: Golden Scale Shoulders itself (2,999g 99s, the lowest of 42 realms listing it) is paid back after 21 crafts. It turns yellow at Classic Blacksmithing skill 200 and grey at 225.
| Reagent | Needed | Lowest listed | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
 Steel Bar | 6 | 6 gold | 36 gold |
 Gold Bar | 2 | 12 gold99 silver | 25 gold98 silver |
 Heavy Grinding Stone | 1 | 91 silver | 91 silver |
| Reagents for one craft | 62 gold89 silver | ||
| Golden Scale Shoulders at its lowest listing | 221 gold91 silver | ||
| Return after the 5% auction cut | 147 gold92 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 Golden Scale Cuirass. 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 Cuirass and Golden Scale Gauntlets. 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 Shoulders in required skill among Recipe > Blacksmithing, all from Classic like Plans: Golden Scale Shoulders.
| Item | Creates | Required Skill | Lowest Listed Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plans: Golden Scale Shoulders (this item) | 175 | 2,999 gold on 42 realms | |
 Plans: Jade Serpentblade |  Jade Serpentblade | 175 | 16 silver on 65 realms |
| Plans: Golden Iron Destroyer |  Golden Iron Destroyer | 170 | 100 gold on 58 realms |
| Plans: Golden Scale Leggings |  Golden Scale Leggings | 170 | 200 gold on 63 realms |
| Plans: Moonsteel Broadsword |  Moonsteel Broadsword | 180 | 42 gold on 61 realms |
| Plans: Polished Steel Boots |  Polished Steel Boots | 185 | 50 gold on 58 realms |
| Plans: Iron Counterweight |  Iron Counterweight | 165 | 75 gold on 60 realms |
| Plans: Green Iron Shoulders | Green Iron Shoulders | 160 | 150 gold on 61 realms |
| Plans: Edge of Winter |  Edge of Winter | 190 | 15 silver on 74 realms |
| Plans: Hardened Iron Shortsword |  Hardened Iron Shortsword | 160 | 30 gold on 52 realms |
| Plans: Golden Scale Cuirass |  Golden Scale Cuirass | 195 | 99 gold on 61 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 Shoulders in WoW Classic and World of Warcraft: Forever
Plans: Golden Scale Shoulders 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 Shoulders next to the live retail market on this page.
- Is Plans: Golden Scale Shoulders in World of Warcraft: Forever?
- Not confirmed. Blizzard has not published Forever's item list. Plans: Golden Scale Shoulders 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 Shoulders in WoW Classic?
- In Classic Era, Plans: Golden Scale Shoulders is Rare quality, item level 35 with no level requirement.
- What does Plans: Golden Scale Shoulders sell for to a vendor in Classic?
- A vendor pays 8s 50c for one Plans: Golden Scale Shoulders in Classic Era.
- How much is Plans: Golden Scale Shoulders on the auction house right now?
- 50,151g 16s on Alexstrasza, 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 Shoulders