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Plans: Persuader
Item Level 1Recipe
Use: Learning
Effect: Persuader
“Teaches you how to make the Persuader.”
Sell price: 2 gold
Current price
45,849 gold84 silver
Plans: Persuader Price History on Burning Blade
Burning Blade Auction HouseSupply & Availability
Burning Blade Auction House3Units listed
3Sellers
45,849 gold84 silverCheapest now
Thin supply
On Plans: Persuader's most active realm, the lowest Auction House listing has typically been around 200,344 gold58 silver across its tracked history (Sep 2022 to Jun 2026), ranging from 50,328 gold44 silver to 335,667 gold84 silver. About 3 were available in the latest snapshot.
The current lowest price is 77% below typical, against a All-Time typical of 200,344 gold58 silver.
Plans: Persuader Effects
Spell effects bound to this item, from first-party game data.
Teaches
Creates 
Persuader Epic One-Handed Mace One-Hand, item level 29
Using Plans: Persuader teaches this recipe. The Classic Blacksmithing recipe Persuader takes 15 Arcanite Bar, 10 Dark Iron Bar, 20 Essence of Undeath, 20 Dark Rune and 10 Devilsaur Leather.
Requirements & Properties
- Requires
- Classic Blacksmithing (300)
Read from the World of Warcraft client build files.
What One Craft Returns: Persuader
Plans: Persuader teaches the Classic Blacksmithing recipe Persuader, which makes Persuader. At the lowest US listings, the reagents for one craft cost 7,378g 70s, and Arcanite Bar is the largest share at 36%. Persuader lists from 15,000g each, so one craft sold at that price returns 6,871g 30s after the 5% auction cut, a 93% margin over its reagents. At that return, the lowest listing for Plans: Persuader itself (25,811g 84s, the lowest of 45 realms listing it) is paid back after 4 crafts.
| Reagent | Needed | Lowest listed | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
 Arcanite Bar | 15 | 175 gold | 2,625 gold |
 Dark Iron Bar | 10 | 180 gold | 1,800 gold |
 Essence of Undeath | 20 | 62 gold31 silver | 1,246 gold20 silver |
 Dark Rune | 20 | 75 gold | 1,500 gold |
 Devilsaur Leather | 10 | 20 gold75 silver | 207 gold50 silver |
| Reagents for one craft | 7,378 gold70 silver | ||
| Persuader at its lowest listing | 15,000 gold | ||
| Return after the 5% auction cut | 6,871 gold30 silver | ||
What Else the Reagents Make
- Arcanite Bar goes into 93 other recipes across Blacksmithing, Jewelcrafting, Engineering, Inscription, Alchemy, Mining, Leatherworking and Tailoring, including Sulfuron Hammer, Invulnerable Mail, Warblades of the Hakkari, Reborn and Arcanite Reaper. It is itself made by the recipe Transmute: Arcanite.
- Dark Iron Bar goes into 30 other recipes across Blacksmithing, Engineering and Jewelcrafting, including Dark Iron Sunderer, Dark Iron Plate, Steel Ironforge Emblem and Sulfuron Hammer. It is itself made by the recipe Smelt Dark Iron.
- Essence of Undeath goes into 46 other recipes across Blacksmithing, Tailoring, Enchanting, Jewelcrafting, Inscription, Engineering, Leatherworking, Alchemy and Cooking, including Death's Gamble, Shroud of Forbidden Magic, Frostwyrm's Frigid Stare and Frostwyrm's Icy Gaze. It is itself made by the recipe Transmute: Water to Undeath.
- Dark Rune goes into 31 other recipes across Blacksmithing, Tailoring, Leatherworking, Inscription, Enchanting and Alchemy, including Warblades of the Hakkari, Reborn, Shroud of Forbidden Magic, Encased Frigid Heart and Mindslave's Reach.
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: Persuader in required skill among Recipe > Blacksmithing, all from Classic like Plans: Persuader.
| Item | Creates | Required Skill | Lowest Listed Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plans: Persuader (this item) | 300 | 25,811 gold on 45 realms | |
 Plans: Sulfuron Hammer |  Sulfuron Hammer | 300 | 3,000 gold on 83 realms |
 Ancient Plans: Stygian Shield |  Stygian Shield | 300 | 12,312 gold on 49 realms |
| Plans: Hammer of the Titans |  Hammer of the Titans | 300 | 2 gold on 75 realms |
| Plans: Annihilator |  Annihilator | 300 | 88 gold on 62 realms |
| Plans: Frostguard |  Frostguard | 300 | 100 gold on 53 realms |
| Plans: Arcanite Reaper |  Arcanite Reaper | 300 | 1,000 gold on 67 realms |
| Plans: Heartseeker |  Heartseeker | 300 | 25 gold on 61 realms |
| Plans: Darkrune Breastplate |  Darkrune Breastplate | 300 | 999 gold on 56 realms |
| Plans: Black Grasp of the Destroyer |  Black Grasp of the Destroyer | 300 | 55 gold on 57 realms |
| Plans: Thick Obsidian Breastplate |  Thick Obsidian Breastplate | 300 | 75 gold on 71 realms |
The lowest listed price among them is Plans: Hammer of the Titans at 2 gold in the US Auction House.
Built from the World of Warcraft client build files and recorded Auction House snapshots.
Items That Share Plans: Persuader's Icon
Plans: Persuader uses icon file 134941, which 939 other items also use. The 8 closest by item ID:
- Plans: Sageblade ID 22389 · Recipe "Teaches you how to make a Sageblade."
- Plans: Titanic Leggings ID 22388 · Recipe "Teaches you how to make Titanic Leggings."
- Plans: Thick Obsidian Breastplate ID 22222 · Recipe "Teaches you how to make a Thick Obsidian Breastplate."
- Plans: Black Grasp of the Destroyer ID 22220 · Recipe · item level 27 "Teaches you how to make the Black Grasp of the Destroyer."
- Night Elf Plans: An'owyn ID 22591 · Quest "These contain a detailed map and tactical situation for An'owyn."
- Writ of Safe Passage ID 22593 · Miscellaneous
- Pattern: Primal Mooncloth Bag ID 21919 · Recipe "Teaches you how to sew a Primal Mooncloth Bag."
- Pattern: Ebon Shadowbag ID 21915 · Recipe "Teaches you how to sew an Ebon Shadowbag."
Items Numbered Next to Plans: Persuader
Blizzard numbers items as they are created, so the named items next to ID 22390 (22385 to 22396) were usually added in the same batch as Plans: Persuader: the same quest line, zone, vendor or reward set.
Titanic Leggings ID 22385 · Armor - Plate · item level 29
Head of Instructor Razuvious DEP ID 22386 · Quest
Heart of Anub'Rekhan ID 22387 · Quest- Plans: Titanic Leggings ID 22388 · Recipe "Teaches you how to make Titanic Leggings."
- Plans: Sageblade ID 22389 · Recipe "Teaches you how to make a Sageblade."
Formula: Enchant 2H Weapon - Agility ID 22392 · Recipe "Teaches you how to perform the Agility enchantment on a two-handed weapon."
Codex: Prayer of Shadow Protection ID 22393 · Recipe · item level 25 "This item appears damaged by the elements and no longer readable."
Staff of Metanoia ID 22394 · Weapon - Staff · item level 24
Totem of Rage ID 22395 · Miscellaneous · item level 28
Totem of Life ID 22396 · Miscellaneous · item level 32
Plans: Persuader Client Record
The raw ItemSparse values for item 22390 in the current client build.
- Vendor buy price
- 8 gold
- Vendor sell price
- 2 gold
- Flags
- 64 / 8192 / 0 / 0 / 0
Read from the World of Warcraft client build files: Item, ItemSparse, Lock, Holidays, AreaTable and CollectableSourceVendor.
Plans: Persuader in WoW Classic and World of Warcraft: Forever
Plans: Persuader 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: Persuader next to the live retail market on this page.
- Is Plans: Persuader in World of Warcraft: Forever?
- Not confirmed. Blizzard has not published Forever's item list. Plans: Persuader 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: Persuader in WoW Classic?
- In Classic Era, Plans: Persuader is Epic quality, item level 63 with no level requirement.
- What does Plans: Persuader sell for to a vendor in Classic?
- A vendor pays 2g for one Plans: Persuader in Classic Era.
- How much is Plans: Persuader on the auction house right now?
- 45,849g 84s on Burning Blade, 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: Persuader
WoW Forever: what our data shows
- Sighted in the WoW Forever beta client
- Build 1.60.1.70291, read from the beta game data we hold
- Also in the Classic Era client
- Yes - this item is in the Classic Era client's data too
A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4