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Recipe: Transmute Arcanite
Item Level 1Recipe
Use: Learning
Effect: Transmute: Arcanite
“Teaches you how to transmute Thorium and Arcane Crystals into Arcanite.”
Sell price: 1 gold25 silver
Current price
750 gold
Recipe: Transmute Arcanite Price History on Aggramar
Aggramar Auction HouseSupply & Availability
Aggramar Auction House6Units listed
6Sellers
750 goldCheapest now
Thin supply
On Recipe: Transmute Arcanite's most active realm, the lowest Auction House listing has typically been around 340 gold64 silver across its tracked history (Sep 2022 to Jun 2026), ranging from 98 gold95 silver to 9,614 gold13 silver. About 6 were available in the latest snapshot.
The current lowest price is 120% above typical, against a All-Time typical of 340 gold64 silver.
Recipe: Transmute Arcanite Effects
- Use: Learning
- Effect: Transmute: Arcanite
Turns a bar of Thorium and an Arcane Crystal into Arcanite.
Spell effects bound to this item, from first-party game data.
Teaches
Creates 
Arcanite Bar
Using Recipe: Transmute Arcanite teaches this recipe. The Classic Alchemy recipe Transmute: Arcanite takes 1 Thorium Bar and 1 Arcane Crystal.
Requirements & Properties
- Requires
- Classic Alchemy (275)
Read from the World of Warcraft client build files.
What One Craft Returns: Transmute: Arcanite
Recipe: Transmute Arcanite teaches the Classic Alchemy recipe Transmute: Arcanite, which makes Arcanite Bar. At the lowest US listings, the reagents for one craft cost 253g 60s, and Arcane Crystal is the largest share at 98%. Arcanite Bar lists from 240g 99s each, so one craft sold at that price returns 24g 65s less than its reagents cost, after the 5% auction cut. It turns yellow at Classic Alchemy skill 275 and grey at 290.
| Reagent | Needed | Lowest listed | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
 Thorium Bar | 1 | 3 gold85 silver | 3 gold85 silver |
 Arcane Crystal | 1 | 249 gold75 silver | 249 gold75 silver |
| Reagents for one craft | 253 gold60 silver | ||
| Arcanite Bar at its lowest listing | 240 gold99 silver | ||
| Return after the 5% auction cut | −24 gold65 silver | ||
What Else the Reagents Make
- Thorium Bar goes into 88 other recipes across Blacksmithing, Engineering, Jewelcrafting, Inscription and Enchanting, including Lionheart Helm, Axe of Sundered Bone, Gurubashi Carver and Hammer of the Titans. It is itself made by the recipe Smelt Thorium.
- Arcane Crystal goes into 2 other recipes across Enchanting and Jewelcrafting: Arcane Dust and Ring of Bitter Shadows.
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 Recipe: Transmute Arcanite in required skill among Recipe > Alchemy, all from Classic like Recipe: Transmute Arcanite.
| Item | Creates | Required Skill | Lowest Listed Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recipe: Transmute Arcanite (this item) | Arcanite Bar | 275 | 40 gold on 81 realms |
 Recipe: Transmute Life to Earth |  Essence of Earth | 275 | 10,800 gold on 53 realms |
| Recipe: Transmute Earth to Life |  Living Essence | 275 | 8,999 gold on 50 realms |
| Recipe: Greater Stoneshield Potion |  Greater Stoneshield Potion | 280 | 49 gold on 60 realms |
| Recipe: Greater Fire Protection Potion |  Greater Fire Protection Potion | 290 | 8 gold on 69 realms |
| Recipe: Greater Frost Protection Potion |  Greater Frost Protection Potion | 290 | 3,000 gold on 65 realms |
| Recipe: Greater Nature Protection Potion |  Greater Nature Protection Potion | 290 | 150 gold on 57 realms |
| Recipe: Greater Shadow Protection Potion |  Greater Shadow Protection Potion | 290 | 500 gold on 53 realms |
| Recipe: Limited Invulnerability Potion |  Limited Invulnerability Potion | 250 | 4 silver on 58 realms |
| Recipe: Elixir of Shadow Power |  Elixir of Shadow Power | 250 | 2 gold on 54 realms |
| Recipe: Flask of Distilled Wisdom |  Flask of Distilled Wisdom | 300 | 5 gold on 59 realms |
The lowest listed price among them is Recipe: Limited Invulnerability Potion at 4 silver in the US Auction House.
Built from the World of Warcraft client build files and recorded Auction House snapshots.
Recipe: Transmute Arcanite in WoW Classic and World of Warcraft: Forever
Recipe: Transmute Arcanite 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 Recipe: Transmute Arcanite next to the live retail market on this page.
- Is Recipe: Transmute Arcanite in World of Warcraft: Forever?
- Not confirmed. Blizzard has not published Forever's item list. Recipe: Transmute Arcanite 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 Recipe: Transmute Arcanite in WoW Classic?
- In Classic Era, Recipe: Transmute Arcanite is Common quality, item level 55 with no level requirement.
- What does Recipe: Transmute Arcanite sell for to a vendor in Classic?
- A vendor pays 1g 25s for one Recipe: Transmute Arcanite in Classic Era.
- How much is Recipe: Transmute Arcanite on the auction house right now?
- 750g on Aggramar, 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 Recipe: Transmute Arcanite