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Unfinished Skeleton Key

Item Level 1
Quest Item
Quest
“This key is missing its head.”
Not sold on the Auction House

This item is acquired in-game. See its sources below.

Not sold on the Auction House Quest

A Common Quest, item level 1, quest Item. Crafted with Forging.

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Where it comes from
CraftedForgingRecipe
Build history

First seen in build 1.15.9.68940 (Classic).

Related
Other versions
Across game versions
VersionItem levelQualityBinding
Retail (Midnight)1CommonQuest Item
WoW Forever1CommonQuest Item
Classic Era1CommonQuest Item
The Burning Crusade1CommonQuest Item
Wrath of the Lich King1CommonQuest Item
MoP Classic1CommonQuest Item
Unfinished Skeleton Key Game Data

Crafted By

Forging

The recipe Forging takes 2 Thorium Bar.

Read from the World of Warcraft client build files.

How Unfinished Skeleton Key Compares

Similar Items

The 10 items nearest to Unfinished Skeleton Key among Quest, all from Classic like Unfinished Skeleton Key.

ItemItem LevelDetailsLowest Listed Price
Unfinished Skeleton Key (this item)1Not listed
Telemancy Orbs1Use: Throw Telemancy Orb1 silver on 57 realms
Imbued Crystal1700 gold on 73 realms
Monstrous Egg1500 gold on 74 realms
Mysterious Grimoire1500 gold on 72 realms
Ornate Weapon1500 gold on 74 realms
A Treatise on Strategy1500 gold on 72 realms
Banner of the Fallen1400 gold on 72 realms
Captured Insignia1400 gold on 72 realms
Fallen Adventurer's Journal1500 gold on 71 realms
Soothsayer's Runes25180 gold on 81 realms

The lowest listed price among them is Telemancy Orbs at 1 silver in the US Auction House.

Built from the World of Warcraft client build files and recorded Auction House snapshots.

Where Unfinished Skeleton Key Fits

Items That Share Unfinished Skeleton Key's Icon

Unfinished Skeleton Key uses icon file 135657, which 7 other items also use. The 7 closest by item ID:

Items Numbered Next to Unfinished Skeleton Key

Blizzard numbers items as they are created, so the named items next to ID 14645 (14638 to 14650) were usually added in the same batch as Unfinished Skeleton Key: the same quest line, zone, vendor or reward set.

Unfinished Skeleton Key Client Record

The raw ItemSparse values for item 14645 in the current client build.

Unique (max carried)
1
Flags
0 / 8192 / 0 / 0 / 0

Read from the World of Warcraft client build files: Item, ItemSparse, Lock, Holidays, AreaTable and CollectableSourceVendor.

Unfinished Skeleton Key in WoW Classic and World of Warcraft: Forever

Unfinished Skeleton Key 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 Unfinished Skeleton Key next to the live retail market on this page.

Is Unfinished Skeleton Key in World of Warcraft: Forever?
Not confirmed. Blizzard has not published Forever's item list. Unfinished Skeleton Key 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.
Where do you get Unfinished Skeleton Key in WoW Classic?
In Classic Era, Unfinished Skeleton Key is created by Forging.
What level is Unfinished Skeleton Key in WoW Classic?
In Classic Era, Unfinished Skeleton Key is common quality, item level 1 with no level requirement.

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta client
Build 1.60.1.70532, 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