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Arcanite Skeleton Key
Reagent cost, the crafted item's lowest listed price and the estimated profit at that price, from current US Auction House listings - recalculated every snapshot.
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 231 gold99 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 241 gold99 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 5 gold26 silver
- Items per craft
- 2
- Listed value of one craft
- 10 gold52 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 52 silver60 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −231 gold99 silver (-96%)
- Evidence: 7 current listings holding 30 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
- Outlier: the crafted item’s lowest listing is 87% below its 30-day median of 39 gold, so this estimate rests on a listing far below its usual level.
- Items per craft: the game’s spell data creates 2 per craft, so the listed value of one craft is that many times the lowest listed price.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Blacksmithing
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Classic Blacksmithing
- Item level
- 23
- Reagent slots
- 2
- Cast time
- 1.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
1Arcanite Bar240 gold99 silver
1Dense Grinding Stone1 gold
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arcanite Bar Metal & Stone · 8,438 on the Auction House · crafted by Transmute: Arcanite (Alchemy) | 1 | 240 gold99 silver | 240 gold99 silver | 100% |
| Dense Grinding Stone Metal & Stone · 5,466 on the Auction House · crafted by Dense Grinding Stone (Blacksmithing) | 1 | 1 gold | 1 gold | 0% |
| Total per craft | 241 gold99 silver | 100% |
About Arcanite Skeleton Key
One craft takes 1 Arcanite Bar and 1 Dense Grinding Stone.
- Recipe category
- Skeleton Keys (Blacksmithing Plans)
- Skill-up colours (Classic Blacksmithing skill)
- Orange below 275 · Yellow 275 to 279 · Green 280 to 284 · Grey 285 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Arcanite Skeleton Key tooltip
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Arcanite Skeleton Key: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 87% below its 30-day median. Over these 30 days the lowest listing moved more than tenfold, so a single snapshot, including the one the estimate uses, can sit far from typical.
- Now
- 5 gold26 silver
- 30-day low
- 13 silver Sep 2
- 30-day high
- 45,099 gold Sep 16
- 30-day median
- 39 gold
- 7-day median
- 20 gold
- Hourly snapshots
- 682
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Arcanite Bar. Made with Transmute: Arcanite (Alchemy, Classic Alchemy) from 1 
Thorium Bar and 1 
Arcane Crystal. At lowest listed prices that makes one Arcanite Bar for 253 gold60 silver, against 240 gold99 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 93 other recipes (74 Blacksmithing, 7 Jewelcrafting, 5 Engineering and 3 Inscription); Sulfuron Hammer takes the most, 50 per craft.
Dense Grinding Stone. Made with Dense Grinding Stone (Blacksmithing, Classic Blacksmithing) from 4 
Dense Stone. At lowest listed prices that makes one Dense Grinding Stone for 12 silver, against 1 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 22 other recipes (22 Blacksmithing); the most per craft: Harbinger of Death (Blacksmithing, 40 per craft), Gurubashi Carver (Blacksmithing, 8 per craft), Warsword of Caer Darrow (Blacksmithing, 8 per craft), Huge Thorium Battleaxe (Blacksmithing, 6 per craft) and Heartseeker (Blacksmithing, 4 per craft).
More Classic Blacksmithing recipes in the same skill range
- AnnihilatorWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Arcanite ChampionWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Arcanite ReaperWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Axe of Sundered BoneAncient Plans, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Barbaric Iron BootsBoots, learn at 1, grey at 230
- Barbaric Iron BreastplateChest, learn at 1, grey at 210
- Barbaric Iron GlovesGauntlets, learn at 1, grey at 235
- Barbaric Iron HelmHelms, learn at 1, grey at 225
- Barbaric Iron ShouldersShoulders, learn at 1, grey at 210
- Belt of the MentorAncient Plans, learn at 1, grey at 300
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Arcanite Skeleton Key cost 241 gold99 silver. Most of that is Arcanite Bar - 1 at 240 gold99 silver each, 240 gold99 silver, 99.6% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 254 gold72 silver per craft, 127 gold36 silver per item at 2 items a craft - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 5 gold26 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −231 gold47 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 52 silver60 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 231 gold99 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -95.9% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 30 units across 7 auctions region-wide. Depth separates a market price from a single asking figure, but listings are not sales, so read it alongside the estimate.
Costs use each reagent’s lowest listed price; the estimate is the crafted item’s lowest listed price, times the items one craft makes, minus those reagents and Blizzard’s 5% sale cut. Listings are asking prices, not sales. Recalculated every snapshot and left blank rather than guessed when a price is missing. How we estimate crafting profit →
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