RecipeBlacksmithingCataclysm Blacksmithing

Ebonsteel Belt Buckle

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 one craft shows an estimated profit of 220 gold20 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 159 gold80 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 400 gold
Auction House cut (5%): 20 gold
Estimated profit at that listed price: 220 gold20 silver (+138%)

Evidence: 9 current listings holding 14 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.

Verified priceAuction House2 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Blacksmithing
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Cataclysm Blacksmithing
Item level: 30
Reagent slots: 3
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Ebonsteel Belt Buckle400 gold

Reagents

4Volatile Earth2 gold
4Elementium Bar14 gold98 silver
4Pyrium Bar22 gold97 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Volatile Earth Elemental · 23,903 on the Auction House	4	2 gold	8 gold	5%
Elementium Bar Metal & Stone · 22,046 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Elementium (Mining)	4	14 gold98 silver	59 gold92 silver	37%
Pyrium Bar Metal & Stone · 6,267 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Pyrite (Mining) · crafted by Transmute: Pyrium Bar (Alchemy)	4	22 gold97 silver	91 gold88 silver	57%
Total per craft			159 gold80 silver	100%

About Ebonsteel Belt Buckle

One craft takes 4 Volatile Earth, 4 Elementium Bar and 4 Pyrium Bar. It is taught by Plans: Ebonsteel Belt Buckle, which needs Cataclysm Blacksmithing 75.

Recipe category: Equipment Mods (Cataclysm Plans)
Skill-up colours (Cataclysm Blacksmithing skill): Orange below 75 · Grey 75 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Ebonsteel Belt Buckle tooltip

Ebonsteel Belt Buckle

Item Level 30

Item Enhancement

Requires Level 30

Use: Permanently attach an ebonsteel belt buckle onto a belt, adding a socket to the belt. Attaching the belt buckle causes the item to become soulbound.

Sell price: 4g 50s

How to learn Ebonsteel Belt Buckle

Plans: Ebonsteel Belt Buckle

Teaches: Teaches you how to make an Ebonsteel Belt Buckle.
Requires: Cataclysm Blacksmithing (75)
Binding: Binds when picked up

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Ebonsteel Belt Buckle: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 33% above 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: 400 gold
30-day low: 50 gold60 silver Sep 12
30-day high: 28,888 gold88 silver Sep 18
30-day median: 299 gold99 silver
7-day median: 450 gold
Hourly snapshots: 689

US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.

Where the reagents come from

Volatile Earth. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 40 other recipes (16 Blacksmithing, 9 Leatherworking, 4 Jewelcrafting and 4 Enchanting); Elementium Guardian takes the most, 75 per craft.

Elementium Bar. Made with Smelt Elementium (Mining, Cataclysm Mining) from 2 Elementium Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Elementium Bar for 15 gold60 silver, against 14 gold98 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 55 other recipes (33 Blacksmithing, 12 Jewelcrafting, 6 Engineering and 2 Inscription); the most per craft: Fire-Etched Dagger (Blacksmithing, 20 per craft), Lure Master Tackle Box (Engineering, 20 per craft), Stormforged Helm (Blacksmithing, 20 per craft), Elementium Dragonling (Engineering, 16 per craft) and Elementium Shield Spike (Blacksmithing, 15 per craft).

Pyrium Bar. Made with Smelt Pyrite (Mining, Cataclysm Mining) from 2 Pyrite Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Pyrium Bar for 24 gold68 silver, against 22 gold97 silver listed. Made with Transmute: Pyrium Bar (Alchemy, Cataclysm Alchemy) from 1 Elementium Bar and 1 Volatile Earth, 3 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Pyrium Bar for 5 gold66 silver, against 22 gold97 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 3 other recipes (2 Blacksmithing and 1 Alchemy); the most per craft: Pyrium Shield Spike (Blacksmithing, 5 per craft), Transmute: Truegold (Alchemy, 3 per craft) and Pyrium Weapon Chain (Blacksmithing, 1 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Ebonsteel Belt Buckle cost 159 gold80 silver. Most of that is Pyrium Bar - 4 at 22 gold97 silver each, 91 gold88 silver, 57.5% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 168 gold21 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 400 gold, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 240 gold20 silver; the Auction House would keep 20 gold of a sale, leaving 220 gold20 silver. That is an estimated 137.8% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 8.3% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 14 units across 9 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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