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Elementium Shield Spike
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 247 gold26 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 270 gold
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 23 gold93 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 1 gold19 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −247 gold26 silver (-92%)
- Evidence: 11 current listings holding 59 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 4.8 times its 30-day median of 5 gold, so this estimate rests on a listing far above its usual level.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Blacksmithing
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Cataclysm Blacksmithing
- Item level
- 30
- Reagent slots
- 1
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
15Elementium Bar18 gold
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elementium Bar Metal & Stone · 11,088 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Elementium (Mining) | 15 | 18 gold | 270 gold | 100% |
| Total per craft | 270 gold | 100% |
About Elementium Shield Spike
One craft takes 15 Elementium Bar. It is taught by Plans: Elementium Shield Spike, which needs Blacksmithing 425.
- Recipe category
- Equipment Mods (Cataclysm Plans)
- Skill-up colours (Cataclysm Blacksmithing skill)
- Orange below 50 · Yellow 50 to 51 · Green 52 to 54 · Grey 55 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Elementium Shield Spike tooltip
How to learn Elementium Shield Spike
Plans: Elementium Shield Spike
- Teaches
- Teaches you how to make an Elementium Shield Spike.
- Requires
- Blacksmithing (425)
- Binding
- Binds when picked up
More Equipment Mods recipes (Cataclysm Plans)
Elementium Shield Spike: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 4.8 times 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
- 23 gold93 silver
- 30-day low
- 40 silver Aug 29
- 30-day high
- 14,040 gold10 silver Sep 14
- 30-day median
- 5 gold
- 7-day median
- 23 gold93 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 681
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Elementium Bar. Made with Smelt Elementium (Mining, Cataclysm Mining) from 2 
Elementium Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Elementium Bar for 14 gold, against 18 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 55 other recipes (33 Blacksmithing, 12 Jewelcrafting, 6 Engineering and 2 Inscription); Fire-Etched Dagger takes the most, 20 per craft.
More Cataclysm Blacksmithing recipes in the same skill range
- Bracers of Destructive StrengthArmor, learn at 1, grey at 75
- BrainsplinterWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Cold-Forged ShankWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 35
- Decapitator's RazorWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 30
- Elementium BonesplitterWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Elementium DeathplateArmor, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Elementium EarthguardShields, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Elementium Girdle of PainArmor, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Elementium GutslicerWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Elementium HammerWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 75
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Elementium Shield Spike cost 270 gold.
Break-even is 284 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 23 gold93 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −246 gold7 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 1 gold19 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 247 gold26 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -91.6% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 59 units across 11 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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