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BlacksmithingCataclysm Blacksmithing
Folded Obsidium
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 21 gold75 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 40 gold
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 65 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 3 gold25 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 21 gold75 silver (+54%)
- Evidence: 27 current listings holding 4,156 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Blacksmithing
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Cataclysm Blacksmithing
- Item level
- 25
- Reagent slots
- 1
- Cast time
- 1.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
2Obsidium Bar20 gold
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Obsidium Bar Metal & Stone · 8,879 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Obsidium (Mining) | 2 | 20 gold | 40 gold | 100% |
| Total per craft | 40 gold | 100% |
About Folded Obsidium
One craft takes 2 Obsidium Bar. It is learned automatically with Cataclysm Blacksmithing. Folded Obsidium is itself a reagent in 28 other recipes (Blacksmithing).
- Recipe category
- Materials (Cataclysm Plans)
- Skill-up colours (Cataclysm Blacksmithing skill)
- Yellow 1 to 2 · Green 3 to 4 · Grey 5 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
- How it is learned
- Automatically with Cataclysm Blacksmithing
Folded Obsidium tooltip
Folded Obsidium is a reagent in
- Cold-Forged ShankBlacksmithing
- Decapitator's RazorBlacksmithing
- Hardened Obsidium BeltBlacksmithing
- Hardened Obsidium BootsBlacksmithing
- Hardened Obsidium BracersBlacksmithing
- Hardened Obsidium BreastplateBlacksmithing
- Hardened Obsidium GauntletsBlacksmithing
- Hardened Obsidium HelmBlacksmithing
- Hardened Obsidium LegguardsBlacksmithing
- Hardened Obsidium ShieldBlacksmithing
- Hardened Obsidium ShouldersBlacksmithing
- Lifeforce HammerBlacksmithing
and 16 more recipes.
Folded Obsidium: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing sits at its 30-day median.
- Now
- 65 gold
- 30-day low
- 37 gold77 silver Sep 16
- 30-day high
- 90 gold23 silver Aug 28
- 30-day median
- 65 gold
- 7-day median
- 48 gold99 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 685
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Obsidium Bar. Made with Smelt Obsidium (Mining, Cataclysm Mining) from 2 
Obsidium Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Obsidium Bar for 18 gold92 silver, against 20 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 19 other recipes (10 Engineering, 2 Leatherworking, 2 Jewelcrafting and 2 Tailoring); Standing Smoke Lamp 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
- Ebonsteel Belt BuckleEquipment Mods, learn at 1, grey at 75
- 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
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Folded Obsidium cost 40 gold.
Break-even is 42 gold10 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 65 gold, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 25 gold; the Auction House would keep 3 gold25 silver of a sale, leaving 21 gold75 silver. That is an estimated 54.4% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 13.0% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 4,156 units across 27 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 →
Other recipes that use Obsidium Bar
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