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Foundations of Courage
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
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 6,026 gold50 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
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- Auction House cut (5%)
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- Estimated profit at that listed price
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Recipe facts
- Profession
- Blacksmithing
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Cataclysm Blacksmithing
- Item level
- 37
- Reagent slots
- 4
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
8Truegold570 gold
10Hardened Elementium Bar145 gold89 silver
4Chaos Orb1 gold40 silver
8Essence of Destruction25 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Truegold Metal & Stone · 539 on the Auction House · crafted by Transmute: Truegold (Alchemy) | 8 | 570 gold | 4,560 gold | 76% |
| Hardened Elementium Bar Metal & Stone · 3,762 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Hardened Elementium (Mining) | 10 | 145 gold89 silver | 1,458 gold90 silver | 24% |
| Chaos Orb Other · 21,538 on the Auction House | 4 | 1 gold40 silver | 5 gold60 silver | 0% |
| Essence of Destruction Other · 2,779 on the Auction House | 8 | 25 silver | 2 gold | 0% |
| Total per craft | 6,026 gold50 silver | 100% |
About Foundations of Courage
One craft takes 8 Truegold, 10 Hardened Elementium Bar, 4 Chaos Orb and 8 Essence of Destruction. It is taught by Plans: Foundations of Courage, which needs Cataclysm Blacksmithing 75.
- Recipe category
- Armor (Cataclysm Plans)
- Skill-up colours (Cataclysm Blacksmithing skill)
- Orange below 75 · Grey 75 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Foundations of Courage tooltip
How to learn Foundations of Courage
Plans: Foundations of Courage- Teaches
- Teaches you how to make Foundations of Courage.
- Requires
- Cataclysm Blacksmithing (75)
- Auction House
- listed on 54 US realms, cheapest 50 gold82 silver, 122 for sale
More Armor recipes (Cataclysm Plans)
- Hardened Obsidium Bracersyellow 10, grey 15
- Hardened Obsidium Gauntletsyellow 10, grey 15
- Redsteel Bracersyellow 10, grey 15
- Redsteel Gauntletsyellow 10, grey 15
- Stormforged Bracersyellow 10, grey 15
- Stormforged Gauntletsyellow 10, grey 15
- Hardened Obsidium Beltyellow 20, grey 25
- Redsteel Beltyellow 20, grey 25
- Stormforged Beltyellow 20, grey 25
- Hardened Obsidium Bootsyellow 30, grey 35
- Redsteel Bootsyellow 30, grey 35
- Stormforged Bootsyellow 30, grey 35
Where the reagents come from
Truegold. Made with Transmute: Truegold (Alchemy, Cataclysm Alchemy) from 3 
Pyrium Bar, 10 
Volatile Fire, 10 
Volatile Air and 10 
Volatile Water. At lowest listed prices that makes one Truegold for 403 gold21 silver, against 570 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 40 other recipes (28 Blacksmithing, 10 Engineering, 1 Alchemy and 1 Jewelcrafting); Vial of the Sands takes the most, 12 per craft.
Hardened Elementium Bar. Made with Smelt Hardened Elementium (Mining, Cataclysm Mining) from 10 
Elementium Bar and 4 
Volatile Earth. At lowest listed prices that makes one Hardened Elementium Bar for 188 gold80 silver, against 145 gold89 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 46 other recipes (28 Blacksmithing, 17 Engineering and 1 Enchanting); the most per craft: Overpowered Chicken Splitter (Engineering, 12 per craft), Emberforged Elementium Boots (Blacksmithing, 10 per craft), Eternal Elementium Handguards (Blacksmithing, 10 per craft), Fists of Fury (Blacksmithing, 10 per craft) and Holy Flame Gauntlets (Blacksmithing, 10 per craft).
Chaos Orb. Drops from Hagara the Stormbinder in Dragon Soul. Also a required reagent in 75 other recipes (35 Blacksmithing, 26 Leatherworking, 10 Engineering and 2 Tailoring); the most per craft: Brainsplinter (Blacksmithing, 5 per craft), Elementium-Edged Scalper (Blacksmithing, 5 per craft), Extreme-Impact Hole Puncher (Engineering, 5 per craft), Lightforged Elementium Hammer (Blacksmithing, 5 per craft) and Masterwork Elementium Deathblade (Blacksmithing, 5 per craft).
Essence of Destruction. Drops from Hagara the Stormbinder in Dragon Soul (Normal, Heroic, 10 Player, 25 Player, 10 Player (Heroic), 25 Player (Heroic)), Madness of Deathwing in Dragon Soul (Normal, Heroic, 10 Player, 25 Player, 10 Player (Heroic), 25 Player (Heroic)) and Morchok in Dragon Soul (Normal, Heroic, 10 Player, 25 Player, 10 Player (Heroic), 25 Player (Heroic)). Also a required reagent in 17 other recipes (8 Leatherworking, 5 Blacksmithing and 4 Tailoring); the most per craft: Bladeshadow Leggings (Leatherworking, 8 per craft), Deathscale Leggings (Leatherworking, 8 per craft), Lavaquake Legwraps (Tailoring, 8 per craft), Leggings of Nature's Champion (Leatherworking, 8 per craft) and Pyrium Legplates of Purified Evil (Blacksmithing, 8 per craft).
More Cataclysm Blacksmithing recipes in the same skill range
- 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 EarthguardShields, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Elementium GutslicerWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Elementium HammerWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Elementium PoleaxeWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Elementium ShankWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 75
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 4 reagents for one craft of Foundations of Courage cost 6,026 gold50 silver. Most of that is Truegold - 8 at 570 gold each, 4,560 gold, 75.7% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 6,343 gold68 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item has no current Auction House listing to compare it against, so the estimate above is left unknown rather than guessed.
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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Data notes
- No Auction House price for the crafted item - output value unknown (it may be soulbound/BoE gear or an untracked item).