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BlacksmithingPandaria Blacksmithing
Ghostly 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 9 gold45 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 13 gold25 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 4 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 20 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −9 gold45 silver (-71%)
- Evidence: 9 current listings holding 65 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
- Pandaria Blacksmithing
- Item level
- 34
- Reagent slots
- 1
- Cast time
- 1.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
1Ghost Iron Bar13 gold25 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ghost Iron Bar Metal & Stone · 26,908 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Ghost Iron (Mining) | 1 | 13 gold25 silver | 13 gold25 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 13 gold25 silver | 100% |
About Ghostly Skeleton Key
One craft takes 1 Ghost Iron Bar. It is learned automatically with Pandaria Blacksmithing.
- Recipe category
- Skeleton Keys (Pandaren Plans)
- Skill-up colours (Pandaria 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 Pandaria Blacksmithing
Ghostly Skeleton Key tooltip
Ghostly Skeleton Key: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 3.4 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
- 5 gold
- 30-day low
- 45 silver Aug 24
- 30-day high
- 18 gold72 silver Aug 25
- 30-day median
- 1 gold47 silver
- 7-day median
- 1 gold26 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 687
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Ghost Iron Bar. Made with Smelt Ghost Iron (Mining, Pandaria Mining) from 2 
Ghost Iron Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Ghost Iron Bar for 12 gold28 silver, against 13 gold25 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 158 other recipes (139 Blacksmithing, 13 Engineering, 2 Inscription and 2 Jewelcrafting); Crafted Malevolent Gladiator's Barrier takes the most, 20 per craft.
More Pandaria Blacksmithing recipes in the same skill range
- Accelerated Balanced Trillium IngotMaterials, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Avenger's Trillium LegplatesLegs, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Avenger's Trillium WaistplateBelts, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Balanced Trillium IngotMaterials, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Black Planar Edge, RebornWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Blazefury, RebornWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Blazeguard, RebornWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Blessed Trillium BeltBelts, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Blessed Trillium GreavesLegs, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Bloodforged WarfistsGauntlets, learn at 1, grey at 75
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Ghostly Skeleton Key cost 13 gold25 silver.
Break-even is 13 gold94 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 4 gold, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −9 gold25 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 20 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 9 gold45 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -71.3% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 65 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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- Contender's Revenant BreastplateBlacksmithing
- Contender's Revenant GauntletsBlacksmithing
- Contender's Revenant HelmBlacksmithing
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