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Golden Scale Shoulders
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)
- 53 gold49 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- …
- Auction House cut (5%)
- …
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- …
- Not included: the recipe also accepts 1 optional reagent slot, which are not required and are left out of the cost.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Blacksmithing
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Classic Blacksmithing
- Item level
- 20
- Reagent slots
- 3
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
6Steel Bar6 gold24 silver
2Gold Bar7 gold55 silver
1Heavy Grinding Stone95 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steel Bar Metal & Stone · 21,220 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Steel (Mining) | 6 | 6 gold24 silver | 37 gold44 silver | 70% |
| Gold Bar Metal & Stone · 5,833 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Gold (Mining) · crafted by Transmute: Iron to Gold (Alchemy) | 2 | 7 gold55 silver | 15 gold10 silver | 28% |
| Heavy Grinding Stone Metal & Stone · 958 on the Auction House · crafted by Heavy Grinding Stone (Blacksmithing) | 1 | 95 silver | 95 silver | 2% |
| Total per craft | 53 gold49 silver | 100% |
About Golden Scale Shoulders
One craft takes 6 Steel Bar, 2 Gold Bar and 1 Heavy Grinding Stone. It is taught by Plans: Golden Scale Shoulders, which needs Classic Blacksmithing 175.
- Recipe category
- Shoulders (Blacksmithing Plans)
- Skill-up colours (Classic Blacksmithing skill)
- Orange below 200 · Yellow 200 to 211 · Green 212 to 224 · Grey 225 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Golden Scale Shoulders tooltip
How to learn Golden Scale Shoulders
Plans: Golden Scale Shoulders- Teaches
- Teaches you how to make Golden Scale Shoulders.
- Requires
- Classic Blacksmithing (175)
- Auction House
- listed on 44 US realms, cheapest 2,999 gold99 silver, 105 for sale
More Shoulders recipes (Blacksmithing Plans)
- Rough Bronze Shouldersyellow 140, grey 170
- Silvered Bronze Shouldersyellow 155, grey 185
- Barbaric Iron Shouldersyellow 185, grey 210
- Green Iron Shouldersyellow 185, grey 210
- Heavy Mithril Shoulderyellow 225, grey 245
- Ornate Mithril Shoulderyellow 245, grey 265
- Mithril Scale Shouldersyellow 255, grey 275
- Bloodsoul Shouldersyellow 300, grey 300
- Dark Iron Shouldersyellow 300, grey 300
- Darksoul Shouldersyellow 300, grey 300
- Dawnbringer Shouldersyellow 300, grey 300
- Fiery Chain Shouldersyellow 300, grey 300
Where the reagents come from
Steel Bar. Made with Smelt Steel (Mining, Classic Mining) from 1 
Iron Bar and 1 
Coal. At lowest listed prices that makes one Steel Bar for 6 gold4 silver, against 6 gold24 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 16 other recipes (15 Blacksmithing and 1 Engineering); Steel Breastplate takes the most, 16 per craft.
Gold Bar. Made with Smelt Gold (Mining, Classic Mining) from 1 
Gold Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Gold Bar for 5 gold, against 7 gold55 silver listed. Made with Transmute: Iron to Gold (Alchemy, Classic Alchemy) from 1 Iron Bar. At lowest listed prices that makes one Gold Bar for 6 gold, against 7 gold55 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 33 other recipes (20 Blacksmithing, 6 Jewelcrafting, 4 Tailoring and 1 Inscription); the most per craft: Blade of Unholy Might (Blacksmithing, 40 per craft), Widow's Weep (Blacksmithing, 30 per craft), Stygian Shield (Blacksmithing, 20 per craft), Soulscryer (Inscription, 12 per craft) and Gem of the Nerubians (Jewelcrafting, 8 per craft).
Heavy Grinding Stone. Made with Heavy Grinding Stone (Blacksmithing, Classic Blacksmithing) from 3 
Heavy Stone. At lowest listed prices that makes one Heavy Grinding Stone for 12 silver, against 95 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 23 other recipes (23 Blacksmithing); the most per craft: Barbaric Iron Breastplate (Blacksmithing, 4 per craft), Golden Scale Boots (Blacksmithing, 4 per craft), Golden Scale Cuirass (Blacksmithing, 4 per craft), Golden Scale Gauntlets (Blacksmithing, 4 per craft) and Green Iron Hauberk (Blacksmithing, 4 per craft).
More Classic Blacksmithing recipes in the same skill range
- AnnihilatorWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Arcanite ChampionWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Arcanite ReaperWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Arcanite Skeleton KeySkeleton Keys, learn at 1, grey at 285
- Axe of Sundered BoneAncient Plans, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Barbaric Iron BootsBoots, learn at 1, grey at 230
- Barbaric Iron BreastplateChest, learn at 1, grey at 210
- Barbaric Iron GlovesGauntlets, learn at 1, grey at 235
- Barbaric Iron HelmHelms, learn at 1, grey at 225
- Belt of the MentorAncient Plans, learn at 1, grey at 300
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Golden Scale Shoulders cost 53 gold49 silver. Most of that is Steel Bar - 6 at 6 gold24 silver each, 37 gold44 silver, 70.0% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 56 gold30 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).