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BlacksmithingClassic Blacksmithing
Golden 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 7 gold56 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 8 gold50 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 49 silver
- Items per craft
- 2
- Listed value of one craft
- 98 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 4 silver90 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −7 gold56 silver (-89%)
- Evidence: 18 current listings holding 360 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
- Items per craft: the game’s spell data creates 2 per craft, so the listed value of one craft is that many times the lowest listed price.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Blacksmithing
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Classic Blacksmithing
- Item level
- 13
- Reagent slots
- 2
- Cast time
- 1.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
1Gold Bar7 gold55 silver
1Heavy Grinding Stone95 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Bar Metal & Stone · 5,833 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Gold (Mining) · crafted by Transmute: Iron to Gold (Alchemy) | 1 | 7 gold55 silver | 7 gold55 silver | 89% |
| Heavy Grinding Stone Metal & Stone · 958 on the Auction House · crafted by Heavy Grinding Stone (Blacksmithing) | 1 | 95 silver | 95 silver | 11% |
| Total per craft | 8 gold50 silver | 100% |
About Golden Skeleton Key
One craft takes 1 Gold Bar and 1 Heavy Grinding Stone.
- Recipe category
- Skeleton Keys (Blacksmithing Plans)
- Skill-up colours (Classic Blacksmithing skill)
- Orange below 150 · Yellow 150 to 159 · Green 160 to 169 · Grey 170 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Golden Skeleton Key tooltip
More Skeleton Keys recipes (Blacksmithing Plans)
Golden Skeleton Key: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 14% above 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
- 49 silver
- 30-day low
- 5 silver Sep 3
- 30-day high
- 49,999 gold97 silver Sep 12
- 30-day median
- 43 silver
- 7-day median
- 81 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 676
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
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); Blade of Unholy Might takes the most, 40 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
- 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
- Barbaric Iron ShouldersShoulders, learn at 1, grey at 210
- Belt of the MentorAncient Plans, learn at 1, grey at 300
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Golden Skeleton Key cost 8 gold50 silver. Most of that is Gold Bar - 1 at 7 gold55 silver each, 7 gold55 silver, 88.8% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 8 gold94 silver per craft, 4 gold47 silver per item at 2 items a craft - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 49 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −7 gold52 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 4 silver90 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 7 gold56 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -89.0% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 360 units across 18 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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