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Golden Skeleton Key
A Blacksmithing recipe learned at Classic Blacksmithing 1 that crafts 2 Golden Skeleton Key from 2 reagents.
Reagents
1Gold Bar4 gold50 silver
1Heavy Grinding Stone93 silver
Crafts
Background
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 3 gold72 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 5 gold43 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 90 silver
- Items per craft
- 2
- Listed value of one craft
- 1 gold80 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 9 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −3 gold72 silver (-68%)
- Evidence: 37 current listings holding 779 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.
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Bar Metal & Stone · 15,592 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Gold (Mining) · crafted by Transmute: Iron to Gold (Alchemy) | 1 | 4 gold50 silver | 4 gold50 silver | 83% |
| Heavy Grinding Stone Metal & Stone · 219,159 on the Auction House · crafted by Heavy Grinding Stone (Blacksmithing) | 1 | 93 silver | 93 silver | 17% |
| Total per craft | 5 gold43 silver | 100% |
About Golden Skeleton Key
One craft takes 1 Gold Bar and 1 Heavy Grinding Stone.
- Recipe category
- Skeleton Keys (Blacksmithing Plans)
Golden Skeleton Key tooltip
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 gold99 silver, against 4 gold50 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 5 gold, against 4 gold50 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 15 silver, against 93 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 5 gold43 silver. Most of that is Gold Bar - 1 at 4 gold50 silver each, 4 gold50 silver, 82.9% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 5 gold71 silver per craft, 2 gold85 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 90 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −3 gold63 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 9 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 3 gold72 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -68.5% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 779 units across 37 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 Gold Bar
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