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Hardened Iron Shortsword

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.

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Crafting estimate at current listings

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
56 gold18 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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  • Not included: the recipe also accepts 1 optional reagent slot, which are not required and are left out of the cost.
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Recipe facts

Profession
Blacksmithing
Requires skill
1
Expansion tier
Classic Blacksmithing
Item level
19
Reagent slots
5
Cast time
2.5 sec

Crafts

Hardened Iron Shortsword…

Reagents

Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Iron Bar
Metal & Stone · 11,497 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Iron (Mining)		66 gold36 gold64%
Strong Flux
Other · 1,193 on the Auction House		296 silver1 gold92 silver3%
Heavy Grinding Stone
Metal & Stone · 2,642 on the Auction House · crafted by Heavy Grinding Stone (Blacksmithing)		191 silver91 silver2%
Lesser Moonstone
Jewelcrafting · 17,672 on the Auction House		250 silver1 gold2%
Heavy Leather
Leather · 16,440 on the Auction House · crafted by Heavy Leather (Leatherworking)		35 gold45 silver16 gold35 silver29%
Total per craft56 gold18 silver100%

About Hardened Iron Shortsword

One craft takes 6 Iron Bar, 2 Strong Flux, 1 Heavy Grinding Stone, 2 Lesser Moonstone and 3 Heavy Leather. It is taught by Plans: Hardened Iron Shortsword, which needs Classic Blacksmithing 160.

Recipe category
Weapons (Blacksmithing Plans)
Skill-up colours (Classic Blacksmithing skill)
Orange below 185 · Yellow 185 to 196 · Green 197 to 209 · Grey 210 and up
Skill points per craft
1

Hardened Iron Shortsword tooltip

Hardened Iron Shortsword
Item Level 19
Binds when equipped
One-HandWeapon
6 - 10 DamageSpeed 2.60
(3.1 damage per second)
+3 Agility or Strength
Requires Level 12
Sell price: 15s

How to learn Hardened Iron Shortsword

Plans: Hardened Iron Shortsword

Teaches
Teaches you how to make a Hardened Iron Shortsword.
Requires
Classic Blacksmithing (160)
Auction House
listed on 52 US realms, cheapest 30 gold, 125 for sale

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Where the reagents come from

Iron Bar. Made with Smelt Iron (Mining, Classic Mining) from 1 Iron Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Iron Bar for 4 gold70 silver, against 6 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 34 other recipes (21 Blacksmithing, 6 Engineering, 4 Jewelcrafting and 2 Alchemy); Barbaric Iron Breastplate takes the most, 20 per craft.

Strong Flux. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 14 other recipes (14 Blacksmithing); the most per craft: Bronze Greatsword (Blacksmithing, 2 per craft), Glinting Steel Dagger (Blacksmithing, 2 per craft), Golden Iron Destroyer (Blacksmithing, 2 per craft), Jade Serpentblade (Blacksmithing, 2 per craft) and Massive Iron Axe (Blacksmithing, 2 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 51 silver, against 91 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).

Lesser Moonstone. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 15 other recipes (7 Blacksmithing, 6 Jewelcrafting and 2 Engineering); the most per craft: Moonsoul Crown (Jewelcrafting, 3 per craft), Moonsteel Broadsword (Blacksmithing, 3 per craft), Amulet of the Moon (Jewelcrafting, 2 per craft), Dazzling Mithril Rapier (Blacksmithing, 2 per craft) and Gnomish Cloaking Device (Engineering, 2 per craft).

Heavy Leather. Made with Heavy Leather (Leatherworking, Classic Leatherworking) from 5 Medium Leather. At lowest listed prices that makes one Heavy Leather for 12 gold90 silver, against 5 gold45 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 84 other recipes (50 Leatherworking, 15 Engineering, 12 Blacksmithing and 7 Tailoring); the most per craft: Dusky Bracers (Leatherworking, 16 per craft), Barbaric Harness (Leatherworking, 14 per craft), Guardian Cloak (Leatherworking, 14 per craft), Murloc Scale Bracers (Leatherworking, 14 per craft) and Comfortable Leather Hat (Leatherworking, 12 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 5 reagents for one craft of Hardened Iron Shortsword cost 56 gold18 silver. Most of that is Iron Bar - 6 at 6 gold each, 36 gold, 64.1% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 59 gold13 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).
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