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Imperial Plate 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)
- 77 gold22 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
- 27
- Reagent slots
- 2
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
12Thorium Bar3 gold88 silver
6Rugged Leather5 gold11 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thorium Bar Metal & Stone · 18,189 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Thorium (Mining) | 12 | 3 gold88 silver | 46 gold56 silver | 60% |
| Rugged Leather Leather · 17,671 on the Auction House · crafted by Rugged Leather (Leatherworking) | 6 | 5 gold11 silver | 30 gold66 silver | 40% |
| Total per craft | 77 gold22 silver | 100% |
About Imperial Plate Shoulders
One craft takes 12 Thorium Bar and 6 Rugged Leather. It is taught by Plans: Imperial Plate Shoulders, which needs Classic Blacksmithing 265.
- Recipe category
- Shoulders (Blacksmithing Plans)
- Skill-up colours (Classic Blacksmithing skill)
- Orange below 285 · Yellow 285 to 291 · Green 292 to 299 · Grey 300 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Imperial Plate Shoulders tooltip
How to learn Imperial Plate Shoulders
Plans: Imperial Plate Shoulders
- Teaches
- Teaches you how to make Imperial Plate Shoulders.
- Requires
- Classic Blacksmithing (265)
- Binding
- Binds when picked up
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
- Golden Scale Shouldersyellow 200, grey 225
- 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
Where the reagents come from
Thorium Bar. Made with Smelt Thorium (Mining, Classic Mining) from 1 
Thorium Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Thorium Bar for 4 gold70 silver, against 3 gold88 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 88 other recipes (73 Blacksmithing, 7 Engineering, 5 Jewelcrafting and 1 Inscription); Lionheart Helm takes the most, 80 per craft.
Rugged Leather. Made with Rugged Leather (Leatherworking, Classic Leatherworking) from 6 
Thick Leather. At lowest listed prices that makes one Rugged Leather for 23 gold82 silver, against 5 gold11 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 105 other recipes (78 Leatherworking, 12 Blacksmithing, 7 Engineering and 7 Tailoring); the most per craft: Onyxia Scale Breastplate (Leatherworking, 40 per craft), Red Dragonscale Breastplate (Leatherworking, 40 per craft), Sandstalker Breastplate (Leatherworking, 40 per craft), Spitfire Breastplate (Leatherworking, 40 per craft) and Ironfeather Breastplate (Leatherworking, 35 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 2 reagents for one craft of Imperial Plate Shoulders cost 77 gold22 silver. Most of that is Thorium Bar - 12 at 3 gold88 silver each, 46 gold56 silver, 60.3% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 81 gold28 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).