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Imperial Plate Shoulders
A Blacksmithing recipe learned at Classic Blacksmithing 1 that crafts Imperial Plate Shoulders from 2 reagents.
Reagents
12Thorium Bar4 gold
6Rugged Leather2 gold40 silver
Crafts
Background
| Recipe item |  Plans: Imperial Plate Shoulders | Requires Classic Blacksmithing 265 |
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Crafting estimate at current listings
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 62 gold40 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.
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thorium Bar Metal & Stone · 33,824 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Thorium (Mining) | 12 | 4 gold | 48 gold | 77% |
| Rugged Leather Leather · 24,929 on the Auction House · crafted by Rugged Leather (Leatherworking) | 6 | 2 gold40 silver | 14 gold40 silver | 23% |
| Total per craft | 62 gold40 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)
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
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 3 gold52 silver, against 4 gold 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 28 gold50 silver, against 2 gold40 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).
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- 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 62 gold40 silver. Most of that is Thorium Bar - 12 at 4 gold each, 48 gold, 76.9% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 65 gold68 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 →
Other recipes that use Thorium Bar
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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).