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BlacksmithingClassic Blacksmithing
Iron Shield Spike
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 one craft shows an estimated profit of 6 gold11 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 35 gold78 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 44 gold10 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 2 gold20 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 6 gold11 silver (+17%)
- Evidence: 11 current listings holding 47 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Blacksmithing
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Classic Blacksmithing
- Item level
- 13
- Reagent slots
- 2
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
6Iron Bar5 gold73 silver
4Coarse Grinding Stone35 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron Bar Metal & Stone · 15,362 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Iron (Mining) | 6 | 5 gold73 silver | 34 gold38 silver | 96% |
| Coarse Grinding Stone Metal & Stone · 31,662 on the Auction House · crafted by Coarse Grinding Stone (Blacksmithing) | 4 | 35 silver | 1 gold40 silver | 4% |
| Total per craft | 35 gold78 silver | 100% |
About Iron Shield Spike
One craft takes 6 Iron Bar and 4 Coarse Grinding Stone. It is taught by Plans: Iron Shield Spike, which needs Classic Blacksmithing 150.
- Recipe category
- Armor Mods (Blacksmithing Plans)
- Skill-up colours (Classic Blacksmithing skill)
- Orange below 180 · Yellow 180 to 194 · Green 195 to 209 · Grey 210 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Iron Shield Spike tooltip
How to learn Iron Shield Spike
Plans: Iron Shield Spike- Teaches
- Teaches you how to make an Iron Shield Spike.
- Requires
- Classic Blacksmithing (150)
- Auction House
- listed on 60 US realms, cheapest 100 gold7 silver, 147 for sale
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Iron Shield Spike: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 27% below 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
- 44 gold10 silver
- 30-day low
- 10 gold Sep 17
- 30-day high
- 22,222 gold22 silver Aug 28
- 30-day median
- 60 gold8 silver
- 7-day median
- 50 gold
- Hourly snapshots
- 677
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
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 gold99 silver, against 5 gold73 silver 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.
Coarse Grinding Stone. Made with Coarse Grinding Stone (Blacksmithing, Classic Blacksmithing) from 2 
Coarse Stone. At lowest listed prices that makes one Coarse Grinding Stone for 30 silver, against 35 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 16 other recipes (16 Blacksmithing); the most per craft: Ironforge Gauntlets (Blacksmithing, 4 per craft), Deadly Bronze Poniard (Blacksmithing, 2 per craft), Green Iron Boots (Blacksmithing, 2 per craft), Green Iron Gauntlets (Blacksmithing, 2 per craft) and Heavy Bronze Mace (Blacksmithing, 2 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
- Barbaric Iron ShouldersShoulders, learn at 1, grey at 210
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Iron Shield Spike cost 35 gold78 silver. Most of that is Iron Bar - 6 at 5 gold73 silver each, 34 gold38 silver, 96.1% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 37 gold66 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 44 gold10 silver, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 8 gold32 silver; the Auction House would keep 2 gold20 silver of a sale, leaving 6 gold11 silver. That is an estimated 17.1% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 26.5% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 47 units across 11 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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