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Ornate Saronite Skullshield

A Blacksmithing recipe learned at Northrend Blacksmithing 1 that crafts Ornate Saronite Skullshield from 2 reagents.

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Crafting estimate at current listings

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
280 gold28 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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Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Saronite Bar
Metal & Stone · 20,476 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Saronite (Mining)
1418 gold4 silver252 gold56 silver90%
Eternal Shadow
Elemental · 2,744 on the Auction House · crafted by Transmute: Eternal Life to Shadow (Alchemy) · crafted by Transmute: Eternal Earth to Shadow (Alchemy)
127 gold72 silver27 gold72 silver10%
Total per craft280 gold28 silver100%

About Ornate Saronite Skullshield

One craft takes 14 Saronite Bar and 1 Eternal Shadow.

Recipe category
Armor (Northrend Plans)

Ornate Saronite Skullshield tooltip

Ornate Saronite Skullshield
Item Level 35
Binds when equipped
HeadArmor
20 Armor
+8 Strength or Intellect
+12 Stamina
+8 Critical Strike
+8 Versatility
Requires Level 29
Sell price: 7g 39s

Where the reagents come from

Saronite Bar. Made with Smelt Saronite (Mining, Northrend Mining) from 2 Saronite Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Saronite Bar for 17 gold46 silver, against 18 gold4 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 91 other recipes (73 Blacksmithing, 17 Engineering and 1 Alchemy); Armor Plated Combat Shotgun takes the most, 20 per craft.

Eternal Shadow. Made with Transmute: Eternal Earth to Shadow (Alchemy, Northrend Alchemy) from 1 Eternal Earth. At lowest listed prices that makes one Eternal Shadow for 2 gold50 silver, against 27 gold72 silver listed. Made with Transmute: Eternal Life to Shadow (Alchemy, Northrend Alchemy) from 1 Eternal Life. At lowest listed prices that makes one Eternal Shadow for 66 gold62 silver, against 27 gold72 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 41 other recipes (14 Leatherworking, 7 Engineering, 6 Blacksmithing and 5 Alchemy); the most per craft: Knightbane Carapace (Leatherworking, 20 per craft), Knightbane Carapace (Leatherworking, 20 per craft), Legplates of Painful Death (Blacksmithing, 20 per craft), Bladeborn Leggings (Leatherworking, 16 per craft) and Bracers of Swift Death (Leatherworking, 12 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Ornate Saronite Skullshield cost 280 gold28 silver. Most of that is Saronite Bar - 14 at 18 gold4 silver each, 252 gold56 silver, 90.1% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 295 gold3 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.

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  • 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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