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Pyrium 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 96 gold25 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 93 gold75 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 200 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 10 gold
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 96 gold25 silver (+103%)
- Evidence: 9 current listings holding 22 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
- Cataclysm Blacksmithing
- Item level
- 32
- Reagent slots
- 1
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
5Pyrium Bar18 gold75 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyrium Bar Metal & Stone · 2,835 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Pyrite (Mining) · crafted by Transmute: Pyrium Bar (Alchemy) | 5 | 18 gold75 silver | 93 gold75 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 93 gold75 silver | 100% |
About Pyrium Shield Spike
One craft takes 5 Pyrium Bar. It is taught by Plans: Pyrium Shield Spike, which needs Cataclysm Blacksmithing 75.
- Recipe category
- Equipment Mods (Cataclysm Plans)
- Skill-up colours (Cataclysm Blacksmithing skill)
- Orange below 75 · Grey 75 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Pyrium Shield Spike tooltip
How to learn Pyrium Shield Spike
Plans: Pyrium Shield Spike- Teaches
- Teaches you how to make a Pyrium Shield Spike.
- Requires
- Cataclysm Blacksmithing (75)
- Binding
- Binds when picked up
More Equipment Mods recipes (Cataclysm Plans)
Pyrium 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
- 200 gold82 silver
- 30-day low
- 99 gold28 silver Sep 5
- 30-day high
- 23,333 gold33 silver Sep 15
- 30-day median
- 275 gold28 silver
- 7-day median
- 233 gold82 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 676
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Pyrium Bar. Made with Smelt Pyrite (Mining, Cataclysm Mining) from 2 
Pyrite Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Pyrium Bar for 14 gold58 silver, against 18 gold75 silver listed. Made with Transmute: Pyrium Bar (Alchemy, Cataclysm Alchemy) from 1 
Elementium Bar and 1 
Volatile Earth, 3 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Pyrium Bar for 6 gold68 silver, against 18 gold75 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 3 other recipes (2 Blacksmithing and 1 Alchemy); Ebonsteel Belt Buckle takes the most, 4 per craft.
More Cataclysm Blacksmithing recipes in the same skill range
- Bracers of Destructive StrengthArmor, learn at 1, grey at 75
- BrainsplinterWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Cold-Forged ShankWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 35
- Decapitator's RazorWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 30
- Elementium BonesplitterWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Elementium DeathplateArmor, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Elementium EarthguardShields, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Elementium Girdle of PainArmor, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Elementium GutslicerWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Elementium HammerWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 75
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Pyrium Shield Spike cost 93 gold75 silver.
Break-even is 98 gold68 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 200 gold, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 106 gold25 silver; the Auction House would keep 10 gold of a sale, leaving 96 gold25 silver. That is an estimated 102.7% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 9.4% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 22 units across 9 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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