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Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 4 gold85 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
5 gold80 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price
1 gold
Auction House cut (5%)
5 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price
−4 gold85 silver (-84%)
  • Evidence: 172 current listings holding 29,714 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Verified priceAuction HouseUS region

Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Ironclaw Ore
Metal & Stone · 20,143 on the Auction House
51 gold16 silver5 gold80 silver100%
Total per craft5 gold80 silver100%

About Refine Ironclaw Ore |A:Professions-ChatIcon-Quality-Tier2:20:20|a

One craft takes 5 Ironclaw Ore. Ironclaw Ore is itself a reagent in 17 other recipes (Blacksmithing, Cooking, Engineering and Jewelcrafting).

Recipe category
Ore Refinement (Khaz Algar Mining)

Ironclaw Ore tooltip

Ironclaw Ore
Item Level 70
Trade Goods
“Gathered by players with the Mining skill. Can be bought and sold on the Auction House.”
Sell price: 15s

Ironclaw Ore: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 6% 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
1 gold30 silver
30-day low
49 silver Oct 11
30-day high
11 gold91 silver Nov 1
30-day median
1 gold38 silver
7-day median
1 gold40 silver
Hourly snapshots
692

US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.

Where the reagents come from

Ironclaw Ore. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 1 gold16 silver, rank 2 1 gold and rank 3 2 gold10 silver. Also a required reagent in 16 other recipes (11 Blacksmithing, 2 Engineering, 2 Cooking and 1 Jewelcrafting); Remembrance Stone takes the most, 30 per craft.

Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Refine Ironclaw Ore |A:Professions-ChatIcon-Quality-Tier2:20:20|a cost 5 gold80 silver.

Break-even is 6 gold10 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 1 gold, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −4 gold80 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 5 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 4 gold85 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -83.6% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 29,714 units across 172 auctions region-wide. Depth separates a market price from a single asking figure, but listings are not sales, so read it alongside the estimate.

Other recipes that use Ironclaw Ore

Guides and routes on this site that cover Ironclaw Ore.

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