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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 5 gold74 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
7 gold45 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price
1 gold79 silver
Auction House cut (5%)
8 silver95 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price
−5 gold74 silver (-77%)
  • Evidence: 138 current listings holding 13,816 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 · 4,646 on the Auction House
51 gold49 silver7 gold45 silver100%
Total per craft7 gold45 silver100%

About Refine Ironclaw Ore |A:Professions-ChatIcon-Quality-Tier3:20:20|a

One craft takes 5 Ironclaw Ore. Ironclaw Ore is itself a reagent in 16 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 10% 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 gold79 silver
30-day low
85 silver Oct 9
30-day high
10 gold Oct 29
30-day median
1 gold99 silver
7-day median
2 gold
Hourly snapshots
691

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

Where the reagents come from

Ironclaw Ore. Made with Refine Ironclaw Ore |A:Professions-ChatIcon-Quality-Tier2:20:20|a (Mining, Khaz Algar Mining) from 5 Ironclaw Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Ironclaw Ore for 6 gold50 silver, against 1 gold49 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 1 gold30 silver, rank 2 1 gold49 silver and rank 3 1 gold79 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-Tier3:20:20|a cost 7 gold45 silver.

Break-even is 7 gold84 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 gold79 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −5 gold66 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 8 silver95 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 5 gold74 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -77.2% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 13,816 units across 138 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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