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Runic Breastplate
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
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 290 gold83 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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Recipe facts
- Profession
- Blacksmithing
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Classic Blacksmithing
- Item level
- 29
- Reagent slots
- 3
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
40Thorium Bar2 gold80 silver
2Arcanite Bar88 gold99 silver
1Star Ruby85 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thorium Bar Metal & Stone · 128,061 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Thorium (Mining) | 40 | 2 gold80 silver | 112 gold | 39% |
| Arcanite Bar Metal & Stone · 14,888 on the Auction House · crafted by Transmute: Arcanite (Alchemy) | 2 | 88 gold99 silver | 177 gold98 silver | 61% |
| Star Ruby Jewelcrafting · 4,489 on the Auction House | 1 | 85 silver | 85 silver | 0% |
| Total per craft | 290 gold83 silver | 100% |
About Runic Breastplate
One craft takes 40 Thorium Bar, 2 Arcanite Bar and 1 Star Ruby. It is taught by Plans: Runic Breastplate, which needs Classic Blacksmithing 300.
- Recipe category
- Chest (Blacksmithing Plans)
- Skill-up colours (Classic Blacksmithing skill)
- Orange below 300 · Grey 300 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Runic Breastplate tooltip
How to learn Runic Breastplate
Plans: Runic Breastplate- Teaches
- Teaches you how to make a Runic Breastplate.
- Requires
- Classic Blacksmithing (300)
- Binding
- Binds when picked up
More Chest recipes (Blacksmithing Plans)
- Rough Copper Vestyellow 15, grey 55
- Copper Chain Vestyellow 75, grey 115
- Ironforge Chainyellow 110, grey 150
- Runed Copper Breastplateyellow 120, grey 160
- Rough Bronze Cuirassyellow 145, grey 175
- Ironforge Breastplateyellow 140, grey 180
- Silvered Bronze Breastplateyellow 160, grey 190
- Shining Silver Breastplateyellow 175, grey 205
- Barbaric Iron Breastplateyellow 185, grey 210
- Green Iron Hauberkyellow 205, grey 230
- Golden Scale Cuirassyellow 220, grey 245
- Steel Breastplateyellow 225, grey 250
Where the reagents come from
Thorium Bar. Made with Smelt Thorium (Mining, Classic Mining) from 1 
Thorium Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Thorium Bar for 3 gold, against 2 gold80 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 88 other recipes (73 Blacksmithing, 7 Engineering, 5 Jewelcrafting and 1 Inscription); Lionheart Helm takes the most, 80 per craft.
Arcanite Bar. Made with Transmute: Arcanite (Alchemy, Classic Alchemy) from 1 Thorium Bar and 1 
Arcane Crystal. At lowest listed prices that makes one Arcanite Bar for 109 gold80 silver, against 88 gold99 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 93 other recipes (74 Blacksmithing, 7 Jewelcrafting, 5 Engineering and 3 Inscription); the most per craft: Sulfuron Hammer (Blacksmithing, 50 per craft), Invulnerable Mail (Blacksmithing, 30 per craft), Warblades of the Hakkari, Reborn (Blacksmithing, 24 per craft), Arcanite Reaper (Blacksmithing, 20 per craft) and Blade of Unholy Might (Blacksmithing, 20 per craft).
Star Ruby. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 41 other recipes (18 Blacksmithing, 10 Engineering, 9 Jewelcrafting and 2 Leatherworking); the most per craft: Blackrock Lamppost (Jewelcrafting, 20 per craft), Weaver's Fang (Blacksmithing, 16 per craft), Midnight's Graze (Blacksmithing, 12 per craft), Blood Talon (Blacksmithing, 10 per craft) and Heartseeker (Blacksmithing, 6 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 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
- Belt of the MentorAncient Plans, learn at 1, grey at 300
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Runic Breastplate cost 290 gold83 silver. Most of that is Arcanite Bar - 2 at 88 gold99 silver each, 177 gold98 silver, 61.2% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 306 gold13 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.
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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Data notes
- No Auction House price for the crafted item - output value unknown (it may be soulbound/BoE gear or an untracked item).