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BlacksmithingClassic Blacksmithing
Silver Skeleton Key
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 the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 7 gold49 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 8 gold63 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 60 silver
- Items per craft
- 2
- Listed value of one craft
- 1 gold20 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 6 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −7 gold49 silver (-87%)
- Evidence: 25 current listings holding 477 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
- Items per craft: the game’s spell data creates 2 per craft, so the listed value of one craft is that many times the lowest listed price.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Blacksmithing
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Classic Blacksmithing
- Item level
- 10
- Reagent slots
- 2
- Cast time
- 1.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
1Silver Bar8 gold55 silver
1Rough Grinding Stone8 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silver Bar Metal & Stone · 6,855 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Silver (Mining) | 1 | 8 gold55 silver | 8 gold55 silver | 99% |
| Rough Grinding Stone Metal & Stone · 9,445 on the Auction House · crafted by Rough Grinding Stone (Blacksmithing) | 1 | 8 silver | 8 silver | 1% |
| Total per craft | 8 gold63 silver | 100% |
About Silver Skeleton Key
One craft takes 1 Silver Bar and 1 Rough Grinding Stone.
- Recipe category
- Skeleton Keys (Blacksmithing Plans)
- Skill-up colours (Classic Blacksmithing skill)
- Orange below 100 · Yellow 100 to 109 · Green 110 to 119 · Grey 120 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Silver Skeleton Key tooltip
More Skeleton Keys recipes (Blacksmithing Plans)
Silver Skeleton Key: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 29% 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
- 60 silver
- 30-day low
- 1 silver Sep 2
- 30-day high
- 46,000 gold1 silver Sep 5
- 30-day median
- 85 silver
- 7-day median
- 80 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 677
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Silver Bar. Made with Smelt Silver (Mining, Classic Mining) from 1 
Silver Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Silver Bar for 9 gold, against 8 gold55 silver listed. Rewarded by the quest Captain Sanders' Hidden Treasure. Also a required reagent in 18 other recipes (11 Blacksmithing, 5 Jewelcrafting and 2 Engineering); Runic Plate Boots takes the most, 10 per craft.
Rough Grinding Stone. Made with Rough Grinding Stone (Blacksmithing, Classic Blacksmithing) from 2 
Rough Stone. At lowest listed prices that makes one Rough Grinding Stone for 2 silver, against 8 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 14 other recipes (14 Blacksmithing); the most per craft: Rough Bronze Boots (Blacksmithing, 6 per craft), Ironforge Breastplate (Blacksmithing, 3 per craft), Runed Copper Bracers (Blacksmithing, 3 per craft), Runed Copper Pants (Blacksmithing, 3 per craft) and Big Bronze Knife (Blacksmithing, 2 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
- Axe of Sundered BoneAncient Plans, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Barbaric Iron BootsBoots, learn at 1, grey at 230
- Barbaric Iron BreastplateChest, learn at 1, grey at 210
- 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 2 reagents for one craft of Silver Skeleton Key cost 8 gold63 silver. Most of that is Silver Bar - 1 at 8 gold55 silver each, 8 gold55 silver, 99.1% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 9 gold8 silver per craft, 4 gold54 silver per item at 2 items a craft - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 60 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −7 gold43 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 6 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 7 gold49 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -86.8% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 477 units across 25 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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