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Background
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 3 gold28 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 7 gold59 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 11 gold45 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 57 silver25 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 3 gold28 silver (+43%)
- Evidence: 17 current listings holding 688 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Gold OreMetal & Stone · 13,399 on the Auction House | 1 | 7 gold59 silver | 7 gold59 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 7 gold59 silver | 100% |
About Smelt Gold
One craft takes 1 Gold Ore. Gold Bar is itself a reagent in 34 other recipes (Blacksmithing, Jewelcrafting, Tailoring and Cooking).
- Recipe category
- Smelting (Mining)
Gold Bar tooltip
Gold Bar: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 48% above 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
- 11 gold50 silver
- 30-day low
- 3 gold45 silver Oct 18
- 30-day high
- 98 gold99 silver Oct 23
- 30-day median
- 7 gold75 silver
- 7-day median
- 8 gold
- 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
Gold Ore. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it.
Other recipes that make Gold Bar
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Smelt Gold cost 7 gold59 silver.
Break-even is 7 gold98 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 11 gold45 silver, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 3 gold86 silver; the Auction House would keep 57 silver25 copper of a sale, leaving 3 gold28 silver. That is an estimated 43.3% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 14.8% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 688 units across 17 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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