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Background
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 57 silver5 copper. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 5 gold12 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 5 gold99 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 29 silver95 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 57 silver5 copper (+11%)
- Evidence: 21 current listings holding 8,414 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Iron OreMetal & Stone · 15,587 on the Auction House | 1 | 5 gold12 silver | 5 gold12 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 5 gold12 silver | 100% |
About Smelt Iron
One craft takes 1 Iron Ore. Iron Bar is itself a reagent in 35 other recipes (Blacksmithing, Engineering, Jewelcrafting and Alchemy).
- Recipe category
- Smelting (Mining)
Iron Bar tooltip
Iron Bar: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing sits at its 30-day median.
- Now
- 5 gold95 silver
- 30-day low
- 2 gold Oct 21
- 30-day high
- 16 gold99 silver Oct 27
- 30-day median
- 6 gold
- 7-day median
- 6 gold38 silver
- 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
Iron Ore. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 2 other recipes (1 Blacksmithing and 1 Enchanting); Relic of the Past III takes the most, 5 per craft.
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Smelt Iron cost 5 gold12 silver.
Break-even is 5 gold38 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 5 gold99 silver, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 87 silver; the Auction House would keep 29 silver95 copper of a sale, leaving 57 silver5 copper. That is an estimated 11.1% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 34.4% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 8,414 units across 21 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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