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Recipe
MiningClassic Mining
Smelt Steel
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 32 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 6 gold2 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 6 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 30 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −32 silver (-5%)
- Evidence: 50 current listings holding 21,906 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Mining
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Classic Mining
- Item level
- 10
- Reagent slots
- 2
- Cast time
- 1.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Iron BarMetal & Stone · 10,266 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Iron (Mining) | 1 | 5 gold99 silver | 5 gold99 silver | 100% |
 CoalMetal & Stone · 6,629 on the Auction House | 1 | 3 silver | 3 silver | 0% |
| Total per craft | 6 gold2 silver | 100% |
About Smelt Steel
One craft takes 1 Iron Bar and 1 Coal. Steel Bar is itself a reagent in 17 other recipes (Blacksmithing and Engineering).
- Recipe category
- Smelting (Mining)
- Skill-up colours (Classic Mining skill)
- Orange below 125 · Yellow 125 to 129 · Green 130 to 134 · Grey 135 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Steel Bar tooltip
More Smelting recipes (Mining)
- Smelt Copperyellow 20, grey 60
- Smelt Tinyellow 40, grey 75
- Smelt Bronzeyellow 50, grey 100
- Smelt Silveryellow 100, grey 110
- Smelt Ironyellow 100, grey 150
- Smelt Goldyellow 150, grey 160
- Smelt Mithrilyellow 150, grey 200
- Smelt Truesilveryellow 200, grey 210
- Enchanted Thorium Baryellow 250, grey 290
- Smelt Thoriumyellow 200, grey 290
- Smelt Enchanted Elementiumyellow 300, grey 300
- Smelt Dark Ironyellow 300, grey 310
Steel Bar is a reagent in
Edge of WinterBlacksmithing- Frost Tiger BladeBlacksmithing
- Glinting Steel DaggerBlacksmithing
- Golden Scale BootsBlacksmithing
- Golden Scale BracersBlacksmithing
- Golden Scale CoifBlacksmithing
- Golden Scale CuirassBlacksmithing
- Golden Scale GauntletsBlacksmithing
- Golden Scale ShouldersBlacksmithing
- Moonsteel BroadswordBlacksmithing
- Polished Steel BootsBlacksmithing
- Searing Golden BladeBlacksmithing
and 5 more recipes.
Steel Bar: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 14% below its 30-day median.
- Now
- 6 gold
- 30-day low
- 4 gold Aug 31
- 30-day high
- 25 gold Aug 22
- 30-day median
- 7 gold
- 7-day median
- 7 gold
- Hourly snapshots
- 689
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Iron Bar. Made with Smelt Iron (Mining, Classic Mining) from 1 
Iron Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Iron Bar for 7 gold49 silver, against 5 gold99 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 34 other recipes (22 Blacksmithing, 6 Engineering, 4 Jewelcrafting and 2 Alchemy); Barbaric Iron Breastplate takes the most, 20 per craft.
Coal. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 3 other recipes (1 Engineering, 1 Enchanting and 1 Blacksmithing); the most per craft: Halfhill Cookpot (Engineering, 10 per craft), Intense Mogu Brazier (Enchanting, 5 per craft) and Pandaren Signal Brazier (Blacksmithing, 5 per craft).
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Smelt Steel cost 6 gold2 silver. Most of that is Iron Bar - 1 at 5 gold99 silver each, 5 gold99 silver, 99.5% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 6 gold33 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 6 gold, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −2 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 30 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 32 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -5.3% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 21,906 units across 50 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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