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Steel Weapon Chain
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 one craft shows an estimated profit of 156 gold40 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 66 gold48 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 234 gold62 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 11 gold73 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 156 gold40 silver (+235%)
- Evidence: 9 current listings holding 42 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
- Blacksmithing
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Classic Blacksmithing
- Item level
- 16
- Reagent slots
- 3
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
8Steel Bar5 gold55 silver
2Heavy Grinding Stone50 silver
4Heavy Leather5 gold27 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steel Bar Metal & Stone · 20,511 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Steel (Mining) | 8 | 5 gold55 silver | 44 gold40 silver | 67% |
| Heavy Grinding Stone Metal & Stone · 2,948 on the Auction House · crafted by Heavy Grinding Stone (Blacksmithing) | 2 | 50 silver | 1 gold | 2% |
| Heavy Leather Leather · 67,515 on the Auction House · crafted by Heavy Leather (Leatherworking) | 4 | 5 gold27 silver | 21 gold8 silver | 32% |
| Total per craft | 66 gold48 silver | 100% |
About Steel Weapon Chain
One craft takes 8 Steel Bar, 2 Heavy Grinding Stone and 4 Heavy Leather. It is taught by Plans: Steel Weapon Chain, which needs Classic Blacksmithing 190. Steel Weapon Chain is itself a reagent in 1 other recipe (Blacksmithing).
- Recipe category
- Weapon Mods (Blacksmithing Plans)
- Skill-up colours (Classic Blacksmithing skill)
- Orange below 215 · Yellow 215 to 226 · Green 227 to 239 · Grey 240 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Steel Weapon Chain tooltip
How to learn Steel Weapon Chain
Plans: Steel Weapon Chain- Teaches
- Teaches you how to make a Steel Weapon Chain.
- Requires
- Classic Blacksmithing (190)
- Auction House
- listed on 40 US realms, cheapest 24,000 gold, 85 for sale
More Weapon Mods recipes (Blacksmithing Plans)
- Rough Sharpening Stoneyellow 15, grey 55
- Rough Weightstoneyellow 15, grey 55
- Coarse Sharpening Stoneyellow 65, grey 80
- Coarse Weightstoneyellow 65, grey 80
- Heavy Sharpening Stoneyellow 125, grey 140
- Heavy Weightstoneyellow 125, grey 140
- Solid Sharpening Stoneyellow 200, grey 210
- Solid Weightstoneyellow 200, grey 210
- Iron Counterweightyellow 190, grey 215
- Dense Sharpening Stoneyellow 255, grey 260
- Dense Weightstoneyellow 255, grey 260
- Elemental Sharpening Stoneyellow 300, grey 300
Steel Weapon Chain is a reagent in
Steel Weapon Chain: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 18% 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
- 234 gold62 silver
- 30-day low
- 73 gold7 silver Aug 29
- 30-day high
- 49,999 gold94 silver Sep 18
- 30-day median
- 198 gold97 silver
- 7-day median
- 288 gold24 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 684
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Steel Bar. Made with Smelt Steel (Mining, Classic Mining) from 1 
Iron Bar and 1 
Coal. At lowest listed prices that makes one Steel Bar for 5 gold76 silver, against 5 gold55 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 16 other recipes (15 Blacksmithing and 1 Engineering); Steel Breastplate takes the most, 16 per craft.
Heavy Grinding Stone. Made with Heavy Grinding Stone (Blacksmithing, Classic Blacksmithing) from 3 
Heavy Stone. At lowest listed prices that makes one Heavy Grinding Stone for 27 silver, against 50 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 23 other recipes (23 Blacksmithing); the most per craft: Barbaric Iron Breastplate (Blacksmithing, 4 per craft), Golden Scale Boots (Blacksmithing, 4 per craft), Golden Scale Cuirass (Blacksmithing, 4 per craft), Golden Scale Gauntlets (Blacksmithing, 4 per craft) and Green Iron Hauberk (Blacksmithing, 4 per craft).
Heavy Leather. Made with Heavy Leather (Leatherworking, Classic Leatherworking) from 5 
Medium Leather. At lowest listed prices that makes one Heavy Leather for 12 gold55 silver, against 5 gold27 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 84 other recipes (50 Leatherworking, 15 Engineering, 12 Blacksmithing and 7 Tailoring); the most per craft: Dusky Bracers (Leatherworking, 16 per craft), Barbaric Harness (Leatherworking, 14 per craft), Guardian Cloak (Leatherworking, 14 per craft), Murloc Scale Bracers (Leatherworking, 14 per craft) and Comfortable Leather Hat (Leatherworking, 12 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 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
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Steel Weapon Chain cost 66 gold48 silver. Most of that is Steel Bar - 8 at 5 gold55 silver each, 44 gold40 silver, 66.8% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 69 gold97 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 234 gold62 silver, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 168 gold14 silver; the Auction House would keep 11 gold73 silver of a sale, leaving 156 gold40 silver. That is an estimated 235.3% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 7.0% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 42 units across 9 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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