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Steel Weapon Chain
A Blacksmithing recipe learned at Classic Blacksmithing 1 that crafts Steel Weapon Chain from 3 reagents.
Reagents
8Steel Bar6 gold95 silver
2Heavy Grinding Stone1 gold57 silver
4Heavy Leather4 gold60 silver
Crafts
Background
| Recipe item |  Plans: Steel Weapon Chain | Requires Classic Blacksmithing 190 |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | NPC #40210 | Sells Plans: Steel Weapon Chain · Dalaran |
| Vendor | NPC #40214 | Sells Plans: Steel Weapon Chain · Tanaris · 51.5, 28.1 · /way #71 51.5 28.1 |
| Vendor | NPC #40216 | Sells Plans: Steel Weapon Chain · Gadgetzan |
Crafting estimate at current listings
No real market: too few listings for this price to mean anything yet.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 77 gold14 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 18,888 gold56 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 944 gold42 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 17,866 gold99 silver
Thin market: the crafted item’s lowest listing comes from very few current listings and sits far out of line with reagent cost. Treat this estimate as unverified until more listings accrue.
- Evidence: 3 current listings holding 7 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
- Outlier: the crafted item’s lowest listing is 51 times its 30-day median of 372 gold11 silver, so this estimate rests on a listing far above its usual level.
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steel Bar Metal & Stone · 15,566 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Steel (Mining) | 8 | 6 gold95 silver | 55 gold60 silver | 72% |
| Heavy Grinding Stone Metal & Stone · 741 on the Auction House · crafted by Heavy Grinding Stone (Blacksmithing) | 2 | 1 gold57 silver | 3 gold14 silver | 4% |
| Heavy Leather Leather · 25,113 on the Auction House · crafted by Heavy Leather (Leatherworking) | 4 | 4 gold60 silver | 18 gold40 silver | 24% |
| Total per craft | 77 gold14 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)
Steel Weapon Chain tooltip
How to learn Steel Weapon Chain
- Teaches
- Teaches you how to make a Steel Weapon Chain.
- Requires
- Classic Blacksmithing (190)
- Auction House
- listed on 33 US realms, cheapest 35,000 gold, 56 for sale
Steel Weapon Chain: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 51 times 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
- 18,888 gold56 silver
- 30-day low
- 247 gold32 silver Oct 17
- 30-day high
- 18,888 gold73 silver Oct 21
- 30-day median
- 372 gold11 silver
- 7-day median
- 366 gold82 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 693
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 6 gold4 silver, against 6 gold95 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 15 silver, against 1 gold57 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 14 gold40 silver, against 4 gold60 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 77 gold14 silver. Most of that is Steel Bar - 8 at 6 gold95 silver each, 55 gold60 silver, 72.1% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 81 gold20 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 18,888 gold56 silver, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 18,811 gold42 silver; the Auction House would keep 944 gold42 silver of a sale, leaving 17,866 gold99 silver. That is an estimated 23161.8% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 5.0% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 7 units across 3 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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