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Sterling Alloy
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 20 gold3 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 81 gold78 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 65 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 3 gold25 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −20 gold3 silver (-24%)
- Evidence: 95 current listings holding 12,908 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
- Quality: Sterling Alloy comes in 2 quality ranks. This is the base comparison, rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result; your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide the rank you actually get, which this estimate does not model. Each rank’s lowest listing is in the rank table below.
- Not included: the recipe also accepts 1 finishing reagent slot, which are not required and are left out of the cost.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Blacksmithing
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Midnight Blacksmithing
- Item level
- 80
- Reagent slots
- 3
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
6Brilliant Silver Ore4 gold98 silver
3Refulgent Copper Ingot16 gold90 silver
4Luminant Flux30 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brilliant Silver Ore Metal & Stone · 159,878 on the Auction House | 6 | 4 gold98 silver | 29 gold88 silver | 37% |
| Refulgent Copper Ingot Metal & Stone · 26,341 on the Auction House | 3 | 16 gold90 silver | 50 gold70 silver | 62% |
| Luminant Flux Metal & Stone · 315,619 on the Auction House | 4 | 30 silver | 1 gold20 silver | 1% |
| Total per craft | 81 gold78 silver | 100% |
About Sterling Alloy
One craft takes 6 Brilliant Silver Ore, 3 Refulgent Copper Ingot and 4 Luminant Flux. Sterling Alloy is itself a reagent in 54 other recipes (Blacksmithing, Enchanting and Leatherworking).
- Recipe category
- Smelting (Midnight Plans)
- Skill-up colours (Midnight Blacksmithing skill)
- Orange below 50 · Yellow 50 to 59 · Green 60 to 69 · Grey 70 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Sterling Alloy tooltip
More Smelting recipes (Midnight Plans)
Sterling Alloy is a reagent in
- Amani Forgemaster's Decorative SpearBlacksmithing
- Amani Forgemaster's RackBlacksmithing
- Amani Forgemaster's WorkbenchBlacksmithing
- Blood Knight's ImpetusBlacksmithing
- Blood Knight's MercyBlacksmithing
- Blood Knight's WarbladeBlacksmithing
- Bloomforged ClawBlacksmithing
- Bloomforged GreataxeBlacksmithing
- Farstrider's ChopperBlacksmithing
- Farstrider's MercyBlacksmithing
- Gilded Silvermoon AnvilBlacksmithing
- Gilded Silvermoon HangerBlacksmithing
and 42 more recipes.
Sterling Alloy quality ranks
Sterling Alloy comes in 2 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 400.
| Rank | Item | Lowest listed price | Listings (US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank 1 | Sterling Alloy | 65 gold | 95 listings, 12,908 units |
| Rank 2 | Sterling Alloy | 175 gold18 silver | 258 listings, 6,965 units |
The crafting estimate above is the base comparison: rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result. Your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide which rank a craft actually makes, so a higher rank is never priced against rank 1 reagents here.
Sterling Alloy: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 31% below its 30-day median.
- Now
- 64 gold50 silver
- 30-day low
- 54 gold99 silver Sep 18
- 30-day high
- 140 gold93 silver Sep 1
- 30-day median
- 93 gold99 silver
- 7-day median
- 70 gold24 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 681
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Brilliant Silver Ore. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 4 gold98 silver and rank 2 15 gold62 silver. Also a required reagent in 2 other recipes (1 Enchanting and 1 Blacksmithing); Runed Brilliant Silver Rod takes the most, 5 per craft.
Refulgent Copper Ingot. Made with Refulgent Copper Ingot (Blacksmithing, Midnight Blacksmithing) from 5 
Refulgent Copper Ore and 2 Luminant Flux. At lowest listed prices that makes one Refulgent Copper Ingot for 24 gold20 silver, against 16 gold90 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 16 gold90 silver and rank 2 47 gold45 silver. Also a required reagent in 43 other recipes (40 Blacksmithing and 3 Enchanting); the most per craft: Amani Forgemaster's Rack (Blacksmithing, 18 per craft), Amani Forgemaster's Workbench (Blacksmithing, 18 per craft), Gilded Silvermoon Anvil (Blacksmithing, 18 per craft), Ren'dorei Anvil (Blacksmithing, 18 per craft) and Gilded Silvermoon Hanger (Blacksmithing, 12 per craft).
Luminant Flux. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 57 other recipes (55 Blacksmithing and 2 Enchanting); the most per craft: Refulgent Razorstone (Blacksmithing, 15 per craft), Refulgent Weightstone (Blacksmithing, 15 per craft), Refulgent Whetstone (Blacksmithing, 15 per craft), Animated Sin'dorei Hammer (Enchanting, 10 per craft) and Animated Sin'dorei Pick (Enchanting, 10 per craft).
More Midnight Blacksmithing recipes in the same skill range
- Amani Forgemaster's Decorative SpearHouse Decor, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Amani Forgemaster's RackHouse Decor, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Amani Forgemaster's WorkbenchHouse Decor, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Blood Knight's ImpetusWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Blood Knight's MercyWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Blood Knight's WarbladeWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Blood-Tempered BasinetArmor, learn at 1, grey at 50
- Blood-Tempered BracersArmor, learn at 1, grey at 40
- Blood-Tempered BulwarkArmor, learn at 1, grey at 45
- Blood-Tempered ChestplateArmor, learn at 1, grey at 30
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Sterling Alloy cost 81 gold78 silver. Most of that is Refulgent Copper Ingot - 3 at 16 gold90 silver each, 50 gold70 silver, 62.0% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 86 gold8 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 65 gold, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −16 gold78 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 3 gold25 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 20 gold3 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -24.5% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 12,908 units across 95 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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