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Thorium Shield Spike

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.

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Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 468 gold32 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
20 gold98 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price
515 gold6 silver
Auction House cut (5%)
25 gold75 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price
468 gold32 silver (+2232%)
  • Evidence: 6 current listings holding 10 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Last verifiedAuction HouseUS region
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Recipe facts

Profession
Blacksmithing
Requires skill
1
Expansion tier
Classic Blacksmithing
Item level
23
Reagent slots
3
Cast time
2 sec

Crafts

Thorium Shield Spike515 gold

Reagents

Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Thorium Bar
Metal & Stone · 27,450 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Thorium (Mining)		43 gold85 silver15 gold40 silver73%
Dense Grinding Stone
Metal & Stone · 5,466 on the Auction House · crafted by Dense Grinding Stone (Blacksmithing)		41 gold4 gold19%
Essence of Earth
Elemental · 12,576 on the Auction House · crafted by Transmute: Fire to Earth (Alchemy) · crafted by Transmute: Life to Earth (Alchemy)		279 silver1 gold58 silver8%
Total per craft20 gold98 silver100%

About Thorium Shield Spike

One craft takes 4 Thorium Bar, 4 Dense Grinding Stone and 2 Essence of Earth. It is taught by Plans: Thorium Shield Spike, which needs Classic Blacksmithing 275.

Recipe category
Armor Mods (Blacksmithing Plans)
Skill-up colours (Classic Blacksmithing skill)
Orange below 295 · Yellow 295 to 296 · Green 297 to 299 · Grey 300 and up
Skill points per craft
1

Thorium Shield Spike tooltip

Thorium Shield Spike
Item Level 23
Item Enhancement
Use: Attaches a Thorium Spike to your shield that deals damage every time you block with it.
Sell price: 5s

How to learn Thorium Shield Spike

Plans: Thorium Shield Spike

Teaches
Teaches you how to make a Thorium Shield Spike.
Requires
Classic Blacksmithing (275)
Auction House
listed on 35 US realms, cheapest 9,993 gold79 silver, 67 for sale

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Thorium Shield Spike: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 3% 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
515 gold
30-day low
308 gold7 silver Sep 7
30-day high
49,999 gold95 silver Sep 11
30-day median
501 gold1 silver
7-day median
515 gold6 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

Thorium Bar. Made with Smelt Thorium (Mining, Classic Mining) from 1 Thorium Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Thorium Bar for 3 gold33 silver, against 3 gold85 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 88 other recipes (73 Blacksmithing, 7 Engineering, 5 Jewelcrafting and 1 Inscription); Lionheart Helm takes the most, 80 per craft.

Dense Grinding Stone. Made with Dense Grinding Stone (Blacksmithing, Classic Blacksmithing) from 4 Dense Stone. At lowest listed prices that makes one Dense Grinding Stone for 12 silver, against 1 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 22 other recipes (22 Blacksmithing); the most per craft: Harbinger of Death (Blacksmithing, 40 per craft), Gurubashi Carver (Blacksmithing, 8 per craft), Warsword of Caer Darrow (Blacksmithing, 8 per craft), Huge Thorium Battleaxe (Blacksmithing, 6 per craft) and Heartseeker (Blacksmithing, 4 per craft).

Essence of Earth. Made with Transmute: Fire to Earth (Alchemy, Classic Alchemy) from 1 Essence of Fire. At lowest listed prices that makes one Essence of Earth for 18 silver, against 79 silver listed. Made with Transmute: Life to Earth (Alchemy, Classic Alchemy) from 1 Living Essence. At lowest listed prices that makes one Essence of Earth for 48 gold97 silver, against 79 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 28 other recipes (11 Blacksmithing, 4 Engineering, 3 Tailoring and 3 Inscription); the most per craft: Hammer of the Titans (Blacksmithing, 10 per craft), Robe of the Archmage (Tailoring, 10 per craft), Stronghold Gauntlets (Blacksmithing, 10 per craft), Thick Obsidian Breastplate (Blacksmithing, 10 per craft) and Titanic Leggings (Blacksmithing, 10 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Thorium Shield Spike cost 20 gold98 silver. Most of that is Thorium Bar - 4 at 3 gold85 silver each, 15 gold40 silver, 73.4% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 22 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 515 gold6 silver, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 494 gold8 silver; the Auction House would keep 25 gold75 silver of a sale, leaving 468 gold32 silver. That is an estimated 2232.3% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 5.2% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 10 units across 6 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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