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Titanium Plating

A Blacksmithing recipe learned at Northrend Blacksmithing 1 that crafts Titanium Plating from 2 reagents.

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Where it comes from
Recipe item Plans: Titanium PlatingRequires Northrend Blacksmithing 75 · Reputation with Alliance Vanguard
Recipe item Plans: Titanium PlatingRequires Northrend Blacksmithing 75 · Reputation with Horde Expedition

Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 14 gold8 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
489 gold8 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price
500 gold
Auction House cut (5%)
25 gold
Estimated profit at that listed price
−14 gold8 silver (-3%)
  • Evidence: 15 current listings holding 99 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 81% below its 30-day median of 2,600 gold, so this estimate rests on a listing far below its usual level.
Verified priceAuction HouseUS region
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Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Titanium Bar
Metal & Stone · 6,739 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Titanium (Mining) · crafted by Transmute: Titanium (Alchemy)
493 gold372 gold76%
Eternal Shadow
Elemental · 8,685 on the Auction House · crafted by Transmute: Eternal Life to Shadow (Alchemy) · crafted by Transmute: Eternal Earth to Shadow (Alchemy)
429 gold27 silver117 gold8 silver24%
Total per craft489 gold8 silver100%

About Titanium Plating

One craft takes 4 Titanium Bar and 4 Eternal Shadow. It is taught by Plans: Titanium Plating, which needs Northrend Blacksmithing 75.

Recipe category
Equipment Mods (Northrend Plans)

Titanium Plating tooltip

Titanium Plating
Item Level 30
Item Enhancement
Requires Level 27
Use: Permanently attach lightweight titanium plating to a shield, increasing parry and reducing the duration of Disarm effects by 50%. Does not stack with other similar effects. Attaching Titanium Plating to your shield causes it to become soulbound. Cannot be applied to items higher than level.
Sell price: 3g

How to learn Titanium Plating

Plans: Titanium Plating

Teaches
Teaches you how to make a Titanium Plating.
Requires
Northrend Blacksmithing (75) · Exalted with Alliance Vanguard
Binding
Binds when picked up

Plans: Titanium Plating

Teaches
Teaches you how to make a Titanium Plating.
Requires
Northrend Blacksmithing (75) · Exalted with Horde Expedition
Binding
Binds when picked up

Titanium Plating: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 11% above its 30-day median.

Now
2,875 gold
30-day low
1,100 gold Nov 3
30-day high
3,195 gold36 silver Oct 11
30-day median
2,600 gold
7-day median
1,900 gold
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

Titanium Bar. Made with Smelt Titanium (Mining, Northrend Mining) from 2 Titanium Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Titanium Bar for 90 gold, against 93 gold listed. Made with Transmute: Titanium (Alchemy, Northrend Alchemy) from 8 Saronite Bar. At lowest listed prices that makes one Titanium Bar for 102 gold40 silver, against 93 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 46 other recipes (23 Jewelcrafting, 16 Engineering, 3 Blacksmithing and 2 Enchanting); Armor Plated Combat Shotgun takes the most, 10 per craft.

Eternal Shadow. Made with Transmute: Eternal Earth to Shadow (Alchemy, Northrend Alchemy) from 1 Eternal Earth. At lowest listed prices that makes one Eternal Shadow for 1 gold76 silver, against 29 gold27 silver listed. Made with Transmute: Eternal Life to Shadow (Alchemy, Northrend Alchemy) from 1 Eternal Life. At lowest listed prices that makes one Eternal Shadow for 65 gold, against 29 gold27 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 41 other recipes (14 Leatherworking, 7 Engineering, 6 Blacksmithing and 5 Alchemy); the most per craft: Knightbane Carapace (Leatherworking, 20 per craft), Knightbane Carapace (Leatherworking, 20 per craft), Legplates of Painful Death (Blacksmithing, 20 per craft), Bladeborn Leggings (Leatherworking, 16 per craft) and Bracers of Swift Death (Leatherworking, 12 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Titanium Plating cost 489 gold8 silver. Most of that is Titanium Bar - 4 at 93 gold each, 372 gold, 76.1% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 514 gold82 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 500 gold, which does not clear it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 10 gold92 silver; the Auction House would keep 25 gold of a sale, leaving −14 gold8 silver. That is an estimated -2.9% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 228.9% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 99 units across 15 auctions region-wide. Depth separates a market price from a single asking figure, but listings are not sales, so read it alongside the estimate.

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