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AlchemyPandaria Alchemy
Transmute: Living Steel
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 34 gold4 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 630 gold
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 698 gold99 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 34 gold94 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 34 gold4 silver (+5%)
- Evidence: 60 current listings holding 2,124 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
- Alchemy
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Pandaria Alchemy
- Item level
- 30
- Reagent slots
- 1
- Cast time
- 3 sec
Crafts
Reagents
6Trillium Bar105 gold
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trillium Bar Metal & Stone · 2,492 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Trillium (Mining) · crafted by Transmute: Trillium Bar (Alchemy) | 6 | 105 gold | 630 gold | 100% |
| Total per craft | 630 gold | 100% |
About Transmute: Living Steel
One craft takes 6 Trillium Bar. Living Steel is itself a reagent in 58 other recipes (Blacksmithing, Engineering, Jewelcrafting and Inscription).
- Recipe category
- Transmutation (Pandaria Alchemy)
- Skill-up colours (Pandaria Alchemy skill)
- Orange below 75 · Grey 75 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Living Steel tooltip
More Transmutation recipes (Pandaria Alchemy)
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- Transmute: Primal Diamondyellow 75, grey 75
- Transmute: Primordial Rubyyellow 75, grey 75
- Transmute: River's Heartyellow 75, grey 75
- Transmute: Sun's Radianceyellow 75, grey 75
- Transmute: Trillium Baryellow 75, grey 75
- Transmute: Vermilion Onyxyellow 75, grey 75
- Transmute: Wild Jadeyellow 75, grey 75
Living Steel is a reagent in
Black Planar Edge, RebornBlacksmithing- Blazefury, RebornBlacksmithing
- Blazeguard, RebornBlacksmithing
- Bloodforged WarfistsBlacksmithing
- Bloodmoon, RebornBlacksmithing
- Breastplate of Ancient SteelBlacksmithing
- Chestplate of Limitless FaithBlacksmithing
- Deep Thunder, RebornBlacksmithing
- Dragonmaw, RebornBlacksmithing
- Dragonstrike, RebornBlacksmithing
- Drakefist Hammer, RebornBlacksmithing
- Fireguard, RebornBlacksmithing
and 46 more recipes.
Living Steel: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 4% below its 30-day median.
- Now
- 699 gold99 silver
- 30-day low
- 599 gold73 silver Sep 15
- 30-day high
- 835 gold96 silver Sep 5
- 30-day median
- 726 gold99 silver
- 7-day median
- 707 gold88 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 689
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Trillium Bar. Made with Smelt Trillium (Mining, Pandaria Mining) from 2 
Black Trillium Ore and 2 
White Trillium Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Trillium Bar for 95 gold60 silver, against 105 gold listed. Made with Transmute: Trillium Bar (Alchemy, Pandaria Alchemy) from 10 
Ghost Iron Bar. At lowest listed prices that makes one Trillium Bar for 117 gold50 silver, against 105 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 22 other recipes (13 Blacksmithing, 7 Engineering, 1 Jewelcrafting and 1 Alchemy); Reconstructed Mogu Lightning Drill takes the most, 40 per craft.
Other recipes that make Living Steel
More Pandaria Alchemy recipes in the same skill range
- Alchemist's RejuvenationPotions, learn at 1, grey at 10
- Darkwater PotionPotions, learn at 1, grey at 65
- Desecrated OilOils, learn at 1, grey at 40
- Elixir of MirrorsElixirs, learn at 1, grey at 65
- Elixir of PeaceElixirs, learn at 1, grey at 65
- Elixir of PerfectionElixirs, learn at 1, grey at 65
- Elixir of WeaponryElixirs, learn at 1, grey at 40
- Elixir of the RapidsElixirs, learn at 1, grey at 65
- Flask of Falling LeavesFlasks, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Flask of Spring BlossomsFlasks, learn at 1, grey at 75
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Transmute: Living Steel cost 630 gold.
Break-even is 663 gold15 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 698 gold99 silver, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 68 gold99 silver; the Auction House would keep 34 gold94 silver of a sale, leaving 34 gold4 silver. That is an estimated 5.4% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 50.7% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 2,124 units across 60 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 →
Other recipes that use Trillium Bar
- Riddle of SteelAlchemy
- Accelerated Balanced Trillium IngotBlacksmithing
- Balanced Trillium IngotBlacksmithing
- Masterwork Lightsteel ShieldBlacksmithing
- Masterwork Spiritguard BeltBlacksmithing
- Masterwork Spiritguard BootsBlacksmithing
- Masterwork Spiritguard BracersBlacksmithing
- Masterwork Spiritguard BreastplateBlacksmithing
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