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Valiant Shortblade
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
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 132 gold
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- …
- Auction House cut (5%)
- …
- Estimated profit at that listed price
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Recipe facts
- Profession
- Blacksmithing
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Classic Blacksmithing
- Item level
- 28
- Reagent slots
- 4
- Cast time
- 3.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
12Thorium Bar2 gold50 silver
2Silver Bar17 gold
8Gold Bar8 gold
4Dense Grinding Stone1 gold
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thorium Bar Metal & Stone · 32,132 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Thorium (Mining) | 12 | 2 gold50 silver | 30 gold | 23% |
| Silver Bar Metal & Stone · 3,769 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Silver (Mining) | 2 | 17 gold | 34 gold | 26% |
| Gold Bar Metal & Stone · 9,544 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Gold (Mining) · crafted by Transmute: Iron to Gold (Alchemy) | 8 | 8 gold | 64 gold | 48% |
| Dense Grinding Stone Metal & Stone · 9,018 on the Auction House · crafted by Dense Grinding Stone (Blacksmithing) | 4 | 1 gold | 4 gold | 3% |
| Total per craft | 132 gold | 100% |
About Valiant Shortblade
One craft takes 12 Thorium Bar, 2 Silver Bar, 8 Gold Bar and 4 Dense Grinding Stone. It is taught by Ancient Plans: Valiant Shortblade, which needs Classic Blacksmithing 300.
- Recipe category
- Ancient Plans (Blacksmithing Plans)
- Skill-up colours (Classic Blacksmithing skill)
- Orange below 300 · Grey 300 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Valiant Shortblade tooltip
How to learn Valiant Shortblade
Ancient Plans: Valiant Shortblade
- Teaches
- Teaches you how to craft Valiant Shortblade.
- Requires
- Classic Blacksmithing (300)
- Auction House
- listed on 38 US realms, cheapest 2,500 gold50 silver, 75 for sale
More Ancient Plans recipes (Blacksmithing Plans)
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- Bloodheraldyellow 300, grey 300
- Bloodlord's Reaveryellow 300, grey 300
- Bracers of Vengeanceyellow 300, grey 300
- Bucket Kickersyellow 300, grey 300
- Darrowdirkyellow 300, grey 300
- Darrowshire Protectoryellow 300, grey 300
- Dawn of Demiseyellow 300, grey 300
- Death's Gambleyellow 300, grey 300
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 2 gold, against 2 gold50 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.
Silver Bar. Made with Smelt Silver (Mining, Classic Mining) from 1 
Silver Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Silver Bar for 19 gold, against 17 gold listed. Rewarded by the quest Captain Sanders' Hidden Treasure. Also a required reagent in 18 other recipes (11 Blacksmithing, 5 Jewelcrafting and 2 Engineering); the most per craft: Runic Plate Boots (Blacksmithing, 10 per craft), Intrepid Shortblade (Blacksmithing, 8 per craft), Moonsoul Crown (Jewelcrafting, 4 per craft), Shining Silver Breastplate (Blacksmithing, 4 per craft) and Silvered Bronze Leggings (Blacksmithing, 4 per craft).
Gold Bar. Made with Smelt Gold (Mining, Classic Mining) from 1 
Gold Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Gold Bar for 6 gold68 silver, against 8 gold listed. Made with Transmute: Iron to Gold (Alchemy, Classic Alchemy) from 1 
Iron Bar. At lowest listed prices that makes one Gold Bar for 5 gold74 silver, against 8 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 33 other recipes (20 Blacksmithing, 6 Jewelcrafting, 4 Tailoring and 1 Inscription); the most per craft: Blade of Unholy Might (Blacksmithing, 40 per craft), Widow's Weep (Blacksmithing, 30 per craft), Stygian Shield (Blacksmithing, 20 per craft), Soulscryer (Inscription, 12 per craft) and Gem of the Nerubians (Jewelcrafting, 8 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 16 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).
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
- 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
- Big Black MaceWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 280
3D Model
First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 4 reagents for one craft of Valiant Shortblade cost 132 gold. Most of that is Gold Bar - 8 at 8 gold each, 64 gold, 48.5% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 138 gold94 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item has no current Auction House listing to compare it against, so the estimate above is left unknown rather than guessed.
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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Data notes
- No Auction House price for the crafted item - output value unknown (it may be soulbound/BoE gear or an untracked item).