Blacksmithing Recipes - Cost to Craft & Profit

Blacksmithing at current prices

Every figure is an estimate at current lowest listed prices: listings are asking prices, not sales. A craft is ranked here only when its finished item and every reagent have a current listing, the estimated profit survives Blizzard’s 5% Auction House cut, enough people are listing the finished item that its price is a market rather than one seller’s ask, and that lowest listing is within 3 times its own 30-day median.

10 of the 536 Blacksmithing recipes clear that bar right now. Of the rest, 34 lose money at current prices, 1 show an estimated profit on a listing too thin or too far from its own 30-day median to rank and 491 have a reagent or an output with no current listing, so no estimate is claimed for them.

Ranked crafts

10of 536 recipes

Top estimated profit

2,854 gold14 silverone craft, after the cut

Typical ranked craft

27 gold38 silvermedian of the ranked list

No estimate

491a price is missing, so none is 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 →

Where the money is

• Biggest estimated profitShadowed Alloy2,854 gold14 silver estimated, per craftmaterials 377 gold · keeps 84% of the listed value
• Smallest material billPorous Sharpening Stone10 silver80 copper estimated, per craftmaterials 12 silver · keeps 45% of the listed value

Best Blacksmithing crafts right now

The 10 Blacksmithing crafts with the highest estimated profit that clear the market bar, highest first. Listed value is the finished item’s lowest listed price times the items one craft makes; Break-even is the listed value that would cover the materials and the 5% cut; Keeps is the share of the listed value left after both. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Recipe	Crafts	Materials	Listed value	Break-even	Estimated profit	Keeps
Shadowed Alloy	Shadowed Alloy	377 gold34 silver	3,401 gold56 silver (2 per craft)	397 gold20 silver	2,854 gold14 silver	84%
Infurious Alloy	Infurious Alloy	230 gold75 silver	1,339 gold36 silver (2 per craft)	242 gold89 silver	1,041 gold64 silver	78%
Obsidian Seared Alloy	Obsidian Seared Alloy	630 gold46 silver	1,310 gold2 silver (2 per craft)	663 gold64 silver	614 gold5 silver	47%
Primal Molten Alloy	Primal Molten Alloy	396 gold69 silver	780 gold4 silver (2 per craft)	417 gold56 silver	344 gold34 silver	44%
Monel-Hardened Stirrups	Monel-Hardened Stirrups	110 gold16 silver	169 gold	115 gold95 silver	50 gold39 silver	30%
Demonsteel Bar	Demonsteel Bar	13 gold20 silver	18 gold50 silver	13 gold89 silver	4 gold37 silver	24%
Shadowghast Ingot	Shadowghast Ingot	42 gold47 silver	48 gold (2 per craft)	44 gold70 silver	3 gold13 silver	6%
Refulgent Repair Hammer	Refulgent Repair Hammer	23 gold62 silver	26 gold30 silver (2 per craft)	24 gold86 silver	1 gold36 silver	5%
Shaded Weightstone	Shaded Weightstone	50 silver	1 gold	52 silver63 copper	45 silver	45%
Porous Sharpening Stone	Porous Sharpening Stone	12 silver	24 silver	12 silver63 copper	10 silver80 copper	45%