Iron Counterweight

• Use: Attaches a counterweight to a two-handed sword, mace, axe or polearm making it 3% faster.

Computed from Forever's item data, the same way the game builds the tooltip. Beta values can change before launch.

What is Iron Counterweight?

Iron Counterweight is a common permanent item in World of Warcraft: Forever. Sold by vendors for 20s.

How do you get Iron Counterweight?

It is crafted by Blacksmithing at skill 125 from 4 Iron Bar, 2 Coarse Grinding Stone and 1 Lesser Moonstone; the recipe comes from a trainer.

What does Iron Counterweight do?

Use: Attaches a counterweight to a two-handed sword, mace, axe or polearm making it 3% faster..

How much does Iron Counterweight cost on the auction house?

On Normal Alliance the median buyout was 1g 25s as of 2026-10-04 02:33 UTC. Other markets are listed on this page.

Is Iron Counterweight different in Forever than in Classic Era?

No. The Forever beta keeps the same item level, requirements, and vendor prices as Classic Era.

Unchanged from Classic Era: Iron Counterweight keeps the same item level, requirements, stats, and vendor prices in the Forever beta.

Era values from Blizzard's Game Data API; Forever values from Forever's game data.

Class

Consumable

Subclass

Permanent

Quality

common

Item level

33

Requires skill

Blacksmithing 165

Stack size

5

Vendor sell

5s

Vendor buy

20s

Blizzard item id

6043

Client build

1.60.1 (build 70205)

• Vendors sell it for 20s and buy it back for 5s. That is the ceiling for an auction price while vendors stock it.
• Crafted by Blacksmithing at skill 125; the recipe comes from a trainer. Reagents below.

• Iron Counterweight · Blacksmithing 125 · trainer
  • 4× Iron Bar
  • 2× Coarse Grinding Stone
  • 1× Lesser Moonstone