What do you need to make Smelt Steel in WoW Forever?

1 Coal, 1 Iron Bar. Smelt Steel is a Mining recipe at skill 125, making 1 Steel Bar.

What skill does Smelt Steel need?

Mining 125. It is orange from skill 125, yellow from 165, green from 165 and grey, with no skill-ups, from 165.

Is Smelt Steel worth making right now?

Yes, at current prices: it earns 20s 70c per craft on PvP Alliance, the best of the markets with prices, after the auction house cut. Iron Bar is the expensive part: 1 × 10s 30c is 60 percent of the reagent cost on PvP Alliance.

What is Steel Bar used for?

35 recipes use it as a reagent: Hard Gold Cuirass, Golden Scale Shoulders, Hard Gold Boots, Glinting Steel Dagger, Moonsteel Broadsword, Golden Scale Bracers and more.

Mining · skill 125 · recipe

Smelt Steel

Makes 1 Steel Bar. Taught by a profession trainer. Right now it earns the most on PvP Alliance: a margin of 20s 70c per craft at that market's medians. Iron Bar is the expensive part: 1 × 10s 30c is 60 percent of the reagent cost on PvP Alliance.

Skill coloursorange 125yellow 165green 165grey 165

Steel Bar · 30 days · PvP Alliance

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AlsoSteel Bar prices Used in Hard Gold Cuirass Next at skill 130: Smelt Gold Deals on PvP Alliance

Reagents · 2 · prices on PvP Alliance

1 ×Coal7s each
1 ×Iron Bar10s 30c each
Reagents per craft on PvP Alliance17s 30c

Result

Steel Bar

1 per craft · Trade Goods · Metal & Stone · item level 35

Worth making?

Cost is the reagents at each market's current medians; value is the result's median times the average yield, less the 5 percent auction house cut. A market that lacks a price for a reagent or the result shows what is missing instead of a number.

By market

Market	Cost	Value	Margin	Return
PvP Alliance	17s 30c	38s	20s 70c	120%
Normal Horde	12s 70c	27s 42c	14s 72c	116%
PvP Horde	10s 50c	24s 70c	14s 20c	135%
Normal Alliance	17s 42c	23s 75c	6s 33c	36%

Used in

Recipes that take Steel Bar as a reagent.

Hard Gold CuirassBlacksmithing 130
Golden Scale ShouldersBlacksmithing 135
Hard Gold BootsBlacksmithing 135
Glinting Steel DaggerBlacksmithing 140
Moonsteel BroadswordBlacksmithing 140
Golden Scale BracersBlacksmithing 145
Hard Gold BracersBlacksmithing 145
Polished Steel BootsBlacksmithing 145
Steel SpearBlacksmithing 145
Edge of WinterBlacksmithing 150
Golden Scale CoifBlacksmithing 150
Hard Gold LeggingsBlacksmithing 150
Searing Golden BladeBlacksmithing 150
Steel Weapon ChainBlacksmithing 150
Golden Scale CuirassBlacksmithing 155
Hard Gold CoifBlacksmithing 155
Frost Tiger BladeBlacksmithing 160
Golden Scale BootsBlacksmithing 160
Golden Scale GauntletsBlacksmithing 160
Hard Gold GauntletBlacksmithing 160
Hard Gold PauldronsBlacksmithing 160
Justicar's GauntletBlacksmithing 160
Officer's GauntletBlacksmithing 160
Prefect's GauntletBlacksmithing 160
Sentinel's GauntletBlacksmithing 160
Shadow Crescent AxeBlacksmithing 160
Steel BreastplateBlacksmithing 160
Warder's GauntletBlacksmithing 160
Justicar's BootsBlacksmithing 165
Officer's BootsBlacksmithing 165
Prefect's BootsBlacksmithing 165
Sentinel's BootsBlacksmithing 165
Warder's BootsBlacksmithing 165
Steel Plate HelmBlacksmithing 170
Gyromatic Micro-AdjustorEngineering 135

Next in Mining

The recipes just below and above this one by skill.

Common questions

What do you need to make Smelt Steel in WoW Forever?: 1 Coal, 1 Iron Bar. Smelt Steel is a Mining recipe at skill 125, making 1 Steel Bar.
What skill does Smelt Steel need?: Mining 125. It is orange from skill 125, yellow from 165, green from 165 and grey, with no skill-ups, from 165.
Is Smelt Steel worth making right now?: Yes, at current prices: it earns 20s 70c per craft on PvP Alliance, the best of the markets with prices, after the auction house cut. Iron Bar is the expensive part: 1 × 10s 30c is 60 percent of the reagent cost on PvP Alliance.
Where do you learn Smelt Steel?: Taught by a profession trainer.
What is Steel Bar used for?: 35 recipes use it as a reagent: Hard Gold Cuirass, Golden Scale Shoulders, Hard Gold Boots, Glinting Steel Dagger, Moonsteel Broadsword, Golden Scale Bracers and more.

Source: World of Warcraft: Forever game data; prices from players scanning the auction house with the addon. Every Mining recipe · Crafting profit, ranked.