WRITTEN ARTICLE · AUCTION HOUSE AND CRAFTING GOLD
WoW Forever cuts AH deposits and Iron Grenade vendor prices
The Auction House minimum deposit falls to 1 copper with realm restarts. Iron Grenade and elixir vendor values fall too. Check the new numbers before crafting.
Check your costs before the next crafting batch
WoW Forever’s November 10 hotfixes change both sides of a small crafting budget. The minimum Auction House deposit drops from 1 silver to 1 copper with realm restarts, while vendors pay less for Iron Grenades, Minor Arcane Elixirs and some crafted armor.
For anyone buying materials to craft and sell straight to an NPC, the old vendor return is no longer a safe number to use. For someone selling spare materials on the Auction House, a lower minimum deposit may make a cheap listing less expensive to post.
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A 1-copper minimum does not mean every auction costs 1 copper
The change is to the minimum deposit. It does not say that every item, stack or listing duration now has the same fee. Read the deposit shown for your actual auction before confirming it.
One silver is 100 copper, so the floor is 99 copper lower. That is a reduction in the minimum amount tied up when posting, not a guaranteed increase in profit. Whether an item sells and the price it achieves are separate questions.
Blizzard groups the Auction House changes under realm restarts. If the old minimum is still visible, check your region’s restart status before assuming the new value has applied.
The vendor values that changed
| Item | Previous vendor value | New vendor value |
|---|---|---|
| Iron Grenade | 5 silver | 1 silver 25 copper |
| Minor Arcane Elixir | 25 copper | 5 copper |
| Some crafted armor | Varied by item | Reduced, individual values not listed |
Recalculate before buying more materials
Blizzard says the affected armor pieces from Leatherworking, Tailoring and Blacksmithing are bind-on-pickup crafts intended to be made once for personal use. Its notes do not provide a complete item-by-item price table.
For Iron Grenades, the listed vendor price is 75% lower. For Minor Arcane Elixirs, it is 80% lower. Those are changes to sale proceeds, not measurements of profit after materials.
Our advice is to check one finished item’s current vendor value and compare the return from the whole recipe output with the cost of all its materials. Include vendor-bought ingredients. If the numbers no longer work, stop buying for that method rather than relying on an older goldmaking video.
Auction mail timing has a fix too
The same restart section fixes some mail arriving in roughly two minutes instead of the intended 60-minute delivery time. It also corrects unread mail being labelled as coming from Stormwind Auction House for every player.
The notes describe affected mail, not a new rule that every kind of mail takes an hour. Keep an expected sale payment separate from money already available when budgeting for training or another purchase.
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Sources and review notes
Checked November 11 against Blizzard’s published changes. Practical suggestions are our advice, not independent in-game testing.
