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* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' partially averts this trope. The precious metals are used in crafting but in small quantities compared to the common material. For example, you make iron bombs that use gold wire for the detonator. Not completely averted because there's still a linear path of better metals, leather, and cloth to make stuff out of. The game also use a skill system, meaning that to try to make metal smelted from ore containing the blood of an old god (saronite) one has to have a lot of experience.
** The full chain of metals found in ''World of Warcraft'' as of ''Cataclysm'': Copper < Bronze/Silver < Iron/Gold < Steel < Mithril/Truesilver < Thorium/Enchanted Thorium < Dark Iron/Arcanite < Fel Iron/Eternium < Adamantite < Felsteel/Hardened Adamantite < Khorium < [[Elements Do Not Work That Way|Cobalt]] < Saronite < Titanium < Titansteel < (Folded) Obsidium < Elementium < Hardened Elementium < Pyrium.
*** Elementium has been used here and there since the original game; making a couple of incredibly powerful weapons in [[
** The important nature of druids and spirits of the natural world within the game and lore does screw up the order on a few occasions. One of the most famous orcs, Broxigar, lost his axe and had one gifted by a demigod - a wooden axe - and managed to '''wound''' [[Bigger Bad|Sargeras]] [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|the Destroyer]], Lord of the Burning Legion.
** Lower level pieces of leather can be stitched together to make higher pieces. One can only imagine how heavy a wicked leather headband (made of 12 rugged leather or 1440 light leather) would be.
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