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Ancient Lichen

Herb

Verified US market

Lowest listed price2 gold50 silver

Median listing89 gold

3,654 available135 listings

Verified priceAuction House32 min agocommodity

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Ancient Lichen details

Type	Herb
Item level	15
Max stack	1,000
Vendor sell price	7 silver50 copper
Expansion	The Burning Crusade
First seen in our data	build 3.80.2.69874

Read from the 12.1.0.69875 game build. Prices are US Auction House data.

What Ancient Lichen is used in

Alchemy

Recipe	Skill tier and category	Needs	Other reagents	Makes	Lists at (US)	Reagents per craft
Elixir of Ironskin	Outland Alchemy, Elixirs, grey at 60	1	1 × Ragveil 1 × Crystal Vial	Elixir of Ironskin	64 gold	12 gold
Elixir of Major Defense	Outland Alchemy, Elixirs, grey at 75	3	1 × Terocone 1 × Crystal Vial	Elixir of Major Defense	5 gold	10 gold
Elixir of Major Firepower	Outland Alchemy, Elixirs, grey at 75	1	2 × Mote of Fire 1 × Crystal Vial	Elixir of Major Firepower	250 gold	118 gold
Elixir of Major Frost Power	Outland Alchemy, Elixirs, grey at 50	1	2 × Mote of Water 1 × Crystal Vial	Elixir of Major Frost Power	34 gold	27 gold
Elixir of Major Mageblood	Outland Alchemy, Elixirs, grey at 75	1	1 × Netherbloom 1 × Crystal Vial	Elixir of Major Mageblood	25 gold	5 gold
Elixir of Major Shadow Power	Outland Alchemy, Elixirs, grey at 75	1	1 × Nightmare Vine 1 × Crystal Vial	Elixir of Major Shadow Power	84 gold	5 gold
Flask of Fortification	Outland Alchemy, Flasks, grey at 75	7	1 × Fel Lotus 3 × Mana Thistle 1 × Crystal Vial	Flask of Fortification ×2	9 gold	109 gold
Heroic Potion	Outland Alchemy, Potions, grey at 75	1	2 × Terocone 1 × Crystal Vial	Heroic Potion	1 gold	7 gold
Ironshield Potion	Outland Alchemy, Potions, grey at 75	2	3 × Mote of Earth 1 × Crystal Vial	Ironshield Potion	7 gold	7 gold

"Needs" is how many one craft consumes. Reagent cost adds up the required materials at the cheapest current listing of each; it is left blank when any reagent has no live price. Recipes, quantities, products and skill tiers are read from the game data.

Crafting value of Ancient Lichen

Ancient Lichen goes into 9 recipes: 9 in Alchemy. All of them are Outland Alchemy recipes.

The highest-listed product is Elixir of Major Firepower, from Outland Alchemy, at 250 gold4 silver on the US Auction House.

One craft of Elixir of Major Firepower takes 1 Ancient Lichen plus 2 Mote of Fire and 1 Crystal Vial; at current prices those reagents cost 118 gold68 silver per craft.

Ancient Lichen is about 2% of that reagent bill at its current price; Mote of Fire and Crystal Vial make up the rest.

The cheapest craft that uses Ancient Lichen is Elixir of Major Shadow Power (Outland Alchemy): its reagents cost 5 gold10 silver and Elixir of Major Shadow Power lists at 84 gold4 silver.

All 9 distinct products have a current US commodity price.

Leveling and recipes for Ancient Lichen

Leveling with Ancient Lichen: Elixir of Major Frost Power (Elixirs) turns yellow at Alchemy skill 35 and grey at 50. Elixir of Ironskin (Elixirs) turns yellow at Alchemy skill 45 and grey at 60. Elixir of Major Defense (Elixirs) turns yellow at Alchemy skill 60 and grey at 75. Elixir of Major Firepower (Elixirs) turns yellow at Alchemy skill 60 and grey at 75. Elixir of Major Mageblood (Elixirs) turns yellow at Alchemy skill 70 and grey at 75. Elixir of Major Shadow Power (Elixirs) turns yellow at Alchemy skill 65 and grey at 75.

Recipe items that teach these crafts: Recipe: Elixir of Ironskin, Recipe: Elixir of Major Defense, Recipe: Elixir of Major Firepower, Recipe: Elixir of Major Frost Power, Recipe: Elixir of Major Mageblood, Recipe: Elixir of Major Shadow Power, Recipe: Heroic Potion and Recipe: Ironshield Potion.

Reagents used with Ancient Lichen

Ancient Lichen is most often combined with Crystal Vial, which shares 9 of its 9 recipes; next come Terocone, Fel Lotus and Mana Thistle.

Crystal Vial 9 shared recipes
Terocone 2 shared recipes
Fel Lotus 1 shared recipe
Mana Thistle 1 shared recipe
Mote of Earth 1 shared recipe
Mote of Fire 1 shared recipe
Mote of Water 1 shared recipe
Netherbloom 1 shared recipe
Nightmare Vine 1 shared recipe
Ragveil 1 shared recipe

How to make Ancient Lichen

Create Ancient Lichen

Crafting recipes that create this material.

What Ancient Lichen is crafted into

Flask of Fortification (Flasks & Phials). Made with Flask of Fortification, 7 Ancient Lichen per craft.

Elixir of Major Defense (Elixirs). Made with Elixir of Major Defense, 3 Ancient Lichen per craft.

Ironshield Potion (Potions). Made with Ironshield Potion, 2 Ancient Lichen per craft.

Elixir of Ironskin (Elixirs). Made with Elixir of Ironskin, 1 Ancient Lichen per craft.

Ancient Lichen: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 6% below its 30-day median. Over these 30 days the lowest listing moved more than tenfold, so a single snapshot can sit far from typical.

Now	2 gold69 silver
30-day low	85 silver Sep 16
30-day high	85 gold65 silver Aug 22
30-day median	2 gold85 silver
7-day median	3 gold35 silver
Hourly snapshots	682

US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.

Ancient Lichen by region

The lowest listing is 47% lower in Europe (EU) than in Americas and Oceania (US). Each region is a separate Auction House, so gold and items do not move between them.

Region	Lowest listed price	Listings	Units
Americas and Oceania (US)	2 gold50 silver	135	3,654
Europe (EU)	1 gold33 silver	93	3,502

Other reagents in the same recipe tiers as Ancient Lichen

Outland Alchemy has 75 recipes. Besides Ancient Lichen, the reagents they call for most are Crystal Vial (49 recipes), Mana Thistle (20 recipes), Felweed (15 recipes), Terocone (11 recipes), Netherbloom (9 recipes), Ragveil (9 recipes), Primal Fire (8 recipes), Fel Lotus (7 recipes), Nightmare Vine (7 recipes), Dreaming Glory (6 recipes).

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About Ancient Lichen

Ancient Lichen is a crafting material in World of Warcraft. This page tracks its verified Auction House price and the recipes that consume it, so you can judge whether it is worth farming, buying, or selling right now.

Demand comes from Alchemy. When a recipe that uses Ancient Lichen spikes in value, the material tends to follow, so watch the recipes above alongside the price history.

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