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Ominous Octopus
Cooking
Verified US market
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Ominous Octopus details
| Type | Cooking |
|---|---|
| Item level | 70 |
| Requires level | 1 |
| Max stack | 1,000 |
| Vendor sell price | 12 silver50 copper |
| Expansion | Midnight |
| First seen in our data | build 12.0.7.68887 |
Read from the 12.1.0.69933 game build. Prices are US Auction House data.
In-game tooltip for Ominous Octopus: "A rare creature in Voidstorm. Can be bought and sold on the Auction House."
What Ominous Octopus is used in
Cooking
| Recipe | Skill tier and category | Needs | Other reagents | Makes | Lists at (US) | Reagents per craft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Crimson Calamari | Midnight Cooking, Advanced, grey at 90 | 6 |  Crimson Calamari | 69 gold | 123 gold | |
| Null and Void Plate | Midnight Cooking, Advanced, grey at 75 | 1 |  Null and Void Plate | 14 gold | 25 gold |
Skinning
| Recipe | Skill tier and category | Needs | Other reagents | Makes | Lists at (US) | Reagents per craft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Majestic Voidstorm Lure | Midnight Skinning, Majestic Beast Lures | 4 |  Majestic Voidstorm Lure | 79 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 Ominous Octopus
Ominous Octopus goes into 3 recipes: 2 in Cooking and 1 in Skinning. They come from Midnight Cooking and Midnight Skinning.
The highest-listed product is Crimson Calamari, from Midnight Cooking, at 69 gold95 silver on the US Auction House.
One craft of Crimson Calamari takes 6 Ominous Octopus plus 6 Sanguithorn, 3 A Big Ol' Stick of Butter and 3 Pouch of Spices; at current prices those reagents cost 123 gold30 silver per craft.
Ominous Octopus is about 96% of that reagent bill at its current price; Sanguithorn, A Big Ol' Stick of Butter and Pouch of Spices make up the rest.
The cheapest craft that uses Ominous Octopus is Null and Void Plate (Midnight Cooking): its reagents cost 25 gold48 silver and Null and Void Plate lists at 14 gold18 silver.
2 of the 3 distinct products have a current US commodity price.
Leveling and recipes for Ominous Octopus
Leveling with Ominous Octopus: Null and Void Plate (Advanced) turns yellow at Cooking skill 60 and grey at 75. Crimson Calamari (Advanced) turns yellow at Cooking skill 75 and grey at 90.
Reagents used with Ominous Octopus
Ominous Octopus is most often combined with A Big Ol' Stick of Butter, which shares 2 of its 3 recipes; next come Pouch of Spices, Sanguithorn and Tavern Fixings.
A Big Ol' Stick of Butter 2 shared recipes
Pouch of Spices 2 shared recipes
Sanguithorn 1 shared recipe
Tavern Fixings 1 shared recipe
Warping Wise 1 shared recipe
What Ominous Octopus is crafted into
Crimson Calamari (Food & Drink). Made with Crimson Calamari, 6 Ominous Octopus per craft.
Majestic Voidstorm Lure (Other). Made with Majestic Voidstorm Lure, 4 Ominous Octopus per craft.
Null and Void Plate (Food & Drink). Made with Null and Void Plate, 1 Ominous Octopus per craft.
Ominous Octopus: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 19% below its 30-day median.
| Now | 19 gold75 silver |
|---|---|
| 30-day low | 10 gold Sep 11 |
| 30-day high | 74 gold Sep 3 |
| 30-day median | 24 gold31 silver |
| 7-day median | 22 gold84 silver |
| Hourly snapshots | 687 |
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Ominous Octopus by region
Americas and Oceania (US) has the lowest listing of the regions we track. 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) | 18 gold49 silver | 121 | 20,058 |
| Europe (EU) | 23 gold70 silver | 271 | 39,635 |
Other reagents in the same recipe tiers as Ominous Octopus
Midnight Cooking has 48 recipes. Besides Ominous Octopus, the reagents they call for most are Tavern Fixings (22 recipes), Pouch of Spices (17 recipes), Thalassian Fillet (16 recipes), A Big Ol' Stick of Butter (14 recipes), Plant Protein (13 recipes), Cooking Spirits (12 recipes), Mana-Wyrm Essence (12 recipes), Practically Pork (10 recipes), Petrified Root (7 recipes), Neutralized Venom Clot (5 recipes).
Midnight Skinning has 9 recipes. Besides Ominous Octopus, the reagents they call for most are Arcane Wyrmfish (1 recipe), Fungalskin Pike (1 recipe), Gore Guppy (1 recipe), Lynxfish (1 recipe), Mote of Light (1 recipe), Mote of Primal Energy (1 recipe), Mote of Pure Void (1 recipe), Mote of Wild Magic (1 recipe), Null Voidfish (1 recipe), Tender Lumifin (1 recipe).
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About Ominous Octopus
Ominous Octopus 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 Cooking, Skinning. When a recipe that uses Ominous Octopus spikes in value, the material tends to follow, so watch the recipes above alongside the price history.
To read the chart: compare the current lowest listing against the typical range. A price sitting below its recent band is a buy or craft signal; a price above it favors selling or farming. The method matters more than any single number, since commodity prices move between hourly snapshots.