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Root Crab

Root Crab is a Common Cooking used in 1 recipe (Cooking).

Root Crab stacks to 1,000. 1 recipe consumes it, taught by Cooking.

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Verified US market

Lowest listed price1 gold92 silver
Median listing1 gold92 silver
7,455 available82 listings
Verified priceAuction Housecommodity

Commodities share one Auction House per region, so this price applies account-wide on US realms. Verify in-game before you trade.

In-game tooltip for Root Crab: "A common creature in Quel'Thalas. Can be bought and sold on the Auction House."

What Root Crab is used in

Cooking

RecipeSkill tier and categoryNeedsOther reagentsMakesLists at (US)Reagents per craft
Buttered Root CrabMidnight Cooking, Advanced, grey at 756Buttered Root Crab15 gold29 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 Root Crab

Root Crab goes into one recipe, Buttered Root Crab, taught in Midnight Cooking.

Its product, Buttered Root Crab, from Midnight Cooking, lists at 15 gold87 silver on the US Auction House.

One craft of Buttered Root Crab takes 6 Root Crab plus 3 Plant Protein, 3 A Big Ol' Stick of Butter, 3 Pouch of Spices and 1 Tavern Fixings; at current prices those reagents cost 29 gold59 silver per craft.

Root Crab is about 35% of that reagent bill at its current price; Plant Protein, A Big Ol' Stick of Butter, Pouch of Spices and Tavern Fixings make up the rest.

Leveling and recipes for Root Crab

Buttered Root Crab (Advanced) turns yellow at Cooking skill 60 and grey at 75.

Reagents used with Root Crab

In Buttered Root Crab, Root Crab is combined with A Big Ol' Stick of Butter, Plant Protein, Pouch of Spices and Tavern Fixings.

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What Root Crab is crafted into

Buttered Root Crab (Food & Drink). Made with Buttered Root Crab, 6 Root Crab per craft.

Root Crab: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 2.5 times its 30-day median. Over these 30 days the lowest listing moved more than tenfold, so a single snapshot can sit far from typical.

Now1 gold75 silver
30-day low1 silver Nov 3
30-day high10 gold30 silver Oct 26
30-day median70 silver
7-day median80 silver
Hourly snapshots684

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

Root Crab 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.

RegionLowest listed priceListingsUnits
Americas and Oceania (US)1 gold92 silver827,455
Europe (EU)1 gold99 silver42944,824

Other reagents in the same recipe tiers as Root Crab

Midnight Cooking has 48 recipes. Besides Root Crab, 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).

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