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5Cooking Northrend Cooking
Bad Clams
A Cooking recipe learned at Northrend Cooking 1 that crafts 5 Bad Clams from 2 reagents.
Reagents
1Succulent Clam Meat40 silver
1Mote of Shadow1 gold78 silver
Crafts
Background
| Recipe item |  Recipe: Bad Clams | Requires Northrend Cooking 1 |
|---|
Crafting estimate at current listings
No real market: too few listings for this price to mean anything yet.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 2 gold18 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 996 gold56 silver
- Items per craft
- 5
- Listed value of one craft
- 4,982 gold80 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 249 gold14 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 4,731 gold48 silver
Thin market: the crafted item’s lowest listing comes from very few current listings and sits far out of line with reagent cost. Treat this estimate as unverified until more listings accrue.
- Evidence: 5 current listings holding 564 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
- Outlier: the crafted item’s lowest listing is 173 times its 30-day median of 5 gold75 silver, so this estimate rests on a listing far above its usual level.
- Items per craft: the game’s spell data creates 5 per craft, so the listed value of one craft is that many times the lowest listed price.
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Succulent Clam Meat Cooking · 11,344 on the Auction House | 1 | 40 silver | 40 silver | 18% |
| Mote of Shadow Elemental · 3,604 on the Auction House | 1 | 1 gold78 silver | 1 gold78 silver | 82% |
| Total per craft | 2 gold18 silver | 100% |
About Bad Clams
One craft takes 1 Succulent Clam Meat and 1 Mote of Shadow. It is taught by Recipe: Bad Clams, which needs Northrend Cooking 1.
- Recipe category
- Everyday Cooking (Recipes of the Cold North)
Bad Clams tooltip
How to learn Bad Clams
- Teaches
- Teaches you how to cook Bad Clams.
- Requires
- Northrend Cooking (1)
- Binding
- Binds when picked up
Bad Clams: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 173 times its 30-day median. Over these 30 days the lowest listing moved more than tenfold, so a single snapshot, including the one the estimate uses, can sit far from typical.
- Now
- 996 gold56 silver
- 30-day low
- 80 silver Oct 27
- 30-day high
- 996 gold94 silver Nov 2
- 30-day median
- 5 gold75 silver
- 7-day median
- 1 gold81 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 692
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Succulent Clam Meat. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 1 other recipe (1 Cooking); Dalaran Clam Chowder takes the most, 2 per craft.
Mote of Shadow. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it.
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Bad Clams cost 2 gold18 silver. Most of that is Mote of Shadow - 1 at 1 gold78 silver each, 1 gold78 silver, 81.7% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 2 gold29 silver per craft, 45 silver89 copper per item at 5 items a craft - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 996 gold56 silver, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 4,980 gold62 silver; the Auction House would keep 249 gold14 silver of a sale, leaving 4,731 gold48 silver. That is an estimated 217040.4% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 5.0% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 564 units across 5 auctions region-wide. Depth separates a market price from a single asking figure, but listings are not sales, so read it alongside the estimate.
Costs use each reagent’s lowest listed price; the estimate is the crafted item’s lowest listed price, times the items one craft makes, minus those reagents and Blizzard’s 5% sale cut. Listings are asking prices, not sales. Recalculated every snapshot and left blank rather than guessed when a price is missing. How we estimate crafting profit →
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