Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 22 gold50 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 49 gold86 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 28 gold79 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 1 gold43 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: −22 gold50 silver (-45%)

Evidence: 25 current listings holding 2,713 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.

Last verifiedAuction House4 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Tailoring
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Kul Tiran Tailoring
Item level: 50
Reagent slots: 3
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Battle Flag: Phalanx Defense28 gold

Reagents

8Tidespray Linen2 gold14 silver
5Embroidered Deep Sea Satin18 silver
16Nylon Thread1 gold99 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Tidespray Linen Cloth · 103,577 on the Auction House	8	2 gold14 silver	17 gold12 silver	34%
Embroidered Deep Sea Satin Cloth · 504,938 on the Auction House · crafted by Embroidered Deep Sea Satin (Tailoring)	5	18 silver	90 silver	2%
Nylon Thread Cloth · 139,823 on the Auction House	16	1 gold99 silver	31 gold84 silver	64%
Total per craft			49 gold86 silver	100%

About Battle Flag: Phalanx Defense

One craft takes 8 Tidespray Linen, 5 Embroidered Deep Sea Satin and 16 Nylon Thread. It is taught by Pattern: Battle Flag: Phalanx Defense, which needs Kul Tiran Tailoring 1.

Recipe category: Battle Flags (Kul Tiran Patterns)
Skill-up colours (Kul Tiran Tailoring skill): Orange below 150 · Grey 150 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Battle Flag: Phalanx Defense tooltip

Battle Flag: Phalanx Defense

Item Level 50

Consumable

Use: Drop a flag onto the battlefield that decreases damage taken by 15% for all allies within 15 yards of its location. Lasts 30 sec. Only usable on Kul Tiras, Zandalar and in unrated Battlegrounds.

How to learn Battle Flag: Phalanx Defense

Pattern: Battle Flag: Phalanx Defense

Teaches: Teaches you how to craft a Battle Flag: Phalanx Defense more efficiently.
Requires: Kul Tiran Tailoring (1)
Binding: Binds when picked up

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Battle Flag: Phalanx Defense: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 22% below 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: 22 gold58 silver
30-day low: 15 gold96 silver Aug 30
30-day high: 49,999 gold98 silver Aug 26
30-day median: 28 gold97 silver
7-day median: 27 gold98 silver
Hourly snapshots: 684

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

Where the reagents come from

Tidespray Linen. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 29 other recipes (25 Tailoring, 2 Inscription and 2 Alchemy); Rough-hooked Tidespray Linen takes the most, 75 per craft.

Embroidered Deep Sea Satin. Made with Embroidered Deep Sea Satin (Tailoring, Kul Tiran Tailoring) from 1 Deep Sea Satin, 1 Tidespray Linen and 5 Nylon Thread. At lowest listed prices that makes one Embroidered Deep Sea Satin for 15 gold31 silver, against 18 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 38 other recipes (38 Tailoring); the most per craft: Embroidered Deep Sea Bag (Tailoring, 75 per craft), Tempered Deep Sea Breeches (Tailoring, 65 per craft), Eldritch Seaweave Breeches (Tailoring, 60 per craft), Fortified Deep Sea Breeches (Tailoring, 60 per craft) and Enhanced Deep Sea Breeches (Tailoring, 55 per craft).

Nylon Thread. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 77 other recipes (76 Tailoring and 1 Leatherworking); the most per craft: Eldritch Seaweave Breeches (Tailoring, 90 per craft), Eldritch Seaweave Gloves (Tailoring, 80 per craft), Maddening Seaweave Breeches (Tailoring, 80 per craft), Emblazoned Deep Sea Breeches (Tailoring, 75 per craft) and Synchronous Thread (Tailoring, 75 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Battle Flag: Phalanx Defense cost 49 gold86 silver. Most of that is Nylon Thread - 16 at 1 gold99 silver each, 31 gold84 silver, 63.9% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 52 gold48 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 28 gold79 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −21 gold7 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 1 gold43 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 22 gold50 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -45.1% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 2,713 units across 25 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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