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JewelcraftingDragon Isles Jewelcrafting
Blotting Sand
Reagent cost, the crafted item's lowest listed price and the estimated profit at that price, from current US Auction House listings - recalculated every snapshot.
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 19 gold39 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 22 gold24 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 1 gold50 silver
- Items per craft
- 2
- Listed value of one craft
- 3 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 15 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −19 gold39 silver (-87%)
- Evidence: 27 current listings holding 660 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
- Items per craft: the game’s spell data creates 2 per craft, so the listed value of one craft is that many times the lowest listed price.
- Quality: Blotting Sand comes in 3 quality ranks. This is the base comparison, rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result; your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide the rank you actually get, which this estimate does not model. Each rank’s lowest listing is in the rank table below.
- Not included: the recipe also accepts 2 finishing reagent slots, which are not required and are left out of the cost.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Jewelcrafting
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Dragon Isles Jewelcrafting
- Item level
- 61
- Reagent slots
- 3
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
1Silken Gemdust6 gold24 silver
1Rousing Fire13 gold
1Wildercloth3 gold
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silken Gemdust Jewelcrafting · 1,169 on the Auction House | 1 | 6 gold24 silver | 6 gold24 silver | 28% |
| Rousing Fire Elemental · 11,754 on the Auction House | 1 | 13 gold | 13 gold | 58% |
| Wildercloth Cloth · 44,103 on the Auction House | 1 | 3 gold | 3 gold | 13% |
| Total per craft | 22 gold24 silver | 100% |
About Blotting Sand
One craft takes 1 Silken Gemdust, 1 Rousing Fire and 1 Wildercloth. It is taught by Design: Blotting Sand, which needs Dragon Isles Jewelcrafting 1. Blotting Sand is itself a reagent in 57 other recipes (Inscription).
- Recipe category
- Reagents (Dragon Isles Designs)
- Skill-up colours (Dragon Isles Jewelcrafting skill)
- Orange below 45 · Yellow 45 to 49 · Green 50 to 54 · Grey 55 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Blotting Sand tooltip
How to learn Blotting Sand
Design: Blotting Sand- Teaches
- Teaches you how to craft Blotting Sand.
- Requires
- Dragon Isles Jewelcrafting (1)
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and 45 more recipes.
Blotting Sand quality ranks
Blotting Sand comes in 3 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 225.
| Rank | Item | Lowest listed price | Listings (US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank 1 | Blotting Sand | 1 gold50 silver | 27 listings, 660 units |
| Rank 2 | Blotting Sand | 1 gold37 silver | 9 listings, 64 units |
| Rank 3 | Blotting Sand | 1 gold74 silver | 22 listings, 128 units |
The crafting estimate above is the base comparison: rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result. Your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide which rank a craft actually makes, so a higher rank is never priced against rank 1 reagents here. Right now rank 1 lists above rank 2, so a craft that comes out at a higher rank is worth less at today’s listings, not more.
Blotting Sand: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 24% above 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
- 1 gold50 silver
- 30-day low
- 50 silver Aug 26
- 30-day high
- 748 gold98 silver Sep 13
- 30-day median
- 1 gold21 silver
- 7-day median
- 1 gold81 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 681
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Silken Gemdust. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 6 gold24 silver, rank 2 4 gold50 silver and rank 3 4 gold42 silver. Also a required reagent in 26 other recipes (22 Jewelcrafting, 1 Alchemy, 1 Cooking and 1 Blacksmithing); B.B.F. Fist takes the most, 150 per craft.
Rousing Fire. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 14 other recipes (8 Engineering, 4 Jewelcrafting and 2 Enchanting); the most per craft: Band of New Beginnings (Jewelcrafting, 5 per craft), Overcharged Overclocker (Engineering, 5 per craft), Bundle of Fireworks (Engineering, 3 per craft), Greased-Up Gears (Engineering, 3 per craft) and Scepter of Spectacle: Fire (Enchanting, 3 per craft).
Wildercloth. Rewarded by the quest Artisan's Supply: Surveyor's Cloth Bands. Also a required reagent in 56 other recipes (28 Inscription, 20 Tailoring, 4 Engineering and 1 Leatherworking); the most per craft: Reserve Parachute (Tailoring, 100 per craft), Medical Wrap Kit (Tailoring, 50 per craft), Cliffside Wylderdrake: Silver and Blue Armor (Inscription, 20 per craft), Cliffside Wylderdrake: Steel and Yellow Armor (Inscription, 20 per craft) and Highland Drake: Silver and Blue Armor (Inscription, 20 per craft).
More Dragon Isles Jewelcrafting recipes in the same skill range
- "Rhinestone" SunglassesNovelties, learn at 1, grey at 50
- Alexstraszite LoupesProfession Equipment, learn at 1, grey at 100
- B.B.F. FistNovelties, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Band of New BeginningsJewelry, learn at 1, grey at 30
- Bold-Print BifocalsProfession Equipment, learn at 1, grey at 30
- Choker of ShieldingJewelry, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Chromatic FocusProfession Equipment, learn at 1, grey at 30
- Convergent PrismNovelties, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Crafty AlexstrasziteAir Gems, learn at 1, grey at 80
- Crafty Queen's RubyRudimentary Gems, learn at 1, grey at 20
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Blotting Sand cost 22 gold24 silver. Most of that is Rousing Fire - 1 at 13 gold each, 13 gold, 58.5% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 23 gold41 silver per craft, 11 gold70 silver per item at 2 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 1 gold50 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −19 gold24 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 15 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 19 gold39 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -87.2% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 660 units across 27 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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