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Blotting Sand
A Jewelcrafting recipe learned at Dragon Isles Jewelcrafting 1 that crafts 2 Blotting Sand from 3 reagents.
Reagents
1Silken Gemdust3 gold28 silver
1Rousing Fire2 gold40 silver
1Wildercloth1 gold33 silver
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| Recipe item |  Design: Blotting Sand | Requires Dragon Isles Jewelcrafting 1 |
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Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 6 gold26 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 7 gold1 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 39 silver
- Items per craft
- 2
- Listed value of one craft
- 78 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 3 silver90 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −6 gold26 silver (-89%)
- Evidence: 49 current listings holding 1,226 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.
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silken Gemdust Jewelcrafting · 32,746 on the Auction House | 1 | 3 gold28 silver | 3 gold28 silver | 47% |
| Rousing Fire Elemental · 32,641 on the Auction House | 1 | 2 gold40 silver | 2 gold40 silver | 34% |
| Wildercloth Cloth · 217,442 on the Auction House | 1 | 1 gold33 silver | 1 gold33 silver | 19% |
| Total per craft | 7 gold1 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)
Blotting Sand tooltip
How to learn Blotting Sand
- Teaches
- Teaches you how to craft Blotting Sand.
- Requires
- Dragon Isles Jewelcrafting (1)
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 | 39 silver | 49 listings, 1,226 units |
| Rank 2 | Blotting Sand | 1 gold10 silver | 33 listings, 390 units |
| Rank 3 | Blotting Sand | 2 gold18 silver | 42 listings, 312 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.
Blotting Sand: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing sits at 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
- 45 silver
- 30-day low
- 20 silver Oct 9
- 30-day high
- 38 gold98 silver Oct 15
- 30-day median
- 45 silver
- 7-day median
- 27 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
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 3 gold28 silver, rank 2 2 gold84 silver and rank 3 4 gold98 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 7 gold1 silver. Most of that is Silken Gemdust - 1 at 3 gold28 silver each, 3 gold28 silver, 46.8% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 7 gold37 silver per craft, 3 gold68 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 39 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −6 gold23 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 3 silver90 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 6 gold26 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -89.4% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 1,226 units across 49 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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