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Buttered Root Crab

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.

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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 7 gold25 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
20 gold55 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
7 gold
Items per craft
2
Listed value of one craft
14 gold
Auction House cut (5%)
70 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price
−7 gold25 silver (-35%)
  • Evidence: 16 current listings holding 2,815 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.
  • Not included: the recipe also accepts 1 finishing reagent slot, which are not required and are left out of the cost.
Verified priceAuction HouseUS region

Recipe facts

Profession
Cooking
Requires skill
1
Expansion tier
Midnight Cooking
Item level
90
Reagent slots
5
Cast time
2 sec

Crafts

Buttered Root Crab7 gold

Reagents

Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Root Crab
Cooking · 38,241 on the Auction House		62 gold22 silver13 gold32 silver65%
Plant Protein
Cooking · 723,139 on the Auction House		32 gold13 silver6 gold39 silver31%
A Big Ol' Stick of Butter
Cooking · 70,269 on the Auction House		39 silver27 silver1%
Pouch of Spices
Cooking · 248,910 on the Auction House		311 silver33 silver2%
Tavern Fixings
Cooking · 175,368 on the Auction House		124 silver24 silver1%
Total per craft20 gold55 silver100%

About Buttered Root Crab

One craft takes 6 Root Crab, 3 Plant Protein, 3 A Big Ol' Stick of Butter, 3 Pouch of Spices and 1 Tavern Fixings.

Recipe category
Advanced (Midnight Cuisine)
Skill-up colours (Midnight Cooking skill)
Orange below 60 · Yellow 60 to 66 · Green 67 to 74 · Grey 75 and up
Skill points per craft
1

Buttered Root Crab tooltip

Buttered Root Crab
Item Level 90
Consumable
Requires Level 90
Use: Restores 7% of your maximum health every second over 20 sec. Must remain seated while eating.
Sell price: 33s 50c

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Buttered Root Crab: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 21% 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
7 gold
30-day low
1 gold Sep 12
30-day high
1,000 gold Aug 23
30-day median
8 gold81 silver
7-day median
7 gold13 silver
Hourly snapshots
689

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

Where the reagents come from

Root Crab. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it.

Plant Protein. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 12 other recipes (12 Cooking); the most per craft: Impossibly Royal Roast (Cooking, 15 per craft), Flora Frenzy (Cooking, 12 per craft), Blooming Feast (Cooking, 10 per craft), Felberry Figs (Cooking, 10 per craft) and Harandar Celebration (Cooking, 10 per craft).

A Big Ol' Stick of Butter. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 13 other recipes (13 Cooking); the most per craft: Eversong Pudding (Cooking, 5 per craft), Fried Bloomtail (Cooking, 5 per craft), Impossibly Royal Roast (Cooking, 4 per craft), Royal Roast (Cooking, 4 per craft) and Braised Blood Hunter (Cooking, 3 per craft).

Pouch of Spices. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 16 other recipes (16 Cooking); the most per craft: Champion's Bento (Cooking, 5 per craft), Flora Frenzy (Cooking, 5 per craft), Fried Bloomtail (Cooking, 5 per craft), Puffer Plate (Cooking, 5 per craft) and Sweet-And-Sour Skewers (Cooking, 5 per craft).

Tavern Fixings. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 21 other recipes (21 Cooking); the most per craft: Blooming Feast (Cooking, 5 per craft), Champion's Bento (Cooking, 5 per craft), Flora Frenzy (Cooking, 5 per craft), Sunwell Delight (Cooking, 5 per craft) and Venom-Spiced Cutlets (Cooking, 5 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 5 reagents for one craft of Buttered Root Crab cost 20 gold55 silver. Most of that is Root Crab - 6 at 2 gold22 silver each, 13 gold32 silver, 64.8% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 21 gold63 silver per craft, 10 gold81 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 7 gold, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −6 gold55 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 70 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 7 gold25 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -35.3% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 2,815 units across 16 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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