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Background
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 30 gold62 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 34 gold65 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 4 gold24 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 21 silver20 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −30 gold62 silver (-88%)
- Evidence: 61 current listings holding 5,072 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Adder's Tongue StemHerb · 19 on the Auction House | 9 | 3 gold85 silver | 34 gold65 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 34 gold65 silver | 100% |
About Create Adder's Tongue
One craft takes 9 Adder's Tongue Stem. Adder's Tongue is itself a reagent in 5 other recipes (Alchemy).
Adder's Tongue tooltip
Where the reagents come from
Adder's Tongue Stem. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it.
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Create Adder's Tongue cost 34 gold65 silver.
Break-even is 36 gold47 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 4 gold24 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −30 gold41 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 21 silver20 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 30 gold62 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -88.4% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 5,072 units across 61 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 →