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Background
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 7 gold29 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 20 gold25 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 28 gold99 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 1 gold44 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 7 gold29 silver (+36%)
- Evidence: 35 current listings holding 917 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Rousing DecayElemental · 2,094 on the Auction House | 9 | 2 gold25 silver | 20 gold25 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 20 gold25 silver | 100% |
About Create Awakened Decay
One craft takes 9 Rousing Decay. Awakened Decay is itself a reagent in 14 other recipes (Alchemy, Leatherworking, Inscription and Tailoring).
Awakened Decay tooltip
Awakened Decay: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 10% 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
- 28 gold99 silver
- 30-day low
- 10 gold Nov 4
- 30-day high
- 250 gold Oct 13
- 30-day median
- 32 gold31 silver
- 7-day median
- 26 gold11 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 691
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Rousing Decay. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 7 other recipes (4 Engineering, 2 Alchemy and 1 Skinning); Infusion: Decay takes the most, 2 per craft.
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Create Awakened Decay cost 20 gold25 silver.
Break-even is 21 gold31 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 gold99 silver, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 8 gold74 silver; the Auction House would keep 1 gold44 silver of a sale, leaving 7 gold29 silver. That is an estimated 36.0% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 16.6% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 917 units across 35 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 →
