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Recipe
Create Cobalt Ore
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 20 gold36 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 40 gold95 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 21 gold67 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 1 gold8 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −20 gold36 silver (-50%)
- Evidence: 190 current listings holding 29,562 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Recipe facts
- Item level
- 20
- Reagent slots
- 1
- Cast time
- Instant
Crafts
Reagents
9Cobalt Ore Nugget4 gold55 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cobalt Ore Nugget Metal & Stone · 412 on the Auction House | 9 | 4 gold55 silver | 40 gold95 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 40 gold95 silver | 100% |
About Create Cobalt Ore
One craft takes 9 Cobalt Ore Nugget. Cobalt Ore is itself a reagent in 4 other recipes (Blacksmithing and Mining).
Cobalt Ore tooltip
Cobalt Ore is a reagent in
Cobalt Ore: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 15% below its 30-day median.
- Now
- 21 gold67 silver
- 30-day low
- 5 gold37 silver Aug 26
- 30-day high
- 32 gold Sep 11
- 30-day median
- 25 gold50 silver
- 7-day median
- 24 gold32 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 686
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Cobalt Ore Nugget. 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 Cobalt Ore cost 40 gold95 silver.
Break-even is 43 gold10 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 21 gold67 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −19 gold28 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 1 gold8 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 20 gold36 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -49.7% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 29,562 units across 190 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 →