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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 72 gold91 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 90 gold
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 17 gold98 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 89 silver90 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −72 gold91 silver (-81%)
- Evidence: 58 current listings holding 70,582 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Cobalt Ore NuggetMetal & Stone · 1,770 on the Auction House | 9 | 10 gold | 90 gold | 100% |
| Total per craft | 90 gold | 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: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing sits at its 30-day median.
- Now
- 17 gold98 silver
- 30-day low
- 12 gold99 silver Oct 16
- 30-day high
- 29 gold50 silver Oct 10
- 30-day median
- 17 gold99 silver
- 7-day median
- 17 gold99 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
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 90 gold.
Break-even is 94 gold73 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 17 gold98 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −72 gold2 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 89 silver90 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 72 gold91 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -81.0% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 70,582 units across 58 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 →