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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 12 gold58 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 53 gold91 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 43 gold50 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 2 gold17 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −12 gold58 silver (-23%)
- Evidence: 29 current listings holding 2,802 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Crystallized ShadowElemental · 21,051 on the Auction House | 9 | 5 gold99 silver | 53 gold91 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 53 gold91 silver | 100% |
About Create Eternal Shadow
One craft takes 9 Crystallized Shadow. Eternal Shadow is itself a reagent in 36 other recipes (Leatherworking, Blacksmithing, Alchemy and Engineering).
Eternal Shadow tooltip
Eternal Shadow: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 56% above its 30-day median.
- Now
- 43 gold50 silver
- 30-day low
- 11 gold48 silver Nov 8
- 30-day high
- 50 gold37 silver Nov 8
- 30-day median
- 27 gold86 silver
- 7-day median
- 28 gold97 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 683
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Crystallized Shadow. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 8 other recipes (5 Leatherworking, 2 Blacksmithing and 1 Alchemy); Dark Arctic Chestpiece takes the most, 5 per craft.
Other recipes that make Eternal Shadow
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Create Eternal Shadow cost 53 gold91 silver.
Break-even is 56 gold74 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 43 gold50 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −10 gold41 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 2 gold17 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 12 gold58 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -23.3% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 2,802 units across 29 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 →
