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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 10 silver65 copper per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 80 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 73 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 3 silver65 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −10 silver65 copper (-13%)
- Evidence: 129 current listings holding 26,937 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Small Ethereal ShardEnchanting · 3,500 on the Auction House | 2 | 40 silver | 80 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 80 silver | 100% |
About Create Ethereal Shard
One craft takes 2 Small Ethereal Shard. Ethereal Shard is itself a reagent in 3 other recipes (Enchanting).
Ethereal Shard tooltip
Ethereal Shard: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 26% 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
- 73 silver
- 30-day low
- 1 silver Oct 11
- 30-day high
- 4 gold41 silver Oct 20
- 30-day median
- 98 silver
- 7-day median
- 94 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 692
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Small Ethereal Shard. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it.
Other recipes that make Ethereal Shard
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Create Ethereal Shard cost 80 silver.
Break-even is 84 silver21 copper - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 73 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −7 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 3 silver65 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 10 silver65 copper at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -13.3% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 26,937 units across 129 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 →