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Recipe
Create Ghost Iron 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 5 gold31 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 9 gold27 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 4 gold16 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 20 silver80 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −5 gold31 silver (-57%)
- Evidence: 188 current listings holding 203,372 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
- 30
- Reagent slots
- 1
- Cast time
- Instant
Crafts
Reagents
9Ghost Iron Nugget1 gold3 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ghost Iron Nugget Metal & Stone · 1,937 on the Auction House | 9 | 1 gold3 silver | 9 gold27 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 9 gold27 silver | 100% |
About Create Ghost Iron Ore
One craft takes 9 Ghost Iron Nugget. Ghost Iron Ore is itself a reagent in 4 other recipes (Blacksmithing and Mining).
Ghost Iron Ore tooltip
Ghost Iron Ore is a reagent in
Ghost Iron Ore: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing sits at 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
- 6 gold93 silver
- 30-day low
- 15 silver Sep 11
- 30-day high
- 18 gold Sep 4
- 30-day median
- 6 gold98 silver
- 7-day median
- 6 gold25 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 677
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Ghost Iron 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 Ghost Iron Ore cost 9 gold27 silver.
Break-even is 9 gold75 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 4 gold16 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −5 gold11 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 20 silver80 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 5 gold31 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -57.4% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 203,372 units across 188 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 →