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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 126 gold65 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 134 gold1 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 7 gold74 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 38 silver70 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −126 gold65 silver (-94%)
- Evidence: 96 current listings holding 8,308 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Gold Ore NuggetMetal & Stone · 697 on the Auction House | 9 | 14 gold89 silver | 134 gold1 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 134 gold1 silver | 100% |
About Create Gold Ore
One craft takes 9 Gold Ore Nugget. Gold Ore is itself a reagent in 1 other recipe (Mining).
Gold Ore tooltip
Gold Ore: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 3% below its 30-day median.
- Now
- 7 gold74 silver
- 30-day low
- 3 gold95 silver Oct 22
- 30-day high
- 12 gold67 silver Oct 24
- 30-day median
- 8 gold
- 7-day median
- 8 gold50 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
Gold 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 Gold Ore cost 134 gold1 silver.
Break-even is 141 gold6 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 7 gold74 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −126 gold27 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 38 silver70 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 126 gold65 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -94.5% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 8,308 units across 96 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 →