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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 104 gold39 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 109 gold62 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 5 gold50 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 27 silver50 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −104 gold39 silver (-95%)
- Evidence: 54 current listings holding 5,122 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Icethorn BrambleHerb · 254 on the Auction House | 9 | 12 gold18 silver | 109 gold62 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 109 gold62 silver | 100% |
About Create Icethorn
One craft takes 9 Icethorn Bramble. Icethorn is itself a reagent in 6 other recipes (Alchemy).
Icethorn tooltip
Icethorn: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 91% above 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
- 5 gold50 silver
- 30-day low
- 1 gold Oct 9
- 30-day high
- 25 gold Oct 29
- 30-day median
- 2 gold88 silver
- 7-day median
- 4 gold
- 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
Icethorn Bramble. 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 Icethorn cost 109 gold62 silver.
Break-even is 115 gold38 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 5 gold50 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −104 gold12 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 27 silver50 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 104 gold39 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -95.2% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 5,122 units across 54 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 →