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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 30 gold30 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 36 gold
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 5 gold99 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 29 silver95 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −30 gold30 silver (-84%)
- Evidence: 44 current listings holding 15,178 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Iron Ore NuggetMetal & Stone · 1,235 on the Auction House | 9 | 4 gold | 36 gold | 100% |
| Total per craft | 36 gold | 100% |
About Create Iron Ore
One craft takes 9 Iron Ore Nugget. Iron Ore is itself a reagent in 2 other recipes (Blacksmithing and Mining).
Iron Ore tooltip
Iron Ore: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 25% 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
- 6 gold79 silver
- 30-day low
- 75 silver Oct 9
- 30-day high
- 8 gold81 silver Oct 27
- 30-day median
- 5 gold44 silver
- 7-day median
- 5 gold87 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 693
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Iron 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 Iron Ore cost 36 gold.
Break-even is 37 gold89 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 gold99 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −30 gold1 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 29 silver95 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 30 gold30 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -84.2% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 15,178 units across 44 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 →