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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 153 gold34 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 343 gold98 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 200 gold67 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 10 gold3 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −153 gold34 silver (-45%)
- Evidence: 21 current listings holding 9,961 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Khorium Ore NuggetMetal & Stone · 116 on the Auction House | 9 | 38 gold22 silver | 343 gold98 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 343 gold98 silver | 100% |
About Create Khorium Ore
One craft takes 9 Khorium Ore Nugget. Khorium Ore is itself a reagent in 1 other recipe (Mining).
Khorium Ore tooltip
Khorium Ore: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 12% above its 30-day median.
- Now
- 200 gold67 silver
- 30-day low
- 50 gold Oct 22
- 30-day high
- 254 gold85 silver Oct 24
- 30-day median
- 178 gold89 silver
- 7-day median
- 165 gold88 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 691
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Khorium 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 Khorium Ore cost 343 gold98 silver.
Break-even is 362 gold8 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 200 gold67 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −143 gold31 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 10 gold3 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 153 gold34 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -44.6% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 9,961 units across 21 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 →
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