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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 38 gold35 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 53 gold55 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 16 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 80 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −38 gold35 silver (-72%)
- Evidence: 113 current listings holding 1,961 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Small Luminous ShardEnchanting · 437 on the Auction House | 9 | 5 gold95 silver | 53 gold55 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 53 gold55 silver | 100% |
About Create Luminous Shard
One craft takes 9 Small Luminous Shard. Luminous Shard is itself a reagent in 2 other recipes (Enchanting).
Luminous Shard tooltip
Luminous Shard: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 26% below 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
- 15 gold99 silver
- 30-day low
- 1 gold80 silver Oct 31
- 30-day high
- 43 gold22 silver Oct 14
- 30-day median
- 21 gold53 silver
- 7-day median
- 17 gold96 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
Small Luminous Shard. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it.
Other recipes that make Luminous Shard
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Create Luminous Shard cost 53 gold55 silver.
Break-even is 56 gold36 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 16 gold, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −37 gold55 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 80 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 38 gold35 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -71.6% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 1,961 units across 113 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 →