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Recipe
Create Luminous Shard
Reagent cost, the crafted item's lowest listed price and the estimated profit at that price, from current US Auction House listings - recalculated every snapshot.
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 488 gold67 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 531 gold
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 44 gold55 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 2 gold22 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −488 gold67 silver (-92%)
- Evidence: 86 current listings holding 11,115 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Recipe facts
- Item level
- 35
- Reagent slots
- 1
- Cast time
- Instant
Crafts
Reagents
9Small Luminous Shard59 gold
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Luminous Shard Enchanting · 424 on the Auction House | 9 | 59 gold | 531 gold | 100% |
| Total per craft | 531 gold | 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 is a reagent in
Luminous Shard: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 24% 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
- 44 gold55 silver
- 30-day low
- 19 gold94 silver Sep 18
- 30-day high
- 200 gold Aug 24
- 30-day median
- 36 gold
- 7-day median
- 29 gold75 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 689
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 531 gold.
Break-even is 558 gold94 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 44 gold55 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −486 gold45 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 2 gold22 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 488 gold67 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -92.0% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 11,115 units across 86 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 →