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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 119 gold98 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 124 gold74 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 5 gold1 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 25 silver5 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −119 gold98 silver (-96%)
- Evidence: 184 current listings holding 56,008 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Mithril Ore NuggetMetal & Stone · 1,539 on the Auction House | 9 | 13 gold86 silver | 124 gold74 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 124 gold74 silver | 100% |
About Create Mithril Ore
One craft takes 9 Mithril Ore Nugget. Mithril Ore is itself a reagent in 3 other recipes (Alchemy, Blacksmithing and Mining).
Mithril Ore tooltip
Mithril Ore: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 3% 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
- 7 gold78 silver
- 30-day low
- 75 silver Oct 9
- 30-day high
- 11 gold74 silver Oct 16
- 30-day median
- 8 gold
- 7-day median
- 8 gold89 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
Mithril 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 Mithril Ore cost 124 gold74 silver.
Break-even is 131 gold30 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 gold1 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −119 gold73 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 25 silver5 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 119 gold98 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -96.2% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 56,008 units across 184 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 →