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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 53 silver30 copper per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 4 gold77 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 4 gold46 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 22 silver30 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −53 silver30 copper (-11%)
- Evidence: 98 current listings holding 17,446 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Mountain Silversage StalkHerb · 1,574 on the Auction House | 9 | 53 silver | 4 gold77 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 4 gold77 silver | 100% |
About Create Mountain Silversage
One craft takes 9 Mountain Silversage Stalk. Mountain Silversage is itself a reagent in 8 other recipes (Alchemy).
Mountain Silversage tooltip
Mountain Silversage: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 28% 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
- 4 gold46 silver
- 30-day low
- 1 gold Oct 16
- 30-day high
- 197 gold Oct 20
- 30-day median
- 3 gold49 silver
- 7-day median
- 3 gold75 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 692
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Mountain Silversage Stalk. 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 Mountain Silversage cost 4 gold77 silver.
Break-even is 5 gold2 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 4 gold46 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −31 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 22 silver30 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 53 silver30 copper at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -11.2% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 17,446 units across 98 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 →