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Recipe
Create Obsidium Ore
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 118 gold40 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 126 gold
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 8 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 40 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −118 gold40 silver (-94%)
- Evidence: 89 current listings holding 70,002 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
- 25
- Reagent slots
- 1
- Cast time
- Instant
Crafts
Reagents
9Obsidium Ore Nugget14 gold
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Obsidium Ore Nugget Metal & Stone · 222 on the Auction House | 9 | 14 gold | 126 gold | 100% |
| Total per craft | 126 gold | 100% |
About Create Obsidium Ore
One craft takes 9 Obsidium Ore Nugget. Obsidium Ore is itself a reagent in 4 other recipes (Blacksmithing and Mining).
Obsidium Ore tooltip
Obsidium Ore is a reagent in
Obsidium Ore: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 21% below its 30-day median.
- Now
- 9 gold46 silver
- 30-day low
- 6 gold Sep 12
- 30-day high
- 17 gold63 silver Sep 10
- 30-day median
- 11 gold97 silver
- 7-day median
- 9 gold
- Hourly snapshots
- 682
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Obsidium 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 Obsidium Ore cost 126 gold.
Break-even is 132 gold63 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 8 gold, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −118 gold before fees, and the Auction House would still take 40 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 118 gold40 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -94.0% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 70,002 units across 89 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 →