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Background
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 4 gold43 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 4 gold32 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 9 gold22 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 46 silver10 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 4 gold43 silver (+103%)
- Evidence: 19 current listings holding 4,227 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Mote of EarthElemental · 3,082 on the Auction House · crafted by Earth Shatter (Mining) | 9 | 48 silver | 4 gold32 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 4 gold32 silver | 100% |
About Create Primal Earth
One craft takes 9 Mote of Earth. Primal Earth is itself a reagent in 55 other recipes (Leatherworking, Blacksmithing, Engineering and Alchemy).
Primal Earth tooltip
Primal Earth: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 29% 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
- 9 gold
- 30-day low
- 2 gold44 silver Nov 3
- 30-day high
- 38 gold65 silver Oct 24
- 30-day median
- 6 gold95 silver
- 7-day median
- 8 gold
- Hourly snapshots
- 684
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Mote of Earth. Made with Earth Shatter (Mining, Outland Mining) from 1 Primal Earth, 10 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Mote of Earth for 92 silver20 copper, against 48 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 4 other recipes (2 Blacksmithing, 1 Alchemy and 1 Engineering); Ironshield Potion takes the most, 3 per craft.
Other recipes that make Primal Earth
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Create Primal Earth cost 4 gold32 silver.
Break-even is 4 gold54 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 9 gold22 silver, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 4 gold90 silver; the Auction House would keep 46 silver10 copper of a sale, leaving 4 gold43 silver. That is an estimated 102.8% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 9.4% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 4,227 units across 19 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 →
Other recipes that use Mote of Earth
Featured in guides
Guides and routes on this site that cover Primal Earth.
TBC Primal Farming Routes: Every Mote Source, RankedPrimals run the whole Burning Crusade economy. Every mote source in Outland, the route that farms it, drop-rat
The Recipe Graveyard: We Priced 4,763 Recipes and 434 PayWe put a live cost to craft against a live output price across the entire recipe book. Most recipes cannot be