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Background
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 11 gold9 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 35 gold46 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 49 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 2 gold45 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 11 gold9 silver (+31%)
- Evidence: 17 current listings holding 2,407 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 ShadowElemental · 1,108 on the Auction House | 9 | 3 gold94 silver | 35 gold46 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 35 gold46 silver | 100% |
About Create Primal Shadow
One craft takes 9 Mote of Shadow. Primal Shadow is itself a reagent in 57 other recipes (Leatherworking, Blacksmithing, Tailoring and Jewelcrafting).
Primal Shadow tooltip
Primal Shadow: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing sits at its 30-day median.
- Now
- 49 gold
- 30-day low
- 20 gold Nov 3
- 30-day high
- 62 gold56 silver Oct 14
- 30-day median
- 49 gold40 silver
- 7-day median
- 50 gold68 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
Mote of Shadow. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 1 other recipe (1 Cooking); Bad Clams takes the most, 1 per craft.
Other recipes that make Primal Shadow
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Create Primal Shadow cost 35 gold46 silver.
Break-even is 37 gold32 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 49 gold, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 13 gold54 silver; the Auction House would keep 2 gold45 silver of a sale, leaving 11 gold9 silver. That is an estimated 31.3% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 18.1% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 2,407 units across 17 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 Shadow
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