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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 14 gold20 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 18 gold
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 4 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 20 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −14 gold20 silver (-79%)
- Evidence: 96 current listings holding 20,159 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
- Outlier: the crafted item’s lowest listing is 75% below its 30-day median of 16 gold, so this estimate rests on a listing far below its usual level.
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Purple Lotus PetalHerb · 2,922 on the Auction House | 9 | 2 gold | 18 gold | 100% |
| Total per craft | 18 gold | 100% |
About Create Purple Lotus
One craft takes 9 Purple Lotus Petal. Purple Lotus is itself a reagent in 9 other recipes (Alchemy, Enchanting and Tailoring).
Purple Lotus tooltip
Purple Lotus: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 7% below its 30-day median.
- Now
- 14 gold89 silver
- 30-day low
- 4 gold79 silver Nov 1
- 30-day high
- 20 gold13 silver Oct 12
- 30-day median
- 16 gold
- 7-day median
- 16 gold
- 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
Purple Lotus Petal. 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 Purple Lotus cost 18 gold.
Break-even is 18 gold94 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 gold, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −14 gold before fees, and the Auction House would still take 20 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 14 gold20 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -78.9% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 20,159 units across 96 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 →
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