TheWoWDBIcon
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 9 gold15 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 12 gold
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 3 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 15 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −9 gold15 silver (-76%)
- Evidence: 70 current listings holding 90,291 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Sha Crystal FragmentEnchanting · 418 on the Auction House | 2 | 6 gold | 12 gold | 100% |
| Total per craft | 12 gold | 100% |
About Create Sha Crystal
One craft takes 2 Sha Crystal Fragment. Sha Crystal is itself a reagent in 4 other recipes (Enchanting).
Sha Crystal tooltip
Where the reagents come from
Sha Crystal Fragment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it.
Other recipes that make Sha Crystal
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Create Sha Crystal cost 12 gold.
Break-even is 12 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 3 gold, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −9 gold before fees, and the Auction House would still take 15 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 9 gold15 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -76.2% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 90,291 units across 70 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 →