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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 39 gold1 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 46 gold80 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 8 gold20 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 41 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −39 gold1 silver (-83%)
- Evidence: 22 current listings holding 1,367 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Sorrowmoss LeafHerb · 1,660 on the Auction House | 9 | 5 gold20 silver | 46 gold80 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 46 gold80 silver | 100% |
About Create Sorrowmoss
One craft takes 9 Sorrowmoss Leaf. Sorrowmoss is itself a reagent in 6 other recipes (Alchemy).
Sorrowmoss tooltip
Sorrowmoss: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 9% 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
- 8 gold20 silver
- 30-day low
- 2 gold94 silver Oct 17
- 30-day high
- 196 gold99 silver Oct 23
- 30-day median
- 7 gold50 silver
- 7-day median
- 8 gold43 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 675
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Sorrowmoss Leaf. 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 Sorrowmoss cost 46 gold80 silver.
Break-even is 49 gold26 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 gold20 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −38 gold60 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 41 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 39 gold1 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -83.4% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 1,367 units across 22 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 →