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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 3 gold26 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 8 gold1 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 5 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 25 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −3 gold26 silver (-41%)
- Evidence: 32 current listings holding 5,279 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Stranglekelp BladeHerb · 1,182 on the Auction House | 9 | 89 silver | 8 gold1 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 8 gold1 silver | 100% |
About Create Stranglekelp
One craft takes 9 Stranglekelp Blade. Stranglekelp is itself a reagent in 8 other recipes (Alchemy).
Stranglekelp tooltip
Stranglekelp: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 25% 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
- 5 gold
- 30-day low
- 25 silver Nov 4
- 30-day high
- 6 gold Oct 15
- 30-day median
- 4 gold
- 7-day median
- 4 gold20 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 691
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Stranglekelp Blade. 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 Stranglekelp cost 8 gold1 silver.
Break-even is 8 gold43 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 5 gold, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −3 gold1 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 25 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 3 gold26 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -40.7% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 5,279 units across 32 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 →