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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 gold9 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 45 gold
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 6 gold22 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 31 silver10 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −39 gold9 silver (-87%)
- Evidence: 62 current listings holding 9,774 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Whiptail StemHerb · 133 on the Auction House | 9 | 5 gold | 45 gold | 100% |
| Total per craft | 45 gold | 100% |
About Create Whiptail
One craft takes 9 Whiptail Stem. Whiptail is itself a reagent in 9 other recipes (Alchemy).
Whiptail tooltip
Whiptail: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 12% 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
- 6 gold22 silver
- 30-day low
- 2 gold26 silver Oct 16
- 30-day high
- 29 gold Nov 4
- 30-day median
- 5 gold53 silver
- 7-day median
- 5 gold99 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
Whiptail Stem. 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 Whiptail cost 45 gold.
Break-even is 47 gold36 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 6 gold22 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −38 gold78 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 31 silver10 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 39 gold9 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -86.9% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 9,774 units across 62 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 →