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Elixir of Superior Defense
Reagent cost, the crafted item's lowest listed price and the estimated profit at that price, from current US Auction House listings - recalculated every snapshot.
Crafting estimate at current listings
No real market: too few listings for this price to mean anything yet.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 9 gold90 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 22,222 gold22 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 1,111 gold11 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 21,101 gold20 silver
Thin market: the crafted item’s lowest listing comes from very few current listings and sits far out of line with reagent cost. Treat this estimate as unverified until more listings accrue.
- Evidence: 2 current listings holding 24 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 2,503 times its 30-day median of 8 gold88 silver, so this estimate rests on a listing far above its usual level.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Alchemy
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Classic Alchemy
- Item level
- 22
- Reagent slots
- 3
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
2Stonescale Oil3 gold
1Sungrass3 gold89 silver
1Crystal Vial1 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stonescale Oil Other · 918 on the Auction House · crafted by Stonescale Oil (Alchemy) | 2 | 3 gold | 6 gold | 61% |
| Sungrass Herb · 17,388 on the Auction House | 1 | 3 gold89 silver | 3 gold89 silver | 39% |
| Crystal Vial Other · 338,451 on the Auction House | 1 | 1 silver | 1 silver | 0% |
| Total per craft | 9 gold90 silver | 100% |
About Elixir of Superior Defense
One craft takes 2 Stonescale Oil, 1 Sungrass and 1 Crystal Vial. It is taught by Recipe: Elixir of Superior Defense, which needs Classic Alchemy 265.
- Recipe category
- Elixirs (Alchemy)
- Skill-up colours (Classic Alchemy skill)
- Orange below 280 · Yellow 280 to 289 · Green 290 to 299 · Grey 300 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Elixir of Superior Defense tooltip
How to learn Elixir of Superior Defense
Recipe: Elixir of Superior Defense
- Teaches
- Teaches you how to make an Elixir of Superior Defense.
- Requires
- Classic Alchemy (265)
- Auction House
- listed on 47 US realms, cheapest 40 gold, 94 for sale
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- Elixir of Minor Fortitudeyellow 80, grey 120
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Elixir of Superior Defense: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 2,503 times 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
- 22,222 gold22 silver
- 30-day low
- 3 gold Aug 24
- 30-day high
- 22,222 gold22 silver Sep 19
- 30-day median
- 8 gold88 silver
- 7-day median
- 11 gold88 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 676
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Stonescale Oil. Made with Stonescale Oil (Alchemy, Classic Alchemy) from 1 
Stonescale Eel. At lowest listed prices that makes one Stonescale Oil for 4 gold, against 3 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 3 other recipes (3 Alchemy); Potion of Petrification takes the most, 7 per craft.
Sungrass. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 6 other recipes (5 Alchemy and 1 Enchanting); the most per craft: Advanced Herbalism (Enchanting, 3 per craft), Superior Mana Potion (Alchemy, 2 per craft), Elixir of Giants (Alchemy, 1 per craft), Elixir of Greater Agility (Alchemy, 1 per craft) and Invisibility Potion (Alchemy, 1 per craft).
Crystal Vial. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 321 other recipes (310 Alchemy, 10 Enchanting and 1 Inscription); the most per craft: Potion of Prolonged Power (Alchemy, 10 per craft), Apothecary's Worktable (Alchemy, 6 per craft), Major Arcane Protection Potion (Alchemy, 5 per craft), Major Fire Protection Potion (Alchemy, 5 per craft) and Major Frost Protection Potion (Alchemy, 5 per craft).
More Classic Alchemy recipes in the same skill range
- Alchemist's FlaskFlasks, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Anti-VenomAnti-Venoms, learn at 1, grey at 150
- Apothecary's WorktableHouse Decor, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Blackmouth OilOils, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Discolored Healing PotionPotions, learn at 1, grey at 120
- Dreamless Sleep PotionPotions, learn at 1, grey at 285
- Fire OilOils, learn at 1, grey at 170
- Fire Protection PotionPotions, learn at 1, grey at 250
- Flask of Distilled WisdomFlasks, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Flask of Supreme PowerFlasks, learn at 1, grey at 300
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Elixir of Superior Defense cost 9 gold90 silver. Most of that is Stonescale Oil - 2 at 3 gold each, 6 gold, 60.6% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 10 gold42 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 22,222 gold22 silver, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 22,212 gold32 silver; the Auction House would keep 1,111 gold11 silver of a sale, leaving 21,101 gold20 silver. That is an estimated 213143.5% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 5.0% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 24 units across 2 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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