RecipeJewelcraftingCataclysm Jewelcrafting

Etched Shadow Spinel

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

At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 445 gold72 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 124 gold90 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 600 gold66 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 30 gold3 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: 445 gold72 silver (+357%)

Evidence: 5 current listings holding 30 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.

Verified priceAuction House1 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Jewelcrafting
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Cataclysm Jewelcrafting
Item level: 32
Reagent slots: 1
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Etched Shadow Spinel600 gold

Reagents

1Shadow Spinel124 gold90 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Shadow Spinel Jewelcrafting · 51 on the Auction House	1	124 gold90 silver	124 gold90 silver	100%
Total per craft			124 gold90 silver	100%

About Etched Shadow Spinel

One craft takes 1 Shadow Spinel. It is taught by Design: Etched Shadow Spinel, which needs Cataclysm Jewelcrafting 75.

Recipe category: Purple Gems (Cataclysm Designs)
Skill-up colours (Cataclysm Jewelcrafting skill): Orange below 75 · Grey 75 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Etched Shadow Spinel tooltip

Etched Shadow Spinel

Item Level 32

Gem

“Matches any socket.”

Sell price: 90s

How to learn Etched Shadow Spinel

Design: Etched Shadow Spinel

Teaches: Teaches you how to cut a Etched Shadow Spinel.
Requires: Cataclysm Jewelcrafting (75)
Binding: Binds when picked up

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Etched Shadow Spinel: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 78% 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: 600 gold66 silver
30-day low: 142 gold72 silver Aug 22
30-day high: 8,765 gold56 silver Sep 7
30-day median: 338 gold1 silver
7-day median: 600 gold71 silver
Hourly snapshots: 682

US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.

Where the reagents come from

Shadow Spinel. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 11 other recipes (11 Jewelcrafting); Accurate Shadow Spinel takes the most, 1 per craft.

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Etched Shadow Spinel cost 124 gold90 silver.

Break-even is 131 gold47 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 600 gold66 silver, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 475 gold76 silver; the Auction House would keep 30 gold3 silver of a sale, leaving 445 gold72 silver. That is an estimated 356.9% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 6.3% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 30 units across 5 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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