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Background
Crafting estimate at current listings
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 187 gold60 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
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- Auction House cut (5%)
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- Estimated profit at that listed price
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Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Volatile EarthElemental · 23,065 on the Auction House | 40 | 2 gold99 silver | 119 gold60 silver | 64% |
 Elementium BarMetal & Stone · 14,208 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Elementium (Mining) | 4 | 17 gold | 68 gold | 36% |
| Total per craft | 187 gold60 silver | 100% |
About Figurine - Jeweled Serpent
One craft takes 40 Volatile Earth and 4 Elementium Bar.
Figurine - Jeweled Serpent tooltip
Also a quest reward: Broken Serpent Figurine.
Where the reagents come from
Volatile Earth. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 41 other recipes (17 Blacksmithing, 9 Leatherworking, 4 Jewelcrafting and 4 Enchanting); Elementium Guardian takes the most, 75 per craft.
Elementium Bar. Made with Smelt Elementium (Mining, Cataclysm Mining) from 2 
Elementium Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Elementium Bar for 16 gold28 silver, against 17 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 56 other recipes (34 Blacksmithing, 12 Jewelcrafting, 6 Engineering and 2 Inscription); the most per craft: Fire-Etched Dagger (Blacksmithing, 20 per craft), Lure Master Tackle Box (Engineering, 20 per craft), Stormforged Helm (Blacksmithing, 20 per craft), Elementium Dragonling (Engineering, 16 per craft) and Elementium Shield Spike (Blacksmithing, 15 per craft).
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Figurine - Jeweled Serpent cost 187 gold60 silver. Most of that is Volatile Earth - 40 at 2 gold99 silver each, 119 gold60 silver, 63.8% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 197 gold47 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item has no current Auction House listing to compare it against, so the estimate above is left unknown rather than guessed.
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 →
Other recipes that use Volatile Earth
Data notes
- No Auction House price for the crafted item - output value unknown (it may be soulbound/BoE gear or an untracked item).