Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 91 gold34 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 108 gold84 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price (each): 9 gold21 silver
Items per craft: 2
Listed value of one craft: 18 gold42 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 92 silver10 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price: −91 gold34 silver (-84%)

Evidence: 9 current listings holding 103 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Items per craft: the game’s spell data creates 2 per craft, so the listed value of one craft is that many times the lowest listed price.

Verified priceAuction House2 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Alchemy
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Outland Alchemy
Item level: 27
Reagent slots: 4
Cast time: 2.5 sec

Crafts

Flask of Fortification9 gold

Reagents

1Fel Lotus9 gold
3Mana Thistle27 gold7 silver
7Ancient Lichen2 gold66 silver
1Crystal Vial1 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Fel Lotus Herb · 1,855 on the Auction House	1	9 gold	9 gold	8%
Mana Thistle Herb · 3,673 on the Auction House	3	27 gold7 silver	81 gold21 silver	75%
Ancient Lichen Herb · 3,829 on the Auction House	7	2 gold66 silver	18 gold62 silver	17%
Crystal Vial Other · 381,344 on the Auction House	1	1 silver	1 silver	0%
Total per craft			108 gold84 silver	100%

About Flask of Fortification

One craft takes 1 Fel Lotus, 3 Mana Thistle, 7 Ancient Lichen and 1 Crystal Vial.

Recipe category: Flasks (Outland Alchemy)
Skill-up colours (Outland Alchemy skill): Orange below 75 · Grey 75 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Flask of Fortification tooltip

Flask of Fortification

Item Level 27

Consumable

Requires Level 26

Use: Increases dodge and maximum health by 60 min. Counts as both a Battle and Guardian elixir. This effect persists through death.

Sell price: 50s

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Flask of Fortification: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 41% below 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: 9 gold21 silver
30-day low: 5 gold32 silver Aug 30
30-day high: 150 gold97 silver Sep 1
30-day median: 15 gold62 silver
7-day median: 28 gold21 silver
Hourly snapshots: 687

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

Where the reagents come from

Fel Lotus. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 8 other recipes (6 Alchemy, 1 Tailoring and 1 Enchanting); Alchemist Stone takes the most, 2 per craft.

Mana Thistle. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 19 other recipes (19 Alchemy); the most per craft: Arakkoan Alchemist's Concoction (Alchemy, 7 per craft), Cauldron of Major Arcane Protection (Alchemy, 7 per craft), Cauldron of Major Fire Protection (Alchemy, 7 per craft), Cauldron of Major Frost Protection (Alchemy, 7 per craft) and Cauldron of Major Nature Protection (Alchemy, 7 per craft).

Ancient Lichen. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 8 other recipes (8 Alchemy); the most per craft: Elixir of Major Defense (Alchemy, 3 per craft), Ironshield Potion (Alchemy, 2 per craft), Elixir of Ironskin (Alchemy, 1 per craft), Elixir of Major Firepower (Alchemy, 1 per craft) and Elixir of Major Frost Power (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).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 4 reagents for one craft of Flask of Fortification cost 108 gold84 silver. Most of that is Mana Thistle - 3 at 27 gold7 silver each, 81 gold21 silver, 74.6% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 114 gold56 silver per craft, 57 gold28 silver per item at 2 items a craft - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 9 gold21 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −90 gold42 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 92 silver10 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 91 gold34 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -83.9% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 103 units across 9 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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