Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 66 gold69 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 104 gold69 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price (each): 20 gold
Items per craft: 2
Listed value of one craft: 40 gold
Auction House cut (5%): 2 gold
Estimated profit at that listed price: −66 gold69 silver (-64%)

Evidence: 13 current listings holding 231 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 House1 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 Pure Death20 gold

Reagents

1Fel Lotus9 gold22 silver
3Mana Thistle26 gold22 silver
7Nightmare Vine2 gold40 silver
1Crystal Vial1 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Fel Lotus Herb · 1,994 on the Auction House	1	9 gold22 silver	9 gold22 silver	9%
Mana Thistle Herb · 3,621 on the Auction House	3	26 gold22 silver	78 gold66 silver	75%
Nightmare Vine Herb · 19,503 on the Auction House	7	2 gold40 silver	16 gold80 silver	16%
Crystal Vial Other · 381,200 on the Auction House	1	1 silver	1 silver	0%
Total per craft			104 gold69 silver	100%

About Flask of Pure Death

One craft takes 1 Fel Lotus, 3 Mana Thistle, 7 Nightmare Vine 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 Pure Death tooltip

Flask of Pure Death

Item Level 27

Consumable

Requires Level 26

Use: Increases Shadow, Fire, and Frost spell power for 60 min. Counts as both a Battle and Guardian elixir. This effect persists through death.

Sell price: 50s

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Flask of Pure Death: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 20% 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: 20 gold
30-day low: 6 gold Sep 1
30-day high: 68 gold31 silver Aug 25
30-day median: 25 gold
7-day median: 20 gold
Hourly snapshots: 689

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).

Nightmare Vine. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 7 other recipes (6 Alchemy and 1 Enchanting); the most per craft: Fel Regeneration Potion (Alchemy, 3 per craft), Destruction Potion (Alchemy, 2 per craft), Fel Mana Potion (Alchemy, 2 per craft), Fel Strength Elixir (Alchemy, 2 per craft) and Elixir of Major Shadow 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 Pure Death cost 104 gold69 silver. Most of that is Mana Thistle - 3 at 26 gold22 silver each, 78 gold66 silver, 75.1% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 110 gold20 silver per craft, 55 gold10 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 20 gold, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −64 gold69 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 2 gold of a sale, so a craft loses 66 gold69 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -63.7% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 231 units across 13 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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