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Flask of Steelskin

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.

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Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 78 gold37 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
96 gold41 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price
18 gold98 silver
Auction House cut (5%)
94 silver90 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price
−78 gold37 silver (-81%)
  • Evidence: 28 current listings holding 854 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
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Recipe facts

Profession
Alchemy
Requires skill
1
Expansion tier
Cataclysm Alchemy
Item level
32
Reagent slots
4
Cast time
2.5 sec

Crafts

Flask of Steelskin18 gold

Reagents

Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Volatile Life
Elemental · 160,366 on the Auction House		85 gold40 gold41%
Cinderbloom
Herb · 47,398 on the Auction House		83 gold80 silver30 gold40 silver32%
Twilight Jasmine
Herb · 10,012 on the Auction House		83 gold25 silver26 gold27%
Crystal Vial
Other · 455,042 on the Auction House		11 silver1 silver0%
Total per craft96 gold41 silver100%

About Flask of Steelskin

One craft takes 8 Volatile Life, 8 Cinderbloom, 8 Twilight Jasmine and 1 Crystal Vial. Flask of Steelskin is itself a reagent in 2 other recipes (Alchemy).

Recipe category
Flasks (Cataclysm Alchemy)
Skill-up colours (Cataclysm Alchemy skill)
Orange below 55 · Yellow 55 to 59 · Green 60 to 64 · Grey 65 and up
Skill points per craft
1

Flask of Steelskin tooltip

Flask of Steelskin
Item Level 32
Consumable
Requires Level 30
Use: Increases Stamina for 60 min. Counts as both a Battle and Guardian elixir. This effect persists through death.
Sell price: 25s

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Flask of Steelskin is a reagent in

Flask of Steelskin: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 12 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
94 gold99 silver
30-day low
1 gold95 silver Sep 19
30-day high
99 gold99 silver Sep 19
30-day median
7 gold92 silver
7-day median
3 gold
Hourly snapshots
685

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

Where the reagents come from

Volatile Life. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 44 other recipes (13 Leatherworking, 13 Alchemy, 9 Inscription and 3 Jewelcrafting); Elementium Moebius Band takes the most, 75 per craft.

Cinderbloom. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 14 other recipes (14 Alchemy); the most per craft: Quicksilver Alchemist Stone (Alchemy, 24 per craft), Lifebound Alchemist Stone (Alchemy, 12 per craft), Volatile Alchemist Stone (Alchemy, 12 per craft), Flask of Titanic Strength (Alchemy, 8 per craft) and Potion of Treasure Finding (Alchemy, 8 per craft).

Twilight Jasmine. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 5 other recipes (5 Alchemy); the most per craft: Flask of the Draconic Mind (Alchemy, 8 per craft), Transmute: Demonseye (Alchemy, 3 per craft), Elixir of Mighty Speed (Alchemy, 1 per craft), Elixir of the Master (Alchemy, 1 per craft) and Mythical Healing 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).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 4 reagents for one craft of Flask of Steelskin cost 96 gold41 silver. Most of that is Volatile Life - 8 at 5 gold each, 40 gold, 41.5% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 101 gold48 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 18 gold98 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −77 gold43 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 94 silver90 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 78 gold37 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -81.3% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 854 units across 28 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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