Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 29 gold39 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 33 gold19 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 3 gold99 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 19 silver95 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price: −29 gold39 silver (-89%)

Evidence: 44 current listings holding 2,248 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Quality: Forged Framework comes in 3 quality ranks. This is the base comparison, rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result; your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide the rank you actually get, which this estimate does not model. Each rank’s lowest listing is in the rank table below.
Not included: the recipe also accepts 2 finishing reagent slots, which are not required and are left out of the cost.

Verified priceAuction House1 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Blacksmithing
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Khaz Algar Blacksmithing
Item level: 71
Reagent slots: 2
Cast time: 3.5 sec

Crafts

Forged Framework3 gold

Reagents

1Core Alloy32 gold99 silver
1Crystalline Powder20 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Core Alloy Metal & Stone · 459 on the Auction House	1	32 gold99 silver	32 gold99 silver	99%
Crystalline Powder Other · 9,449 on the Auction House	1	20 silver	20 silver	1%
Total per craft			33 gold19 silver	100%

About Forged Framework

One craft takes 1 Core Alloy and 1 Crystalline Powder. Forged Framework is itself a reagent in 60 other recipes (Blacksmithing).

Recipe category: Frameworks (Khaz Algar Plans)
Skill-up colours (Khaz Algar Blacksmithing skill): Orange below 60 · Yellow 60 to 64 · Green 65 to 69 · Grey 70 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Forged Framework tooltip

Forged Framework

Item Level 71

Trade Goods

“A Finishing Reagent crafted by Blacksmiths. Can be bought and sold on the Auction House.”

Sell price: 2g 32s

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Forged Framework quality ranks

Forged Framework comes in 3 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 505.

Rank	Item	Lowest listed price	Listings (US)
Rank 1	Forged Framework	3 gold99 silver	44 listings, 2,248 units
Rank 2	Forged Framework	30 gold76 silver	11 listings, 311 units
Rank 3	Forged Framework	150 gold89 silver	10 listings, 122 units

The crafting estimate above is the base comparison: rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result. Your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide which rank a craft actually makes, so a higher rank is never priced against rank 1 reagents here.

Forged Framework: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 13% 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: 3 gold99 silver
30-day low: 1 gold68 silver Sep 14
30-day high: 200 gold23 silver Aug 28
30-day median: 4 gold59 silver
7-day median: 2 gold68 silver
Hourly snapshots: 678

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

Where the reagents come from

Core Alloy. Made with Core Alloy (Blacksmithing, Khaz Algar Blacksmithing) from 10 Bismuth and 8 Echoing Flux. At lowest listed prices that makes one Core Alloy for 66 gold60 silver, against 32 gold99 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 32 gold99 silver, rank 2 42 gold76 silver and rank 3 80 gold99 silver. Also a required reagent in 58 other recipes (51 Blacksmithing, 4 Inscription, 1 Engineering and 1 Enchanting); Replica Rumbling Wastes Drill Pod takes the most, 15 per craft.

Crystalline Powder. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 33 other recipes (13 Blacksmithing, 8 Enchanting, 6 Alchemy and 2 Inscription); the most per craft: Artisan Leatherworker's Knife (Blacksmithing, 20 per craft), Crystalline Radiance (Enchanting, 20 per craft), Artisan Leatherworker's Toolset (Blacksmithing, 10 per craft), Council's Intellect (Enchanting, 10 per craft) and Oathsworn's Strength (Enchanting, 10 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Forged Framework cost 33 gold19 silver. Most of that is Core Alloy - 1 at 32 gold99 silver each, 32 gold99 silver, 99.4% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 34 gold93 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 3 gold99 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −29 gold20 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 19 silver95 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 29 gold39 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -88.6% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 2,248 units across 44 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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