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Background
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 5 gold40 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 6 gold
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 12 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 60 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 5 gold40 silver (+90%)
- Evidence: 170 current listings holding 28,944 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Lesser Celestial EssenceEnchanting · 6,662 on the Auction House | 2 | 3 gold | 6 gold | 100% |
| Total per craft | 6 gold | 100% |
About Greater Celestial Essence
One craft takes 2 Lesser Celestial Essence. Greater Celestial Essence is itself a reagent in 1 other recipe (Enchanting).
Greater Celestial Essence tooltip
Greater Celestial Essence: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 6% above 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
- 13 gold80 silver
- 30-day low
- 2 gold Nov 2
- 30-day high
- 23 gold99 silver Oct 14
- 30-day median
- 13 gold
- 7-day median
- 13 gold94 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 691
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Lesser Celestial Essence. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 6 other recipes (6 Enchanting); Critical Strike takes the most, 2 per craft.
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Greater Celestial Essence cost 6 gold.
Break-even is 6 gold31 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 12 gold, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 6 gold; the Auction House would keep 60 silver of a sale, leaving 5 gold40 silver. That is an estimated 90.0% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 10.0% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 28,944 units across 170 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 →
