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AlchemyKhaz Algar Alchemy
Grotesque Vial
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.
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 64 gold55 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 71 gold68 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 1 gold50 silver
- Items per craft
- 5
- Listed value of one craft
- 7 gold50 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 37 silver50 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −64 gold55 silver (-90%)
- Evidence: 32 current listings holding 212 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 5 per craft, so the listed value of one craft is that many times the lowest listed price.
- Quality: Grotesque Vial 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.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Alchemy
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Khaz Algar Alchemy
- Item level
- 80
- Reagent slots
- 5
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
5Gilded Vial1 gold70 silver
12Mycobloom3 gold50 silver
4Luredrop1 gold7 silver
4Arathor's Spear2 gold60 silver
1Writhing Sample6 gold50 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gilded Vial Other · 1,003 on the Auction House | 5 | 1 gold70 silver | 8 gold50 silver | 12% |
| Mycobloom Herb · 14,076 on the Auction House | 12 | 3 gold50 silver | 42 gold | 59% |
| Luredrop Herb · 4,967 on the Auction House | 4 | 1 gold7 silver | 4 gold28 silver | 6% |
| Arathor's Spear Herb · 6,602 on the Auction House | 4 | 2 gold60 silver | 10 gold40 silver | 15% |
| Writhing Sample Other · 20,851 on the Auction House | 1 | 6 gold50 silver | 6 gold50 silver | 9% |
| Total per craft | 71 gold68 silver | 100% |
About Grotesque Vial
One craft takes 5 Gilded Vial, 12 Mycobloom, 4 Luredrop, 4 Arathor's Spear and 1 Writhing Sample.
- Recipe category
- Potions (Khaz Algar Recipes)
- Skill-up colours (Khaz Algar Alchemy skill)
- Orange below 80 · Yellow 80 to 89 · Green 90 to 99 · Grey 100 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Grotesque Vial tooltip
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Grotesque Vial quality ranks
Grotesque Vial comes in 3 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 675.
| Rank | Item | Lowest listed price | Listings (US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank 1 | Grotesque Vial | 1 gold50 silver | 32 listings, 212 units |
| Rank 2 | Grotesque Vial | 1 gold34 silver | 22 listings, 670 units |
| Rank 3 | Grotesque Vial | 294 gold | 25 listings, 86 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. Right now rank 1 lists above rank 2, so a craft that comes out at a higher rank is worth less at today’s listings, not more.
Grotesque Vial: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 25% 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
- 1 gold50 silver
- 30-day low
- 1 gold Aug 22
- 30-day high
- 44,000 gold1 silver Aug 30
- 30-day median
- 2 gold
- 7-day median
- 1 gold75 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 682
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Gilded Vial. Made with Gilded Vial (Jewelcrafting, Khaz Algar Jewelcrafting) from 3 
Crushed Gemstones, 6 
Glittering Glass and 1 
Ambivalent Amber, 4 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Gilded Vial for 13 gold35 silver, against 1 gold70 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 1 gold70 silver, rank 2 3 gold94 silver and rank 3 10 gold75 silver. Also a required reagent in 29 other recipes (28 Alchemy and 1 Engineering); Algari Potion Cauldron takes the most, 80 per craft.
Mycobloom. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 3 gold50 silver, rank 2 3 gold33 silver and rank 3 3 gold42 silver. Also a required reagent in 25 other recipes (21 Alchemy, 3 Herbalism and 1 Leatherworking); the most per craft: Invigorating Healing Potion (Alchemy, 18 per craft), Flask of Saving Graces (Alchemy, 16 per craft), Vicious Flask of Honor (Alchemy, 16 per craft), Empowered Mulch (Herbalism, 15 per craft) and Frontline Potion (Alchemy, 12 per craft).
Luredrop. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 1 gold7 silver, rank 2 1 gold75 silver and rank 3 4 gold. Also a required reagent in 12 other recipes (12 Alchemy); the most per craft: Flask of Tempered Aggression (Alchemy, 12 per craft), Flask of Tempered Swiftness (Alchemy, 12 per craft), Flask of Alchemical Chaos (Alchemy, 8 per craft), Harmonious Horticulture (Alchemy, 6 per craft) and Phial of Concentrated Ingenuity (Alchemy, 5 per craft).
Arathor's Spear. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 2 gold60 silver, rank 2 2 gold40 silver and rank 3 3 gold21 silver. Also a required reagent in 19 other recipes (13 Alchemy and 6 Inscription); the most per craft: Flask of Tempered Mastery (Alchemy, 12 per craft), Flask of Tempered Versatility (Alchemy, 12 per craft), Flask of Alchemical Chaos (Alchemy, 8 per craft), Lightweight Scribe's Quill (Inscription, 8 per craft) and Harmonious Horticulture (Alchemy, 6 per craft).
Writhing Sample. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 24 other recipes (9 Inscription, 6 Enchanting, 4 Alchemy and 2 Tailoring); the most per craft: Vagabond's Bounding Baton (Inscription, 20 per craft), Vagabond's Careful Crutch (Inscription, 20 per craft), Vagabond's Torch (Inscription, 20 per craft), Cursed Critical Strike (Enchanting, 10 per craft) and Cursed Haste (Enchanting, 10 per craft).
More Khaz Algar Alchemy recipes in the same skill range
- Algari Alchemist StoneAlchemist Stones, learn at 1, grey at 30
- Algari Flask CauldronCauldrons, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Algari Healing PotionBasic Concoctions, learn at 1, grey at 25
- Algari Mana PotionBasic Concoctions, learn at 1, grey at 30
- Algari Potion CauldronCauldrons, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Boulder Springs Hot TubHouse Decor, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Bubbling Mycobloom CultureReagents, learn at 1, grey at 15
- Cavedweller's DelightBasic Concoctions, learn at 1, grey at 25
- Flask of Alchemical ChaosFlasks, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Flask of Saving GracesFlasks, learn at 1, grey at 100
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 5 reagents for one craft of Grotesque Vial cost 71 gold68 silver. Most of that is Mycobloom - 12 at 3 gold50 silver each, 42 gold, 58.6% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 75 gold45 silver per craft, 15 gold9 silver per item at 5 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 1 gold50 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −64 gold18 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 37 silver50 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 64 gold55 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -90.1% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 212 units across 32 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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