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Light's Preservation
A Alchemy recipe learned at Midnight Alchemy 1 that crafts 5 Light's Preservation from 4 reagents.
Reagents
5Sunglass Vial2 gold95 silver
4Tranquility Bloom1 gold72 silver
3Azeroot18 gold
1Mote of Light69 silver
Crafts
Background
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 gold82 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 76 gold32 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 2 gold
- Items per craft
- 5
- Listed value of one craft
- 10 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 50 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −66 gold82 silver (-88%)
- Evidence: 204 current listings holding 2,363 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: Light's Preservation comes in 2 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 1 finishing reagent slot, which are not required and are left out of the cost.
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunglass Vial Other · 55,147 on the Auction House | 5 | 2 gold95 silver | 14 gold75 silver | 19% |
| Tranquility Bloom Herb · 254,956 on the Auction House | 4 | 1 gold72 silver | 6 gold88 silver | 9% |
| Azeroot Herb · 123,111 on the Auction House | 3 | 18 gold | 54 gold | 71% |
| Mote of Light Other · 567,296 on the Auction House | 1 | 69 silver | 69 silver | 1% |
| Total per craft | 76 gold32 silver | 100% |
About Light's Preservation
One craft takes 5 Sunglass Vial, 4 Tranquility Bloom, 3 Azeroot and 1 Mote of Light.
- Recipe category
- Light Potions (Midnight Recipes)
Light's Preservation tooltip
Light's Preservation quality ranks
Light's Preservation comes in 2 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 530.
| Rank | Item | Lowest listed price | Listings (US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank 1 | Light's Preservation | 2 gold | 204 listings, 2,363 units |
| Rank 2 | Light's Preservation | 55 gold | 86 listings, 1,844 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.
Light's Preservation: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 66% 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
- 6 gold44 silver
- 30-day low
- 1 gold Nov 2
- 30-day high
- 50 gold69 silver Oct 14
- 30-day median
- 3 gold87 silver
- 7-day median
- 4 gold80 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 692
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Sunglass Vial. Made with Sunglass Vial (Jewelcrafting, Midnight Jewelcrafting) from 5 
Crystalline Glass and 1 
Dusk-Shrouded Stone. At lowest listed prices that makes one Sunglass Vial for 37 gold25 silver, against 2 gold95 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 2 gold95 silver and rank 2 184 gold99 silver. Also a required reagent in 27 other recipes (24 Alchemy and 3 Enchanting); Cauldron of Sin'dorei Flasks takes the most, 20 per craft.
Tranquility Bloom. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 1 gold72 silver and rank 2 1 gold97 silver. Also a required reagent in 25 other recipes (20 Alchemy, 3 Herbalism, 1 Leatherworking and 1 Cooking); the most per craft: Empowered Mulch (Herbalism, 20 per craft), Eversong Botanist's Satchel (Leatherworking, 10 per craft), Imbued Mulch (Herbalism, 10 per craft), Alluring Nostrum (Alchemy, 8 per craft) and Amani Extract (Alchemy, 8 per craft).
Azeroot. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 18 gold and rank 2 31 gold48 silver. Also a required reagent in 23 other recipes (10 Alchemy, 8 Inscription, 3 Cooking and 2 Enchanting); the most per craft: Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots (Enchanting, 20 per craft), Hobbyist Alchemist's Mixing Rod (Inscription, 10 per craft), Hobbyist Rolling Pin (Inscription, 10 per craft), Potion of Zealotry (Alchemy, 10 per craft) and Rootflame Campfire (Enchanting, 10 per craft).
Mote of Light. Made with Transmute: Mote of Light (Alchemy, Midnight Alchemy) from 10 
Mote of Primal Energy and 2 
Stabilized Derivate, 8 per craft. Also a required reagent in 69 other recipes (19 Enchanting, 13 Leatherworking, 12 Tailoring and 11 Inscription); the most per craft: Darkmoon Dominion: Blood (Inscription, 20 per craft), Enchant Helm - Empowered Rune of Avoidance (Enchanting, 20 per craft), Enchant Shoulders - Silvermoon's Mending (Enchanting, 20 per craft), Enchant Tool - Sin'dorei Deftness (Enchanting, 20 per craft) and Endless Codex of Blooming Light (Enchanting, 20 per craft).
More Midnight Alchemy recipes in the same skill range
Alluring NostrumVoid Potions, learn at 1, grey at 100- Amani ExtractVoid Potions, learn at 1, grey at 60
- Bouquet of HerbsTransmutations, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Box of RocksTransmutations, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Cauldron of Sin'dorei FlasksCauldrons, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Composite FloraTransmutations, learn at 1, grey at 50
- Draught of Rampant AbandonVoid Potions, learn at 1, grey at 60
- Entropic ExtractVoid Potions, learn at 1, grey at 35
- Entropic IlluminantHouse Decor, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Ersatz Venom SplatterHouse Decor, learn at 1, grey at 100
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 4 reagents for one craft of Light's Preservation cost 76 gold32 silver. Most of that is Azeroot - 3 at 18 gold each, 54 gold, 70.8% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 80 gold33 silver per craft, 16 gold6 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 2 gold, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −66 gold32 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 50 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 66 gold82 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -87.6% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 2,363 units across 204 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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