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AlchemyMidnight Alchemy
Light's Preservation
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 54 gold52 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 57 gold14 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 55 silver
- Items per craft
- 5
- Listed value of one craft
- 2 gold75 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 13 silver75 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −54 gold52 silver (-95%)
- Evidence: 96 current listings holding 498 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
- Outlier: the crafted item’s lowest listing is 85% below its 30-day median of 3 gold76 silver, so this estimate rests on a listing far below its usual level.
- 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.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Alchemy
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Midnight Alchemy
- Item level
- 278
- Reagent slots
- 4
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
5Sunglass Vial2 gold96 silver
4Tranquility Bloom1 gold35 silver
3Azeroot11 gold98 silver
1Mote of Light1 gold
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunglass Vial Other · 12,541 on the Auction House | 5 | 2 gold96 silver | 14 gold80 silver | 26% |
| Tranquility Bloom Herb · 563,148 on the Auction House | 4 | 1 gold35 silver | 5 gold40 silver | 9% |
| Azeroot Herb · 320,258 on the Auction House | 3 | 11 gold98 silver | 35 gold94 silver | 63% |
| Mote of Light Other · 198,045 on the Auction House | 1 | 1 gold | 1 gold | 2% |
| Total per craft | 57 gold14 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)
- Skill-up colours (Midnight Alchemy skill)
- Orange below 25 · Yellow 25 to 41 · Green 42 to 59 · Grey 60 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Light's Preservation tooltip
More Light Potions recipes (Midnight Recipes)
- Enlightenment Tonicyellow 30, grey 35
- Lightfused Mana Potionyellow 25, grey 60
- Refreshing Serumyellow 25, grey 60
- Silvermoon Health Potionyellow 25, grey 60
- Concentrated Silvermoon Health Potionyellow 60, grey 80
- Light's Potentialyellow 80, grey 100
- Liquid Lusteryellow 80, grey 100
- Potion of Zealotryyellow 80, grey 100
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 | 55 silver | 96 listings, 498 units |
| Rank 2 | Light's Preservation | 138 gold50 silver | 76 listings, 1,762 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 27% 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
- 2 gold75 silver
- 30-day low
- 55 silver Sep 20
- 30-day high
- 25 gold98 silver Sep 17
- 30-day median
- 3 gold76 silver
- 7-day median
- 2 gold80 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 687
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 67 gold, against 2 gold96 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 2 gold96 silver and rank 2 289 gold79 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 gold35 silver and rank 2 1 gold99 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 11 gold98 silver and rank 2 43 gold17 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 57 gold14 silver. Most of that is Azeroot - 3 at 11 gold98 silver each, 35 gold94 silver, 62.9% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 60 gold14 silver per craft, 12 gold2 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 55 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −54 gold39 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 13 silver75 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 54 gold52 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -95.4% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 498 units across 96 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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