RecipeEnchantingCataclysm Enchanting

Maelstrom Shatter

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 one craft shows an estimated profit of 70 silver10 copper. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 1 gold75 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price (each): 1 gold29 silver
Items per craft: 2
Listed value of one craft: 2 gold58 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 12 silver90 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price: 70 silver10 copper (+40%)

Evidence: 157 current listings holding 32,065 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 2 per craft, so the listed value of one craft is that many times the lowest listed price.

Verified priceAuction House56 min agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Enchanting
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Cataclysm Enchanting
Item level: 25
Reagent slots: 1
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Heavenly Shard1 gold

Reagents

1Maelstrom Crystal1 gold75 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Maelstrom Crystal Enchanting · 46,436 on the Auction House	1	1 gold75 silver	1 gold75 silver	100%
Total per craft			1 gold75 silver	100%

About Maelstrom Shatter

One craft takes 1 Maelstrom Crystal. Heavenly Shard is itself a reagent in 3 other recipes (Enchanting).

Recipe category: Reagents (Cataclysm Enchanting)
Skill-up colours (Cataclysm Enchanting skill): Orange below 15 · Yellow 15 to 31 · Green 32 to 49 · Grey 50 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Heavenly Shard tooltip

Heavenly Shard

Item Level 25

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Heavenly Shard: 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 gold29 silver
30-day low: 11 silver Sep 20
30-day high: 195 gold Sep 12
30-day median: 1 gold73 silver
7-day median: 1 gold72 silver
Hourly snapshots: 680

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

Where the reagents come from

Maelstrom Crystal. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 19 other recipes (19 Enchanting); Tome of Illusions: Cataclysm takes the most, 10 per craft.

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Maelstrom Shatter cost 1 gold75 silver.

Break-even is 1 gold84 silver per craft, 92 silver10 copper per item at 2 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 gold29 silver, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 83 silver; the Auction House would keep 12 silver90 copper of a sale, leaving 70 silver10 copper. That is an estimated 40.1% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 15.5% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 32,065 units across 157 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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