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Major Arcane Protection Potion
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 397 gold per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 458 gold71 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 12 gold99 silver
- Items per craft
- 5
- Listed value of one craft
- 64 gold95 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 3 gold24 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −397 gold (-86%)
- Evidence: 16 current listings holding 196 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 78% below its 30-day median of 60 gold, 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.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Alchemy
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Outland Alchemy
- Item level
- 27
- Reagent slots
- 3
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
1Primal Mana380 gold
3Mana Thistle26 gold22 silver
5Crystal Vial1 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primal Mana Elemental · 679 on the Auction House · crafted by Transmute: Primal Fire to Mana (Alchemy) | 1 | 380 gold | 380 gold | 83% |
| Mana Thistle Herb · 3,713 on the Auction House | 3 | 26 gold22 silver | 78 gold66 silver | 17% |
| Crystal Vial Other · 540,339 on the Auction House | 5 | 1 silver | 5 silver | 0% |
| Total per craft | 458 gold71 silver | 100% |
About Major Arcane Protection Potion
One craft takes 1 Primal Mana, 3 Mana Thistle and 5 Crystal Vial. It is taught by Recipe: Major Arcane Protection Potion, which needs Outland Alchemy 60.
- Recipe category
- Potions (Outland Alchemy)
- Skill-up colours (Outland Alchemy skill)
- Orange below 75 · Grey 75 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Major Arcane Protection Potion tooltip
How to learn Major Arcane Protection Potion
Recipe: Major Arcane Protection Potion
- Teaches
- Teaches you how to make a Major Arcane Protection Potion.
- Requires
- Outland Alchemy (60)
- Binding
- Binds when picked up
More Potions recipes (Outland Alchemy)
- Volatile Healing Potionyellow 15, grey 30
- Unstable Mana Potionyellow 25, grey 40
- Sneaking Potionyellow 30, grey 45
- Insane Strength Potionyellow 35, grey 50
- Mad Alchemist's Potionyellow 35, grey 50
- Super Healing Potionyellow 40, grey 55
- Shrouding Potionyellow 50, grey 65
- Super Mana Potionyellow 55, grey 70
- Destruction Potionyellow 65, grey 75
- Fel Mana Potionyellow 75, grey 75
- Fel Regeneration Potionyellow 60, grey 75
- Haste Potionyellow 65, grey 75
Major Arcane Protection Potion: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 78% 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
- 12 gold99 silver
- 30-day low
- 11 gold62 silver Sep 18
- 30-day high
- 143 gold Aug 23
- 30-day median
- 60 gold
- 7-day median
- 13 gold63 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 689
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Primal Mana. Made with Transmute: Primal Fire to Mana (Alchemy, Outland Alchemy) from 1 
Primal Fire. At lowest listed prices that makes one Primal Mana for 598 gold99 silver, against 380 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 59 other recipes (18 Leatherworking, 11 Tailoring, 9 Blacksmithing and 7 Engineering); Circlet of Arcane Might takes the most, 20 per craft.
Mana Thistle. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 19 other recipes (19 Alchemy); the most per craft: Arakkoan Alchemist's Concoction (Alchemy, 7 per craft), Cauldron of Major Arcane Protection (Alchemy, 7 per craft), Cauldron of Major Fire Protection (Alchemy, 7 per craft), Cauldron of Major Frost Protection (Alchemy, 7 per craft) and Cauldron of Major Nature Protection (Alchemy, 7 per craft).
Crystal Vial. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 321 other recipes (310 Alchemy, 10 Enchanting and 1 Inscription); the most per craft: Potion of Prolonged Power (Alchemy, 10 per craft), Apothecary's Worktable (Alchemy, 6 per craft), Major Fire Protection Potion (Alchemy, 5 per craft), Major Frost Protection Potion (Alchemy, 5 per craft) and Major Holy Protection Potion (Alchemy, 5 per craft).
More Outland Alchemy recipes in the same skill range
- Adept's ElixirElixirs, learn at 1, grey at 30
- Alchemist StoneTrinkets, learn at 1, grey at 50
- Arakkoan Alchemist's BottleHouse Decor, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Arakkoan Alchemist's ConcoctionHouse Decor, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Assassin's Alchemist StoneTrinkets, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Cauldron of Major Arcane ProtectionCauldrons, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Cauldron of Major Fire ProtectionCauldrons, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Cauldron of Major Frost ProtectionCauldrons, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Cauldron of Major Nature ProtectionCauldrons, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Cauldron of Major Shadow ProtectionCauldrons, learn at 1, grey at 75
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Major Arcane Protection Potion cost 458 gold71 silver. Most of that is Primal Mana - 1 at 380 gold each, 380 gold, 82.8% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 482 gold85 silver per craft, 96 gold57 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 12 gold99 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −393 gold76 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 3 gold24 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 397 gold at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -86.5% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 196 units across 16 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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