Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 577 gold13 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 665 gold56 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price (each): 261 gold62 silver
Items per craft: 5
Listed value of one craft: 1,308 gold10 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 65 gold40 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: 577 gold13 silver (+87%)

Evidence: 4 current listings holding 43 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.

Last verifiedAuction House4 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Alchemy
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Outland Alchemy
Item level: 27
Reagent slots: 3
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Major Fire Protection Potion261 gold

Reagents

1Primal Fire584 gold30 silver
3Mana Thistle27 gold7 silver
5Crystal Vial1 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Primal Fire Elemental · 6,630 on the Auction House · crafted by Transmute: Primal Air to Fire (Alchemy) · crafted by Transmute: Primal Mana to Fire (Alchemy)	1	584 gold30 silver	584 gold30 silver	88%
Mana Thistle Herb · 3,662 on the Auction House	3	27 gold7 silver	81 gold21 silver	12%
Crystal Vial Other · 382,990 on the Auction House	5	1 silver	5 silver	0%
Total per craft			665 gold56 silver	100%

About Major Fire Protection Potion

One craft takes 1 Primal Fire, 3 Mana Thistle and 5 Crystal Vial. It is taught by Recipe: Major Fire 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 Fire Protection Potion tooltip

Major Fire Protection Potion

Item Level 27

Consumable

Requires Level 25

Use: Absorbs fire damage. Lasts 2 min.

Sell price: 50s

How to learn Major Fire Protection Potion

Recipe: Major Fire Protection Potion

Teaches: Teaches you how to make a Major Fire Protection Potion.
Requires: Outland Alchemy (60)
Binding: Binds when picked up

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Major Fire Protection Potion: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 333 times 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: 33,333 gold33 silver
30-day low: 39 gold99 silver Aug 27
30-day high: 49,999 gold95 silver Sep 4
30-day median: 100 gold11 silver
7-day median: 136 gold41 silver
Hourly snapshots: 684

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

Where the reagents come from

Primal Fire. Made with Transmute: Primal Air to Fire (Alchemy, Outland Alchemy) from 1 Primal Air. At lowest listed prices that makes one Primal Fire for 340 gold, against 584 gold30 silver listed. Made with Transmute: Primal Mana to Fire (Alchemy, Outland Alchemy) from 1 Primal Mana. At lowest listed prices that makes one Primal Fire for 346 gold89 silver, against 584 gold30 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 79 other recipes (24 Blacksmithing, 14 Leatherworking, 14 Tailoring and 9 Engineering); Drakefist Hammer 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 Arcane Protection Potion (Alchemy, 5 per craft), Major Frost Protection Potion (Alchemy, 5 per craft) and Major Holy Protection Potion (Alchemy, 5 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Major Fire Protection Potion cost 665 gold56 silver. Most of that is Primal Fire - 1 at 584 gold30 silver each, 584 gold30 silver, 87.8% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 700 gold58 silver per craft, 140 gold11 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 261 gold62 silver, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 642 gold54 silver; the Auction House would keep 65 gold40 silver of a sale, leaving 577 gold13 silver. That is an estimated 86.7% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 10.2% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 43 units across 4 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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