Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 101 gold52 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 214 gold34 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price (each): 23 gold75 silver
Items per craft: 5
Listed value of one craft: 118 gold75 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 5 gold93 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: −101 gold52 silver (-47%)

Evidence: 15 current listings holding 276 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.

Verified priceAuction House1 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 Frost Protection Potion23 gold

Reagents

1Primal Water135 gold63 silver
3Mana Thistle26 gold22 silver
5Crystal Vial1 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Primal Water Elemental · 5,761 on the Auction House · crafted by Transmute: Primal Earth to Water (Alchemy) · crafted by Transmute: Primal Shadow to Water (Alchemy)	1	135 gold63 silver	135 gold63 silver	63%
Mana Thistle Herb · 3,344 on the Auction House	3	26 gold22 silver	78 gold66 silver	37%
Crystal Vial Other · 306,865 on the Auction House	5	1 silver	5 silver	0%
Total per craft			214 gold34 silver	100%

About Major Frost Protection Potion

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

Major Frost Protection Potion

Item Level 27

Consumable

Requires Level 25

Use: Absorbs Frost damage. Lasts 2 min.

Sell price: 50s

How to learn Major Frost Protection Potion

Recipe: Major Frost Protection Potion

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

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

The current lowest listing is 32% 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: 23 gold75 silver
30-day low: 3 gold Sep 9
30-day high: 100 gold Aug 23
30-day median: 35 gold
7-day median: 25 gold
Hourly snapshots: 690

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

Where the reagents come from

Primal Water. Made with Transmute: Primal Earth to Water (Alchemy, Outland Alchemy) from 1 Primal Earth. At lowest listed prices that makes one Primal Water for 14 gold93 silver, against 135 gold63 silver listed. Made with Transmute: Primal Shadow to Water (Alchemy, Outland Alchemy) from 1 Primal Shadow. At lowest listed prices that makes one Primal Water for 41 gold58 silver, against 135 gold63 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 60 other recipes (18 Blacksmithing, 14 Leatherworking, 9 Tailoring and 5 Engineering); Thunder 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 Fire 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 Frost Protection Potion cost 214 gold34 silver. Most of that is Primal Water - 1 at 135 gold63 silver each, 135 gold63 silver, 63.3% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 225 gold62 silver per craft, 45 gold12 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 23 gold75 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −95 gold59 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 5 gold93 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 101 gold52 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -47.4% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 276 units across 15 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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