Crafting estimate at current listings

No real market: too few listings for this price to mean anything yet.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 186 gold48 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price (each): 17,888 gold77 silver
Items per craft: 5
Listed value of one craft: 89,443 gold85 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 4,472 gold19 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: 84,785 gold17 silver

Thin market: the crafted item’s lowest listing comes from very few current listings and sits far out of line with reagent cost. Treat this estimate as unverified until more listings accrue.

Evidence: 3 current listings holding 11 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 89 times its 30-day median of 199 gold99 silver, so this estimate rests on a listing far above 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.

Verified priceAuction House57 min 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 Holy Protection Potion17,888 gold

Reagents

1Primal Life107 gold86 silver
3Mana Thistle26 gold19 silver
5Crystal Vial1 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Primal Life Elemental · 6,746 on the Auction House · crafted by Transmute: Primal Earth to Life (Alchemy)	1	107 gold86 silver	107 gold86 silver	58%
Mana Thistle Herb · 3,235 on the Auction House	3	26 gold19 silver	78 gold57 silver	42%
Crystal Vial Other · 468,724 on the Auction House	5	1 silver	5 silver	0%
Total per craft			186 gold48 silver	100%

About Major Holy Protection Potion

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

Major Holy Protection Potion

Item Level 27

Consumable

Requires Level 25

Use: Absorbs holy damage. Lasts 2 min.

Sell price: 50s

How to learn Major Holy Protection Potion

Recipe: Major Holy Protection Potion

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

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

The current lowest listing is 89 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: 17,888 gold77 silver
30-day low: 132 gold Sep 20
30-day high: 49,999 gold98 silver Aug 23
30-day median: 199 gold99 silver
7-day median: 197 gold99 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 Life. Made with Transmute: Primal Earth to Life (Alchemy, Outland Alchemy) from 1 Primal Earth. At lowest listed prices that makes one Primal Life for 14 gold12 silver, against 107 gold86 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 73 other recipes (20 Leatherworking, 19 Tailoring, 12 Blacksmithing and 6 Jewelcrafting); Bracers of the Green Fortress 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 Frost 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 Holy Protection Potion cost 186 gold48 silver. Most of that is Primal Life - 1 at 107 gold86 silver each, 107 gold86 silver, 57.8% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 196 gold29 silver per craft, 39 gold25 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 17,888 gold77 silver, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 89,257 gold37 silver; the Auction House would keep 4,472 gold19 silver of a sale, leaving 84,785 gold17 silver. That is an estimated 45466.1% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 5.0% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 11 units across 3 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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