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Background
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 30 gold72 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 95 gold
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 67 gold66 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 3 gold38 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −30 gold72 silver (-32%)
- Evidence: 381 current listings holding 6,101 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Artisan's LedgerFinishing Reagents · 8,296 on the Auction House | 5 | 19 gold | 95 gold | 100% |
| Total per craft | 95 gold | 100% |
About Mentor's Helpful Handiwork
One craft takes 5 Artisan's Ledger. Mentor's Helpful Handiwork is itself a reagent in 60 other recipes (Alchemy and Blacksmithing).
Mentor's Helpful Handiwork tooltip
Mentor's Helpful Handiwork: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 20% below its 30-day median.
- Now
- 67 gold66 silver
- 30-day low
- 22 gold99 silver Oct 31
- 30-day high
- 124 gold98 silver Oct 15
- 30-day median
- 84 gold44 silver
- 7-day median
- 75 gold1 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 683
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Artisan's Ledger. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it.
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Mentor's Helpful Handiwork cost 95 gold.
Break-even is 100 gold - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 67 gold66 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −27 gold34 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 3 gold38 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 30 gold72 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -32.3% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 6,101 units across 381 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 →
