RecipeJewelcraftingNorthrend Jewelcrafting

Precise Cardinal Ruby

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 one craft shows an estimated profit of 39 gold70 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 13 gold50 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 56 gold
Auction House cut (5%): 2 gold80 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: 39 gold70 silver (+294%)

Evidence: 6 current listings holding 155 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.

Verified priceAuction House1 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Jewelcrafting
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Northrend Jewelcrafting
Item level: 30
Reagent slots: 1
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Precise Cardinal Ruby56 gold

Reagents

1Cardinal Ruby13 gold50 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Cardinal Ruby Jewelcrafting · 939 on the Auction House · crafted by Transmute: Cardinal Ruby (Alchemy)	1	13 gold50 silver	13 gold50 silver	100%
Total per craft			13 gold50 silver	100%

About Precise Cardinal Ruby

One craft takes 1 Cardinal Ruby. It is taught by Design: Precise Cardinal Ruby, which needs Northrend Jewelcrafting 75.

Recipe category: Red Gems (Northrend Designs)
Skill-up colours (Northrend Jewelcrafting skill): Orange below 65 · Yellow 65 to 69 · Green 70 to 74 · Grey 75 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Precise Cardinal Ruby tooltip

Precise Cardinal Ruby

Item Level 30

Gem

“Matches any socket.”

Sell price: 80s

How to learn Precise Cardinal Ruby

Design: Precise Cardinal Ruby

Teaches: Teaches you how to cut a Precise Cardinal Ruby.
Requires: Northrend Jewelcrafting (75)
Binding: Binds when picked up

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Precise Cardinal Ruby: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 25% below its 30-day median.

Now: 56 gold
30-day low: 56 gold Sep 19
30-day high: 99 gold Aug 25
30-day median: 75 gold
7-day median: 60 gold
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

Cardinal Ruby. Made with Transmute: Cardinal Ruby (Alchemy, Northrend Alchemy) from 1 Eternal Fire and 1 Scarlet Ruby. At lowest listed prices that makes one Cardinal Ruby for 66 gold7 silver, against 13 gold50 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 6 other recipes (4 Jewelcrafting and 2 Tailoring); Bejeweled Wizard's Bracers takes the most, 1 per craft.

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Precise Cardinal Ruby cost 13 gold50 silver.

Break-even is 14 gold21 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 56 gold, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 42 gold50 silver; the Auction House would keep 2 gold80 silver of a sale, leaving 39 gold70 silver. That is an estimated 294.1% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 6.6% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 155 units across 6 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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