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Primal Whetstone
A Blacksmithing recipe learned at Dragon Isles Blacksmithing 1 that crafts 5 Primal Whetstone from 2 reagents.
Reagents
4Glossy Stone20 gold
1Awakened Fire139 gold99 silver
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| Recipe item |  Plans: Primal Whetstone | Requires Dragon Isles Blacksmithing 35 |
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Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 194 gold57 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 219 gold99 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 5 gold35 silver
- Items per craft
- 5
- Listed value of one craft
- 26 gold75 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 1 gold33 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −194 gold57 silver (-88%)
- Evidence: 10 current listings holding 216 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.
- Quality: Primal Whetstone comes in 3 quality ranks. This is the base comparison, rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result; your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide the rank you actually get, which this estimate does not model. Each rank’s lowest listing is in the rank table below.
- Not included: the recipe also accepts 1 finishing reagent slot, which are not required and are left out of the cost.
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossy Stone Jewelcrafting · 351 on the Auction House | 4 | 20 gold | 80 gold | 36% |
| Awakened Fire Elemental · 1,208 on the Auction House | 1 | 139 gold99 silver | 139 gold99 silver | 64% |
| Total per craft | 219 gold99 silver | 100% |
About Primal Whetstone
One craft takes 4 Glossy Stone and 1 Awakened Fire. It is taught by Plans: Primal Whetstone, which needs Dragon Isles Blacksmithing 35.
- Recipe category
- Stonework (Dragon Isles Plans)
Primal Whetstone tooltip
How to learn Primal Whetstone
- Teaches
- Teaches you how to craft Primal Whetstone.
- Requires
- Dragon Isles Blacksmithing (35)
Primal Whetstone quality ranks
Primal Whetstone comes in 3 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 325.
| Rank | Item | Lowest listed price | Listings (US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank 1 | Primal Whetstone | 5 gold35 silver | 10 listings, 216 units |
| Rank 2 | Primal Whetstone | 2 gold68 silver | 9 listings, 187 units |
| Rank 3 | Primal Whetstone | 4 gold80 silver | 6 listings, 228 units |
The crafting estimate above is the base comparison: rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result. Your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide which rank a craft actually makes, so a higher rank is never priced against rank 1 reagents here. Right now rank 1 lists above rank 2 and rank 3, so a craft that comes out at a higher rank is worth less at today’s listings, not more.
Primal Whetstone: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 38% 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
- 5 gold35 silver
- 30-day low
- 32 silver Oct 10
- 30-day high
- 100 gold Oct 15
- 30-day median
- 8 gold66 silver
- 7-day median
- 5 gold45 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 692
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Glossy Stone. Made with Glossy Stone (Jewelcrafting, Dragon Isles Jewelcrafting) from 1 
Eternity Amber, 4 
Crumbled Stone and 2 
Rousing Earth, 2 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Glossy Stone for 9 gold74 silver, against 20 gold listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 20 gold, rank 2 15 gold49 silver and rank 3 15 gold68 silver. Also a required reagent in 23 other recipes (20 Jewelcrafting, 2 Blacksmithing and 1 Alchemy); B.B.F. Fist takes the most, 200 per craft.
Awakened Fire. Made with Transmute: Awakened Fire (Alchemy, Dragon Isles Alchemy) from 1 
Awakened Earth and 1 
Awakened Air, 2 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Awakened Fire for 110 gold1 silver, against 139 gold99 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 42 other recipes (10 Jewelcrafting, 7 Enchanting, 7 Inscription and 5 Engineering); the most per craft: Shalasar's Sophic Vellum (Enchanting, 150 per craft), Illusion: Primal Fire (Enchanting, 20 per craft), Darkmoon Deck Box: Inferno (Inscription, 10 per craft), Element-Infused Rocket Helmet (Engineering, 10 per craft) and Flaring Cowl (Leatherworking, 10 per craft).
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Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Primal Whetstone cost 219 gold99 silver. Most of that is Awakened Fire - 1 at 139 gold99 silver each, 139 gold99 silver, 63.6% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 231 gold56 silver per craft, 46 gold31 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 5 gold35 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −193 gold24 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 1 gold33 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 194 gold57 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -88.4% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 216 units across 10 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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