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Primal Whetstone
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 the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 276 gold44 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 284 gold99 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 1 gold80 silver
- Items per craft
- 5
- Listed value of one craft
- 9 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 45 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −276 gold44 silver (-97%)
- Evidence: 16 current listings holding 206 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.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Blacksmithing
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Dragon Isles Blacksmithing
- Item level
- 73
- Reagent slots
- 2
- Cast time
- 1.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
4Glossy Stone35 gold
1Awakened Fire144 gold99 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossy Stone Jewelcrafting · 231 on the Auction House | 4 | 35 gold | 140 gold | 49% |
| Awakened Fire Elemental · 7,982 on the Auction House | 1 | 144 gold99 silver | 144 gold99 silver | 51% |
| Total per craft | 284 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)
- Skill-up colours (Dragon Isles Blacksmithing skill)
- Orange below 40 · Yellow 40 to 44 · Green 45 to 49 · Grey 50 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Primal Whetstone tooltip
How to learn Primal Whetstone
Plans: Primal Whetstone- Teaches
- Teaches you how to craft Primal Whetstone.
- Requires
- Dragon Isles Blacksmithing (35)
More Stonework recipes (Dragon Isles Plans)
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 | 1 gold80 silver | 16 listings, 206 units |
| Rank 2 | Primal Whetstone | 20 silver | 15 listings, 933 units |
| Rank 3 | Primal Whetstone | 9 gold | 10 listings, 143 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, 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 35% 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
- 1 gold80 silver
- 30-day low
- 22 silver Aug 23
- 30-day high
- 49,999 gold Sep 4
- 30-day median
- 2 gold75 silver
- 7-day median
- 2 gold54 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 8 gold1 silver, against 35 gold listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 35 gold, rank 2 28 gold95 silver and rank 3 16 gold66 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 87 gold79 silver, against 144 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).
More Dragon Isles Blacksmithing recipes in the same skill range
- Allied Chestplate of GenerosityArmor, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Allied Wristguard of CompanionshipArmor, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Alvin the AnvilPets, learn at 1, grey at 60
- Ancient Ceremonial TridentArtisan Curios, learn at 1, grey at 60
- Armor SpikesOptional Reagents, learn at 1, grey at 40
- Black Dragon Touched HammerProfession Tools and Accessories, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Crimson Combatant's Draconium ArmguardsArmor, learn at 1, grey at 50
- Crimson Combatant's Draconium BreastplateArmor, learn at 1, grey at 50
- Crimson Combatant's Draconium GauntletsArmor, learn at 1, grey at 50
- Crimson Combatant's Draconium GreavesArmor, learn at 1, grey at 50
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Primal Whetstone cost 284 gold99 silver. Most of that is Awakened Fire - 1 at 144 gold99 silver each, 144 gold99 silver, 50.9% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 299 gold98 silver per craft, 59 gold99 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 1 gold80 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −275 gold99 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 45 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 276 gold44 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -97.0% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 206 units across 16 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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