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Prismatic Elixir

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.

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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 5 gold83 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
7 gold73 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price
2 gold
Auction House cut (5%)
10 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price
5 gold83 silver (-75%)
  • Evidence: 9 current listings holding 137 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
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Recipe facts

Profession
Alchemy
Requires skill
1
Expansion tier
Cataclysm Alchemy
Item level
32
Reagent slots
3
Cast time
2 sec

Crafts

Reagents

Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Cinderbloom
Herb · 4,168 on the Auction House
14 gold4 gold52%
Whiptail
Herb · 23,853 on the Auction House
13 gold72 silver3 gold72 silver48%
Crystal Vial
Other · 380,796 on the Auction House
11 silver1 silver0%
Total per craft7 gold73 silver100%

About Prismatic Elixir

One craft takes 1 Cinderbloom, 1 Whiptail and 1 Crystal Vial.

Recipe category
Elixirs (Cataclysm Alchemy)
Skill-up colours (Cataclysm Alchemy skill)
Orange below 35 · Yellow 35 to 39 · Green 40 to 44 · Grey 45 and up
Skill points per craft
1

Prismatic Elixir tooltip

Prismatic Elixir
Item Level 32
Consumable
Requires Level 30
Use: Increases armor for 60 min. Guardian Elixir.
Sell price: 50s

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Prismatic Elixir: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 66% 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
2 gold
30-day low
2 gold Sep 14
30-day high
185 gold25 silver Sep 11
30-day median
5 gold92 silver
7-day median
2 gold
Hourly snapshots
678

US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.

Where the reagents come from

Cinderbloom. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 14 other recipes (14 Alchemy); Quicksilver Alchemist Stone takes the most, 24 per craft.

Whiptail. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 8 other recipes (8 Alchemy); the most per craft: Flask of Titanic Strength (Alchemy, 8 per craft), Flask of the Winds (Alchemy, 8 per craft), Gilnean Green Potion (Alchemy, 5 per craft), Potion of Treasure Finding (Alchemy, 4 per craft) and Transmute: Amberjewel (Alchemy, 3 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 Prismatic Elixir cost 7 gold73 silver. Most of that is Cinderbloom - 1 at 4 gold each, 4 gold, 51.7% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 8 gold13 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 2 gold, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: 5 gold73 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 10 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 5 gold83 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -75.4% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 137 units across 9 auctions region-wide. Depth separates a market price from a single asking figure, but listings are not sales, so read it alongside the estimate.

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