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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 8 gold11 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
10 gold
Crafted item, lowest listed price
1 gold98 silver
Auction House cut (5%)
9 silver90 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price
−8 gold11 silver (-81%)
  • Evidence: 182 current listings holding 32,829 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 HouseUS region

Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Draconium Ore
Metal & Stone · 31,259 on the Auction House
52 gold10 gold100%
Total per craft10 gold100%

About Refine Draconium |A:Professions-ChatIcon-Quality-Tier2:20:20|a

One craft takes 5 Draconium Ore. Draconium Ore is itself a reagent in 47 other recipes (Blacksmithing, Engineering, Cooking and Inscription).

Recipe category
Refinement (Dragon Isles Mining)

Draconium Ore tooltip

Draconium Ore
Item Level 60
Trade Goods
“Gathered by players with the Mining skill. Can be bought and sold on the auction house.”
Sell price: 10s

Also a quest reward: Artisan's Supply: Draconium Sickle (The Waking Shores), Artisan's Supply: Quality-Assured Optics (The Waking Shores).

Draconium Ore: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 7% above 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 gold15 silver
30-day low
2 gold Oct 7
30-day high
100 gold Oct 8
30-day median
4 gold80 silver
7-day median
4 gold23 silver
Hourly snapshots
691

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

Where the reagents come from

Draconium Ore. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 2 gold, rank 2 1 gold98 silver and rank 3 2 gold10 silver. Also a required reagent in 46 other recipes (29 Blacksmithing, 10 Engineering, 2 Inscription and 2 Cooking); Alchemist's Brilliant Mixing Rod takes the most, 30 per craft.

More Dragon Isles Mining recipes in the same skill range

Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Refine Draconium |A:Professions-ChatIcon-Quality-Tier2:20:20|a cost 10 gold.

Break-even is 10 gold52 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 1 gold98 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −8 gold2 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 9 silver90 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 8 gold11 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -81.2% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 32,829 units across 182 auctions region-wide. Depth separates a market price from a single asking figure, but listings are not sales, so read it alongside the estimate.

Other recipes that use Draconium Ore

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