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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 20 gold50 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
25 gold25 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price
5 gold
Auction House cut (5%)
25 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price
−20 gold50 silver (-81%)
  • Evidence: 36 current listings holding 7,053 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 · 11,837 on the Auction House
55 gold5 silver25 gold25 silver100%
Total per craft25 gold25 silver100%

About Refine Draconium |A:Professions-ChatIcon-Quality-Tier3:20:20|a

One craft takes 5 Draconium Ore. Draconium Ore is itself a reagent in 46 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

Draconium Ore: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 29% 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 gold
30-day low
3 gold Oct 15
30-day high
197 gold Oct 8
30-day median
7 gold
7-day median
5 gold32 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. Made with Refine Draconium |A:Professions-ChatIcon-Quality-Tier2:20:20|a (Mining, Dragon Isles Mining) from 5 Draconium Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Draconium Ore for 53 gold15 silver, against 5 gold5 silver listed. Rewarded by the quests Artisan's Supply: Draconium Sickle and Artisan's Supply: Quality-Assured Optics. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 10 gold63 silver, rank 2 5 gold5 silver and rank 3 5 gold. 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-Tier3:20:20|a cost 25 gold25 silver.

Break-even is 26 gold57 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 5 gold, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −20 gold25 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 25 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 20 gold50 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: 7,053 units across 36 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

Guides and routes on this site that cover Draconium Ore.

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