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Recipe
Rich Illusion Dust
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 one craft shows an estimated profit of 3 silver60 copper. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 80 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 88 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 4 silver40 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 3 silver60 copper (+4%)
- Evidence: 95 current listings holding 190,902 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Recipe facts
- Item level
- 10
- Reagent slots
- 1
- Cast time
- Instant
Crafts
Reagents
2Light Illusion Dust40 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Light Illusion Dust Enchanting · 137,504 on the Auction House | 2 | 40 silver | 80 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 80 silver | 100% |
About Rich Illusion Dust
One craft takes 2 Light Illusion Dust. Rich Illusion Dust is itself a reagent in 8 other recipes (Tailoring, Enchanting and Alchemy).
Rich Illusion Dust tooltip
Rich Illusion Dust is a reagent in
Rich Illusion Dust: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 22% 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
- 66 silver
- 30-day low
- 1 silver Sep 2
- 30-day high
- 99 gold Aug 22
- 30-day median
- 85 silver
- 7-day median
- 85 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 687
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Light Illusion Dust. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 31 other recipes (29 Enchanting and 2 Jewelcrafting); Lesser Protection takes the most, 6 per craft.
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Rich Illusion Dust cost 80 silver.
Break-even is 84 silver21 copper - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 88 silver, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 8 silver; the Auction House would keep 4 silver40 copper of a sale, leaving 3 silver60 copper. That is an estimated 4.5% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 55.0% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 190,902 units across 95 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 →