Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 2 gold48 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 6 gold10 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 3 gold81 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 19 silver5 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price: −2 gold48 silver (-41%)

Evidence: 202 current listings holding 52,340 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 House2 min agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Enchanting
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Pandaria Enchanting
Item level: 30
Reagent slots: 1
Cast time: 1.5 sec

Crafts

Sha Crystal3 gold

Reagents

5Ethereal Shard1 gold22 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Ethereal Shard Enchanting · 38,798 on the Auction House · crafted by Ethereal Shard (Enchanting) · crafted by Sha Shatter (Enchanting)	5	1 gold22 silver	6 gold10 silver	100%
Total per craft			6 gold10 silver	100%

About Sha Crystal

One craft takes 5 Ethereal Shard. Sha Crystal is itself a reagent in 4 other recipes (Enchanting).

Recipe category: Reagents (Pandaria Enchanting)
Skill-up colours (Pandaria Enchanting skill): Yellow 1 to 2 · Green 3 to 4 · Grey 5 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

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Sha Crystal

Item Level 30

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Sha Crystal: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 16% 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: 3 gold81 silver
30-day low: 1 gold Sep 4
30-day high: 11 gold11 silver Sep 12
30-day median: 4 gold52 silver
7-day median: 3 gold98 silver
Hourly snapshots: 689

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

Where the reagents come from

Ethereal Shard. Made with Ethereal Shard (Enchanting, Pandaria Enchanting) from 5 Mysterious Essence. At lowest listed prices that makes one Ethereal Shard for 1 gold50 silver, against 1 gold22 silver listed. Made with Sha Shatter (Enchanting, Pandaria Enchanting) from 1 Sha Crystal, 2 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Ethereal Shard for 1 gold90 silver, against 1 gold22 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 8 other recipes (8 Enchanting); Pandaren Table Lamp takes the most, 9 per craft.

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Sha Crystal cost 6 gold10 silver.

Break-even is 6 gold42 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 3 gold81 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −2 gold29 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 19 silver5 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 2 gold48 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -40.7% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 52,340 units across 202 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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