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Shadow Oil
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 8 gold99 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 28 gold1 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 38 gold95 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 1 gold94 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 8 gold99 silver (+32%)
- Evidence: 11 current listings holding 176 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
- Profession
- Alchemy
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Classic Alchemy
- Item level
- 14
- Reagent slots
- 2
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
2Grave Moss14 gold
1Crystal Vial1 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grave Moss Herb · 7,191 on the Auction House | 2 | 14 gold | 28 gold | 100% |
| Crystal Vial Other · 340,485 on the Auction House | 1 | 1 silver | 1 silver | 0% |
| Total per craft | 28 gold1 silver | 100% |
About Shadow Oil
One craft takes 2 Grave Moss and 1 Crystal Vial. It is taught by Recipe: Shadow Oil, which needs Classic Alchemy 165. Shadow Oil is itself a reagent in 7 other recipes (Leatherworking, Alchemy, Blacksmithing and Jewelcrafting).
- Recipe category
- Oils (Alchemy)
- Skill-up colours (Classic Alchemy skill)
- Orange below 190 · Yellow 190 to 209 · Green 210 to 229 · Grey 230 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Shadow Oil tooltip
How to learn Shadow Oil
Recipe: Shadow Oil- Teaches
- Teaches you how to make Shadow Oil.
- Requires
- Classic Alchemy (165)
- Auction House
- listed on 13 US realms, cheapest 200,000 gold99 silver, 13 for sale
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Shadow Oil is a reagent in
Shadow Oil: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 2% 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
- 38 gold95 silver
- 30-day low
- 2 gold Aug 29
- 30-day high
- 85 gold72 silver Sep 11
- 30-day median
- 38 gold
- 7-day median
- 46 gold
- Hourly snapshots
- 675
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Grave Moss. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 1 other recipe (1 Alchemy); Shadow Protection Potion takes the most, 1 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).
More Classic Alchemy recipes in the same skill range
- Alchemist's FlaskFlasks, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Anti-VenomAnti-Venoms, learn at 1, grey at 150
- Apothecary's WorktableHouse Decor, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Arcane ElixirElixirs, learn at 1, grey at 290
- Catseye ElixirElixirs, learn at 1, grey at 260
- Discolored Healing PotionPotions, learn at 1, grey at 120
- Dreamless Sleep PotionPotions, learn at 1, grey at 285
- Elixir of AgilityElixirs, learn at 1, grey at 245
- Elixir of Brute ForceElixirs, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Elixir of DefenseElixirs, learn at 1, grey at 195
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Shadow Oil cost 28 gold1 silver. Most of that is Grave Moss - 2 at 14 gold each, 28 gold, 100.0% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 29 gold48 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 38 gold95 silver, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 10 gold94 silver; the Auction House would keep 1 gold94 silver of a sale, leaving 8 gold99 silver. That is an estimated 32.1% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 17.8% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 176 units across 11 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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