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Mining Cataclysm Mining
Smelt Obsidium
A Mining recipe learned at Cataclysm Mining 1 that crafts Obsidium Bar from 1 reagent.
Reagents
2Obsidium Ore11 gold25 silver
Crafts
Background
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 1 gold17 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 22 gold50 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 24 gold92 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 1 gold24 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 1 gold17 silver (+5%)
- Evidence: 14 current listings holding 7,619 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Obsidium Ore Metal & Stone · 12,353 on the Auction House | 2 | 11 gold25 silver | 22 gold50 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 22 gold50 silver | 100% |
About Smelt Obsidium
One craft takes 2 Obsidium Ore. Obsidium Bar is itself a reagent in 20 other recipes (Engineering, Blacksmithing, Jewelcrafting and Leatherworking).
- Recipe category
- Smelting (Cataclysm Mining)
Obsidium Bar tooltip
Obsidium Bar: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 10% above its 30-day median.
- Now
- 24 gold92 silver
- 30-day low
- 15 gold Oct 24
- 30-day high
- 32 gold Oct 15
- 30-day median
- 22 gold70 silver
- 7-day median
- 23 gold98 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 692
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Obsidium Ore. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 3 other recipes (3 Blacksmithing); Relic of the Past III takes the most, 6 per craft.
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Smelt Obsidium cost 22 gold50 silver.
Break-even is 23 gold68 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 24 gold92 silver, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 2 gold42 silver; the Auction House would keep 1 gold24 silver of a sale, leaving 1 gold17 silver. That is an estimated 5.2% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 51.5% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 7,619 units across 14 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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