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MiningCataclysm Mining
Smelt Obsidium
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 5 gold75 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 18 gold
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 25 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 1 gold25 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 5 gold75 silver (+32%)
- Evidence: 21 current listings holding 9,059 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
- Mining
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Cataclysm Mining
- Item level
- 25
- Reagent slots
- 1
- Cast time
- 1.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
2Obsidium Ore9 gold
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Obsidium Ore Metal & Stone · 94,383 on the Auction House | 2 | 9 gold | 18 gold | 100% |
| Total per craft | 18 gold | 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)
- Skill-up colours (Cataclysm Mining skill)
- Yellow 1 to 12 · Green 13 to 24 · Grey 25 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Obsidium Bar tooltip
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Obsidium Bar: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing sits at its 30-day median.
- Now
- 25 gold
- 30-day low
- 8 gold25 silver Sep 18
- 30-day high
- 37 gold3 silver Aug 29
- 30-day median
- 25 gold
- 7-day median
- 20 gold
- Hourly snapshots
- 681
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 18 gold.
Break-even is 18 gold94 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 25 gold, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 7 gold; the Auction House would keep 1 gold25 silver of a sale, leaving 5 gold75 silver. That is an estimated 31.9% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 17.9% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 9,059 units across 21 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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