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Background
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 6 gold11 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 6 gold93 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 86 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 4 silver30 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −6 gold11 silver (-88%)
- Evidence: 240 current listings holding 22,746 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Talador Orchid PetalHerb · 3,481 on the Auction House | 9 | 77 silver | 6 gold93 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 6 gold93 silver | 100% |
About Talador Orchid Petal
One craft takes 9 Talador Orchid Petal. Talador Orchid is itself a reagent in 5 other recipes (Alchemy and Jewelcrafting).
Talador Orchid tooltip
Talador Orchid: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 94% 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
- 3 gold50 silver
- 30-day low
- 36 silver Oct 23
- 30-day high
- 50 gold98 silver Oct 14
- 30-day median
- 1 gold80 silver
- 7-day median
- 1 gold74 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 691
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Talador Orchid Petal. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it.
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Talador Orchid Petal cost 6 gold93 silver.
Break-even is 7 gold29 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 86 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −6 gold7 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 4 silver30 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 6 gold11 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -88.2% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 22,746 units across 240 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 →