Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 9 gold94 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 38 gold21 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 50 gold69 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 2 gold53 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: 9 gold94 silver (+26%)

Evidence: 12 current listings holding 38 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Quality: Tempered Framework comes in 3 quality ranks. This is the base comparison, rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result; your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide the rank you actually get, which this estimate does not model. Each rank’s lowest listing is in the rank table below.
Not included: the recipe also accepts 2 finishing reagent slots, which are not required and are left out of the cost.

Last verifiedAuction House4 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Blacksmithing
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Khaz Algar Blacksmithing
Item level: 71
Reagent slots: 2
Cast time: 3.5 sec

Crafts

Tempered Framework50 gold

Reagents

1Core Alloy38 gold
1Crystalline Powder21 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Core Alloy Metal & Stone · 404 on the Auction House	1	38 gold	38 gold	99%
Crystalline Powder Other · 9,760 on the Auction House	1	21 silver	21 silver	1%
Total per craft			38 gold21 silver	100%

About Tempered Framework

One craft takes 1 Core Alloy and 1 Crystalline Powder. Tempered Framework is itself a reagent in 60 other recipes (Blacksmithing).

Recipe category: Frameworks (Khaz Algar Plans)
Skill-up colours (Khaz Algar Blacksmithing skill): Orange below 50 · Yellow 50 to 54 · Green 55 to 59 · Grey 60 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Tempered Framework tooltip

Tempered Framework

Item Level 71

Trade Goods

“A Finishing Reagent crafted by Blacksmiths. Can be bought and sold on the Auction House.”

Sell price: 2g 32s

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Tempered Framework quality ranks

Tempered Framework comes in 3 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 505.

Rank	Item	Lowest listed price	Listings (US)
Rank 1	Tempered Framework	50 gold69 silver	12 listings, 38 units
Rank 2	Tempered Framework	74 gold35 silver	9 listings, 185 units
Rank 3	Tempered Framework	299 gold	7 listings, 84 units

The crafting estimate above is the base comparison: rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result. Your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide which rank a craft actually makes, so a higher rank is never priced against rank 1 reagents here.

Tempered Framework: 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: 50 gold69 silver
30-day low: 6 gold89 silver Sep 13
30-day high: 22,222 gold22 silver Sep 15
30-day median: 49 gold61 silver
7-day median: 50 gold69 silver
Hourly snapshots: 684

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

Where the reagents come from

Core Alloy. Made with Core Alloy (Blacksmithing, Khaz Algar Blacksmithing) from 10 Bismuth and 8 Echoing Flux. At lowest listed prices that makes one Core Alloy for 69 gold60 silver, against 38 gold listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 38 gold, rank 2 42 gold76 silver and rank 3 80 gold99 silver. Also a required reagent in 58 other recipes (51 Blacksmithing, 4 Inscription, 1 Engineering and 1 Enchanting); Replica Rumbling Wastes Drill Pod takes the most, 15 per craft.

Crystalline Powder. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 33 other recipes (13 Blacksmithing, 8 Enchanting, 6 Alchemy and 2 Inscription); the most per craft: Artisan Leatherworker's Knife (Blacksmithing, 20 per craft), Crystalline Radiance (Enchanting, 20 per craft), Artisan Leatherworker's Toolset (Blacksmithing, 10 per craft), Council's Intellect (Enchanting, 10 per craft) and Oathsworn's Strength (Enchanting, 10 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Tempered Framework cost 38 gold21 silver. Most of that is Core Alloy - 1 at 38 gold each, 38 gold, 99.5% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 40 gold22 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 50 gold69 silver, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 12 gold48 silver; the Auction House would keep 2 gold53 silver of a sale, leaving 9 gold94 silver. That is an estimated 26.0% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 20.3% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 38 units across 12 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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