TheWoWDB
Recipe
CookingClassic Cooking
Thistle Tea
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 the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 1 gold7 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 2 gold2 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 99 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 4 silver95 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −1 gold7 silver (-53%)
- Evidence: 11 current listings holding 267 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
- Cooking
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Classic Cooking
- Item level
- 3
- Reagent slots
- 2
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
1Swiftthistle2 gold
1Refreshing Spring Water2 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swiftthistle Herb · 78,239 on the Auction House | 1 | 2 gold | 2 gold | 99% |
| Refreshing Spring Water Food & Drink · 10,628 on the Auction House | 1 | 2 silver | 2 silver | 1% |
| Total per craft | 2 gold2 silver | 100% |
About Thistle Tea
One craft takes 1 Swiftthistle and 1 Refreshing Spring Water. It is taught by Recipe: Thistle Tea, which needs Cooking 60.
- Recipe category
- Unusual Delights (Old World Recipes)
- Skill-up colours (Classic Cooking skill)
- Orange below 100 · Yellow 100 to 119 · Green 120 to 139 · Grey 140 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Thistle Tea tooltip
How to learn Thistle Tea
Recipe: Thistle Tea- Teaches
- Teaches you how to brew Thistle Tea.
- Requires
- Cooking (60)
- Auction House
- listed on 71 US realms, cheapest 700 gold, 218 for sale
- Teaches
- Teaches you how to brew Thistle Tea.
- Requires
- Classic Cooking (60)
- Binding
- Binds when picked up
More Unusual Delights recipes (Old World Recipes)
Thistle Tea: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 1% below 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
- 99 silver
- 30-day low
- 63 silver Sep 16
- 30-day high
- 44,099 gold Sep 8
- 30-day median
- 1 gold
- 7-day median
- 88 silver
- 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
Swiftthistle. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 5 other recipes (5 Alchemy); Elixir of Lesser Agility takes the most, 1 per craft.
Refreshing Spring Water. Rewarded by the quests Bound for Kharanos, Rest and Relaxation and Rest and Relaxation. Also a required reagent in 15 other recipes (12 Cooking and 3 Engineering); the most per craft: Empty Kettle of Stone Soup (Cooking, 5 per craft), Slumbering Peacebloom Tea (Cooking, 1 per craft), Zesty Water (Cooking, 1 per craft), Highland Spirits (Cooking, 1 per craft) and South Island Iced Tea (Cooking, 1 per craft).
More Classic Cooking recipes in the same skill range
- Baked SalmonEveryday Cooking, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Barbecued Buzzard WingEveryday Cooking, learn at 1, grey at 255
- Bat BitesEveryday Cooking, learn at 1, grey at 130
- Big Bear SteakEveryday Cooking, learn at 1, grey at 190
- Blood SausageEveryday Cooking, learn at 1, grey at 140
- Boiled ClamsEveryday Cooking, learn at 1, grey at 130
- Bread of the DeadHoliday Cooking, learn at 1, grey at 40
- Brilliant SmallfishEveryday Cooking, learn at 1, grey at 85
- Bristle Whisker CatfishEveryday Cooking, learn at 1, grey at 180
- Candied Sweet PotatoHoliday Cooking, learn at 1, grey at 295
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Thistle Tea cost 2 gold2 silver. Most of that is Swiftthistle - 1 at 2 gold each, 2 gold, 99.0% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 2 gold12 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 99 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −1 gold3 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 4 silver95 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 1 gold7 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -53.4% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 267 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 →
Other recipes that use Swiftthistle
Featured in guides
Guides and routes on this site that cover Thistle Tea.