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Thistle Tea
A Cooking recipe learned at Classic Cooking 1 that crafts Thistle Tea from 2 reagents.
Reagents
1Swiftthistle3 gold13 silver
1Refreshing Spring Water1 silver
Crafts
Background
| Recipe item |  Recipe: Thistle Tea | Requires Cooking 60 |
|---|---|---|
| Recipe item | Recipe: Thistle Tea | Requires Classic Cooking 60 |
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 99 silver30 copper per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 3 gold14 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 2 gold26 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 11 silver30 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −99 silver30 copper (-32%)
- Evidence: 9 current listings holding 219 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swiftthistle Herb · 78,955 on the Auction House | 1 | 3 gold13 silver | 3 gold13 silver | 100% |
| Refreshing Spring Water Food & Drink · 2,565 on the Auction House | 1 | 1 silver | 1 silver | 0% |
| Total per craft | 3 gold14 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)
Thistle Tea tooltip
How to learn Thistle Tea
- Teaches
- Teaches you how to brew Thistle Tea.
- Requires
- Cooking (60)
- Auction House
- listed on 64 US realms, cheapest 750 gold8 silver, 197 for sale
- Teaches
- Teaches you how to brew Thistle Tea.
- Requires
- Classic Cooking (60)
- Binding
- Binds when picked up
Thistle Tea: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 25% 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
- 2 gold26 silver
- 30-day low
- 15 silver Oct 28
- 30-day high
- 996 gold70 silver Oct 24
- 30-day median
- 3 gold
- 7-day median
- 6 gold14 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
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).
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Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Thistle Tea cost 3 gold14 silver. Most of that is Swiftthistle - 1 at 3 gold13 silver each, 3 gold13 silver, 99.7% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 3 gold30 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 2 gold26 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −88 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 11 silver30 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 99 silver30 copper at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -31.6% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 219 units across 9 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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