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Transmute: Cardinal Ruby
A Alchemy recipe learned at Northrend Alchemy 1 that crafts Cardinal Ruby from 2 reagents.
Reagents
1Eternal Fire67 gold
1Scarlet Ruby2 gold91 silver
Crafts
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| Quest | Cardinal Ruby | Teaches this recipe directly |
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Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 52 gold81 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 69 gold91 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 18 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 90 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −52 gold81 silver (-76%)
- Evidence: 27 current listings holding 881 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eternal Fire Elemental · 514 on the Auction House · crafted by Transmute: Eternal Life to Fire (Alchemy) · crafted by Transmute: Eternal Water to Fire (Alchemy) | 1 | 67 gold | 67 gold | 96% |
| Scarlet Ruby Jewelcrafting · 1,017 on the Auction House | 1 | 2 gold91 silver | 2 gold91 silver | 4% |
| Total per craft | 69 gold91 silver | 100% |
About Transmute: Cardinal Ruby
One craft takes 1 Eternal Fire and 1 Scarlet Ruby. The quest Cardinal Ruby teaches it directly. Cardinal Ruby is itself a reagent in 6 other recipes (Jewelcrafting and Tailoring).
- Recipe category
- Transmutation (Northrend Alchemy)
Cardinal Ruby tooltip
How to learn Transmute: Cardinal Ruby
Taught directly as a quest reward: Cardinal Ruby.
Cardinal Ruby: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 20% 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
- 18 gold
- 30-day low
- 2 gold50 silver Nov 2
- 30-day high
- 99 gold25 silver Oct 9
- 30-day median
- 15 gold
- 7-day median
- 12 gold35 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
Eternal Fire. Made with Transmute: Eternal Life to Fire (Alchemy, Northrend Alchemy) from 1 
Eternal Life. At lowest listed prices that makes one Eternal Fire for 67 gold30 silver, against 67 gold listed. Made with Transmute: Eternal Water to Fire (Alchemy, Northrend Alchemy) from 1 
Eternal Water. At lowest listed prices that makes one Eternal Fire for 19 gold85 silver, against 67 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 40 other recipes (10 Leatherworking, 9 Blacksmithing, 6 Tailoring and 6 Jewelcrafting); Nesingwary 4000 takes the most, 12 per craft.
Scarlet Ruby. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 12 other recipes (9 Jewelcrafting, 2 Engineering and 1 Enchanting); the most per craft: Figurine - Ruby Hare (Jewelcrafting, 2 per craft), Visage Liquification Goggles (Engineering, 2 per craft), Weakness Spectralizers (Engineering, 2 per craft), Blood Draining (Enchanting, 1 per craft) and Bold Scarlet Ruby (Jewelcrafting, 1 per craft).
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Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Transmute: Cardinal Ruby cost 69 gold91 silver. Most of that is Eternal Fire - 1 at 67 gold each, 67 gold, 95.8% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 73 gold58 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 18 gold, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −51 gold91 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 90 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 52 gold81 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -75.5% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 881 units across 27 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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