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AlchemyNorthrend Alchemy
Transmute: Cardinal Ruby
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 76 gold20 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 80 gold
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 4 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 20 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −76 gold20 silver (-95%)
- Evidence: 96 current listings holding 1,090 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
- Outlier: the crafted item’s lowest listing is 73% below its 30-day median of 15 gold, so this estimate rests on a listing far below its usual level.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Alchemy
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Northrend Alchemy
- Item level
- 20
- Reagent slots
- 2
- Cast time
- 3 sec
Crafts
Reagents
1Eternal Fire60 gold
1Scarlet Ruby20 gold
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eternal Fire Elemental · 8,797 on the Auction House · crafted by Transmute: Eternal Life to Fire (Alchemy) · crafted by Transmute: Eternal Water to Fire (Alchemy) | 1 | 60 gold | 60 gold | 75% |
| Scarlet Ruby Jewelcrafting · 247 on the Auction House | 1 | 20 gold | 20 gold | 25% |
| Total per craft | 80 gold | 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)
- Skill-up colours (Northrend Alchemy skill)
- Orange below 65 · Yellow 65 to 69 · Green 70 to 74 · Grey 75 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Cardinal Ruby tooltip
How to learn Transmute: Cardinal Ruby
Taught directly as a quest reward: Cardinal Ruby.
More Transmutation recipes (Northrend Alchemy)
- Transmute: Eternal Air to Earthyellow 30, grey 50
- Transmute: Eternal Air to Wateryellow 30, grey 50
- Transmute: Eternal Earth to Airyellow 30, grey 50
- Transmute: Eternal Earth to Shadowyellow 30, grey 50
- Transmute: Eternal Fire to Lifeyellow 30, grey 50
- Transmute: Eternal Fire to Wateryellow 30, grey 50
- Transmute: Eternal Life to Fireyellow 30, grey 50
- Transmute: Eternal Life to Shadowyellow 30, grey 50
- Transmute: Eternal Shadow to Earthyellow 30, grey 50
- Transmute: Eternal Shadow to Lifeyellow 30, grey 50
- Transmute: Eternal Water to Airyellow 30, grey 50
- Transmute: Eternal Water to Fireyellow 30, grey 50
Cardinal Ruby is a reagent in
Cardinal Ruby: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 73% 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
- 4 gold
- 30-day low
- 4 gold Aug 24
- 30-day high
- 99 gold99 silver Aug 29
- 30-day median
- 15 gold
- 7-day median
- 14 gold99 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 682
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 60 gold99 silver, against 60 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 109 gold, against 60 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).
More Northrend Alchemy recipes in the same skill range
- Crazy Alchemist's PotionPotions, learn at 1, grey at 55
- Elixir of AccuracyElixirs, learn at 1, grey at 55
- Elixir of Armor PiercingElixirs, learn at 1, grey at 55
- Elixir of Deadly StrikesElixirs, learn at 1, grey at 55
- Elixir of Lightning SpeedElixirs, learn at 1, grey at 55
- Elixir of Mighty AgilityElixirs, learn at 1, grey at 40
- Elixir of Mighty DefenseElixirs, learn at 1, grey at 55
- Elixir of Mighty FortitudeElixirs, learn at 1, grey at 30
- Elixir of Mighty IntellectElixirs, learn at 1, grey at 55
- Elixir of Mighty MagebloodElixirs, learn at 1, grey at 55
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Transmute: Cardinal Ruby cost 80 gold. Most of that is Eternal Fire - 1 at 60 gold each, 60 gold, 75.0% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 84 gold21 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 4 gold, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −76 gold before fees, and the Auction House would still take 20 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 76 gold20 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -95.2% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 1,090 units across 96 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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