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AlchemyClassic Alchemy
Transmute: Earth to Life
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
No real market: too few listings for this price to mean anything yet.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 49 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 44 gold5 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 2 gold20 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 41 gold35 silver
Thin market: the crafted item’s lowest listing comes from very few current listings and sits far out of line with reagent cost. Treat this estimate as unverified until more listings accrue.
- Evidence: 128 current listings holding 6,477 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
- Alchemy
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Classic Alchemy
- Item level
- 10
- Reagent slots
- 1
- Cast time
- 3 sec
Crafts
Reagents
1Essence of Earth49 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essence of Earth Elemental · 16,521 on the Auction House · crafted by Transmute: Fire to Earth (Alchemy) · crafted by Transmute: Life to Earth (Alchemy) | 1 | 49 silver | 49 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 49 silver | 100% |
About Transmute: Earth to Life
One craft takes 1 Essence of Earth. It is taught by Recipe: Transmute Earth to Life, which needs Classic Alchemy 275. Living Essence is itself a reagent in 36 other recipes (Leatherworking, Blacksmithing, Tailoring and Engineering).
- Recipe category
- Transmutation (Alchemy)
- Skill-up colours (Classic Alchemy skill)
- Orange below 275 · Yellow 275 to 281 · Green 282 to 289 · Grey 290 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Living Essence tooltip
How to learn Transmute: Earth to Life
Recipe: Transmute Earth to Life
- Teaches
- Teaches you how to transmute Essence of Earth into Living Essence.
- Requires
- Classic Alchemy (275)
- Auction House
- listed on 49 US realms, cheapest 8,999 gold26 silver, 115 for sale
More Transmutation recipes (Alchemy)
- Transmute: Iron to Goldyellow 240, grey 280
- Transmute: Mithril to Truesilveryellow 240, grey 280
- Transmute: Air to Fireyellow 275, grey 290
- Transmute: Arcaniteyellow 275, grey 290
- Transmute: Earth to Wateryellow 275, grey 290
- Transmute: Fire to Earthyellow 275, grey 290
- Transmute: Life to Earthyellow 275, grey 290
- Transmute: Undeath to Wateryellow 275, grey 290
- Transmute: Water to Airyellow 275, grey 290
- Transmute: Water to Undeathyellow 275, grey 290
- Transmute: Elemental Fireyellow 300, grey 300
Living Essence is a reagent in
- Transmute: Life to EarthAlchemy
Bleakwood HewBlacksmithing- Heavy Timbermaw BeltBlacksmithing
- Heavy Timbermaw BootsBlacksmithing
- Ironvine BeltBlacksmithing
- Ironvine BreastplateBlacksmithing
- Ironvine GlovesBlacksmithing
- Wildthorn MailBlacksmithing
Force Reactive DiskEngineering- Lifelike Mechanical ToadEngineering
- Ultra-Flash Shadow ReflectorEngineering
Band of Natural FireJewelcrafting
and 24 more recipes.
Living Essence: 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
- 44 gold5 silver
- 30-day low
- 1 gold Sep 9
- 30-day high
- 49 gold58 silver Aug 24
- 30-day median
- 43 gold31 silver
- 7-day median
- 44 gold
- Hourly snapshots
- 693
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Essence of Earth. Made with Transmute: Fire to Earth (Alchemy, Classic Alchemy) from 1 
Essence of Fire. At lowest listed prices that makes one Essence of Earth for 23 silver, against 49 silver listed. Made with Transmute: Life to Earth (Alchemy, Classic Alchemy) from 1 Living Essence. At lowest listed prices that makes one Essence of Earth for 44 gold5 silver, against 49 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 28 other recipes (12 Blacksmithing, 4 Engineering, 3 Tailoring and 3 Inscription); Hammer of the Titans takes the most, 10 per craft.
More Classic Alchemy recipes in the same skill range
- Alchemist's FlaskFlasks, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Anti-VenomAnti-Venoms, learn at 1, grey at 150
- Apothecary's WorktableHouse Decor, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Arcane ElixirElixirs, learn at 1, grey at 290
- Blackmouth OilOils, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Catseye ElixirElixirs, learn at 1, grey at 260
- Discolored Healing PotionPotions, learn at 1, grey at 120
- Dreamless Sleep PotionPotions, learn at 1, grey at 285
- Elixir of AgilityElixirs, learn at 1, grey at 245
- Elixir of Brute ForceElixirs, learn at 1, grey at 300
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Transmute: Earth to Life cost 49 silver.
Break-even is 51 silver58 copper - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 44 gold5 silver, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 43 gold56 silver; the Auction House would keep 2 gold20 silver of a sale, leaving 41 gold35 silver. That is an estimated 8440.3% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 5.1% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 6,477 units across 128 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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