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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 1 gold43 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
2 gold48 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
11 silver
Items per craft
10
Listed value of one craft
1 gold10 silver
Auction House cut (5%)
5 silver50 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price
−1 gold43 silver (-58%)
  • Evidence: 122 current listings holding 34,949 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
  • Items per craft: the game’s spell data creates 10 per craft, so the listed value of one craft is that many times the lowest listed price.
Verified priceAuction HouseUS region
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Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Sorcerous Earth
Elemental · 14,074 on the Auction House · crafted by Transmute: Sorcerous Fire to Earth (Alchemy) · crafted by Transmute: Sorcerous Water to Earth (Alchemy)
1024 silver2 gold40 silver97%
Alchemical Catalyst
Other · 154,006 on the Auction House · crafted by Primal Alchemy (Alchemy)
42 silver8 silver3%
Total per craft2 gold48 silver100%

About Transmute: Sorcerous Earth to Water

One craft takes 10 Sorcerous Earth and 4 Alchemical Catalyst. Sorcerous Water is itself a reagent in 9 other recipes (Alchemy, Enchanting and Jewelcrafting).

Recipe category
Transmutation (Draenor Alchemy)

Sorcerous Water tooltip

Sorcerous Water
Item Level 35
Trade Goods
“A magical byproduct of Alchemy, Inscription, Leatherworking and Tailoring.”
Sell price: 10s

Sorcerous Water: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 9% 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
10 silver
30-day low
5 silver Oct 15
30-day high
96 silver Nov 2
30-day median
11 silver
7-day median
11 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

Sorcerous Earth. Made with Transmute: Sorcerous Air to Earth (Alchemy, Draenor Alchemy) from 10 Sorcerous Air and 4 Alchemical Catalyst, 10 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Sorcerous Earth for 11 silver80 copper, against 24 silver listed. Made with Transmute: Sorcerous Fire to Earth (Alchemy, Draenor Alchemy) from 10 Sorcerous Fire and 4 Alchemical Catalyst, 10 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Sorcerous Earth for 14 silver80 copper, against 24 silver listed. 1 more recipe also make it. Also a required reagent in 16 other recipes (4 Enchanting, 4 Inscription, 3 Alchemy and 2 Leatherworking); Stone of the Earth takes the most, 15 per craft.

Alchemical Catalyst. Made with Primal Alchemy (Alchemy, Draenor Alchemy) from 1 Primal Spirit, 2 Fireweed, 2 Gorgrond Flytrap, 2 Nagrand Arrowbloom, 2 Starflower and 2 Talador Orchid, 2 per craft. Rewarded by the quests Your First Alchemy Work Order, Your First Alchemy Work Order and Herbs Galore. Also a required reagent in 23 other recipes (23 Alchemy); the most per craft: Stone of Wind (Alchemy, 100 per craft), Stone of Fire (Alchemy, 70 per craft), Stone of the Earth (Alchemy, 70 per craft), Stone of the Waters (Alchemy, 70 per craft) and Transmute: Savage Blood (Alchemy, 50 per craft).

Other recipes that make Sorcerous Water

More Draenor Alchemy recipes in the same skill range

Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Transmute: Sorcerous Earth to Water cost 2 gold48 silver. Most of that is Sorcerous Earth - 10 at 24 silver each, 2 gold40 silver, 96.8% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 2 gold61 silver per craft, 26 silver10 copper per item at 10 items a craft - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 11 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −1 gold38 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 5 silver50 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 1 gold43 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -57.9% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 34,949 units across 122 auctions region-wide. Depth separates a market price from a single asking figure, but listings are not sales, so read it alongside the estimate.

Other recipes that use Sorcerous Earth

Guides and routes on this site that cover Sorcerous Water.

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