Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 64 gold29 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 477 gold21 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 570 gold
Auction House cut (5%): 28 gold50 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: 64 gold29 silver (+14%)

Evidence: 30 current listings holding 567 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.

Verified priceAuction House1 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Alchemy
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Cataclysm Alchemy
Item level: 25
Reagent slots: 4
Cast time: 3 sec

Crafts

Truegold570 gold

Reagents

3Pyrium Bar19 gold57 silver
10Volatile Fire11 gold5 silver
10Volatile Air12 gold5 silver
10Volatile Water18 gold75 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Pyrium Bar Metal & Stone · 2,793 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Pyrite (Mining) · crafted by Transmute: Pyrium Bar (Alchemy)	3	19 gold57 silver	58 gold71 silver	12%
Volatile Fire Elemental · 34,942 on the Auction House	10	11 gold5 silver	110 gold50 silver	23%
Volatile Air Elemental · 33,748 on the Auction House	10	12 gold5 silver	120 gold50 silver	25%
Volatile Water Elemental · 77,020 on the Auction House	10	18 gold75 silver	187 gold50 silver	39%
Total per craft			477 gold21 silver	100%

About Transmute: Truegold

One craft takes 3 Pyrium Bar, 10 Volatile Fire, 10 Volatile Air and 10 Volatile Water. Truegold is itself a reagent in 41 other recipes (Blacksmithing, Engineering, Alchemy and Jewelcrafting).

Recipe category: Transmutation (Cataclysm Alchemy)
Skill-up colours (Cataclysm Alchemy skill): Orange below 75 · Grey 75 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Truegold tooltip

Truegold

Item Level 25

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Sell price: 2g 31s

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Truegold: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 18% below its 30-day median.

Now: 570 gold
30-day low: 450 gold Sep 19
30-day high: 2,499 gold99 silver Aug 24
30-day median: 691 gold99 silver
7-day median: 584 gold75 silver
Hourly snapshots: 676

US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.

Where the reagents come from

Pyrium Bar. Made with Smelt Pyrite (Mining, Cataclysm Mining) from 2 Pyrite Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Pyrium Bar for 14 gold58 silver, against 19 gold57 silver listed. Made with Transmute: Pyrium Bar (Alchemy, Cataclysm Alchemy) from 1 Elementium Bar and 1 Volatile Earth, 3 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Pyrium Bar for 6 gold68 silver, against 19 gold57 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 3 other recipes (3 Blacksmithing); Pyrium Shield Spike takes the most, 5 per craft.

Volatile Fire. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 87 other recipes (35 Leatherworking, 23 Tailoring, 19 Blacksmithing and 4 Jewelcrafting); the most per craft: Eye of Many Deaths (Jewelcrafting, 75 per craft), Ring of Warring Elements (Jewelcrafting, 75 per craft), Jeweler's Ruby Monocle (Jewelcrafting, 50 per craft), Clutches of Evil (Leatherworking, 40 per craft) and Dragonfire Gloves (Leatherworking, 40 per craft).

Volatile Air. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 33 other recipes (10 Leatherworking, 8 Tailoring, 6 Enchanting and 4 Jewelcrafting); the most per craft: Band of Blades (Jewelcrafting, 75 per craft), Elementium Destroyer's Ring (Jewelcrafting, 75 per craft), Assassin's Chestplate (Leatherworking, 30 per craft), Belt of Nefarious Whispers (Leatherworking, 30 per craft) and Dream of Skywall (Tailoring, 30 per craft).

Volatile Water. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 60 other recipes (22 Leatherworking, 15 Tailoring, 11 Blacksmithing and 6 Jewelcrafting); the most per craft: Brazen Elementium Medallion (Jewelcrafting, 75 per craft), Entwined Elementium Choker (Jewelcrafting, 75 per craft), Jeweler's Sapphire Monocle (Jewelcrafting, 50 per craft), Clutches of Evil (Leatherworking, 40 per craft) and Dragonfire Gloves (Leatherworking, 40 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 4 reagents for one craft of Transmute: Truegold cost 477 gold21 silver. Most of that is Volatile Water - 10 at 18 gold75 silver each, 187 gold50 silver, 39.3% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 502 gold32 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 570 gold, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 92 gold79 silver; the Auction House would keep 28 gold50 silver of a sale, leaving 64 gold29 silver. That is an estimated 13.5% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 30.7% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 567 units across 30 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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