Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 13 gold12 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 14 gold25 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 1 gold18 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 5 silver90 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price: −13 gold12 silver (-92%)

Evidence: 14 current listings holding 119 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 83% below its 30-day median of 7 gold, so this estimate rests on a listing far below its usual level.
Quality: Versatile Amber comes in 3 quality ranks. This is the base comparison, rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result; your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide the rank you actually get, which this estimate does not model. Each rank’s lowest listing is in the rank table below.
Not included: the recipe also accepts 2 finishing reagent slots, which are not required and are left out of the cost.

Verified priceAuction House1 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Jewelcrafting
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Khaz Algar Jewelcrafting
Item level: 580
Reagent slots: 2
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Versatile Amber1 gold

Reagents

1Engraved Gemcutter14 gold
1Ambivalent Amber25 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Engraved Gemcutter Jewelcrafting · 279 on the Auction House	1	14 gold	14 gold	98%
Ambivalent Amber Jewelcrafting · 17,543 on the Auction House	1	25 silver	25 silver	2%
Total per craft			14 gold25 silver	100%

About Versatile Amber

One craft takes 1 Engraved Gemcutter and 1 Ambivalent Amber.

Recipe category: Ambivalent Amber (Khaz Algar Designs)
Skill-up colours (Khaz Algar Jewelcrafting skill): Orange below 15 · Yellow 15 to 19 · Green 20 to 24 · Grey 25 and up
Skill points per craft: 2

Versatile Amber tooltip

Versatile Amber

Item Level 580

Gem

Use: Restores health and mana over 20 sec and changes your permanent Well Fed effect. Must remain seated while ingesting.

Sell price: 65s

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Versatile Amber quality ranks

Versatile Amber comes in 3 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 315.

Rank	Item	Lowest listed price	Listings (US)
Rank 1	Versatile Amber	1 gold18 silver	14 listings, 119 units
Rank 2	Versatile Amber	8 gold	10 listings, 232 units
Rank 3	Versatile Amber	719 gold11 silver	4 listings, 44 units

The crafting estimate above is the base comparison: rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result. Your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide which rank a craft actually makes, so a higher rank is never priced against rank 1 reagents here.

Versatile Amber: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 83% 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: 1 gold20 silver
30-day low: 1 gold18 silver Sep 20
30-day high: 18 gold77 silver Aug 23
30-day median: 7 gold
7-day median: 2 gold5 silver
Hourly snapshots: 685

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

Where the reagents come from

Engraved Gemcutter. Made with Engraved Gemcutter (Jewelcrafting, Khaz Algar Jewelcrafting) from 5 Bismuth, 5 Handful of Pebbles and 1 Glittering Glass. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 14 gold, rank 2 8 gold and rank 3 148 gold66 silver. Also a required reagent in 27 other recipes (27 Jewelcrafting); Cognitive Bloodstone takes the most, 1 per craft.

Ambivalent Amber. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 16 other recipes (15 Jewelcrafting and 1 Engineering); the most per craft: Binding of Binding (Jewelcrafting, 8 per craft), Fractured Gemstone Locket (Jewelcrafting, 8 per craft), Gundargaz Candelabra (Jewelcrafting, 7 per craft), Octagonal Ochre Window (Jewelcrafting, 4 per craft) and Algari Amber Prism (Jewelcrafting, 3 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Versatile Amber cost 14 gold25 silver. Most of that is Engraved Gemcutter - 1 at 14 gold each, 14 gold, 98.2% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 15 gold - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 1 gold18 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −13 gold7 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 5 silver90 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 13 gold12 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -92.1% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 119 units across 14 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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