Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 160 gold25 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 330 gold30 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 179 gold
Auction House cut (5%): 8 gold95 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: −160 gold25 silver (-48%)

Evidence: 10 current listings holding 26 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Quality: Versatile Sapphire 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: 3
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Versatile Sapphire179 gold

Reagents

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Crushed Gemstones Jewelcrafting · 308 on the Auction House	30	10 gold1 silver	300 gold30 silver	91%
Engraved Gemcutter Jewelcrafting · 295 on the Auction House	1	14 gold	14 gold	4%
Stunning Sapphire Jewelcrafting · 769 on the Auction House	4	4 gold	16 gold	5%
Total per craft			330 gold30 silver	100%

About Versatile Sapphire

One craft takes 30 Crushed Gemstones, 1 Engraved Gemcutter and 4 Stunning Sapphire.

Recipe category: Stunning Sapphires (Khaz Algar Designs)
Skill-up colours (Khaz Algar Jewelcrafting skill): Orange below 40 · Yellow 40 to 44 · Green 45 to 49 · Grey 50 and up
Skill points per craft: 2

Versatile Sapphire tooltip

Versatile Sapphire

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: 9g 20s

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Versatile Sapphire quality ranks

Versatile Sapphire comes in 3 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 370.

Rank	Item	Lowest listed price	Listings (US)
Rank 1	Versatile Sapphire	179 gold	10 listings, 26 units
Rank 2	Versatile Sapphire	724 gold94 silver	7 listings, 33 units
Rank 3	Versatile Sapphire	900 gold98 silver	9 listings, 25 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 Sapphire: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 62% 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: 179 gold
30-day low: 43 gold Aug 23
30-day high: 643 gold89 silver Aug 30
30-day median: 475 gold
7-day median: 197 gold99 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

Crushed Gemstones. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 10 gold1 silver, rank 2 16 gold82 silver and rank 3 47 gold99 silver. Also a required reagent in 44 other recipes (44 Jewelcrafting); Beautification Iris takes the most, 40 per craft.

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 5 gold96 silver and rank 3 148 gold66 silver. Also a required reagent in 27 other recipes (27 Jewelcrafting); the most per craft: Cognitive Bloodstone (Jewelcrafting, 1 per craft), Cubic Blasphemia (Jewelcrafting, 1 per craft), Culminating Blasphemite (Jewelcrafting, 1 per craft), Deadly Amber (Jewelcrafting, 1 per craft) and Deadly Emerald (Jewelcrafting, 1 per craft).

Stunning Sapphire. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 13 other recipes (10 Jewelcrafting, 1 Cooking, 1 Inscription and 1 Engineering); the most per craft: Deadly Sapphire (Jewelcrafting, 4 per craft), Masterful Sapphire (Jewelcrafting, 4 per craft), Quick Sapphire (Jewelcrafting, 4 per craft), Algari Sapphire Prism (Jewelcrafting, 2 per craft) and Dornic Mine and Cheese Platter (Cooking, 2 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Versatile Sapphire cost 330 gold30 silver. Most of that is Crushed Gemstones - 30 at 10 gold1 silver each, 300 gold30 silver, 90.9% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 347 gold68 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 179 gold, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −151 gold30 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 8 gold95 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 160 gold25 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -48.5% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 26 units across 10 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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