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Vial of the Sands

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.

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Crafting estimate at current listings

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
43,796 gold91 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price
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Auction House cut (5%)
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Estimated profit at that listed price
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Recipe facts

Profession
Alchemy
Requires skill
1
Expansion tier
Cataclysm Alchemy
Item level
30
Reagent slots
6
Cast time
3.5 sec

Crafts

Vial of the Sands…

Reagents

Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Pyrium-Laced Crystalline Vial
Other · 4 on the Auction House		15,350 gold75 silver5,350 gold75 silver12%
Sands of Time
Other · 123 on the Auction House		83,499 gold91 silver27,999 gold28 silver64%
Truegold
Metal & Stone · 654 on the Auction House · crafted by Transmute: Truegold (Alchemy)		12570 gold6,840 gold16%
Flask of the Winds
Flasks & Phials · 609 on the Auction House · crafted by Flask of the Winds (Alchemy)		8214 gold74 silver1,717 gold92 silver4%
Flask of Titanic Strength
Flasks & Phials · 583 on the Auction House · crafted by Flask of Titanic Strength (Alchemy)		8188 gold99 silver1,511 gold92 silver3%
Deepstone Oil
Other · 3,716 on the Auction House · crafted by Deepstone Oil (Alchemy)		847 gold13 silver377 gold4 silver1%
Total per craft43,796 gold91 silver100%

About Vial of the Sands

One craft takes 1 Pyrium-Laced Crystalline Vial, 8 Sands of Time, 12 Truegold, 8 Flask of the Winds, 8 Flask of Titanic Strength and 8 Deepstone Oil. It is taught by Recipe: Vial of the Sands, which needs Cataclysm Alchemy 75.

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

Vial of the Sands tooltip

Vial of the Sands
Item Level 30
Miscellaneous
Requires Level 10
Use: Learning
Effect: Transforms you into a Sandstone Drake, allowing you to fly very fast and carry an ally on your back. This is a flying mount.
“Teaches you how to transform into a dragon, allowing you to carry an ally on your back. This is a flying mount.”
Sell price: 25g

How to learn Vial of the Sands

Recipe: Vial of the Sands

Teaches
Teaches you how to make the Vial of the Sands.
Requires
Cataclysm Alchemy (75)
Binding
Binds when picked up

Where the reagents come from

Pyrium-Laced Crystalline Vial. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it.

Sands of Time. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it.

Truegold. Made with Transmute: Truegold (Alchemy, Cataclysm Alchemy) from 3 Pyrium Bar, 10 Volatile Fire, 10 Volatile Air and 10 Volatile Water. At lowest listed prices that makes one Truegold for 393 gold15 silver, against 570 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 40 other recipes (29 Blacksmithing, 10 Engineering and 1 Jewelcrafting); the most per craft: Brainsplinter (Blacksmithing, 8 per craft), Elementium-Edged Scalper (Blacksmithing, 8 per craft), Extreme-Impact Hole Puncher (Engineering, 8 per craft), Foundations of Courage (Blacksmithing, 8 per craft) and Lightforged Elementium Hammer (Blacksmithing, 8 per craft).

Flask of the Winds. Made with Flask of the Winds (Alchemy, Cataclysm Alchemy) from 8 Volatile Life, 8 Azshara's Veil, 8 Whiptail and 1 Crystal Vial. At lowest listed prices that makes one Flask of the Winds for 193 gold13 silver, against 214 gold74 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 2 other recipes (2 Alchemy); the most per craft: Big Cauldron of Battle (Alchemy, 3 per craft) and Cauldron of Battle (Alchemy, 1 per craft).

Flask of Titanic Strength. Made with Flask of Titanic Strength (Alchemy, Cataclysm Alchemy) from 8 Volatile Life, 8 Cinderbloom, 8 Whiptail and 1 Crystal Vial. At lowest listed prices that makes one Flask of Titanic Strength for 94 gold73 silver, against 188 gold99 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 2 other recipes (2 Alchemy); the most per craft: Big Cauldron of Battle (Alchemy, 3 per craft) and Cauldron of Battle (Alchemy, 1 per craft).

Deepstone Oil. Made with Deepstone Oil (Alchemy, Cataclysm Alchemy) from 1 Albino Cavefish. Also a required reagent in 4 other recipes (2 Alchemy and 2 Inscription); the most per craft: Gilnean Cauldron (Alchemy, 6 per craft), Gilnean Rocking Chair (Inscription, 4 per craft), Gilnean Wooden Table (Inscription, 4 per craft) and Mysterious Potion (Alchemy, 2 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 6 reagents for one craft of Vial of the Sands cost 43,796 gold91 silver. Most of that is Sands of Time - 8 at 3,499 gold91 silver each, 27,999 gold28 silver, 63.9% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 46,102 gold1 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item has no current Auction House listing to compare it against, so the estimate above is left unknown rather than guessed.

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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Data notes

  • No Auction House price for the crafted item - output value unknown (it may be soulbound/BoE gear or an untracked item).
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