Guide · gold
Making gold
What to craft, keep and resell on your auction house, from its prices this hour.
The largest margin on one craft here now is 39g 94s 60c for Warbear Harness (Leatherworking). The most valuable loot to keep is Guardian Stone. Pattern: Barbaric Bracers sells here for the most over what a vendor asks. Every list is worked out again after each hourly price read.
- Auction house
- Americas · Normal · Alliance
- Prices read
- 22 minutes ago
- Recipes with a margin
- 480
- Items listed
- 5,484
Prices from Americas · Normal · Alliance, read 22 minutes ago. Each ruleset has its own auction house per faction; Blizzard’s data does not name them, so they are matched by size and still being confirmed in game.
Do this now
The top of each list below on Americas · Normal · Alliance. A listed price is not a sale: check the listings before you buy materials.
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Largest margin on one craft
Warbear Harness 39g 94s 60c margin per craft
Leatherworking, skill 250. Materials 6g 1s 40c; sells for 45g 96s (3 listings). Needs a pattern. See the list
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Best craft at skill 75 or less
Thick War Axe 8s 4c margin per craft
Blacksmithing, skill 70. Materials 16s 96c; sells for 25s (17 listings). See the list
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Best vendor item to resell
Pattern: Barbaric Bracers 12g 3s 83c over the vendor’s price
A vendor asks 21s 17c (stock of 1); lowest buyout 12g 25s (8 listings). See the list
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Most valuable loot
Guardian Stone 15g lowest buyout
8 listings. A vendor pays 1g. See the list
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Certain profit: a vendor buys it
Felblood Soul Bag 2g 19s 68c profit per craft
Tailoring, skill 300. Materials 5g 80s 32c; a vendor pays 8g. Needs a pattern. See the list
What can I make?
Every recipe from the eight crafting professions whose item’s lowest buyout here is more than its materials: 480 recipes. Each material counts at the lower of a vendor’s price and its lowest buyout here. The margin is before the auction house’s cut and deposit, and before the price of a pattern: a recipe that needs one names it and where to buy it. Only items with at least 3 listings count: one or two listings can be one seller’s price, and nothing shows the item sells at it. Recipes with a cooldown have their own list.
| Makes | Materials | Sells for | Margin |
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6g 1s 40c
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45g 96s3 listings | 39g 94s 60c664% of materials | |
11g 16s 50c
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50g5 listings | 38g 83s 50c347% of materials | |
11g 23s 8c
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20g3 listings | 8g 76s 92c78% of materials | |
53g 1s 56c
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60g3 listings | 6g 98s 44c13% of materials | |
11g 98s
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17g 99s 98c12 listingsmedian 27g 99s 98c | 6g 1s 98c50% of materials | |
1g 83s 96c
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7g 50s4 listings | 5g 66s 4c307% of materials | |
3g 50s 60c
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8g 58s8 listingsmedian 11g 58s | 5g 7s 40c144% of materials | |
3g 39s 88c
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8g 33s11 listings | 4g 93s 12c145% of materials | |
1g 5s 89c
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5g 80s 99c18 listingsmedian 5g 85s 99c | 4g 75s 10c448% of materials | |
2g 9s 60c
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6g 50s15 listings | 4g 40s 40c210% of materials | |
1g 73s 76c
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5g 21s 75c11 listings | 3g 47s 99c200% of materials | |
1g 50s 19c
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4g 66s 6c3 listings | 3g 15s 87c210% of materials |
Certain gold: crafts a vendor buys for more than the materials
34 recipes whose item any vendor buys for more than the materials cost on Americas · Normal · Alliance, so nothing has to sell on the auction house. What a vendor pays is in the game files. Materials bought on the auction house cost more once the cheapest listings are gone; a craft made only from vendor materials can be repeated at the same cost.
| Makes | Materials | A vendor pays | Profit |
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| 5g 80s 32cSome from the auction house | 8g | 2g 19s 68c37% of materials | |
| 2g 11s 96cSome from the auction house | 2g 50s 51c | 38s 55c18% of materials | |
| 27s 12cSome from the auction house | 30s 96c | 3s 84c14% of materials | |
| 40s 34cSome from the auction house | 43s 87c | 3s 53c8% of materials | |
| 9s 13cSome from the auction house | 12s 50c | 3s 37c36% of materials | |
| 3s 10cSome from the auction house | 6s | 2s 90c93% of materials | |
| 4s 7cSome from the auction house | 5s 25c | 1s 18c28% of materials | |
| 13s 84cSome from the auction house | 15s | 1s 16c8% of materials |
Cooldown recipes: transmutes, Mooncloth and the rest
Recipes you can use only so often, with what one use makes here: the item’s lowest buyout less its materials, before the auction house’s cut and deposit. The cooldown is the length in the game files. A loss is shown too, so you can see which use of the cooldown pays. An item with fewer than 3 listings gets no profit figure. 1 recipe with a material nobody sells here is left out.
| Makes | Cooldown | Materials | Sells for | Profit per use |
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| 47 hours | 15g 25s
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38g 49s20 listings | 23g 24s | |
| 3 days 23 hours | 91s 8c
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23g19 listings | 22g 8s 92c | |
| 23 hours | 21s 60c
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11g15 listings | 10g 78s 40c | |
| 23 hours | 89s 76c
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11g15 listings | 10g 10s 24c | |
| 23 hours | 3g 54s 70c
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9g13 listings | 5g 45s 30c | |
| 23 hours | 1g 67s 30c
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3g 54s 70c34 listings | 1g 87s 40c | |
| 10 minutes | 24s
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1g 3s 50c283 listings | 79s 50c | |
| 1 hour | 9s 13c
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15s62 listings | 5s 87c | |
| 1 hour | 3s 10c
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7s 80c74 listings | 4s 70c | |
| 23 hours | 3g 54s 70c
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1g 67s 30c48 listings | −1g 87s 40ca loss | |
| 23 hours | 11g
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3g 54s 70c34 listings | −7g 45s 30ca loss | |
| 23 hours | 9g
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89s 76c61 listings | −8g 10s 24ca loss | |
| 23 hours | 11g
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21s 60c106 listings | −10g 78s 40ca loss |
Loot worth keeping
Trade goods and other materials you pick up (drops, gathering, fishing, containers, disenchanting) that no vendor sells, with at least 3 listings and a lowest buyout here of at least 3 times what a vendor pays: below that, the vendor is nearly as good and pays at once. Grouped by the type the game files give each item, highest price first. “Comes from” names the gathering source with the largest share of recorded loots, then the best other source; a share is shown from 100 recorded loots.
Cloth
| Item | Lowest buyout | Median | Listings | Vendor pays | Comes from |
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| 15s 25c | 17s 89c | 49 | 4s |
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| 3s 90c | 4s 14c | 118 | 1s |
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Leather
| Item | Lowest buyout | Median | Listings | Vendor pays | Comes from |
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| 11g 89s | 11g 90s | 15 | 10s |
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| 2g 89s 99c | 2g 90s | 4 | 5s |
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| 92s 4c | 92s 4c | 3 | 5s |
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| 90s | 99s 95c | 41 | 5s |
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| 60s | 75s | 35 | 10s |
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Ore, bars and stone
| Item | Lowest buyout | Median | Listings | Vendor pays | Comes from |
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| 15g | 15g | 8 | 1g |
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| 83s 99c | 85s | 90 | 3s 75c |
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| 31s 80c | 42s 98c | 98 | 2s 50c |
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| 23s | 23s 98c | 31 | 5s |
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| 21s 84c | 21s 99c | 131 | 5s |
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Herbs
| Item | Lowest buyout | Median | Listings | Vendor pays | Comes from |
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| 11g 50s | 13g 50s | 26 | 10s |
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| 1g 9s | 1g 10s | 27 | 2s 50c |
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| 44s 95c | 44s 97c | 49 | 2s 50c |
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| 19s 99c | 21s 99c | 47 | 2s 50c |
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| 17s 98c | 18s 98c | 239 | 30c |
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Elemental
| Item | Lowest buyout | Median | Listings | Vendor pays | Comes from |
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| 11g | 11g | 15 | 4s |
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| 9g | 10g | 13 | 4s |
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| 3g 54s 70c | 3g 54s 70c | 34 | 4s |
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| 1g 67s 30c | 1g 73s 99c | 48 | 10s |
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| 89s 76c | 1g 25s 44c | 61 | 4s |
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Enchanting materials
| Item | Lowest buyout | Median | Listings | Vendor pays | Comes from |
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| 4g 15s | 5g 20s | 56 | 1c |
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| 2g 60s | 2g 68s | 36 | 1c |
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| 1g 96s 99c | 1g 96s 99c | 59 | 1c |
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| 90s | 94s | 67 | 1c |
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| 79s 99c | 82s 76c | 86 | 1c |
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Cooking
| Item | Lowest buyout | Median | Listings | Vendor pays | Comes from |
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| 97s 20c | 1g | 14 | 1s 75c |
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| 28s 48c | 29s 99c | 111 | 1s 50c |
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| 12s 50c | 14s 49c | 282 | 1s 12c |
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| 10s | 10s | 5 | 8c |
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| 7s | 7s 55c | 72 | 1s 12c |
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Parts
| Item | Lowest buyout | Median | Listings | Vendor pays | Comes from |
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| 42s 97c | 45s | 40 | 7s 50c |
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| 39s | 44s | 4 | 10s |
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| 34s 74c | 34s 74c | 3 | 10s |
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| 13s 88c | 13s 90c | 19 | 4s |
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| 12s 96c | 12s 98c | 20 | 2s 50c |
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Other materials
| Item | Lowest buyout | Median | Listings | Vendor pays | Comes from |
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| 15g | 15g 94c | 32 | 20s |
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| 12g 50s 50c | 15g 50s 50c | 9 | 2g |
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| 8g | 8g 99s | 64 | 70s |
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| 5g 99s | 8g 99s | 21 | 20s |
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| 5g 49s 98c | 5g 49s 98c | 9 | 7s 50c |
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What to gather
The herbs, ores and skins with the highest lowest buyout on this auction house, with the skill or creature level they need and where the data places them. The price is for one, before the auction house’s cut and deposit; only items with at least 3 listings count.
Herbs
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Black Lotus 11 gold 50 silver
Skill 300 · Burning Steppes, Silithus and more
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Plaguebloom 44 silver 95 copper
Skill 285 · Eastern Plaguelands, Western Plaguelands and more
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Ghost Mushroom 32 silver
Skill 245 · The Hinterlands, Desolace and more
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Gromsblood 22 silver 49 copper
Skill 250 · Blasted Lands, Desolace and more
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Icecap 19 silver 99 copper
Skill 290 · Winterspring
Ores
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Thorium Ore 31 silver 80 copper
Skill 245 · Un'Goro Crater, Silithus and more
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Dark Iron Ore 23 silver
Skill 230 · Burning Steppes, Searing Gorge and more
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Truesilver Ore 21 silver 84 copper
Skill 230 · Winterspring, The Hinterlands and more
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Mithril Ore 8 silver 88 copper
Skill 175 · The Hinterlands, Tanaris and more
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Gold Ore 7 silver 60 copper
Skill 155 · Arathi Highlands, Badlands and more
Skins
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Frostsaber Leather 2 gold 89 silver 99 copper
Creatures of level 55–60 · Winterspring
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Devilsaur Leather 90 silver
Creatures of level 54–56 · Un'Goro Crater
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Scorpid Scale 19 silver 30 copper
Creatures of level 40–44 · Tanaris, Uldaman
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Warbear Leather 19 silver
Creatures of level 51–60 · Winterspring, Western Plaguelands and more
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Turtle Scale 13 silver 24 copper
Creatures of level 36–43 · Dustwallow Marsh
The gathering guide: value per gather and the best zones for your skill
Disenchanting
The best buy to disenchant here now is Toughened Leather Gloves: 33 silver 50 copper to buy, about 43 silver in materials. The best craft to disenchant is Green Lens. An item’s disenchant value is each material’s chance × how many it gives × the material’s lowest buyout here, summed. The chances are the recorded disenchants of that exact item.
Enchanting materials on this auction house
Show the materials and their prices
| Material | Lowest buyout | Median buyout | Listings | Disenchanted from |
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| 1 silver 33 copper | 1 silver 37 copper | 87 |
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| 93 copper | 1 silver 66 copper | 220 |
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| 3 silver 10 copper | 3 silver 65 copper | 184 |
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| 3 silver 89 copper | 3 silver 98 copper | 66 |
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| 4 silver 65 copper | 4 silver 65 copper | 67 |
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| 43 silver | 45 silver | 53 |
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| 13 silver 75 copper | 13 silver 96 copper | 12 |
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| 4 silver 40 copper | 4 silver 49 copper | 96 |
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| 10 silver 49 copper | 10 silver 50 copper | 44 |
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| 8 silver 50 copper | 10 silver | 73 |
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| 32 silver 15 copper | 32 silver 48 copper | 53 |
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| 27 silver 35 copper | 28 silver 40 copper | 95 |
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| 11 silver 40 copper | 11 silver 93 copper | 103 |
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| 25 silver 87 copper | 25 silver 88 copper | 46 |
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| 68 silver 96 copper | 79 silver 59 copper | 137 |
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| 79 silver 99 copper | 82 silver 76 copper | 86 |
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| 31 silver 90 copper | 31 silver 96 copper | 58 |
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| 1 gold 96 silver 99 copper | 1 gold 96 silver 99 copper | 59 |
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| 73 silver 99 copper | 99 silver 63 copper | 95 |
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| 90 silver | 94 silver | 67 |
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| None listed | None listed | 0 |
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| 2 gold 60 silver | 2 gold 68 silver | 36 |
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| 59 silver | 61 silver | 38 |
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| 4 gold 15 silver | 5 gold 20 silver | 56 |
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Cheapest gear to disenchant
Gear listed here whose materials are worth more than its lowest buyout, widest margin first. Every material must have at least 3 listings and the item at least 20 recorded disenchants. The margin is before the auction house’s cut and deposit on the materials you sell.
Show the gear worth disenchanting
| Item | Lowest buyout | Disenchants for | Margin |
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| 33 silver 50 copper101 listings | About 43 silver From 44 recorded disenchants | 9 silver 50 copper | |
| 36 silver8 listings | About 43 silver From 35 recorded disenchants | 7 silver | |
| 1 gold 90 silver28 listings |
About 1 gold 96 silver 99 copper
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6 silver 99 copper | |
| 38 silver 50 copper30 listings | About 43 silver From 38 recorded disenchants | 4 silver 50 copper | |
| 36 silver 50 copper273 listings |
At least 38 silver 44 copper
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1 silver 94 copper | |
| 8 silver 20 copper345 listings |
At least 9 silver 13 copper
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93 copper |
Crafted for the dust
Recipes whose item disenchants for more than its materials cost. Each material counts at the lower of a vendor’s price and its lowest buyout here. The same listing and sample rules apply.
Show the recipes
| Makes | Profession | Materials | Disenchants for | Margin |
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1 gold 36 silver 13 copper
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About 1 gold 96 silver 99 copper
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60 silver 86 copper | |
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38 silver 82 copper
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About 43 silver From 44 recorded disenchants | 4 silver 18 copper | |
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7 silver 98 copper
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At least 9 silver 13 copper
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1 silver 15 copper |
Vendor items that sell for more here
Items a vendor sells to Alliance for gold alone whose lowest buyout here is higher than the vendor’s price, largest difference first, with at least 3 listings. A flip needs a buyer: the listings show how many others are selling, and a median well above the lowest buyout means most sellers ask more than the cheapest one. A limited stock is noted where the vendor records show one. The difference is before the auction house’s cut and deposit.
| Item and vendor | Vendor price | Lowest buyout | Median | Listings | Difference |
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21s 17c | 12g 25s | 13g | 8 | 12g 3s 83c |
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4g | 15g | 15g | 4 | 11g |
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70s | 8g 98s | 8g 98s | 10 | 8g 28s |
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1g 20s | 8g 50s 1c | 8g 50s 1c | 16 | 7g 30s 1c |
| 8g | 15g | 15g | 7 | 7g | |
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1g 60s | 8g | 8g | 6 | 6g 40s |
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2g 25s | 6g 99s 99c | 6g 99s 99c | 6 | 4g 74s 99c |
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25s | 3g 89s | 3g 89s | 3 | 3g 64s |
How the auction house works here
- One house per ruleset and faction
- WoW Forever has no realms. Each region (Americas, Europe) has one auction house per ruleset for the Alliance, one for the Horde and the neutral Blackwater house. Pick yours at the top; the site remembers it.
- Read every hour
- The site reads every house from Blizzard’s auction data once an hour and replaces what it held. Nothing here is older than the last read, and nothing shows what sold.
- Lowest buyout
- The cheapest price for one of the item: a stack’s buyout divided by its size. Bids are left out. It is the price you undercut, and the first listing to go.
- Median
- The middle asking price. For cloth, herbs, potions and other stackable goods it is the price at which half the units on sale are listed. A median far above the lowest buyout means the cheapest listing is an outlier.
- Listings
- The number of separate auctions for the item, not the number of items: three listings can be three single items or three full stacks. A price needs 3 listings to count on this page.
- Cut and deposit
- The game files name an auction house cut and a deposit but hold no rate for either, so every margin here is before both. The game’s own text lists auctions of 2, 8 and 24 hours and says a canceled auction loses its deposit.
- Buying in bulk
- Materials are counted at their lowest buyout. Buying many costs more once the cheapest listings are gone, and the lowest listing may sell before you reach it.
Leveling plans for each profession
The cheapest way from 1 to 300 in each crafting profession, priced on this auction house, with how many of its recipes sell above their materials here now.
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Alchemy 64 recipes with a margin, up to 1g 80s 5c
All Alchemy recipes
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Blacksmithing 77 recipes with a margin, up to 8g 76s 92c
All Blacksmithing recipes
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Cooking 53 recipes with a margin, up to 44s 53c
All Cooking recipes
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Enchanting 9 recipes with a margin, up to 4g 75s 10c
All Enchanting recipes
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Engineering 72 recipes with a margin, up to 5g 66s 4c
All Engineering recipes
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First Aid 6 recipes with a margin, up to 26s 53c
All First Aid recipes
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Leatherworking 111 recipes with a margin, up to 39g 94s 60c
All Leatherworking recipes
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Tailoring 88 recipes with a margin, up to 6g 98s 44c
All Tailoring recipes
- All leveling plans in one list, and every profession’s recipes with what their materials cost on your auction house.
- Bags on the auction house: the lowest buyout of each general bag, biggest first, with the price per slot.
- Every item page has a “What to do with it” panel: what a vendor pays, its price on your auction house and what each recipe that uses it is worth. Open one from the loot lists above.
- Professions that help you level: crafted gear scored for your class and spec.
Where this comes from
Auction prices are the lowest and median buyouts and the number of listings on each auction house, from Blizzard’s auction house data, read every hour; bids are left out. Recipes, materials, what each makes, the skill a pattern needs, cooldowns and their lengths, item types and what a vendor pays come from the WoW Forever game files. The skill a trainer teaches a recipe at, what vendors sell and ask, their stock and where they stand, and which items drop or are gathered come from data collected from the live game, which can lag it.
Questions
What sells best on the WoW Forever auction house?
Blizzard’s data shows what is listed, not what sold, so this page cannot name the best seller. On Americas · Normal · Alliance on November 14, 2026 at 00:59 UTC, the material with the most listings in the lists above was Copper Ore (512 listings from 70c each), and the highest-priced one with at least 3 listings was Guardian Stone at 15g.
Which profession makes the most gold in WoW Forever?
It changes with every price read. On Americas · Normal · Alliance on November 14, 2026 at 00:59 UTC, Leatherworking had the most recipes selling for more than their materials (111 of 480), and the largest margin on one craft was 39g 94s 60c for Warbear Harness (Leatherworking). Margins are listed prices less materials, before the auction house’s cut and deposit, and a listed price is not a sale.
Can I make gold in WoW Forever without the auction house selling my items?
Sometimes. On Americas · Normal · Alliance on November 14, 2026 at 00:59 UTC, 34 recipes made items a vendor buys for more than the materials cost. The largest was Felblood Soul Bag: 5g 80s 32c of materials, 8g from a vendor. Materials bought on the auction house cost more once the cheapest listings are gone.
How much does the auction house take from a sale?
The game files name an auction house cut and a deposit but hold no rate for either, so this page gives every margin before both. The posting window shows the deposit before you list. The game’s text says a canceled auction loses its deposit.
How often do these prices change?
Every hour. The site reads each auction house from Blizzard’s data once an hour, replaces the prices it held, and works every list on this page out again.
More guides like this
Gathering: herbs, ore and leatherWhat to gather at your skill, the zones it is in and what one gather sells for on your auction house this hour.
Profession leveling plansThe cheapest way from 1 to 300 in each crafting profession, from your auction house’s prices this hour.
Professions that help you levelCrafted gear scored for your class and spec by level, the steps to make it, and which gathering profession supplies each craft.