Why is the biggest margin not always the best craft?

A margin pays only as fast as the result sells. Profit a day is the margin times the estimated units sold a day on that auction house, so a thin margin on something that sells three hundred a day beats a fat one on something that sells three. Rank by Profit a day to see that order.

Crafting profit

Q: How is crafting profit calculated?

Each reagent is priced at its median on the market, and the result at its median times the recipe's average yield, less the 5 percent auction house cut. A reagent with no price is named rather than counted as free. Deposits and the value of materials you gather yourself are not in the numbers.

Pick a market and a profession. Every recipe is ranked by what it earns at that market's prices right now. Enchantments make no item to sell, so they are costed on the enchants page instead. The crafts that also sell through the week, and the profession leading on each house, are in the gold meta.

On PvP Alliance EU right now, Goblin Mortar (Engineering) makes the most per craft: about 11g 27s after the 5 percent auction house cut. Counting how fast the result sells, Whirring Bronze Gizmo (Engineering) makes the most a day, about 39g 48s from roughly 902 sold a day. 41 of 67 fully priced recipes make a profit.

Current market: PvP Alliance EU, the market with the newest prices. Pick yours below and every tool opens there. Address for this market: ahledger.com/crafting?market=forever/pvp/alliance/eu

1MarketPrices come from the latest scans of this market.2ProfessionAll of them, or one.3Rank byMargin per craft, or that margin times what the market buys a day.4ShowFully priced recipes rank truthfully; every recipe shows what each craft needs.

▸How this is worked out

Reagents are priced at their median, the result at its median times the recipe's average yield, less the 5 percent auction house cut. A reagent with no price is named rather than counted as free. Deposits and the value of your own gathered materials are not in these numbers.

Sold/day is the estimated units of the result sold a day on this auction house over the last week, from consecutive scans; it leans low and is blank where too few hours of scans back it. Profit a day is the margin per unit times that: the most a crafter supplying the whole market could make. A fat margin on something that sells three a day is worth less than a thin one on something that sells three hundred.

What the margin leaves out.

67 recipes · 41 above water · PvP Alliance EU

Craft	Cost	Value	Margin	Return	Sold/day	Profit/day	Reagents
Goblin Mortar Engineering 185 none sold · 0c/day	2g 32s 8c	13g 59s	11g 27s	486%	0	0c	5 × Solid Blasting Powder, 4 × Mithril Bar, 2 × Mithril Tube, 1 × Elemental Fire, 1 × Gold Power Core
Mithril Blunderbuss Engineering 185 none sold · 0c/day	2g 51s 28c	7g 59s 5c	5g 7s 77c	202%	0	0c	4 × Mithril Bar, 2 × Elemental Fire, 1 × Heavy Stock, 1 × Mithril Tube, 1 × Unstable Trigger
Sniper Scope Engineering 220 <1 sold/day · shelf clears in about 3 days · 2g 72s 84c/day	1g 27s 53c	4g 94s 95c	3g 67s 42c	288%	<1	2g 72s 84c	2 × Truesilver Bar, 1 × Mithril Tube, 1 × Star Ruby
Deadly Scope Engineering 190 none sold · 0c/day	1g 9s 19c	4g 74s 4c	3g 64s 85c	334%	0	0c	2 × Aquamarine, 2 × Thick Leather, 1 × Mithril Tube
Gnomish Net-o-Matic Projector Engineering 190 <1 sold/day · shelf clears in about 3 days · 2g 25s 43c/day	1g 70s 47c	4g 74s 5c	3g 3s 58c	178%	<1	2g 25s 43c	4 × Mithril Bar, 4 × Thick Spider's Silk, 2 × Shadow Silk, 2 × Solid Blasting Powder, 1 × Mithril Tube
Gnomish Cloaking Device Engineering 180 <1 sold/day · shelf clears in about 26 days · 23s 43c/day	1g 74s 52c	4g 75s	3g 48c	172%	<1	23s 43c	4 × Gyrochronatom, 2 × Citrine, 2 × Jade, 2 × Lesser Moonstone, 1 × Fused Wiring
Spellpower Goggles Xtreme Engineering 205 <1 sold/day · shelf clears in about 4 days · 2g 5s 40c/day	1g 45s 20c	4g 21s 80c	2g 76s 60c	190%	<1	2g 5s 40c	4 × Thick Leather, 2 × Star Ruby
Goblin Jumper Cables Engineering 120 none sold · 0c/day	74s 72c	2g 85s	2g 10s 28c	281%	0	0c	6 × Iron Bar, 2 × Flask of Oil, 2 × Shadowgem, 2 × Silk Cloth, 2 × Whirring Bronze Gizmo, 1 × Fused Wiring
Green Lens Engineering 225 none sold · 0c/day	1g 95s 79c	3g 80s	1g 84s 21c	94%	0	0c	8 × Thick Leather, 3 × Aquamarine, 3 × Jade, 2 × Heart of the Wild, 2 × Wildvine
Hoof-Shaped Foot Pedal Engineering 110 none sold · 0c/day	95s 67c	2g 17s 55c	1g 21s 88c	127%	0	0c	4 × Heavy Leather, 3 × Iron Strut, 2 × Bronze Framework, 1 × Gold Power Core, 1 × Gyrochronatom
Goblin Sapper Charge Engineering 165 none sold · 0c/day	67s 18c	1g 42s 49c	75s 31c	112%	0	0c	3 × Solid Blasting Powder, 1 × Mageweave Cloth, 1 × Unstable Trigger
Compact Harvest Reaper Kit Engineering 135 <1 sold/day · shelf clears in about 7 days · 45s 22c/day	76s 92c	1g 42s 50c	65s 58c	85%	<1	45s 22c	4 × Heavy Leather, 2 × Gyrochronatom, 2 × Iron Strut, 1 × Bronze Framework
EZ-Thro Copper Bomb XL Engineering 90 <1 sold/day · shelf clears in about 51 days · 20s 31c/day	14s 4c	75s 5c	61s 1c	435%	<1	20s 31c	4 × Coarse Blasting Powder, 3 × Copper Bar, 1 × EZ-Thro Wrap, 1 × Silver Contact
Discombobulator Ray Engineering 140 ~1 sold/day · shelf clears in about 9 days · 60s 73c/day	47s 93c	94s 5c	46s 12c	96%	1	60s 73c	3 × Whirring Bronze Gizmo, 2 × Silk Cloth, 1 × Bronze Tube, 1 × Jade
Flash Bomb Engineering 145 ~2 sold/day · shelf clears in about 2 days · 1g 1s 83c/day	49s 98c	95s	45s 2c	90%	2	1g 1s 83c	1 × Blue Pearl, 1 × Heavy Blasting Powder, 1 × Silk Cloth
Advanced Target Dummy Engineering 145 ~13 sold/day · shelf clears in about 4 days · 3g 63s 71c/day	47s 82c	75s 3c	27s 21c	57%	13	3g 63s 71c	4 × Heavy Leather, 1 × Bronze Framework, 1 × Gyrochronatom, 1 × Iron Strut
Green Tinted Goggles Engineering 135 ~37 sold/day · shelf clears in under a day · 9g 30s 63c/day	22s 26c	47s 50c	25s 24c	113%	37	9g 30s 63c	4 × Medium Leather, 2 × Moss Agate, 1 × Flying Tiger Goggles
Mithril Casing Engineering 175 ~11 sold/day · shelf clears in about 8 days · 2g 75s 63c/day	35s 88c	60s 77c	24s 89c	69%	11	2g 75s 63c	3 × Mithril Bar
Portable Bronze Mortar Engineering 145 <1 sold/day · shelf clears in about 6 days · 15s 47c/day	71s 12c	95s	23s 88c	34%	<1	15s 47c	4 × Bronze Tube, 4 × Heavy Blasting Powder, 4 × Medium Leather, 1 × Iron Strut
Large Seaforium Charge Engineering 160 none sold · 0c/day	24s 5c	47s 50c	23s 45c	98%	0	0c	2 × Heavy Leather, 2 × Solid Blasting Powder, 1 × Refreshing Spring Water
Gnomish Universal Remote Engineering 110 ~28 sold/day · shelf clears in under a day · 6g 33s 13c/day	24s 82c	47s 50c	22s 68c	91%	28	6g 33s 13c	6 × Bronze Bar, 2 × Flask of Oil, 1 × Malachite, 1 × Tigerseye, 1 × Whirring Bronze Gizmo
Gyromatic Micro-Adjustor Engineering 135 none sold · 0c/day	51s 80c	66s 50c	14s 70c	28%	0	0c	4 × Steel Bar
SAF-T Tabs Engineering <1 sold/day · shelf clears in about 18 days · 1s 90c/day	56s 98c	65s 55c	8s 57c	15%	<1	1s 90c	1 × Cerulean Dye, 1 × Linen Cloak
Iron Strut Engineering 120 ~61 sold/day · shelf clears in about a day · 4g 51s 57c/day	10s 66c	18s 5c	7s 39c	69%	61	4g 51s 57c	2 × Iron Bar
Iron Grenade Engineering 135 · makes 3 ~82 sold/day · shelf clears in under a day · 1g 52s 52c/day	14s 32c	19s 92c	5s 60c	39%	82	1g 52s 52c	1 × Heavy Blasting Powder, 1 × Iron Bar, 1 × Silk Cloth
Mithril Tube Engineering 155 <1 sold/day · shelf clears in over two months · 4s 10c/day	35s 88c	41s 47c	5s 59c	16%	<1	4s 10c	3 × Mithril Bar
Accurate Scope Engineering 160 ~12 sold/day · shelf clears in about 4 days · 54s 53c/day	60s 1c	64s 60c	4s 59c	8%	12	54s 53c	1 × Bronze Tube, 1 × Citrine, 1 × Jade
Whirring Bronze Gizmo Engineering 85 ~900 sold/day · shelf clears in about a day · 39g 48s/day	4s 78c	9s 16c	4s 38c	92%	900	39g 48s	2 × Bronze Bar, 1 × Wool Cloth
Minor Recombobulator Engineering 125 ~14 sold/day · shelf clears in about 2 days · 57s 95c/day	32s 88c	37s 5c	4s 17c	13%	14	57s 95c	2 × Medium Leather, 2 × Whirring Bronze Gizmo, 1 × Bronze Tube, 1 × Moss Agate
Crafted Heavy Shot Engineering 45 · makes 200 ~63,000 sold/day · shelf clears in about a day · 11g 1s/day	2s 20c	5s 70c	3s 50c	159%	63,000	11g 1s	1 × Coarse Blasting Powder, 1 × Copper Bar
Unstable Trigger Engineering 160 ~11 sold/day · shelf clears in about 4 days · 35s 9c/day	28s 19c	31s 34c	3s 15c	11%	11	35s 9c	1 × Mageweave Cloth, 1 × Mithril Bar, 1 × Solid Blasting Powder
Shadow Goggles Engineering 105 ~29 sold/day · shelf clears in under a day · 60s 26c/day	11s 24c	13s 30c	2s 6c	18%	29	60s 26c	4 × Medium Leather, 2 × Shadowgem
Heavy Blasting Powder Engineering 85 ~820 sold/day · shelf clears in about a day · 14g 91s/day	4s 83c	6s 64c	1s 81c	37%	820	14g 91s	1 × Heavy Stone
Sandpaper Engineering 90 ~3 sold/day · shelf clears in about 25 days · 5s 17c/day	25s 64c	27s 36c	1s 72c	7%	3	5s 17c	2 × Bauxite, 1 × Bolt of Linen Cloth
Gyrochronatom Engineering 130 ~16 sold/day · shelf clears in about 6 days · 19s 20c/day	8s 42c	9s 60c	1s 18c	14%	16	19s 20c	1 × Gold Power Core, 1 × Iron Bar
Gold Power Core Engineering 110 · makes 3 ~230 sold/day · shelf clears in under a day · 79s 51c/day	7s 77c	8s 81c	1s 4c	13%	230	79s 51c	1 × Gold Bar
Aquadynamic Fish Attractor Engineering 110 · makes 3 ~250 sold/day · shelf clears in under a day · 78s 56c/day	4s 75c	5s 70c	95c	20%	250	78s 56c	2 × Bronze Bar, 1 × Coarse Blasting Powder, 1 × Nightcrawlers
Crafted Solid Shot Engineering 85 · makes 200 ~7,700 sold/day · shelf clears in about 8 days · 23s 91c/day	8s 88c	9s 50c	62c	7%	7,700	23s 91c	1 × Bronze Bar, 1 × Heavy Blasting Powder
Bronze Framework Engineering 105 ~200 sold/day · shelf clears in about a day · 1g 15s 48c/day	5s 85c	6s 42c	57c	10%	200	1g 15s 48c	2 × Bronze Bar, 1 × Medium Leather, 1 × Wool Cloth
Rough Dynamite Engineering · makes 2 ~8,100 sold/day · shelf clears in under a day · 6g 51s 63c/day	60c	76c	16c	27%	8,100	6g 51s 63c	1 × Linen Cloth, 1 × Rough Blasting Powder
Crafted Light Shot Engineering · makes 200 ~69,000 sold/day · shelf clears in about 3 days · 34s 42c/day	1s 80c	1s 90c	10c	6%	69,000	34s 42c	1 × Copper Bar, 1 × Rough Blasting Powder
Bronze Tube Engineering 65 ~770 sold/day · shelf clears in under a day · -83s 98c/day	4s 83c	4s 72c	-11c	-2%	770	-83s 98c	2 × Bronze Bar, 1 × Weak Flux
Rough Blasting Powder Engineering ~7,300 sold/day · shelf clears in under a day · -15g 79s/day	50c	29c	-21c	-43%	7,300	-15g 79s	1 × Rough Stone
Coarse Dynamite Engineering 50 · makes 2 ~450 sold/day · shelf clears in under a day · -2g 4s 71c/day	2s 40c	1s 48c	-92c	-38%	450	-2g 4s 71c	3 × Coarse Blasting Powder, 1 × Linen Cloth
Coarse Blasting Powder Engineering 45 ~980 sold/day · shelf clears in about a day · -9g 12s 74c/day	1s 60c	67c	-93c	-58%	980	-9g 12s 74c	1 × Coarse Stone
Big Bronze Bomb Engineering 100 · makes 3 ~66 sold/day · shelf clears in about a day · -31s 38c/day	19s 92c	18s 50c	-1s 42c	-7%	66	-31s 38c	3 × Bronze Bar, 2 × Heavy Blasting Powder, 1 × Silver Contact
Solid Blasting Powder Engineering 135 ~22 sold/day · shelf clears in about 2 days · -31s 21c/day	9s 96c	8s 53c	-1s 43c	-14%	22	-31s 21c	2 × Solid Stone
Hi-Impact Mithril Slugs Engineering 170 · makes 200 ~4,000 sold/day · shelf clears in under a day · -38s 56c/day	20s 94c	19s	-1s 94c	-9%	4,000	-38s 56c	1 × Mithril Bar, 1 × Solid Blasting Powder
Copper Tube Engineering 40 ~510 sold/day · shelf clears in under a day · -10g 8s/day	4s 5c	2s 8c	-1s 97c	-49%	510	-10g 8s	2 × Copper Bar, 1 × Weak Flux
Heavy Dynamite Engineering 85 · makes 3 ~49 sold/day · shelf clears in about 4 days · -35s 42c/day	14s 98c	12s 83c	-2s 15c	-14%	49	-35s 42c	2 × Heavy Blasting Powder, 1 × Wool Cloth
Large Copper Bomb Engineering 65 · makes 3 ~60 sold/day · shelf clears in about 3 days · -48s 92c/day	7s 57c	5s 13c	-2s 44c	-32%	60	-48s 92c	4 × Coarse Blasting Powder, 3 × Copper Bar, 1 × Silver Contact
Small Bronze Bomb Engineering 80 · makes 2 ~77 sold/day · shelf clears in about a day · -1g 18s 85c/day	7s 85c	4s 75c	-3s 10c	-39%	77	-1g 18s 85c	4 × Coarse Blasting Powder, 2 × Bronze Bar, 1 × Silver Contact, 1 × Wool Cloth
Silver Contact Engineering 70 · makes 5 ~2,100 sold/day · shelf clears in under a day · -15g 30s/day	5s	1s 28c	-3s 72c	-74%	2,100	-15g 30s	1 × Silver Bar
EZ-Thro Wrap Engineering 60 ~29 sold/day · shelf clears in about 2 days · -1g 21s 16c/day	10s 33c	6s 15c	-4s 18c	-40%	29	-1g 21s 16c	1 × Sulfuric Acid, 1 × Wool Cloth
Flying Tiger Goggles Engineering 90 ~150 sold/day · shelf clears in under a day · -6g 39s 88c/day	8s 98c	4s 75c	-4s 23c	-47%	150	-6g 39s 88c	6 × Light Leather, 2 × Tigerseye
Standard Scope Engineering 95 ~33 sold/day · shelf clears in about 2 days · -1g 90s 36c/day	11s 46c	5s 70c	-5s 76c	-50%	33	-1g 90s 36c	1 × Bronze Tube, 1 × Moss Agate
Big Iron Bomb Engineering 150 · makes 2 ~8 sold/day · shelf clears in about 9 days · -27s 99c/day	37s 23c	30s 40c	-6s 83c	-18%	8	-27s 99c	3 × Heavy Blasting Powder, 3 × Iron Bar, 1 × Silver Contact
Ez-Thro Dynamite Engineering 75 · makes 2 ~200 sold/day · shelf clears in under a day · -7g 7s 71c/day	8s 87c	1s 88c	-6s 99c	-79%	200	-7g 7s 71c	3 × Coarse Blasting Powder, 1 × EZ-Thro Wrap, 1 × Linen Cloth
Arclight Spanner Engineering 30 ~160 sold/day · shelf clears in under a day · -11g 35s/day	9s	1s 90c	-7s 10c	-79%	160	-11g 35s	6 × Copper Bar
Blue Firework Engineering 110 · makes 3 ~37 sold/day · shelf clears in under a day · -88s 24c/day	9s 98c	2s 85c	-7s 13c	-71%	37	-88s 24c	1 × Heavy Blasting Powder, 1 × Heavy Leather
Small Seaforium Charge Engineering 90 none sold · 0c/day	15s 96c	3s 79c	-12s 17c	-76%	0	0c	2 × Coarse Blasting Powder, 1 × Copper Modulator, 1 × Light Leather, 1 × Refreshing Spring Water
Moonsight Rifle Engineering 130 ~22 sold/day · shelf clears in under a day · -3g 1s 19c/day	84s 77c	71s 25c	-13s 52c	-16%	22	-3g 1s 19c	3 × Bronze Tube, 3 × Whirring Bronze Gizmo, 2 × Lesser Moonstone, 1 × Heavy Stock
Explosive Sheep Engineering 135 ~4 sold/day · shelf clears in about 36 days · -89s 67c/day	32s 38c	12s 26c	-20s 12c	-62%	4	-89s 67c	2 × Heavy Blasting Powder, 2 × Wool Cloth, 1 × Bronze Framework, 1 × Whirring Bronze Gizmo
Ornate Spyglass Engineering 120 ~28 sold/day · shelf clears in under a day · -6g 95s 39c/day	49s 66c	24s 70c	-24s 96c	-50%	28	-6g 95s 39c	2 × Bronze Tube, 2 × Whirring Bronze Gizmo, 1 × Copper Modulator, 1 × Moss Agate
Silver-plated Shotgun Engineering 115 ~37 sold/day · shelf clears in under a day · -13g 33s/day	73s 12c	37s 5c	-36s 7c	-49%	37	-13g 33s	3 × Silver Bar, 2 × Bronze Tube, 2 × Whirring Bronze Gizmo, 1 × Heavy Stock
Goblin Mortar Engineering none sold · 0c/day	14g 69s	13g 59s	-1g 10s 45c	-8%	0	0c	3 × Solid Blasting Powder, 1 × Goblin Mortar, 1 × Mithril Bar
Salt Shaker Engineering 230 none sold · 0c/day	34g 99s	18g 5s	-16g 94s	-48%	0	0c	6 × Thorium Bar, 4 × Unstable Trigger, 1 × Gold Power Core, 1 × Mithril Casing

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Common questions

What is the most profitable craft in WoW Forever right now?: On PvP Alliance EU right now, Goblin Mortar (Engineering) makes the most per craft: about 11g 27s after the 5 percent auction house cut. Counting how fast the result sells, Whirring Bronze Gizmo (Engineering) makes the most a day, about 39g 48s from roughly 902 sold a day. 41 of 67 fully priced recipes make a profit.
How is crafting profit calculated?: Each reagent is priced at its median on the market, and the result at its median times the recipe's average yield, less the 5 percent auction house cut. A reagent with no price is named rather than counted as free. Deposits and the value of materials you gather yourself are not in the numbers.
Why is the biggest margin not always the best craft?: A margin pays only as fast as the result sells. Profit a day is the margin times the estimated units sold a day on that auction house, so a thin margin on something that sells three hundred a day beats a fat one on something that sells three. Rank by Profit a day to see that order.