Depends on level of recipe. A Vet 5 for example will sell for a lot more then a level 35 recipe.

I would expect a Vet 5 epic recipe can sell for a 100k+ pretty easy. Can likely get a lot more even then that.

There is absolutely no reason for any dropped item in this game to go for over10K gold, let alone 100K. The drop rate for purple recipes needs to be increased plain and simple. Take the rate at which blue recipes drop and cut it by 50-75% to create the drop rate for purple recipes. Right now, purples drop at less than a 1% of the rate of blue recipes, hence the outrageous prices. ZOS could easily fix this problem if they chose to do so. It would seem they tacitly approve of these sky high prices.

Have had just one purple recipe dropping so far, since pre-access. And loads of blue. So yeh .. the droprate is pretty darn low for purples.

If everyone could get purple recipes and easily level provisioning, what is the point?

I would happily pay 50k for the v5 purple food that uses pepper, less if it requires oats or tomatoes. Drinks, even purple ones, are total garbage right now. I know, I have the 35 and 50 purple drinks, and I cannot even give them away. The actual drinks I mean, not the recipes, though it makes the recipes just as worthless.

Also, can I tell my hirelings to stop bringing me grapes and hops? Seriously, might as well get nothing. I have been keeping track and about 75% of my hirelings deliveries are drink rarest. I got 3/3 hirelings for pepper, oats, tomaros etch, not totally useless hops....
Sorry derailed there for a minute.

But no, purple recipes should be very rare, and very expensive. At the same time, drops could be about doubled and still be the right rarity I think.

I say this as someone who does have a lvl 45 purple food, but not the v5. I sincerely do not think I should get it easily or cheaply, or else everyone would just be making their own v5 foods.

The funny truth is, I think the purple foods are less useful than the blue. Even though I can make high lvl purple foods, I only ever ever eat blue crab cakes for soloing, and crab stew for groups (because stamina becomes a mana pool for healing).
I have not played all classes of course, but it seems like builds that benefit from all 3 stat buffs must be unusual, and you get a smaller buff anyway.

I sell every purple food I make, and sit scratching my head at who needs all 3 that bad. Tanks I guess?

Anyway, I personally prefer blue foods. I can make stacks without too much trouble, and the buffs are good sized.

Vet level 5... I open everything... never seen a purple : (