Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 17 gold57 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 82 gold15 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 67 gold97 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 3 gold39 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: −17 gold57 silver (-21%)

Evidence: 20 current listings holding 173 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: Charged Alloy 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: Blacksmithing
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Khaz Algar Blacksmithing
Item level: 70
Reagent slots: 4
Cast time: 3.5 sec

Crafts

Charged Alloy67 gold

Reagents

2Core Alloy38 gold
5Aqirite99 silver
5Echoing Flux20 silver
1Crystalline Powder20 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Core Alloy Metal & Stone · 383 on the Auction House	2	38 gold	76 gold	93%
Aqirite Metal & Stone · 18,448 on the Auction House	5	99 silver	4 gold95 silver	6%
Echoing Flux Metal & Stone · 10,469 on the Auction House	5	20 silver	1 gold	1%
Crystalline Powder Other · 9,912 on the Auction House	1	20 silver	20 silver	0%
Total per craft			82 gold15 silver	100%

About Charged Alloy

One craft takes 2 Core Alloy, 5 Aqirite, 5 Echoing Flux and 1 Crystalline Powder. Charged Alloy is itself a reagent in 20 other recipes (Blacksmithing and Engineering).

Recipe category: Smelting (Khaz Algar Plans)
Skill-up colours (Khaz Algar Blacksmithing skill): Orange below 25 · Yellow 25 to 29 · Green 30 to 34 · Grey 35 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Charged Alloy tooltip

Charged Alloy

Item Level 70

Trade Goods

“Smelted by players with the Blacksmithing skill. Can be bought and sold on the Auction House.”

Sell price: 7g 2s

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Charged Alloy quality ranks

Charged Alloy comes in 3 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 525.

Rank	Item	Lowest listed price	Listings (US)
Rank 1	Charged Alloy	67 gold97 silver	20 listings, 173 units
Rank 2	Charged Alloy	68 gold	39 listings, 360 units
Rank 3	Charged Alloy	65 gold97 silver	39 listings, 559 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. Right now rank 1 lists above rank 3, so a craft that comes out at a higher rank is worth less at today’s listings, not more.

Charged Alloy: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 22% above 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: 67 gold97 silver
30-day low: 20 gold99 silver Aug 30
30-day high: 18,539 gold Sep 19
30-day median: 55 gold70 silver
7-day median: 55 gold
Hourly snapshots: 681

US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.

Where the reagents come from

Core Alloy. Made with Core Alloy (Blacksmithing, Khaz Algar Blacksmithing) from 10 Bismuth and 8 Echoing Flux. At lowest listed prices that makes one Core Alloy for 61 gold50 silver, against 38 gold listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 38 gold, rank 2 42 gold76 silver and rank 3 80 gold99 silver. Also a required reagent in 58 other recipes (51 Blacksmithing, 4 Inscription, 1 Engineering and 1 Enchanting); Replica Rumbling Wastes Drill Pod takes the most, 15 per craft.

Aqirite. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 99 silver, rank 2 1 gold and rank 3 3 gold79 silver. Also a required reagent in 8 other recipes (5 Engineering, 1 Jewelcrafting, 1 Cooking and 1 Mining); the most per craft: Miner's Aqirite Hoard (Engineering, 60 per craft), Remembrance Stone (Jewelcrafting, 30 per craft), Chaos Circuit (Engineering, 5 per craft), Dornic Mine and Cheese Platter (Cooking, 5 per craft) and Refine Aqirite |A:Professions-ChatIcon-Quality-Tier2:20:20|a (Mining, 5 per craft).

Echoing Flux. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 3 other recipes (3 Blacksmithing); the most per craft: Core Alloy (Blacksmithing, 8 per craft), Ironclaw Alloy (Blacksmithing, 5 per craft) and Sanctified Alloy (Blacksmithing, 5 per craft).

Crystalline Powder. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 33 other recipes (13 Blacksmithing, 8 Enchanting, 6 Alchemy and 2 Inscription); the most per craft: Artisan Leatherworker's Knife (Blacksmithing, 20 per craft), Crystalline Radiance (Enchanting, 20 per craft), Artisan Leatherworker's Toolset (Blacksmithing, 10 per craft), Council's Intellect (Enchanting, 10 per craft) and Oathsworn's Strength (Enchanting, 10 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 4 reagents for one craft of Charged Alloy cost 82 gold15 silver. Most of that is Core Alloy - 2 at 38 gold each, 76 gold, 92.5% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 86 gold47 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 67 gold97 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −14 gold18 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 3 gold39 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 17 gold57 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -21.4% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 173 units across 20 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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