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Cobalt Frag Bomb

A Engineering recipe learned at Northrend Engineering 1 that crafts 3 Cobalt Frag Bomb from 2 reagents.

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Crafting estimate at current listings

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
59 gold
Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
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Items per craft
3
Listed value of one craft
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Auction House cut (5%)
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Estimated profit at that listed price
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  • Items per craft: the game’s spell data creates 3 per craft, so the listed value of one craft is that many times the lowest listed price.
Verified priceAuction HouseUS region

Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Handful of Cobalt Bolts
Parts · 7,982 on the Auction House · crafted by Handful of Cobalt Bolts (Engineering)
222 gold44 gold75%
Volatile Blasting Trigger
Parts · 2,553 on the Auction House · crafted by Volatile Blasting Trigger (Engineering)
115 gold15 gold25%
Total per craft59 gold100%

About Cobalt Frag Bomb

One craft takes 2 Handful of Cobalt Bolts and 1 Volatile Blasting Trigger.

Recipe category
Explosives (Northrend Engineering)

Cobalt Frag Bomb tooltip

Cobalt Frag Bomb
Item Level 27
Consumable
Requires Level 10
Use: Inflicts to Fire damage and incapacitates targets for 3 sec in a 3 yard radius. Any damage will break the effect. The frag bomb has no effect on creatures above level.
Sell price: 6s

Cobalt Frag Bomb: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 14% below 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
30 gold
30-day low
5 gold Oct 24
30-day high
11,111 gold7 silver Oct 8
30-day median
35 gold
7-day median
30 gold
Hourly snapshots
691

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

Where the reagents come from

Handful of Cobalt Bolts. Made with Handful of Cobalt Bolts (Engineering, Northrend Engineering) from 2 Cobalt Bar, 2 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Handful of Cobalt Bolts for 19 gold96 silver, against 22 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 12 other recipes (12 Engineering); Mechano-Hog takes the most, 40 per craft.

Volatile Blasting Trigger. Made with Volatile Blasting Trigger (Engineering, Northrend Engineering) from 3 Cobalt Bar and 1 Crystallized Water, 2 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Volatile Blasting Trigger for 30 gold96 silver, against 15 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 3 other recipes (3 Engineering); the most per craft: Explosive Decoy (Engineering, 3 per craft), Box of Bombs (Engineering, 1 per craft) and Global Thermal Sapper Charge (Engineering, 1 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Cobalt Frag Bomb cost 59 gold. Most of that is Handful of Cobalt Bolts - 2 at 22 gold each, 44 gold, 74.6% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 62 gold10 silver per craft, 20 gold70 silver per item at 3 items a craft - 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.

Other recipes that use Handful of Cobalt Bolts

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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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