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BlacksmithingKhaz Algar Blacksmithing
Core Alloy
Reagent cost, the crafted item's lowest listed price and the estimated profit at that price, from current US Auction House listings - recalculated every snapshot.
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 27 gold52 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 64 gold10 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 38 gold50 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 1 gold92 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −27 gold52 silver (-43%)
- Evidence: 82 current listings holding 486 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: Core 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.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Blacksmithing
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Khaz Algar Blacksmithing
- Item level
- 70
- Reagent slots
- 2
- Cast time
- 3.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
10Bismuth6 gold29 silver
8Echoing Flux15 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bismuth Metal & Stone · 22,582 on the Auction House | 10 | 6 gold29 silver | 62 gold90 silver | 98% |
| Echoing Flux Metal & Stone · 15,729 on the Auction House | 8 | 15 silver | 1 gold20 silver | 2% |
| Total per craft | 64 gold10 silver | 100% |
About Core Alloy
One craft takes 10 Bismuth and 8 Echoing Flux. Core Alloy is itself a reagent in 59 other recipes (Blacksmithing, Inscription, Enchanting and Engineering).
- Recipe category
- Smelting (Khaz Algar Plans)
- Skill-up colours (Khaz Algar Blacksmithing skill)
- Orange below 5 · Yellow 5 to 9 · Green 10 to 14 · Grey 15 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Core Alloy tooltip
More Smelting recipes (Khaz Algar Plans)
Core Alloy is a reagent in
- Adjustable FrameworkBlacksmithing
- Algari Competitor's AxeBlacksmithing
- Algari Competitor's DaggerBlacksmithing
- Algari Competitor's GreatswordBlacksmithing
- Algari Competitor's PickaxeBlacksmithing
- Algari Competitor's Plate ArmguardsBlacksmithing
- Algari Competitor's Plate BreastplateBlacksmithing
- Algari Competitor's Plate GauntletsBlacksmithing
- Algari Competitor's Plate GreavesBlacksmithing
- Algari Competitor's Plate HelmBlacksmithing
- Algari Competitor's Plate PauldronsBlacksmithing
- Algari Competitor's Plate SabatonsBlacksmithing
and 47 more recipes.
Core Alloy quality ranks
Core 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 | Core Alloy | 38 gold50 silver | 82 listings, 486 units |
| Rank 2 | Core Alloy | 40 gold61 silver | 71 listings, 1,265 units |
| Rank 3 | Core Alloy | 80 gold99 silver | 18 listings, 265 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.
Core Alloy: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 14% below its 30-day median.
- Now
- 38 gold50 silver
- 30-day low
- 10 gold50 silver Sep 14
- 30-day high
- 96 gold35 silver Sep 1
- 30-day median
- 45 gold
- 7-day median
- 46 gold
- Hourly snapshots
- 686
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Bismuth. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 6 gold29 silver, rank 2 7 gold and rank 3 12 gold. Also a required reagent in 26 other recipes (11 Blacksmithing, 6 Engineering, 4 Jewelcrafting and 4 Cooking); Remembrance Stone takes the most, 50 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: Charged Alloy (Blacksmithing, 5 per craft), Ironclaw Alloy (Blacksmithing, 5 per craft) and Sanctified Alloy (Blacksmithing, 5 per craft).
More Khaz Algar Blacksmithing recipes in the same skill range
- Adjustable FrameworkFrameworks, learn at 1, grey at 60
- Algari Competitor's AxeCompetitor's Plate (PvP), learn at 1, grey at 70
- Algari Competitor's DaggerCompetitor's Plate (PvP), learn at 1, grey at 70
- Algari Competitor's GreatswordCompetitor's Plate (PvP), learn at 1, grey at 70
- Algari Competitor's PickaxeCompetitor's Plate (PvP), learn at 1, grey at 70
- Algari Competitor's Plate ArmguardsCompetitor's Plate (PvP), learn at 1, grey at 70
- Algari Competitor's Plate BreastplateCompetitor's Plate (PvP), learn at 1, grey at 70
- Algari Competitor's Plate GauntletsCompetitor's Plate (PvP), learn at 1, grey at 70
- Algari Competitor's Plate GreavesCompetitor's Plate (PvP), learn at 1, grey at 70
- Algari Competitor's Plate HelmCompetitor's Plate (PvP), learn at 1, grey at 70
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Core Alloy cost 64 gold10 silver. Most of that is Bismuth - 10 at 6 gold29 silver each, 62 gold90 silver, 98.1% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 67 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 38 gold50 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −25 gold60 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 1 gold92 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 27 gold52 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -42.9% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 486 units across 82 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 →
Other recipes that use Bismuth
- Coreforged Repair HammerBlacksmithing
- Coreforged Skeleton KeyBlacksmithing
- Dredger's Developed DefenderBlacksmithing
- Dredger's Developed GauntletsBlacksmithing
- Dredger's Developed GreatbeltBlacksmithing
- Dredger's Developed HelmBlacksmithing
- Dredger's Developed LegplatesBlacksmithing
- Dredger's Developed PauldronsBlacksmithing
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