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Electrostatic Condenser

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.

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Crafting estimate at current listings

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
195 gold20 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price
Auction House cut (5%)
Estimated profit at that listed price
Verified priceAuction HouseUS region

Recipe facts

Profession
Engineering
Requires skill
1
Expansion tier
Cataclysm Engineering
Item level
32
Reagent slots
3
Cast time
2 sec

Crafts

Reagents

Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Obsidium Bar
Metal & Stone · 7,755 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Obsidium (Mining)
425 gold100 gold51%
Handful of Obsidium Bolts
Parts · 4,991 on the Auction House · crafted by Handful of Obsidium Bolts (Engineering)
614 gold50 silver87 gold45%
Volatile Earth
Elemental · 25,116 on the Auction House
42 gold5 silver8 gold20 silver4%
Total per craft195 gold20 silver100%

About Electrostatic Condenser

One craft takes 4 Obsidium Bar, 6 Handful of Obsidium Bolts and 4 Volatile Earth.

Recipe category
Devices (Cataclysm Engineering)
Skill-up colours (Cataclysm Engineering skill)
Orange below 25 · Yellow 25 to 26 · Green 27 to 29 · Grey 30 and up
Skill points per craft
1

Electrostatic Condenser tooltip

Electrostatic Condenser
Item Level 32
Binds when picked up
Consumable
Teaches: Allows a skilled engineer to occasionally collect Volatile Air while mining, skinning, or collecting herbs.
Sell price: 1g 12s

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Where the reagents come from

Obsidium Bar. Made with Smelt Obsidium (Mining, Cataclysm Mining) from 2 Obsidium Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Obsidium Bar for 20 gold, against 25 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 19 other recipes (9 Engineering, 2 Blacksmithing, 2 Leatherworking and 2 Jewelcrafting); Standing Smoke Lamp takes the most, 20 per craft.

Handful of Obsidium Bolts. Made with Handful of Obsidium Bolts (Engineering, Cataclysm Engineering) from 2 Obsidium Bar, 3 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Handful of Obsidium Bolts for 16 gold66 silver, against 14 gold50 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 21 other recipes (21 Engineering); the most per craft: Safety Catch Removal Kit (Engineering, 10 per craft), Gilnean Problem Solver (Engineering, 8 per craft), High-Powered Bolt Gun (Engineering, 8 per craft), Personal World Destroyer (Engineering, 8 per craft) and Agile Bio-Optic Killshades (Engineering, 6 per craft).

Volatile Earth. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 40 other recipes (17 Blacksmithing, 9 Leatherworking, 4 Jewelcrafting and 4 Enchanting); the most per craft: Elementium Guardian (Jewelcrafting, 75 per craft), Punisher's Band (Jewelcrafting, 75 per craft), Dragonkiller Tunic (Leatherworking, 50 per craft), Dream of Deepholm (Tailoring, 30 per craft) and Corded Viper Belt (Leatherworking, 25 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Electrostatic Condenser cost 195 gold20 silver. Most of that is Obsidium Bar - 4 at 25 gold each, 100 gold, 51.2% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 205 gold47 silver - 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 Obsidium Bar

Guides and routes on this site that cover Electrostatic Condenser.

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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