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Explosive Decoy
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 107 gold73 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 111 gold30 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 75 silver
- Items per craft
- 5
- Listed value of one craft
- 3 gold75 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 18 silver75 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −107 gold73 silver (-97%)
- Evidence: 36 current listings holding 937 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
- Outlier: the crafted item’s lowest listing is 3.9 times its 30-day median of 19 silver, so this estimate rests on a listing far above its usual level.
- Items per craft: the game’s spell data creates 5 per craft, so the listed value of one craft is that many times the lowest listed price.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Engineering
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Northrend Engineering
- Item level
- 30
- Reagent slots
- 2
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
1Frostweave Cloth18 silver
3Volatile Blasting Trigger37 gold4 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frostweave Cloth Cloth · 28,483 on the Auction House | 1 | 18 silver | 18 silver | 0% |
| Volatile Blasting Trigger Parts · 1,841 on the Auction House · crafted by Volatile Blasting Trigger (Engineering) | 3 | 37 gold4 silver | 111 gold12 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 111 gold30 silver | 100% |
About Explosive Decoy
One craft takes 1 Frostweave Cloth and 3 Volatile Blasting Trigger.
- Recipe category
- Explosives (Northrend Engineering)
- Skill-up colours (Northrend Engineering skill)
- Orange below 10 · Yellow 10 to 14 · Green 15 to 19 · Grey 20 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Explosive Decoy tooltip
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Explosive Decoy: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 3.9 times 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
- 75 silver
- 30-day low
- 1 silver Sep 19
- 30-day high
- 13 gold Sep 16
- 30-day median
- 19 silver
- 7-day median
- 99 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 680
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Frostweave Cloth. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 7 other recipes (7 Tailoring); Frostweave Net takes the most, 6 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 35 gold44 silver, against 37 gold4 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 3 other recipes (3 Engineering); the most per craft: Box of Bombs (Engineering, 1 per craft), Cobalt Frag Bomb (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 Explosive Decoy cost 111 gold30 silver. Most of that is Volatile Blasting Trigger - 3 at 37 gold4 silver each, 111 gold12 silver, 99.8% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 117 gold15 silver per craft, 23 gold43 silver per item at 5 items a craft - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 75 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −107 gold55 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 18 silver75 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 107 gold73 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -96.8% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 937 units across 36 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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