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Explosive Decoy
A Engineering recipe learned at Northrend Engineering 1 that crafts 5 Explosive Decoy from 2 reagents.
Reagents
1Frostweave Cloth33 silver
3Volatile Blasting Trigger15 gold
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Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 44 gold80 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 45 gold33 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 11 silver
- Items per craft
- 5
- Listed value of one craft
- 55 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 2 silver75 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −44 gold80 silver (-99%)
- Evidence: 7 current listings holding 94 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
- 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.
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frostweave Cloth Cloth · 52,410 on the Auction House | 1 | 33 silver | 33 silver | 1% |
| Volatile Blasting Trigger Parts · 6,452 on the Auction House · crafted by Volatile Blasting Trigger (Engineering) | 3 | 15 gold | 45 gold | 99% |
| Total per craft | 45 gold33 silver | 100% |
About Explosive Decoy
One craft takes 1 Frostweave Cloth and 3 Volatile Blasting Trigger.
- Recipe category
- Explosives (Northrend Engineering)
Explosive Decoy tooltip
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 28 gold12 silver, against 15 gold 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 45 gold33 silver. Most of that is Volatile Blasting Trigger - 3 at 15 gold each, 45 gold, 99.3% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 47 gold71 silver per craft, 9 gold54 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 11 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −44 gold78 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 2 silver75 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 44 gold80 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -98.8% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 94 units across 7 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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