Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 14 gold91 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 15 gold6 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 15 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 75 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price: −14 gold91 silver (-99%)

Evidence: 11 current listings holding 116 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.

Verified priceAuction House1 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Engineering
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Classic Engineering
Item level: 13
Reagent slots: 4
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Explosive Sheep15 silver

Reagents

1Bronze Framework7 gold81 silver
1Whirring Bronze Gizmo5 gold99 silver
2Heavy Blasting Powder54 silver
2Wool Cloth9 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Bronze Framework Parts · 1,428 on the Auction House · crafted by Bronze Framework (Engineering)	1	7 gold81 silver	7 gold81 silver	52%
Whirring Bronze Gizmo Parts · 1,854 on the Auction House · crafted by Whirring Bronze Gizmo (Engineering)	1	5 gold99 silver	5 gold99 silver	40%
Heavy Blasting Powder Parts · 9,066 on the Auction House · crafted by Heavy Blasting Powder (Engineering)	2	54 silver	1 gold8 silver	7%
Wool Cloth Cloth · 82,586 on the Auction House	2	9 silver	18 silver	1%
Total per craft			15 gold6 silver	100%

About Explosive Sheep

One craft takes 1 Bronze Framework, 1 Whirring Bronze Gizmo, 2 Heavy Blasting Powder and 2 Wool Cloth.

Recipe category: Explosives (Engineering)
Skill-up colours (Classic Engineering skill): Orange below 175 · Yellow 175 to 186 · Green 187 to 199 · Grey 200 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Explosive Sheep tooltip

Explosive Sheep

Item Level 13

Consumable

Use: Summons an Explosive Sheep which will charge at a nearby enemy and explode for damage. Lasts for 3 min or until it explodes.

Sell price: 10s

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Explosive Sheep: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 25% 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: 15 silver
30-day low: 8 silver Sep 11
30-day high: 20 gold10 silver Sep 5
30-day median: 20 silver
7-day median: 19 silver
Hourly snapshots: 687

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

Where the reagents come from

Bronze Framework. Made with Bronze Framework (Engineering, Classic Engineering) from 2 Bronze Bar, 1 Medium Leather and 1 Wool Cloth. At lowest listed prices that makes one Bronze Framework for 12 gold77 silver, against 7 gold81 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 3 other recipes (3 Engineering); Advanced Target Dummy takes the most, 1 per craft.

Whirring Bronze Gizmo. Made with Whirring Bronze Gizmo (Engineering, Classic Engineering) from 2 Bronze Bar and 1 Wool Cloth. At lowest listed prices that makes one Whirring Bronze Gizmo for 10 gold9 silver, against 5 gold99 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 10 other recipes (10 Engineering); the most per craft: Skullstone Bludgeon (Engineering, 5 per craft), Discombobulator Ray (Engineering, 3 per craft), Moonsight Rifle (Engineering, 3 per craft), Goblin Jumper Cables (Engineering, 2 per craft) and Minor Recombobulator (Engineering, 2 per craft).

Heavy Blasting Powder. Made with Heavy Blasting Powder (Engineering, Classic Engineering) from 1 Heavy Stone. At lowest listed prices that makes one Heavy Blasting Powder for 22 silver, against 54 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 13 other recipes (13 Engineering); the most per craft: Portable Bronze Mortar (Engineering, 4 per craft), Big Iron Bomb (Engineering, 3 per craft), Goblin Land Mine (Engineering, 3 per craft), Big Bronze Bomb (Engineering, 2 per craft) and Heavy Dynamite (Engineering, 2 per craft).

Wool Cloth. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 12 other recipes (6 Engineering, 4 Tailoring and 2 Blacksmithing); the most per craft: Relic of the Past II (Tailoring, 5 per craft), Bolt of Woolen Cloth (Tailoring, 3 per craft), Heavy Wool Bandage (Tailoring, 2 per craft), Target Dummy (Engineering, 2 per craft) and Bronze Framework (Engineering, 1 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 4 reagents for one craft of Explosive Sheep cost 15 gold6 silver. Most of that is Bronze Framework - 1 at 7 gold81 silver each, 7 gold81 silver, 51.9% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 15 gold85 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 15 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −14 gold91 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 75 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 14 gold91 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -99.1% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 116 units across 11 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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