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EngineeringCataclysm Engineering
Finely-Tuned Throat Needler
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
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 1,052 gold
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- …
- Auction House cut (5%)
- …
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- …
- Not included: the recipe also accepts 1 optional reagent slot, which are not required and are left out of the cost.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Engineering
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Cataclysm Engineering
- Item level
- 37
- Reagent slots
- 3
- Cast time
- 3 sec
Crafts
Reagents
4Obsidium Bar25 gold
2Electrified Ether16 gold
5Hardened Elementium Bar184 gold
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Obsidium Bar Metal & Stone · 11,598 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Obsidium (Mining) | 4 | 25 gold | 100 gold | 10% |
| Electrified Ether Parts · 1,102 on the Auction House · crafted by Electrified Ether (Engineering) | 2 | 16 gold | 32 gold | 3% |
| Hardened Elementium Bar Metal & Stone · 4,355 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Hardened Elementium (Mining) | 5 | 184 gold | 920 gold | 87% |
| Total per craft | 1,052 gold | 100% |
About Finely-Tuned Throat Needler
One craft takes 4 Obsidium Bar, 2 Electrified Ether and 5 Hardened Elementium Bar.
- Recipe category
- Weapons (Cataclysm Engineering)
- Skill-up colours (Cataclysm Engineering skill)
- Orange below 75 · Grey 75 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Finely-Tuned Throat Needler tooltip
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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 17 gold60 silver, 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.
Electrified Ether. Made with Electrified Ether (Engineering, Cataclysm Engineering) from 2 
Volatile Air. Also a required reagent in 19 other recipes (19 Engineering); the most per craft: De-Weaponized Mechanical Companion (Engineering, 8 per craft), Elementium Dragonling (Engineering, 8 per craft), Overpowered Chicken Splitter (Engineering, 8 per craft), Personal World Destroyer (Engineering, 8 per craft) and Agile Bio-Optic Killshades (Engineering, 6 per craft).
Hardened Elementium Bar. Made with Smelt Hardened Elementium (Mining, Cataclysm Mining) from 10 
Elementium Bar and 4 
Volatile Earth. At lowest listed prices that makes one Hardened Elementium Bar for 163 gold92 silver, against 184 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 46 other recipes (29 Blacksmithing, 16 Engineering and 1 Enchanting); the most per craft: Overpowered Chicken Splitter (Engineering, 12 per craft), Emberforged Elementium Boots (Blacksmithing, 10 per craft), Eternal Elementium Handguards (Blacksmithing, 10 per craft), Fists of Fury (Blacksmithing, 10 per craft) and Foundations of Courage (Blacksmithing, 10 per craft).
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- Authentic Jr. Engineer GogglesGoggles, learn at 1, grey at 35
- Big DaddyExplosives, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Camouflage Bio-Optic KillshadesGoggles, learn at 1, grey at 75
- De-Weaponized Mechanical CompanionDevices, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Deadly Bio-Optic KillshadesGoggles, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Electrified EtherReagents, learn at 1, grey at 40
- Electrostatic CondenserDevices, learn at 1, grey at 30
- Elementium DragonlingDevices, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Elementium ToolboxDevices, learn at 1, grey at 75
3D Model
First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Finely-Tuned Throat Needler cost 1,052 gold. Most of that is Hardened Elementium Bar - 5 at 184 gold each, 920 gold, 87.5% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 1,107 gold36 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.
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 Obsidium Bar
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Data notes
- No Auction House price for the crafted item - output value unknown (it may be soulbound/BoE gear or an untracked item).