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EngineeringNorthrend Engineering
Froststeel Tube
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 one craft shows an estimated profit of 1 gold4 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 192 gold76 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 204 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 10 gold20 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 1 gold4 silver (+0%)
- Evidence: 21 current listings holding 155 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Engineering
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Northrend Engineering
- Item level
- 20
- Reagent slots
- 2
- Cast time
- 1.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
8Cobalt Bar23 gold72 silver
1Crystallized Water3 gold
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cobalt Bar Metal & Stone · 14,012 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Cobalt (Mining) | 8 | 23 gold72 silver | 189 gold76 silver | 98% |
| Crystallized Water Elemental · 2,563 on the Auction House | 1 | 3 gold | 3 gold | 2% |
| Total per craft | 192 gold76 silver | 100% |
About Froststeel Tube
One craft takes 8 Cobalt Bar and 1 Crystallized Water. Froststeel Tube is itself a reagent in 6 other recipes (Engineering).
- Recipe category
- Reagents (Northrend Engineering)
- Skill-up colours (Northrend Engineering skill)
- Orange below 20 · Yellow 20 to 24 · Green 25 to 29 · Grey 30 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Froststeel Tube tooltip
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Froststeel Tube is a reagent in
Froststeel Tube: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 2% above its 30-day median.
- Now
- 204 gold
- 30-day low
- 35 gold Aug 31
- 30-day high
- 300 gold33 silver Sep 12
- 30-day median
- 200 gold
- 7-day median
- 204 gold7 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 689
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Cobalt Bar. Made with Smelt Cobalt (Mining, Northrend Mining) from 1 
Cobalt Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Cobalt Bar for 20 gold47 silver, against 23 gold72 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 48 other recipes (40 Blacksmithing, 5 Engineering, 2 Jewelcrafting and 1 Inscription); Honed Cobalt Cleaver takes the most, 12 per craft.
Crystallized Water. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 19 other recipes (8 Blacksmithing, 6 Leatherworking, 3 Engineering and 1 Alchemy); the most per craft: Black Chitinguard Boots (Leatherworking, 6 per craft), Cloak of Tormented Skies (Leatherworking, 5 per craft), Dark Frostscale Leggings (Leatherworking, 5 per craft), Dark Nerubian Leggings (Leatherworking, 5 per craft) and Dark Frostscale Breastplate (Leatherworking, 4 per craft).
More Northrend Engineering recipes in the same skill range
- Armor Plated Combat ShotgunWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Armored Titanium GogglesGoggles, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Bladed PickaxeDevices, learn at 1, grey at 15
- Box of BombsExplosives, learn at 1, grey at 45
- Charged Titanium SpecsGoggles, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Cobalt Frag BombExplosives, learn at 1, grey at 15
- Diamond-cut Refractor ScopeScopes, learn at 1, grey at 40
- Electroflux Sight EnhancersGoggles, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Explosive DecoyExplosives, learn at 1, grey at 20
- Global Thermal Sapper ChargeExplosives, learn at 1, grey at 60
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Froststeel Tube cost 192 gold76 silver. Most of that is Cobalt Bar - 8 at 23 gold72 silver each, 189 gold76 silver, 98.4% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 202 gold90 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 204 gold, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 11 gold24 silver; the Auction House would keep 10 gold20 silver of a sale, leaving 1 gold4 silver. That is an estimated 0.5% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 90.7% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 155 units across 21 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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