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Gnomish X-Ray Scope

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.

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Crafting estimate at current listings

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
458 gold12 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price
Auction House cut (5%)
Estimated profit at that listed price
Verified priceAuction HouseUS region

Recipe facts

Profession
Engineering
Requires skill
1
Expansion tier
Cataclysm Engineering
Item level
32
Reagent slots
2
Cast time
2 sec

Crafts

Reagents

Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Hardened Elementium Bar
Metal & Stone · 3,772 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Hardened Elementium (Mining)
2185 gold370 gold81%
Dream Emerald
Jewelcrafting · 2,222 on the Auction House · crafted by Transmute: Dream Emerald (Alchemy)
244 gold6 silver88 gold12 silver19%
Total per craft458 gold12 silver100%

About Gnomish X-Ray Scope

One craft takes 2 Hardened Elementium Bar and 2 Dream Emerald.

Recipe category
Scopes (Cataclysm Engineering)
Skill-up colours (Cataclysm Engineering skill)
Orange below 75 · Grey 75 and up
Skill points per craft
1

Gnomish X-Ray Scope tooltip

Gnomish X-Ray Scope
Item Level 32
Consumable
Requires Level 30
Use: Attaches a permanent scope to a bow or gun that sometimes increases ranged attack power for 10 sec when dealing damage with ranged attacks. Attaching this scope to a ranged weapon causes it to become soulbound.
Sell price: 2g 50s

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Gnomish X-Ray Scope: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 63% 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
75 gold
30-day low
20 gold97 silver Aug 30
30-day high
49,999 gold95 silver Sep 3
30-day median
200 gold8 silver
7-day median
100 gold
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

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 156 gold80 silver, against 185 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 46 other recipes (29 Blacksmithing, 16 Engineering and 1 Enchanting); Overpowered Chicken Splitter takes the most, 12 per craft.

Dream Emerald. Made with Transmute: Dream Emerald (Alchemy, Cataclysm Alchemy) from 3 Jasper and 3 Stormvine. At lowest listed prices that makes one Dream Emerald for 63 gold75 silver, against 44 gold6 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 17 other recipes (14 Jewelcrafting and 3 Engineering); the most per craft: Elementium Moebius Band (Jewelcrafting, 4 per craft), Agile Bio-Optic Killshades (Engineering, 2 per craft), Deadly Bio-Optic Killshades (Engineering, 2 per craft), Flintlocke's Woodchucker (Engineering, 2 per craft) and Rhinestone Sunglasses (Jewelcrafting, 2 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Gnomish X-Ray Scope cost 458 gold12 silver. Most of that is Hardened Elementium Bar - 2 at 185 gold each, 370 gold, 80.8% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 482 gold23 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.

Other recipes that use Hardened Elementium Bar

Guides and routes on this site that cover Gnomish X-Ray Scope.

Data notes

  • No Auction House price for the crafted item - output value unknown (it may be soulbound/BoE gear or an untracked item).
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