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Gold Power Core
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 14 gold59 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 8 gold75 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 8 gold19 silver
- Items per craft
- 3
- Listed value of one craft
- 24 gold57 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 1 gold22 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 14 gold59 silver (+167%)
- Evidence: 30 current listings holding 1,368 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 3 per craft, so the listed value of one craft is that many times the lowest listed price.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Engineering
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Classic Engineering
- Item level
- 10
- Reagent slots
- 1
- Cast time
- 1.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
1Gold Bar8 gold75 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Bar Metal & Stone · 3,439 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Gold (Mining) · crafted by Transmute: Iron to Gold (Alchemy) | 1 | 8 gold75 silver | 8 gold75 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 8 gold75 silver | 100% |
About Gold Power Core
One craft takes 1 Gold Bar. Gold Power Core is itself a reagent in 11 other recipes (Engineering).
- Recipe category
- Parts (Engineering)
- Skill-up colours (Classic Engineering skill)
- Orange below 150 · Yellow 150 to 169 · Green 170 to 189 · Grey 190 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Gold Power Core tooltip
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- Bronze Tubeyellow 115, grey 155
- Whirring Bronze Gizmoyellow 125, grey 175
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Gold Power Core is a reagent in
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- Goblin MortarEngineering
- GyrochronatomEngineering
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- Steam Tonk ControllerEngineering
- Tranquil Mechanical YetiEngineering
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Gold Power Core: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 64% above 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
- 8 gold19 silver
- 30-day low
- 5 silver Sep 2
- 30-day high
- 1,000 gold Sep 3
- 30-day median
- 5 gold
- 7-day median
- 4 gold
- Hourly snapshots
- 684
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Gold Bar. Made with Smelt Gold (Mining, Classic Mining) from 1 
Gold Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Gold Bar for 8 gold36 silver, against 8 gold75 silver listed. Made with Transmute: Iron to Gold (Alchemy, Classic Alchemy) from 1 
Iron Bar. At lowest listed prices that makes one Gold Bar for 5 gold73 silver, against 8 gold75 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 33 other recipes (21 Blacksmithing, 6 Jewelcrafting, 4 Tailoring and 1 Inscription); Blade of Unholy Might takes the most, 40 per craft.
More Classic Engineering recipes in the same skill range
- Accurate ScopeScopes, learn at 1, grey at 220
- Advanced Target DummyDevices, learn at 1, grey at 225
- Aquadynamic Fish AttractorDevices, learn at 1, grey at 170
- Arcane BombExplosives, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Arcanite DragonlingDevices, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Arclight SpannerTools, learn at 1, grey at 90
- Big Bronze BombExplosives, learn at 1, grey at 190
- Big Iron BombExplosives, learn at 1, grey at 230
- Biznicks 247x128 AccurascopeScopes, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Bloodvine GogglesGoggles, learn at 1, grey at 300
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Gold Power Core cost 8 gold75 silver.
Break-even is 9 gold21 silver per craft, 3 gold7 silver per item at 3 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 8 gold19 silver, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 15 gold82 silver; the Auction House would keep 1 gold22 silver of a sale, leaving 14 gold59 silver. That is an estimated 166.8% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 7.8% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 1,368 units across 30 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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