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Gunpowder Charge

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)
107 gold10 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
Items per craft
5
Listed value of one craft
Auction House cut (5%)
Estimated profit at that listed price
  • Items per craft: the game’s spell data creates 5 per craft, so the listed value of one craft is that many times the lowest listed price.
Last verifiedAuction HouseUS region

Recipe facts

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

Crafts

Reagents

Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Leystone Ore
Metal & Stone · 482,909 on the Auction House
29 gold18 gold17%
Oversized Blasting Cap
Parts · 6,712 on the Auction House
302 gold97 silver89 gold10 silver83%
Total per craft107 gold10 silver100%

About Gunpowder Charge

One craft takes 2 Leystone Ore and 30 Oversized Blasting Cap.

Recipe category
Combat Tools (Legion Engineering)
Skill-up colours (Legion Engineering skill)
Orange below 40 · Yellow 40 to 49 · Green 50 to 59 · Grey 60 and up
Skill points per craft
1

Gunpowder Charge tooltip

Gunpowder Charge
Item Level 32
Consumable
Requires Level 39
Use: Gunpowder Charge
Sell price: 7s 50c

Other ranks of this recipe

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Gunpowder Charge: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 7.9 times 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
95 silver
30-day low
9 silver Sep 6
30-day high
45,099 gold Sep 16
30-day median
12 silver
7-day median
96 silver
Hourly snapshots
680

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

Where the reagents come from

Leystone Ore. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 35 other recipes (14 Engineering, 14 Blacksmithing, 2 Tailoring and 2 Leatherworking); Intra-Dalaran Wormhole Generator takes the most, 150 per craft.

Oversized Blasting Cap. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 6 other recipes (6 Engineering); the most per craft: Gunpowder Charge (Engineering, 30 per craft), Reaves Module: Fireworks Display Mode (Engineering, 30 per craft), Trigger (Engineering, 20 per craft), Failed Failure Detection Pylon (Engineering, 15 per craft) and Auto-Hammer (Engineering, 10 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Gunpowder Charge cost 107 gold10 silver. Most of that is Oversized Blasting Cap - 30 at 2 gold97 silver each, 89 gold10 silver, 83.2% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 112 gold73 silver per craft, 22 gold54 silver per item at 5 items a craft - 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 Leystone Ore

Guides and routes on this site that cover Gunpowder Charge.

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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