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Handful of Cobalt Bolts
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 2 gold2 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 47 gold70 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 26 gold17 silver
- Items per craft
- 2
- Listed value of one craft
- 52 gold34 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 2 gold61 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 2 gold2 silver (+4%)
- Evidence: 18 current listings holding 2,385 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 2 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
- Northrend Engineering
- Item level
- 20
- Reagent slots
- 1
- Cast time
- 1.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
2Cobalt Bar23 gold85 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cobalt Bar Metal & Stone · 24,717 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Cobalt (Mining) | 2 | 23 gold85 silver | 47 gold70 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 47 gold70 silver | 100% |
About Handful of Cobalt Bolts
One craft takes 2 Cobalt Bar. It is learned automatically with Northrend Engineering. Handful of Cobalt Bolts is itself a reagent in 13 other recipes (Engineering).
- Recipe category
- Reagents (Northrend Engineering)
- Skill-up colours (Northrend Engineering skill)
- Yellow 1 to 2 · Green 3 to 4 · Grey 5 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
- How it is learned
- Automatically with Northrend Engineering
Handful of Cobalt Bolts tooltip
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Handful of Cobalt Bolts: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 13% above its 30-day median.
- Now
- 26 gold17 silver
- 30-day low
- 7 gold Sep 8
- 30-day high
- 28 gold30 silver Aug 28
- 30-day median
- 23 gold22 silver
- 7-day median
- 26 gold17 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 676
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 22 gold, against 23 gold85 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.
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 1 reagent for one craft of Handful of Cobalt Bolts cost 47 gold70 silver.
Break-even is 50 gold21 silver per craft, 25 gold10 silver per item at 2 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 26 gold17 silver, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 4 gold64 silver; the Auction House would keep 2 gold61 silver of a sale, leaving 2 gold2 silver. That is an estimated 4.2% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 56.4% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 2,385 units across 18 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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