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Handful of Obsidium 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 the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 8 gold39 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 49 gold98 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 14 gold59 silver
- Items per craft
- 3
- Listed value of one craft
- 43 gold77 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 2 gold18 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −8 gold39 silver (-17%)
- Evidence: 21 current listings holding 8,087 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
- Cataclysm Engineering
- Item level
- 25
- Reagent slots
- 1
- Cast time
- 1.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
2Obsidium Bar24 gold99 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Obsidium Bar Metal & Stone · 8,984 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Obsidium (Mining) | 2 | 24 gold99 silver | 49 gold98 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 49 gold98 silver | 100% |
About Handful of Obsidium Bolts
One craft takes 2 Obsidium Bar. It is learned automatically with Cataclysm Engineering. Handful of Obsidium Bolts is itself a reagent in 21 other recipes (Engineering).
- Recipe category
- Reagents (Cataclysm Engineering)
- Skill-up colours (Cataclysm Engineering skill)
- Orange below 10 · Yellow 10 to 16 · Green 17 to 24 · Grey 25 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
- How it is learned
- Automatically with Cataclysm Engineering
Handful of Obsidium Bolts tooltip
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Handful of Obsidium Bolts: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 25% below its 30-day median.
- Now
- 14 gold59 silver
- 30-day low
- 3 gold99 silver Sep 13
- 30-day high
- 25 gold Aug 23
- 30-day median
- 19 gold41 silver
- 7-day median
- 14 gold59 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
Obsidium Bar. Made with Smelt Obsidium (Mining, Cataclysm Mining) from 2 
Obsidium Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Obsidium Bar for 19 gold38 silver, against 24 gold99 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 19 other recipes (9 Engineering, 2 Blacksmithing, 2 Leatherworking and 2 Jewelcrafting); Standing Smoke Lamp takes the most, 20 per craft.
More Cataclysm Engineering recipes in the same skill range
- Agile Bio-Optic KillshadesGoggles, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Authentic Jr. Engineer GogglesGoggles, learn at 1, grey at 35
- Big DaddyExplosives, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Camouflage Bio-Optic KillshadesGoggles, learn at 1, grey at 75
- De-Weaponized Mechanical CompanionDevices, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Deadly Bio-Optic KillshadesGoggles, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Electrostatic CondenserDevices, learn at 1, grey at 30
- Elementium DragonlingDevices, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Elementium ToolboxDevices, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Energized Bio-Optic KillshadesGoggles, learn at 1, grey at 75
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Handful of Obsidium Bolts cost 49 gold98 silver.
Break-even is 52 gold61 silver per craft, 17 gold53 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 14 gold59 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −6 gold21 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 2 gold18 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 8 gold39 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -16.8% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 8,087 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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