Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 72 gold98 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 97 gold51 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price (each): 12 gold91 silver
Items per craft: 2
Listed value of one craft: 25 gold82 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 1 gold29 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: −72 gold98 silver (-75%)

Evidence: 23 current listings holding 358 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Outlier: the crafted item’s lowest listing is 3.6 times its 30-day median of 3 gold54 silver, so this estimate rests on a listing far above its usual level.
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.

Verified priceAuction House1 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Engineering
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Cataclysm Engineering
Item level: 30
Reagent slots: 3
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Heat-Treated Spinning Lure12 gold

Reagents

1Handful of Obsidium Bolts14 gold50 silver
4Elementium Bar18 gold
1Volatile Fire11 gold1 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Handful of Obsidium Bolts Parts · 4,905 on the Auction House · crafted by Handful of Obsidium Bolts (Engineering)	1	14 gold50 silver	14 gold50 silver	15%
Elementium Bar Metal & Stone · 11,516 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Elementium (Mining)	4	18 gold	72 gold	74%
Volatile Fire Elemental · 50,404 on the Auction House	1	11 gold1 silver	11 gold1 silver	11%
Total per craft			97 gold51 silver	100%

About Heat-Treated Spinning Lure

One craft takes 1 Handful of Obsidium Bolts, 4 Elementium Bar and 1 Volatile Fire.

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

Heat-Treated Spinning Lure tooltip

Heat-Treated Spinning Lure

Item Level 30

Consumable

Use: When applied to your fishing pole, increases Fishing by 10 for 15 minutes.

“Even works in lava!”

Sell price: 62c

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Heat-Treated Spinning Lure: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 3.6 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: 12 gold91 silver
30-day low: 73 silver Sep 7
30-day high: 44,090 gold Sep 19
30-day median: 3 gold54 silver
7-day median: 7 gold99 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

Handful of Obsidium Bolts. Made with Handful of Obsidium Bolts (Engineering, Cataclysm Engineering) from 2 Obsidium Bar, 3 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Handful of Obsidium Bolts for 16 gold66 silver, against 14 gold50 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 21 other recipes (21 Engineering); Safety Catch Removal Kit takes the most, 10 per craft.

Elementium Bar. Made with Smelt Elementium (Mining, Cataclysm Mining) from 2 Elementium Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Elementium Bar for 17 gold90 silver, against 18 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 55 other recipes (34 Blacksmithing, 12 Jewelcrafting, 5 Engineering and 2 Inscription); the most per craft: Fire-Etched Dagger (Blacksmithing, 20 per craft), Lure Master Tackle Box (Engineering, 20 per craft), Stormforged Helm (Blacksmithing, 20 per craft), Elementium Dragonling (Engineering, 16 per craft) and Elementium Shield Spike (Blacksmithing, 15 per craft).

Volatile Fire. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 87 other recipes (35 Leatherworking, 23 Tailoring, 19 Blacksmithing and 4 Jewelcrafting); the most per craft: Eye of Many Deaths (Jewelcrafting, 75 per craft), Ring of Warring Elements (Jewelcrafting, 75 per craft), Jeweler's Ruby Monocle (Jewelcrafting, 50 per craft), Clutches of Evil (Leatherworking, 40 per craft) and Dragonfire Gloves (Leatherworking, 40 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Heat-Treated Spinning Lure cost 97 gold51 silver. Most of that is Elementium Bar - 4 at 18 gold each, 72 gold, 73.8% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 102 gold64 silver per craft, 51 gold32 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 12 gold91 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −71 gold69 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 1 gold29 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 72 gold98 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -74.8% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 358 units across 23 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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