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Heat-Treated Spinning Lure

A Engineering recipe learned at Cataclysm Engineering 1 that crafts 2 Heat-Treated Spinning Lure from 3 reagents.

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Heat-Treated Spinning Lure40 silver
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Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 114 gold89 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
115 gold65 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
40 silver
Items per craft
2
Listed value of one craft
80 silver
Auction House cut (5%)
4 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price
−114 gold89 silver (-99%)
  • Evidence: 21 current listings holding 380 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 67% below its 30-day median of 1 gold22 silver, so this estimate rests on a listing far below 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 HouseUS region
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Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Handful of Obsidium Bolts
Parts · 6,592 on the Auction House · crafted by Handful of Obsidium Bolts (Engineering)		115 gold68 silver15 gold68 silver14%
Elementium Bar
Metal & Stone · 69,474 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Elementium (Mining)		421 gold50 silver86 gold74%
Volatile Fire
Elemental · 56,188 on the Auction House		113 gold97 silver13 gold97 silver12%
Total per craft115 gold65 silver100%

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)

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

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

The current lowest listing is 67% below 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
40 silver
30-day low
24 silver Oct 17
30-day high
2 gold55 silver Oct 6
30-day median
1 gold22 silver
7-day median
73 silver
Hourly snapshots
691

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 14 gold63 silver, against 15 gold68 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 gold4 silver, against 21 gold50 silver 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 115 gold65 silver. Most of that is Elementium Bar - 4 at 21 gold50 silver each, 86 gold, 74.4% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 121 gold73 silver per craft, 60 gold86 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 40 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −114 gold85 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 4 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 114 gold89 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -99.3% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 380 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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