Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 57 gold29 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 57 gold56 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price (each): 7 silver
Items per craft: 4
Listed value of one craft: 28 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 1 silver40 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price: −57 gold29 silver (-100%)

Evidence: 19 current listings holding 806 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 4 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: Classic Engineering
Item level: 20
Reagent slots: 3
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Hi-Explosive Bomb7 silver

Reagents

2Mithril Casing18 gold77 silver
1Unstable Trigger15 gold36 silver
2Solid Blasting Powder2 gold33 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Mithril Casing Parts · 668 on the Auction House · crafted by Mithril Casing (Engineering)	2	18 gold77 silver	37 gold54 silver	65%
Unstable Trigger Parts · 18,614 on the Auction House · crafted by Unstable Trigger (Engineering)	1	15 gold36 silver	15 gold36 silver	27%
Solid Blasting Powder Parts · 8,381 on the Auction House · crafted by Solid Blasting Powder (Engineering)	2	2 gold33 silver	4 gold66 silver	8%
Total per craft			57 gold56 silver	100%

About Hi-Explosive Bomb

One craft takes 2 Mithril Casing, 1 Unstable Trigger and 2 Solid Blasting Powder.

Recipe category: Explosives (Engineering)
Skill-up colours (Classic Engineering skill): Orange below 235 · Yellow 235 to 254 · Green 255 to 274 · Grey 275 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Hi-Explosive Bomb tooltip

Hi-Explosive Bomb

Item Level 20

Consumable

Use: Inflicts Fire damage and incapacitates targets in a 3 yard radius for 3 sec. Any damage will break the effect.

Sell price: 7s 50c

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Hi-Explosive Bomb: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing sits at 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: 8 silver
30-day low: 5 silver Sep 17
30-day high: 25,000 gold Sep 2
30-day median: 8 silver
7-day median: 8 silver
Hourly snapshots: 686

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

Where the reagents come from

Mithril Casing. Made with Mithril Casing (Engineering, Classic Engineering) from 3 Mithril Bar. At lowest listed prices that makes one Mithril Casing for 21 gold, against 18 gold77 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 10 other recipes (10 Engineering); Goblin Bomb Dispenser takes the most, 2 per craft.

Unstable Trigger. Made with Unstable Trigger (Engineering, Classic Engineering) from 1 Mithril Bar, 1 Mageweave Cloth and 1 Solid Blasting Powder. At lowest listed prices that makes one Unstable Trigger for 9 gold42 silver, against 15 gold36 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 18 other recipes (18 Engineering); the most per craft: Replaced Servo Arm (Engineering, 20 per craft), Firework Launcher (Engineering, 1 per craft), Gnomish Death Ray (Engineering, 1 per craft), Gnomish Harm Prevention Belt (Engineering, 1 per craft) and Gnomish Shrink Ray (Engineering, 1 per craft).

Solid Blasting Powder. Made with Solid Blasting Powder (Engineering, Classic Engineering) from 2 Solid Stone. At lowest listed prices that makes one Solid Blasting Powder for 20 silver, against 2 gold33 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 16 other recipes (16 Engineering); the most per craft: Gnomish Rocket Boots (Engineering, 8 per craft), Goblin Mortar (Engineering, 5 per craft), Goblin Bomb Dispenser (Engineering, 4 per craft), Parachute Cloak (Engineering, 4 per craft) and Goblin Sapper Charge (Engineering, 3 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Hi-Explosive Bomb cost 57 gold56 silver. Most of that is Mithril Casing - 2 at 18 gold77 silver each, 37 gold54 silver, 65.2% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 60 gold58 silver per craft, 15 gold14 silver per item at 4 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 7 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −57 gold28 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 1 silver40 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 57 gold29 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -99.5% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 806 units across 19 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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