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High-Explosive Gunpowder
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 7 gold59 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 13 gold74 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 11 gold23 silver
- Items per craft
- 2
- Listed value of one craft
- 22 gold46 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 1 gold12 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 7 gold59 silver (+55%)
- Evidence: 21 current listings holding 3,270 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
- Pandaria Engineering
- Item level
- 30
- Reagent slots
- 1
- Cast time
- 1.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
1Ghost Iron Bar13 gold74 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ghost Iron Bar Metal & Stone · 20,799 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Ghost Iron (Mining) | 1 | 13 gold74 silver | 13 gold74 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 13 gold74 silver | 100% |
About High-Explosive Gunpowder
One craft takes 1 Ghost Iron Bar. It is learned automatically with Pandaria Engineering. High-Explosive Gunpowder is itself a reagent in 18 other recipes (Engineering and Blacksmithing).
- Recipe category
- Reagents (Pandaria Engineering)
- Skill-up colours (Pandaria Engineering skill)
- Yellow 1 to 12 · Green 13 to 24 · Grey 25 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
- How it is learned
- Automatically with Pandaria Engineering
High-Explosive Gunpowder tooltip
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High-Explosive Gunpowder: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 5% below its 30-day median.
- Now
- 11 gold20 silver
- 30-day low
- 4 gold55 silver Sep 9
- 30-day high
- 19 gold50 silver Aug 22
- 30-day median
- 11 gold80 silver
- 7-day median
- 7 gold45 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 681
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Ghost Iron Bar. Made with Smelt Ghost Iron (Mining, Pandaria Mining) from 2 
Ghost Iron Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Ghost Iron Bar for 11 gold12 silver, against 13 gold74 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 158 other recipes (140 Blacksmithing, 12 Engineering, 2 Inscription and 2 Jewelcrafting); Crafted Malevolent Gladiator's Barrier takes the most, 20 per craft.
More Pandaria Engineering recipes in the same skill range
- Advanced Refrigeration UnitDevices, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Agile Retinal ArmorGoggles, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Autumn Flower FireworkFireworks, learn at 1, grey at 25
- Big Game HunterGuns, learn at 1, grey at 50
- Blingtron 4000Devices, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Camouflage Retinal ArmorGoggles, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Celestial FireworkFireworks, learn at 1, grey at 25
- Deadly Retinal ArmorGoggles, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Depleted-Kyparium RocketMounts, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Energized Retinal ArmorGoggles, learn at 1, grey at 75
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of High-Explosive Gunpowder cost 13 gold74 silver.
Break-even is 14 gold46 silver per craft, 7 gold23 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 11 gold23 silver, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 8 gold72 silver; the Auction House would keep 1 gold12 silver of a sale, leaving 7 gold59 silver. That is an estimated 55.3% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 12.9% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 3,270 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 →
Other recipes that use Ghost Iron Bar
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- Contender's Revenant BootsBlacksmithing
- Contender's Revenant BracersBlacksmithing
- Contender's Revenant BreastplateBlacksmithing
- Contender's Revenant GauntletsBlacksmithing
- Contender's Revenant HelmBlacksmithing
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