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Kickback 5000

A Engineering recipe learned at Cataclysm Engineering 1 that crafts Kickback 5000 from 5 reagents.

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Crafting estimate at current listings

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
3,529 gold21 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price
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Auction House cut (5%)
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Estimated profit at that listed price
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  • Not included: the recipe also accepts 1 optional reagent slot, which are not required and are left out of the cost.
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Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Hardened Elementium Bar
Metal & Stone · 2,401 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Hardened Elementium (Mining)
9190 gold1,710 gold48%
Truegold
Metal & Stone · 913 on the Auction House · crafted by Transmute: Truegold (Alchemy)
3598 gold1,794 gold51%
Hair Trigger
Parts · 674 on the Auction House
15 gold5 gold0%
Walnut Stock
Parts · 572 on the Auction House
117 gold17 gold0%
Chaos Orb
Other · 10,665 on the Auction House
13 gold21 silver3 gold21 silver0%
Total per craft3,529 gold21 silver100%

About Kickback 5000

One craft takes 9 Hardened Elementium Bar, 3 Truegold, 1 Hair Trigger, 1 Walnut Stock and 1 Chaos Orb.

Recipe category
Weapons (Cataclysm Engineering)

Kickback 5000 tooltip

Kickback 5000
Item Level 37
Binds when equipped
RangedWeapon
13 - 24 DamageSpeed 3.00
(6.2 damage per second)
+8 Agility
+12 Stamina
+8 Critical Strike
+8 Haste
Requires Level 32
Sell price: 15s

Where the reagents come from

Hardened Elementium Bar. Made with Smelt Hardened Elementium (Mining, Cataclysm Mining) from 10 Elementium Bar and 4 Volatile Earth. At lowest listed prices that makes one Hardened Elementium Bar for 268 gold, against 190 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 46 other recipes (29 Blacksmithing, 16 Engineering and 1 Enchanting); Overpowered Chicken Splitter takes the most, 12 per craft.

Truegold. Made with Transmute: Truegold (Alchemy, Cataclysm Alchemy) from 3 Pyrium Bar, 10 Volatile Fire, 10 Volatile Air and 10 Volatile Water. At lowest listed prices that makes one Truegold for 514 gold90 silver, against 598 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 40 other recipes (29 Blacksmithing, 9 Engineering, 1 Alchemy and 1 Jewelcrafting); the most per craft: Vial of the Sands (Alchemy, 12 per craft), Brainsplinter (Blacksmithing, 8 per craft), Elementium-Edged Scalper (Blacksmithing, 8 per craft), Extreme-Impact Hole Puncher (Engineering, 8 per craft) and Foundations of Courage (Blacksmithing, 8 per craft).

Hair Trigger. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 4 other recipes (4 Engineering); the most per craft: Big Game Hunter (Engineering, 1 per craft), Long-Range Trillium Sniper (Engineering, 1 per craft), Extreme-Impact Hole Puncher (Engineering, 1 per craft) and Mark "S" Boomstick (Engineering, 1 per craft).

Walnut Stock. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 5 other recipes (5 Engineering); the most per craft: Big Game Hunter (Engineering, 1 per craft), Extreme-Impact Hole Puncher (Engineering, 1 per craft), Armor Plated Combat Shotgun (Engineering, 1 per craft), Mark "S" Boomstick (Engineering, 1 per craft) and Nesingwary 4000 (Engineering, 1 per craft).

Chaos Orb. Drops from Hagara the Stormbinder in Dragon Soul. Also a required reagent in 75 other recipes (36 Blacksmithing, 26 Leatherworking, 9 Engineering and 2 Tailoring); the most per craft: Brainsplinter (Blacksmithing, 5 per craft), Elementium-Edged Scalper (Blacksmithing, 5 per craft), Extreme-Impact Hole Puncher (Engineering, 5 per craft), Lightforged Elementium Hammer (Blacksmithing, 5 per craft) and Masterwork Elementium Deathblade (Blacksmithing, 5 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 5 reagents for one craft of Kickback 5000 cost 3,529 gold21 silver. Most of that is Truegold - 3 at 598 gold each, 1,794 gold, 50.8% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 3,714 gold95 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item has no current Auction House listing to compare it against, so the estimate above is left unknown rather than guessed.

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Data notes

  • No Auction House price for the crafted item - output value unknown (it may be soulbound/BoE gear or an untracked item).
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