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Lifelike Mechanical Toad
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
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 121 gold53 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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Recipe facts
- Profession
- Engineering
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Classic Engineering
- Item level
- 1
- Reagent slots
- 4
- Cast time
- 3.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
1Living Essence48 gold97 silver
4Thorium Widget15 gold
1Gold Power Core8 gold19 silver
1Rugged Leather4 gold37 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Living Essence Elemental · 6,373 on the Auction House · crafted by Transmute: Earth to Life (Alchemy) | 1 | 48 gold97 silver | 48 gold97 silver | 40% |
| Thorium Widget Parts · 14,176 on the Auction House · crafted by Thorium Widget (Engineering) | 4 | 15 gold | 60 gold | 49% |
| Gold Power Core Parts · 1,368 on the Auction House · crafted by Gold Power Core (Engineering) | 1 | 8 gold19 silver | 8 gold19 silver | 7% |
| Rugged Leather Leather · 12,179 on the Auction House · crafted by Rugged Leather (Leatherworking) | 1 | 4 gold37 silver | 4 gold37 silver | 4% |
| Total per craft | 121 gold53 silver | 100% |
About Lifelike Mechanical Toad
One craft takes 1 Living Essence, 4 Thorium Widget, 1 Gold Power Core and 1 Rugged Leather. It is taught by Schematic: Lifelike Mechanical Toad, which needs Classic Engineering 265.
- Recipe category
- Devices (Engineering)
- Skill-up colours (Classic Engineering skill)
- Orange below 285 · Yellow 285 to 291 · Green 292 to 299 · Grey 300 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Lifelike Mechanical Toad tooltip
How to learn Lifelike Mechanical Toad
Schematic: Lifelike Mechanical Toad
- Teaches
- Teaches you how to make a Lifelike Mechanical Toad.
- Requires
- Classic Engineering (265)
- Auction House
- listed on 42 US realms, cheapest 4,999 gold99 silver, 86 for sale
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Where the reagents come from
Living Essence. Made with Transmute: Earth to Life (Alchemy, Classic Alchemy) from 1 
Essence of Earth. At lowest listed prices that makes one Living Essence for 79 silver, against 48 gold97 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 36 other recipes (17 Leatherworking, 7 Blacksmithing, 6 Tailoring and 2 Engineering); Force Reactive Disk takes the most, 12 per craft.
Thorium Widget. Made with Thorium Widget (Engineering, Classic Engineering) from 3 
Thorium Bar and 1 
Runecloth. At lowest listed prices that makes one Thorium Widget for 11 gold95 silver, against 15 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 13 other recipes (13 Engineering); the most per craft: Dark Iron Table Saw (Engineering, 6 per craft), Gyrofreeze Ice Reflector (Engineering, 6 per craft), High-powered Flashlight (Engineering, 4 per craft), Tranquil Mechanical Yeti (Engineering, 4 per craft) and Skullstone Bludgeon (Engineering, 3 per craft).
Gold Power Core. Made with Gold Power Core (Engineering, Classic Engineering) from 1 
Gold Bar, 3 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Gold Power Core for 2 gold91 silver, against 8 gold19 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 10 other recipes (10 Engineering); the most per craft: Gnomish Goggles (Engineering, 2 per craft), Crashin' Thrashin' Robot (Engineering, 1 per craft), Gnomish Battle Chicken (Engineering, 1 per craft), Gnomish Mind Control Cap (Engineering, 1 per craft) and Goblin Mortar (Engineering, 1 per craft).
Rugged Leather. Made with Rugged Leather (Leatherworking, Classic Leatherworking) from 6 
Thick Leather. At lowest listed prices that makes one Rugged Leather for 23 gold94 silver, against 4 gold37 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 105 other recipes (78 Leatherworking, 13 Blacksmithing, 7 Tailoring and 6 Engineering); the most per craft: Onyxia Scale Breastplate (Leatherworking, 40 per craft), Red Dragonscale Breastplate (Leatherworking, 40 per craft), Sandstalker Breastplate (Leatherworking, 40 per craft), Spitfire Breastplate (Leatherworking, 40 per craft) and Ironfeather Breastplate (Leatherworking, 35 per craft).
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Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 4 reagents for one craft of Lifelike Mechanical Toad cost 121 gold53 silver. Most of that is Thorium Widget - 4 at 15 gold each, 60 gold, 49.4% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 127 gold92 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.
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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Data notes
- No Auction House price for the crafted item - output value unknown (it may be soulbound/BoE gear or an untracked item).