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Lightweight Retinal Armor
A Engineering recipe learned at Pandaria Engineering 1 that crafts Lightweight Retinal Armor from 3 reagents.
Reagents
6Living Steel529 gold75 silver
1River's Heart6 gold97 silver
6Ghost Iron Bolts25 gold72 silver
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Crafting estimate at current listings
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 3,339 gold79 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.
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Living Steel Metal & Stone · 1,338 on the Auction House · crafted by Riddle of Steel (Alchemy) · crafted by Transmute: Living Steel (Alchemy) | 6 | 529 gold75 silver | 3,178 gold50 silver | 95% |
| River's Heart Jewelcrafting · 1,220 on the Auction House · crafted by Transmute: River's Heart (Alchemy) | 1 | 6 gold97 silver | 6 gold97 silver | 0% |
| Ghost Iron Bolts Parts · 3,229 on the Auction House · crafted by Ghost Iron Bolts (Engineering) | 6 | 25 gold72 silver | 154 gold32 silver | 5% |
| Total per craft | 3,339 gold79 silver | 100% |
About Lightweight Retinal Armor
One craft takes 6 Living Steel, 1 River's Heart and 6 Ghost Iron Bolts.
- Recipe category
- Goggles (Pandaria Engineering)
Lightweight Retinal Armor tooltip
Where the reagents come from
Living Steel. Made with Riddle of Steel (Alchemy, Pandaria Alchemy) from 3 
Trillium Bar and 3 
Spirit of Harmony. At lowest listed prices that makes one Living Steel for 729 gold, against 529 gold75 silver listed. Made with Transmute: Living Steel (Alchemy, Pandaria Alchemy) from 6 Trillium Bar. At lowest listed prices that makes one Living Steel for 558 gold, against 529 gold75 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 57 other recipes (39 Blacksmithing, 13 Engineering, 4 Jewelcrafting and 1 Inscription); Sky Golem takes the most, 30 per craft.
River's Heart. Made with Transmute: River's Heart (Alchemy, Pandaria Alchemy) from 1 
Lapis Lazuli and 1 
Golden Lotus. At lowest listed prices that makes one River's Heart for 7 gold49 silver, against 6 gold97 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 12 other recipes (8 Jewelcrafting, 2 Enchanting and 2 Engineering); the most per craft: Sapphire Panther (Jewelcrafting, 20 per craft), River's Heart (Jewelcrafting, 3 per craft), Sapphire Cub (Jewelcrafting, 3 per craft), Reflection of the Sea (Jewelcrafting, 2 per craft) and Tome of Illusions: Secrets of the Shado-Pan (Enchanting, 2 per craft).
Ghost Iron Bolts. Made with Ghost Iron Bolts (Engineering, Pandaria Engineering) from 3 
Ghost Iron Bar, 2 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Ghost Iron Bolts for 17 gold92 silver, against 25 gold72 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 20 other recipes (19 Engineering and 1 Blacksmithing); the most per craft: Depleted-Kyparium Rocket (Engineering, 20 per craft), Geosynchronous World Spinner (Engineering, 20 per craft), Lord Blastington's Scope of Doom (Engineering, 18 per craft), Big Game Hunter (Engineering, 12 per craft) and Reinforced Retinal Armor (Engineering, 12 per craft).
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Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Lightweight Retinal Armor cost 3,339 gold79 silver. Most of that is Living Steel - 6 at 529 gold75 silver each, 3,178 gold50 silver, 95.2% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 3,515 gold56 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).