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Locksmith's Powderkeg

A Engineering recipe learned at Pandaria Engineering 1 that crafts Locksmith's Powderkeg from 2 reagents.

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Crafting estimate at current listings

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
4 gold81 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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Verified priceAuction HouseUS region

Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Simple Wood
Other · 109,718 on the Auction House
11 silver1 silver0%
High-Explosive Gunpowder
Parts · 3,817 on the Auction House · crafted by High-Explosive Gunpowder (Engineering)
14 gold80 silver4 gold80 silver100%
Total per craft4 gold81 silver100%

About Locksmith's Powderkeg

One craft takes 1 Simple Wood and 1 High-Explosive Gunpowder.

Recipe category
Explosives (Pandaria Engineering)

Locksmith's Powderkeg tooltip

Locksmith's Powderkeg
Item Level 32
Consumable
Use: Blasts open locked doors and chests that require lockpicking skill of 35 and below.
Sell price: 9s

Locksmith's Powderkeg: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 2.0 times 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
10 gold
30-day low
1 gold Oct 13
30-day high
18,888 gold61 silver Oct 30
30-day median
5 gold
7-day median
11 gold
Hourly snapshots
682

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

Where the reagents come from

Simple Wood. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 12 other recipes (7 Inscription and 5 Enchanting); Crystalfire Spellstaff takes the most, 1 per craft.

High-Explosive Gunpowder. Made with High-Explosive Gunpowder (Engineering, Pandaria Engineering) from 1 Ghost Iron Bar, 2 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one High-Explosive Gunpowder for 3 gold89 silver, against 4 gold80 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 17 other recipes (16 Engineering and 1 Blacksmithing); the most per craft: Reconstructed Mogu Lightning Drill (Engineering, 20 per craft), Depleted-Kyparium Rocket (Engineering, 12 per craft), Goblin Dragon Gun, Mark II (Engineering, 8 per craft), Thermal Anvil (Engineering, 8 per craft) and Ghost Iron Dragonling (Engineering, 4 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Locksmith's Powderkeg cost 4 gold81 silver. Most of that is High-Explosive Gunpowder - 1 at 4 gold80 silver each, 4 gold80 silver, 99.8% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 5 gold6 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.

Other recipes that use Simple Wood

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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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