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Engineering Northrend Engineering
Overcharged Capacitor
A Engineering recipe learned at Northrend Engineering 1 that crafts Overcharged Capacitor from 2 reagents.
Reagents
4Cobalt Bar16 gold
1Crystallized Earth20 silver
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Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 48 gold5 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 64 gold20 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 17 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 85 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −48 gold5 silver (-75%)
- Evidence: 77 current listings holding 1,766 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cobalt Bar Metal & Stone · 16,085 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Cobalt (Mining) | 4 | 16 gold | 64 gold | 100% |
| Crystallized Earth Elemental · 109,599 on the Auction House | 1 | 20 silver | 20 silver | 0% |
| Total per craft | 64 gold20 silver | 100% |
About Overcharged Capacitor
One craft takes 4 Cobalt Bar and 1 Crystallized Earth. Overcharged Capacitor is itself a reagent in 4 other recipes (Engineering).
- Recipe category
- Reagents (Northrend Engineering)
Overcharged Capacitor tooltip
Overcharged Capacitor: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 6% above 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
- 17 gold
- 30-day low
- 1 gold98 silver Oct 29
- 30-day high
- 89 gold99 silver Oct 13
- 30-day median
- 15 gold99 silver
- 7-day median
- 22 gold
- Hourly snapshots
- 691
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Cobalt Bar. Made with Smelt Cobalt (Mining, Northrend Mining) from 1 
Cobalt Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Cobalt Bar for 14 gold, against 16 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 48 other recipes (40 Blacksmithing, 5 Engineering, 2 Jewelcrafting and 1 Inscription); Honed Cobalt Cleaver takes the most, 12 per craft.
Crystallized Earth. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 20 other recipes (8 Tailoring, 6 Blacksmithing, 4 Jewelcrafting and 2 Alchemy); the most per craft: Frostsavage Cowl (Tailoring, 5 per craft), Frostsavage Leggings (Tailoring, 5 per craft), Frostsavage Robe (Tailoring, 5 per craft), Frostsavage Boots (Tailoring, 4 per craft) and Frostsavage Gloves (Tailoring, 4 per craft).
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- Charged Titanium SpecsGoggles, learn at 1, grey at 75
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- Diamond-cut Refractor ScopeScopes, learn at 1, grey at 40
- Electroflux Sight EnhancersGoggles, learn at 1, grey at 75
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- Global Thermal Sapper ChargeExplosives, learn at 1, grey at 60
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Overcharged Capacitor cost 64 gold20 silver. Most of that is Cobalt Bar - 4 at 16 gold each, 64 gold, 99.7% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 67 gold57 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 17 gold, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −47 gold20 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 85 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 48 gold5 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -74.8% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 1,766 units across 77 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 →
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