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EngineeringNorthrend Engineering
Overcharged Capacitor
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
At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 80 gold45 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 95 gold65 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 16 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 80 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −80 gold45 silver (-84%)
- Evidence: 25 current listings holding 355 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Engineering
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Northrend Engineering
- Item level
- 20
- Reagent slots
- 2
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
4Cobalt Bar23 gold86 silver
1Crystallized Earth21 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cobalt Bar Metal & Stone · 24,505 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Cobalt (Mining) | 4 | 23 gold86 silver | 95 gold44 silver | 100% |
| Crystallized Earth Elemental · 18,645 on the Auction House | 1 | 21 silver | 21 silver | 0% |
| Total per craft | 95 gold65 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)
- Skill-up colours (Northrend Engineering skill)
- Orange below 5 · Yellow 5 to 9 · Green 10 to 14 · Grey 15 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
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Overcharged Capacitor: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 27% 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
- 16 gold
- 30-day low
- 4 gold Sep 3
- 30-day high
- 80 gold Aug 21
- 30-day median
- 12 gold58 silver
- 7-day median
- 8 gold81 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 676
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 22 gold, against 23 gold86 silver 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).
More Northrend Engineering recipes in the same skill range
- Armor Plated Combat ShotgunWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Armored Titanium GogglesGoggles, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Bladed PickaxeDevices, learn at 1, grey at 15
- Box of BombsExplosives, learn at 1, grey at 45
- Charged Titanium SpecsGoggles, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Cobalt Frag BombExplosives, learn at 1, grey at 15
- Diamond-cut Refractor ScopeScopes, learn at 1, grey at 40
- Electroflux Sight EnhancersGoggles, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Explosive DecoyExplosives, learn at 1, grey at 20
- 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 95 gold65 silver. Most of that is Cobalt Bar - 4 at 23 gold86 silver each, 95 gold44 silver, 99.8% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 100 gold68 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 16 gold, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −79 gold65 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 80 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 80 gold45 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -84.1% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 355 units across 25 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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