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Perfected Cogwheel
A Engineering recipe learned at Midnight Engineering 1 that crafts Perfected Cogwheel from 4 reagents.
Reagents
2Song Gear49 gold56 silver
1Soul Sprocket52 gold77 silver
5Pile of Junk22 silver
1Mote of Pure Void28 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 138 gold43 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 153 gold27 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 15 gold62 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 78 silver10 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −138 gold43 silver (-90%)
- Evidence: 179 current listings holding 865 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
- Quality: Perfected Cogwheel comes in 2 quality ranks. This is the base comparison, rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result; your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide the rank you actually get, which this estimate does not model. Each rank’s lowest listing is in the rank table below.
- Not included: the recipe also accepts 1 finishing reagent slot, which are not required and are left out of the cost.
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Song Gear Parts · 10,434 on the Auction House | 2 | 49 gold56 silver | 99 gold12 silver | 65% |
| Soul Sprocket Parts · 7,500 on the Auction House | 1 | 52 gold77 silver | 52 gold77 silver | 34% |
| Pile of Junk Parts · 329,508 on the Auction House | 5 | 22 silver | 1 gold10 silver | 1% |
| Mote of Pure Void Other · 299,227 on the Auction House | 1 | 28 silver | 28 silver | 0% |
| Total per craft | 153 gold27 silver | 100% |
About Perfected Cogwheel
One craft takes 2 Song Gear, 1 Soul Sprocket, 5 Pile of Junk and 1 Mote of Pure Void. Perfected Cogwheel is itself a reagent in 51 other recipes (Engineering).
- Recipe category
- Cogwheels (Midnight Schematics)
Perfected Cogwheel tooltip
Perfected Cogwheel quality ranks
Perfected Cogwheel comes in 2 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 525.
| Rank | Item | Lowest listed price | Listings (US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank 1 | Perfected Cogwheel | 15 gold62 silver | 179 listings, 865 units |
| Rank 2 | Perfected Cogwheel | 179 gold59 silver | 67 listings, 695 units |
The crafting estimate above is the base comparison: rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result. Your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide which rank a craft actually makes, so a higher rank is never priced against rank 1 reagents here.
Perfected Cogwheel: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 3.3 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
- 29 gold95 silver
- 30-day low
- 5 gold Oct 18
- 30-day high
- 141 gold26 silver Oct 17
- 30-day median
- 9 gold
- 7-day median
- 29 gold97 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 692
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Song Gear. Made with Song Gear (Engineering, Midnight Engineering) from 10 
Refulgent Copper Ore, 5 
Umbral Tin Ore and 1 
Malleable Wireframe. At lowest listed prices that makes one Song Gear for 89 gold12 silver, against 49 gold56 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 49 gold56 silver and rank 2 59 gold. Also a required reagent in 23 other recipes (23 Engineering); G-00 takes the most, 75 per craft.
Soul Sprocket. Made with Soul Sprocket (Engineering, Midnight Engineering) from 5 Refulgent Copper Ore, 10 Umbral Tin Ore and 1 Malleable Wireframe. At lowest listed prices that makes one Soul Sprocket for 94 gold77 silver, against 52 gold77 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 52 gold77 silver and rank 2 110 gold55 silver. Also a required reagent in 41 other recipes (41 Engineering); the most per craft: G-00 (Engineering, 50 per craft), Ren'dorei Crafting Framework (Engineering, 10 per craft), Ren'dorei Stargazer (Engineering, 10 per craft), Ren'dorei Lightpost (Engineering, 6 per craft) and Ren'dorei Warp Orb (Engineering, 6 per craft).
Pile of Junk. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 30 other recipes (30 Engineering); the most per craft: R0CKY (Engineering, 80 per craft), B0P, Curator of Booms (Engineering, 10 per craft), B1P, Scorcher of Souls (Engineering, 10 per craft), Coiled Snake-Eye (Engineering, 10 per craft) and HU5H, Nonchalant Pup (Engineering, 10 per craft).
Mote of Pure Void. Made with Transmute: Mote of Pure Void (Alchemy, Midnight Alchemy) from 10 
Mote of Wild Magic and 2 
Stabilized Derivate, 8 per craft. Also a required reagent in 45 other recipes (12 Tailoring, 9 Inscription, 7 Enchanting and 6 Alchemy); the most per craft: Darkmoon Dominion: Void (Inscription, 20 per craft), Enchant Tool - Ren'dorei Ingenuity (Enchanting, 20 per craft), Endless Codex of the Voidtouched (Enchanting, 20 per craft), Voidstone Shielding Array (Jewelcrafting, 20 per craft) and Arcanoweave Cloak (Tailoring, 12 per craft).
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Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 4 reagents for one craft of Perfected Cogwheel cost 153 gold27 silver. Most of that is Song Gear - 2 at 49 gold56 silver each, 99 gold12 silver, 64.7% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 161 gold33 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 15 gold62 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −137 gold65 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 78 silver10 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 138 gold43 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -90.3% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 865 units across 179 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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