RecipeEngineeringOutland Engineering

Purple Smoke Flare

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 one craft shows an estimated profit of 43 gold66 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 27 gold59 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price (each): 25 gold
Items per craft: 3
Listed value of one craft: 75 gold
Auction House cut (5%): 3 gold75 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: 43 gold66 silver (+158%)

Evidence: 5 current listings holding 114 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Items per craft: the game’s spell data creates 3 per craft, so the listed value of one craft is that many times the lowest listed price.

Verified priceAuction House1 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Engineering
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Outland Engineering
Item level: 1
Reagent slots: 3
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Purple Smoke Flare25 gold

Reagents

1Elemental Blasting Powder27 gold21 silver
1Netherweave Cloth9 silver
1Purple Dye29 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Elemental Blasting Powder Parts · 2,366 on the Auction House · crafted by Elemental Blasting Powder (Engineering)	1	27 gold21 silver	27 gold21 silver	99%
Netherweave Cloth Cloth · 202,523 on the Auction House	1	9 silver	9 silver	0%
Purple Dye Other · 13,889 on the Auction House	1	29 silver	29 silver	1%
Total per craft			27 gold59 silver	100%

About Purple Smoke Flare

One craft takes 1 Elemental Blasting Powder, 1 Netherweave Cloth and 1 Purple Dye. It is taught by Schematic: Purple Smoke Flare, which needs Outland Engineering 35.

Recipe category: Fireworks (Outland Engineering)
Skill-up colours (Outland Engineering skill): Orange below 35 · Yellow 35 to 44 · Green 45 to 54 · Grey 55 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Purple Smoke Flare tooltip

Purple Smoke Flare

Item Level 1

Consumable

Use: Throw a purple smoke flare at a specific location that lasts for 5 min.

Sell price: 2s 50c

How to learn Purple Smoke Flare

Schematic: Purple Smoke Flare

Teaches: Teaches you how to make a Purple Smoke Flare.
Requires: Outland Engineering (35)
Auction House: listed on 50 US realms, cheapest 1,000 gold27 silver, 103 for sale

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Purple Smoke Flare: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 19% 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: 25 gold
30-day low: 17 gold50 silver Sep 9
30-day high: 49,999 gold94 silver Sep 13
30-day median: 21 gold
7-day median: 32 gold69 silver
Hourly snapshots: 686

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

Where the reagents come from

Elemental Blasting Powder. Made with Elemental Blasting Powder (Engineering, Outland Engineering) from 1 Mote of Fire and 2 Mote of Earth, 4 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Elemental Blasting Powder for 14 gold94 silver, against 27 gold21 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 12 other recipes (12 Engineering); Flying Machine takes the most, 20 per craft.

Netherweave Cloth. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 17 other recipes (9 Tailoring, 6 Engineering and 2 Blacksmithing); the most per craft: Relic of the Past V (Tailoring, 7 per craft), Relic of the Past III (Tailoring, 6 per craft), Relic of the Past IV (Tailoring, 6 per craft), Bolt of Netherweave (Tailoring, 5 per craft) and Relic of the Past I (Tailoring, 5 per craft).

Purple Dye. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 5 other recipes (2 Leatherworking, 2 Tailoring and 1 Alchemy); the most per craft: Stylin' Purple Hat (Leatherworking, 4 per craft), Camp Narache Rug (Leatherworking, 2 per craft), Lavender Mageweave Shirt (Tailoring, 2 per craft), Ghost Dye (Alchemy, 1 per craft) and Rich Purple Silk Shirt (Tailoring, 1 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Purple Smoke Flare cost 27 gold59 silver. Most of that is Elemental Blasting Powder - 1 at 27 gold21 silver each, 27 gold21 silver, 98.6% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 29 gold4 silver per craft, 9 gold68 silver per item at 3 items a craft - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 25 gold, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 47 gold41 silver; the Auction House would keep 3 gold75 silver of a sale, leaving 43 gold66 silver. That is an estimated 158.2% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 7.9% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 114 units across 5 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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