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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.

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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 75,564 gold11 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
75,593 gold84 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price
31 gold29 silver
Auction House cut (5%)
1 gold56 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price
−75,564 gold11 silver (-100%)
  • Evidence: 26 current listings holding 5,794 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
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Recipe facts

Item level
30
Reagent slots
6
Cast time
1.5 sec

Crafts

Ghost Iron Bolts31 gold

Reagents

Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Living Steel
Metal & Stone · 1,451 on the Auction House · crafted by Transmute: Living Steel (Alchemy) · crafted by Riddle of Steel (Alchemy)		12680 gold8,160 gold11%
Kyparite
Metal & Stone · 19,871 on the Auction House		20061 silver122 gold0%
Orb of Mystery
Other · 28 on the Auction House		321,492 gold64,476 gold85%
High-Explosive Gunpowder
Parts · 2,308 on the Auction House · crafted by High-Explosive Gunpowder (Engineering)		1211 gold23 silver134 gold76 silver0%
Spirit of Harmony
Elemental · 12,411 on the Auction House		12172 gold94 silver2,075 gold28 silver3%
Ghost Iron Bolts
Parts · 5,794 on the Auction House · crafted by Ghost Iron Bolts (Engineering)		2031 gold29 silver625 gold80 silver1%
Total per craft75,593 gold84 silver100%

About <Recipe Template>

One craft takes 12 Living Steel, 200 Kyparite, 3 Orb of Mystery, 12 High-Explosive Gunpowder, 12 Spirit of Harmony and 20 Ghost Iron Bolts. Ghost Iron Bolts is itself a reagent in 21 other recipes (Engineering and Blacksmithing).

Ghost Iron Bolts tooltip

Ghost Iron Bolts
Item Level 30
Trade Goods
Sell price: 31s 25c

Ghost Iron Bolts is a reagent in

and 9 more recipes.

Ghost Iron Bolts: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 35% 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
31 gold29 silver
30-day low
1 gold Aug 25
30-day high
31 gold72 silver Sep 9
30-day median
23 gold16 silver
7-day median
22 gold88 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

Living Steel. Made with Riddle of Steel (Alchemy, Pandaria Alchemy) from 3 Trillium Bar and 3 Spirit of Harmony. At lowest listed prices that makes one Living Steel for 836 gold52 silver, against 680 gold listed. Made with Transmute: Living Steel (Alchemy, Pandaria Alchemy) from 6 Trillium Bar. At lowest listed prices that makes one Living Steel for 635 gold40 silver, against 680 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 58 other recipes (39 Blacksmithing, 14 Engineering, 4 Jewelcrafting and 1 Inscription); Sky Golem takes the most, 30 per craft.

Kyparite. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 8 other recipes (7 Blacksmithing and 1 Engineering); the most per craft: Depleted-Kyparium Rocket (Engineering, 200 per craft), Masterwork Ghost Shard (Blacksmithing, 40 per craft), Masterwork Spiritblade Decimator (Blacksmithing, 40 per craft), Masterwork Forgewire Axe (Blacksmithing, 30 per craft) and Masterwork Ghost-Forged Blade (Blacksmithing, 30 per craft).

Orb of Mystery. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 7 other recipes (5 Jewelcrafting and 2 Engineering); the most per craft: Depleted-Kyparium Rocket (Engineering, 3 per craft), Geosynchronous World Spinner (Engineering, 3 per craft), Jade Panther (Jewelcrafting, 1 per craft), Jade Temple Dragon Fountain (Jewelcrafting, 1 per craft) and Ruby Panther (Jewelcrafting, 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 6 gold87 silver, against 11 gold23 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 18 other recipes (17 Engineering and 1 Blacksmithing); the most per craft: Reconstructed Mogu Lightning Drill (Engineering, 30 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).

Spirit of Harmony. Rewarded by the quest Many More Giant Dinosaur Bones. Also a required reagent in 105 other recipes (47 Blacksmithing, 23 Leatherworking, 15 Inscription and 9 Engineering); the most per craft: Depleted-Kyparium Rocket (Engineering, 12 per craft), Geosynchronous World Spinner (Engineering, 12 per craft), Mystery of the Mists (Inscription, 10 per craft), Blazefury, Reborn (Blacksmithing, 9 per craft) and Bloodmoon, Reborn (Blacksmithing, 9 per craft).

Ghost Iron Bolts. Made with Ghost Iron Bolts (Engineering, Pandaria Engineering) from 3 Ghost Iron Bar, 2 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Ghost Iron Bolts for 20 gold61 silver, against 31 gold29 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 21 other recipes (20 Engineering and 1 Blacksmithing); the most per craft: Depleted-Kyparium Rocket (Engineering, 20 per craft), Geosynchronous World Spinner (Engineering, 20 per craft), Lord Blastington's Scope of Doom (Engineering, 18 per craft), Reconstructed Mogu Lightning Drill (Engineering, 16 per craft) and Big Game Hunter (Engineering, 12 per craft).

Other recipes that make Ghost Iron Bolts

Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 6 reagents for one craft of <Recipe Template> cost 75,593 gold84 silver. Most of that is Orb of Mystery - 3 at 21,492 gold each, 64,476 gold, 85.3% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 79,572 gold46 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 31 gold29 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −75,562 gold55 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 1 gold56 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 75,564 gold11 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -100.0% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 5,794 units across 26 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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