RecipeEngineeringOutland Engineering

Red 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 542 gold65 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 27 gold32 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price (each): 199 gold99 silver
Items per craft: 3
Listed value of one craft: 599 gold97 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 29 gold99 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: 542 gold65 silver (+1986%)

Evidence: 7 current listings holding 2,128 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.

Last verifiedAuction House4 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

Red Smoke Flare199 gold

Reagents

1Elemental Blasting Powder27 gold21 silver
1Netherweave Cloth9 silver
1Red Dye2 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Elemental Blasting Powder Parts · 2,438 on the Auction House · crafted by Elemental Blasting Powder (Engineering)	1	27 gold21 silver	27 gold21 silver	100%
Netherweave Cloth Cloth · 159,712 on the Auction House	1	9 silver	9 silver	0%
Red Dye Other · 388,218 on the Auction House	1	2 silver	2 silver	0%
Total per craft			27 gold32 silver	100%

About Red Smoke Flare

One craft takes 1 Elemental Blasting Powder, 1 Netherweave Cloth and 1 Red Dye. It is taught by Schematic: Red 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

Red Smoke Flare tooltip

Red Smoke Flare

Item Level 1

Consumable

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

Sell price: 2s 50c

How to learn Red Smoke Flare

Schematic: Red Smoke Flare

Teaches: Teaches you how to make a Red Smoke Flare.
Requires: Outland Engineering (35)
Binding: Binds when picked up

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Red Smoke Flare: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing sits at 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: 199 gold99 silver
30-day low: 150 gold Sep 16
30-day high: 49,999 gold97 silver Sep 6
30-day median: 199 gold99 silver
7-day median: 190 gold
Hourly snapshots: 684

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 15 gold37 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).

Red Dye. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 39 other recipes (35 Tailoring, 3 Leatherworking and 1 Blacksmithing); the most per craft: Darrowshire Protector (Blacksmithing, 30 per craft), Red Whelp Gloves (Leatherworking, 6 per craft), Ritualistic Legwarmers (Tailoring, 5 per craft), Kirin Tor Skyline Banner (Tailoring, 4 per craft) and Magnificent Flying Carpet (Tailoring, 4 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Red Smoke Flare cost 27 gold32 silver. Most of that is Elemental Blasting Powder - 1 at 27 gold21 silver each, 27 gold21 silver, 99.6% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 28 gold75 silver per craft, 9 gold58 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 199 gold99 silver, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 572 gold65 silver; the Auction House would keep 29 gold99 silver of a sale, leaving 542 gold65 silver. That is an estimated 1986.3% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 5.2% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 2,128 units across 7 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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