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Silver Contact
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 14 gold30 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 20 gold
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 6 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 30 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −14 gold30 silver (-72%)
- Evidence: 59 current listings holding 4,235 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
- Classic Engineering
- Item level
- 10
- Reagent slots
- 1
- Cast time
- 1.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
1Silver Bar20 gold
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silver Bar Metal & Stone · 564 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Silver (Mining) | 1 | 20 gold | 20 gold | 100% |
| Total per craft | 20 gold | 100% |
About Silver Contact
One craft takes 1 Silver Bar. Silver Contact is itself a reagent in 4 other recipes (Engineering).
- Recipe category
- Parts (Engineering)
- Skill-up colours (Classic Engineering skill)
- Orange below 110 · Yellow 110 to 124 · Green 125 to 139 · Grey 140 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Silver Contact tooltip
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Silver Contact is a reagent in
Silver Contact: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 13% below 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
- 6 gold
- 30-day low
- 2 gold50 silver Sep 2
- 30-day high
- 70 gold60 silver Aug 22
- 30-day median
- 6 gold88 silver
- 7-day median
- 6 gold91 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 689
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Silver Bar. Made with Smelt Silver (Mining, Classic Mining) from 1 
Silver Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Silver Bar for 17 gold5 silver, against 20 gold listed. Rewarded by the quest Captain Sanders' Hidden Treasure. Also a required reagent in 18 other recipes (12 Blacksmithing, 5 Jewelcrafting and 1 Engineering); Runic Plate Boots takes the most, 10 per craft.
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- Aquadynamic Fish AttractorDevices, learn at 1, grey at 170
- Arcane BombExplosives, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Arcanite DragonlingDevices, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Arclight SpannerTools, learn at 1, grey at 90
- Big Bronze BombExplosives, learn at 1, grey at 190
- Big Iron BombExplosives, learn at 1, grey at 230
- Biznicks 247x128 AccurascopeScopes, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Bloodvine GogglesGoggles, learn at 1, grey at 300
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Silver Contact cost 20 gold.
Break-even is 21 gold5 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 6 gold, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −14 gold before fees, and the Auction House would still take 30 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 14 gold30 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -71.5% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 4,235 units across 59 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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