RecipeEngineeringPandaria Engineering

Smooth Tinker's Gear

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 10 gold33 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 27 gold48 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 18 gold5 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 90 silver25 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price: −10 gold33 silver (-38%)

Evidence: 16 current listings holding 70 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.

Last verifiedAuction House4 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Engineering
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Pandaria Engineering
Item level: 35
Reagent slots: 1
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Smooth Tinker's Gear18 gold

Reagents

2Ghost Iron Bar13 gold74 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Ghost Iron Bar Metal & Stone · 26,615 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Ghost Iron (Mining)	2	13 gold74 silver	27 gold48 silver	100%
Total per craft			27 gold48 silver	100%

About Smooth Tinker's Gear

One craft takes 2 Ghost Iron Bar.

Recipe category: Cogwheels (Pandaria Engineering)
Skill-up colours (Pandaria Engineering skill): Orange below 10 · Yellow 10 to 21 · Green 22 to 34 · Grey 35 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Smooth Tinker's Gear tooltip

Smooth Tinker's Gear

Item Level 35

Gem

“Only fits in a Cogwheel socket.”

Sell price: 1g

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Smooth Tinker's Gear: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 46% 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: 18 gold5 silver
30-day low: 18 gold5 silver Sep 20
30-day high: 196 gold Aug 29
30-day median: 33 gold25 silver
7-day median: 23 gold75 silver
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

Ghost Iron Bar. Made with Smelt Ghost Iron (Mining, Pandaria Mining) from 2 Ghost Iron Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Ghost Iron Bar for 12 gold, against 13 gold74 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 158 other recipes (140 Blacksmithing, 12 Engineering, 2 Inscription and 2 Jewelcrafting); Crafted Malevolent Gladiator's Barrier takes the most, 20 per craft.

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Smooth Tinker's Gear cost 27 gold48 silver.

Break-even is 28 gold92 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 18 gold5 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −9 gold43 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 90 silver25 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 10 gold33 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -37.6% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 70 units across 16 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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