Recipe
EngineeringClassic Engineering
Thorium Tube
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 13 gold25 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 18 gold
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 5 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 25 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −13 gold25 silver (-74%)
- Evidence: 32 current listings holding 3,191 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
- Outlier: the crafted item’s lowest listing is 67% below its 30-day median of 15 gold, so this estimate rests on a listing far below its usual level.
Recipe facts
- Profession
Engineering- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Classic Engineering
- Item level
- 10
- Reagent slots
- 1
- Cast time
- 1.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
6Thorium Bar3 gold
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Metal & Stone · 32,879 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Thorium (Mining) | 6 | 3 gold | 18 gold | 100% |
| Total per craft | 18 gold | 100% |
About Thorium Tube
One craft takes 6 Thorium Bar. It is taught by Schematic: Thorium Tube, which needs Classic Engineering 275. Thorium Tube is itself a reagent in 8 other recipes (Engineering).
- Recipe category
- Parts (Engineering)
- Skill-up colours (Classic Engineering skill)
- Orange below 295 · Yellow 295 to 296 · Green 297 to 299 · Grey 300 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Thorium Tube tooltip
How to learn Thorium Tube
- Teaches
- Teaches you how to make a Thorium Tube.
- Requires
- Classic Engineering (275)
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Thorium Tube is a reagent in
Thorium Tube: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 67% 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
- 5 gold
- 30-day low
- 75 silver Sep 2
- 30-day high
- 42 gold Aug 30
- 30-day median
- 15 gold
- 7-day median
- 8 gold89 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 687
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Thorium Bar. Made with Smelt Thorium (Mining, Classic Mining) from 1
Thorium Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Thorium Bar for 2 gold65 silver, against 3 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 88 other recipes (74 Blacksmithing, 6 Engineering, 5 Jewelcrafting and 1 Inscription); Lionheart Helm takes the most, 80 per craft.
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Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Thorium Tube cost 18 gold.
Break-even is 18 gold94 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 5 gold, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −13 gold before fees, and the Auction House would still take 25 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 13 gold25 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -73.6% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 3,191 units across 32 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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