RecipeEngineeringPandaria Engineering

Tinker's Kit

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 81 gold99 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 85 gold78 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price (each): 1 gold99 silver
Items per craft: 2
Listed value of one craft: 3 gold98 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 19 silver90 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price: −81 gold99 silver (-96%)

Evidence: 12 current listings holding 139 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 2 per craft, so the listed value of one craft is that many times the lowest listed price.

Verified priceAuction House1 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Engineering
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Pandaria Engineering
Item level: 30
Reagent slots: 3
Cast time: 1.5 sec

Crafts

Tinker's Kit1 gold

Reagents

2Ghost Iron Bolts31 gold48 silver
2Windwool Cloth18 silver
2High-Explosive Gunpowder11 gold23 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Ghost Iron Bolts Parts · 2,250 on the Auction House · crafted by Ghost Iron Bolts (Engineering)	2	31 gold48 silver	62 gold96 silver	73%
Windwool Cloth Cloth · 31,654 on the Auction House	2	18 silver	36 silver	0%
High-Explosive Gunpowder Parts · 3,111 on the Auction House · crafted by High-Explosive Gunpowder (Engineering)	2	11 gold23 silver	22 gold46 silver	26%
Total per craft			85 gold78 silver	100%

About Tinker's Kit

One craft takes 2 Ghost Iron Bolts, 2 Windwool Cloth and 2 High-Explosive Gunpowder.

Recipe category: Reagents (Pandaria Engineering)
Skill-up colours (Pandaria Engineering skill): Orange below 50 · Yellow 50 to 54 · Green 55 to 59 · Grey 60 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Tinker's Kit tooltip

Tinker's Kit

Item Level 30

Trade Goods

Sell price: 5s

More Reagents recipes (Pandaria Engineering)

Tinker's Kit: 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: 1 gold99 silver
30-day low: 1 gold Sep 9
30-day high: 197 gold Aug 27
30-day median: 2 gold27 silver
7-day median: 1 gold96 silver
Hourly snapshots: 678

US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.

Where the reagents come from

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 gold62 silver, against 31 gold48 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 20 other recipes (19 Engineering and 1 Blacksmithing); Depleted-Kyparium Rocket takes the most, 20 per craft.

Windwool Cloth. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 8 other recipes (6 Tailoring, 1 Engineering and 1 Enchanting); the most per craft: Ghost Iron Dragonling (Engineering, 12 per craft), Relic of the Past III (Tailoring, 6 per craft), Bolt of Windwool Cloth (Tailoring, 5 per craft), Relic of the Past I (Tailoring, 5 per craft) and Relic of the Past II (Tailoring, 5 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 17 other recipes (16 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).

More Pandaria Engineering recipes in the same skill range

Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Tinker's Kit cost 85 gold78 silver. Most of that is Ghost Iron Bolts - 2 at 31 gold48 silver each, 62 gold96 silver, 73.4% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 90 gold29 silver per craft, 45 gold14 silver per item at 2 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 1 gold99 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −81 gold80 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 19 silver90 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 81 gold99 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -95.6% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 139 units across 12 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 →

Other recipes that use Ghost Iron Bolts

Featured in guides

Guides and routes on this site that cover Tinker's Kit.

Engineering LevelingLeveling guide