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Engineering Classic Engineering
Unstable Trigger
A Engineering recipe learned at Classic Engineering 1 that crafts Unstable Trigger from 3 reagents.
Reagents
1Mithril Bar8 gold54 silver
1Mageweave Cloth10 silver
1Solid Blasting Powder90 silver
Crafts
Background
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 1 gold67 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 9 gold54 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 11 gold80 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 59 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 1 gold67 silver (+18%)
- Evidence: 18 current listings holding 28,307 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mithril Bar Metal & Stone · 20,118 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Mithril (Mining) | 1 | 8 gold54 silver | 8 gold54 silver | 90% |
| Mageweave Cloth Cloth · 91,750 on the Auction House | 1 | 10 silver | 10 silver | 1% |
| Solid Blasting Powder Parts · 4,932 on the Auction House · crafted by Solid Blasting Powder (Engineering) | 1 | 90 silver | 90 silver | 9% |
| Total per craft | 9 gold54 silver | 100% |
About Unstable Trigger
One craft takes 1 Mithril Bar, 1 Mageweave Cloth and 1 Solid Blasting Powder. Unstable Trigger is itself a reagent in 19 other recipes (Engineering).
- Recipe category
- Parts (Engineering)
Unstable Trigger tooltip
Unstable Trigger: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 19% 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
- 11 gold80 silver
- 30-day low
- 1 gold Oct 31
- 30-day high
- 18,888 gold70 silver Oct 22
- 30-day median
- 14 gold50 silver
- 7-day median
- 13 gold80 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 692
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Mithril Bar. Made with Smelt Mithril (Mining, Classic Mining) from 1 
Mithril Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Mithril Bar for 8 gold30 silver, against 8 gold54 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 67 other recipes (39 Blacksmithing, 25 Engineering, 2 Jewelcrafting and 1 Alchemy); Truesilver Champion takes the most, 30 per craft.
Mageweave Cloth. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 14 other recipes (5 Blacksmithing, 4 Tailoring, 4 Engineering and 1 Leatherworking); the most per craft: Mithril Coif (Blacksmithing, 6 per craft), Nightscape Shoulders (Leatherworking, 6 per craft), Ornate Mithril Gloves (Blacksmithing, 6 per craft), Relic of the Past IV (Tailoring, 5 per craft) and Bolt of Mageweave (Tailoring, 4 per craft).
Solid Blasting Powder. Made with Solid Blasting Powder (Engineering, Classic Engineering) from 2 
Solid Stone. At lowest listed prices that makes one Solid Blasting Powder for 10 silver, against 90 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 16 other recipes (16 Engineering); the most per craft: Gnomish Rocket Boots (Engineering, 8 per craft), Goblin Mortar (Engineering, 5 per craft), Goblin Bomb Dispenser (Engineering, 4 per craft), Parachute Cloak (Engineering, 4 per craft) and Goblin Sapper Charge (Engineering, 3 per craft).
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Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Unstable Trigger cost 9 gold54 silver. Most of that is Mithril Bar - 1 at 8 gold54 silver each, 8 gold54 silver, 89.5% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 10 gold4 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 11 gold80 silver, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 2 gold26 silver; the Auction House would keep 59 silver of a sale, leaving 1 gold67 silver. That is an estimated 17.5% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 26.1% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 28,307 units across 18 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 Mithril Bar
Featured in guides
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