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Unstable Trigger
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 one craft shows an estimated profit of 5 gold23 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 9 gold2 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 15 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 75 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 5 gold23 silver (+58%)
- Evidence: 29 current listings holding 18,115 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
- 3
- Cast time
- 1.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
1Mithril Bar7 gold
1Mageweave Cloth2 silver
1Solid Blasting Powder2 gold
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mithril Bar Metal & Stone · 6,151 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Mithril (Mining) | 1 | 7 gold | 7 gold | 78% |
| Mageweave Cloth Cloth · 323,666 on the Auction House | 1 | 2 silver | 2 silver | 0% |
| Solid Blasting Powder Parts · 7,655 on the Auction House · crafted by Solid Blasting Powder (Engineering) | 1 | 2 gold | 2 gold | 22% |
| Total per craft | 9 gold2 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)
- Skill-up colours (Classic Engineering skill)
- Orange below 200 · Yellow 200 to 219 · Green 220 to 239 · Grey 240 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Unstable Trigger tooltip
More Parts recipes (Engineering)
- Rough Blasting Powderyellow 20, grey 40
- Handful of Copper Boltsyellow 45, grey 60
- Coarse Blasting Powderyellow 85, grey 95
- Silver Contactyellow 110, grey 140
- Heavy Blasting Powderyellow 125, grey 145
- Bronze Tubeyellow 115, grey 155
- Whirring Bronze Gizmoyellow 125, grey 175
- Iron Strutyellow 160, grey 180
- Gold Power Coreyellow 150, grey 190
- Minor Recombobulatoryellow 165, grey 190
- Bronze Frameworkyellow 145, grey 195
- Inlaid Mithril Cylinder Plansyellow 195, grey 195
Unstable Trigger is a reagent in
- Firework LauncherEngineering
- Gnomish Death RayEngineering
- Gnomish Harm Prevention BeltEngineering
- Gnomish Shrink RayEngineering
- Goblin Bomb DispenserEngineering
- Goblin Dragon GunEngineering
- Goblin Rocket BootsEngineering
- Goblin Rocket HelmetEngineering
- Goblin Sapper ChargeEngineering
- Hi-Explosive BombEngineering
- Mithril BlunderbussEngineering
- Mithril Frag BombEngineering
and 7 more recipes.
Unstable Trigger: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 38% 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
- 10 gold
- 30-day low
- 6 gold99 silver Sep 11
- 30-day high
- 197 gold Aug 25
- 30-day median
- 16 gold
- 7-day median
- 15 gold36 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
Mithril Bar. Made with Smelt Mithril (Mining, Classic Mining) from 1 
Mithril Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Mithril Bar for 8 gold72 silver, against 7 gold 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 30 silver, against 2 gold 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).
More Classic Engineering recipes in the same skill range
- Accurate ScopeScopes, learn at 1, grey at 220
- Advanced Target DummyDevices, learn at 1, grey at 225
- 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 3 reagents for one craft of Unstable Trigger cost 9 gold2 silver. Most of that is Mithril Bar - 1 at 7 gold each, 7 gold, 77.6% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 9 gold49 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 15 gold, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 5 gold98 silver; the Auction House would keep 75 silver of a sale, leaving 5 gold23 silver. That is an estimated 58.0% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 12.5% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 18,115 units across 29 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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