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Volatile Blasting Trigger
A Engineering recipe learned at Northrend Engineering 1 that crafts 2 Volatile Blasting Trigger from 2 reagents.
Reagents
3Cobalt Bar17 gold90 silver
1Crystallized Water2 gold99 silver
Crafts
Background
| Auto-learned | Northrend Engineering | Learned automatically with this skill line |
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Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 27 gold25 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 56 gold69 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 15 gold49 silver
- Items per craft
- 2
- Listed value of one craft
- 30 gold98 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 1 gold54 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −27 gold25 silver (-48%)
- Evidence: 49 current listings holding 6,012 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.
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cobalt Bar Metal & Stone · 21,694 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Cobalt (Mining) | 3 | 17 gold90 silver | 53 gold70 silver | 95% |
| Crystallized Water Elemental · 15,866 on the Auction House | 1 | 2 gold99 silver | 2 gold99 silver | 5% |
| Total per craft | 56 gold69 silver | 100% |
About Volatile Blasting Trigger
One craft takes 3 Cobalt Bar and 1 Crystallized Water. It is learned automatically with Northrend Engineering. Volatile Blasting Trigger is itself a reagent in 4 other recipes (Engineering).
- Recipe category
- Reagents (Northrend Engineering)
- How it is learned
- Automatically with Northrend Engineering
Volatile Blasting Trigger tooltip
Volatile Blasting Trigger: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 2% 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
- 15 gold49 silver
- 30-day low
- 2 gold Oct 31
- 30-day high
- 34 gold14 silver Oct 20
- 30-day median
- 15 gold74 silver
- 7-day median
- 15 gold49 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 691
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Cobalt Bar. Made with Smelt Cobalt (Mining, Northrend Mining) from 1 
Cobalt Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Cobalt Bar for 18 gold, against 17 gold90 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 48 other recipes (40 Blacksmithing, 5 Engineering, 2 Jewelcrafting and 1 Inscription); Honed Cobalt Cleaver takes the most, 12 per craft.
Crystallized Water. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 19 other recipes (8 Blacksmithing, 6 Leatherworking, 3 Engineering and 1 Alchemy); the most per craft: Black Chitinguard Boots (Leatherworking, 6 per craft), Cloak of Tormented Skies (Leatherworking, 5 per craft), Dark Frostscale Leggings (Leatherworking, 5 per craft), Dark Nerubian Leggings (Leatherworking, 5 per craft) and Dark Frostscale Breastplate (Leatherworking, 4 per craft).
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Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Volatile Blasting Trigger cost 56 gold69 silver. Most of that is Cobalt Bar - 3 at 17 gold90 silver each, 53 gold70 silver, 94.7% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 59 gold67 silver per craft, 29 gold83 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 15 gold49 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −25 gold71 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 1 gold54 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 27 gold25 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -48.1% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 6,012 units across 49 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 Cobalt Bar
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