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EngineeringNorthrend Engineering
Volatile Blasting 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 the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 59 silver40 copper per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 70 gold97 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 37 gold4 silver
- Items per craft
- 2
- Listed value of one craft
- 74 gold8 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 3 gold70 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −59 silver40 copper (-1%)
- Evidence: 28 current listings holding 1,962 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.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Engineering
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Northrend Engineering
- Item level
- 20
- Reagent slots
- 2
- Cast time
- 1.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
3Cobalt Bar22 gold64 silver
1Crystallized Water3 gold5 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cobalt Bar Metal & Stone · 18,719 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Cobalt (Mining) | 3 | 22 gold64 silver | 67 gold92 silver | 96% |
| Crystallized Water Elemental · 12,093 on the Auction House | 1 | 3 gold5 silver | 3 gold5 silver | 4% |
| Total per craft | 70 gold97 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)
- Skill-up colours (Northrend Engineering skill)
- Yellow 1 to 4 · Green 5 to 9 · Grey 10 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
- How it is learned
- Automatically with Northrend Engineering
Volatile Blasting Trigger tooltip
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Volatile Blasting Trigger: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 2.3 times 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
- 37 gold4 silver
- 30-day low
- 4 gold Aug 31
- 30-day high
- 64 gold13 silver Aug 22
- 30-day median
- 16 gold36 silver
- 7-day median
- 20 gold99 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 681
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 21 gold67 silver, against 22 gold64 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).
More Northrend Engineering recipes in the same skill range
- Armor Plated Combat ShotgunWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Armored Titanium GogglesGoggles, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Bladed PickaxeDevices, learn at 1, grey at 15
- Box of BombsExplosives, learn at 1, grey at 45
- Charged Titanium SpecsGoggles, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Cobalt Frag BombExplosives, learn at 1, grey at 15
- Diamond-cut Refractor ScopeScopes, learn at 1, grey at 40
- Electroflux Sight EnhancersGoggles, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Explosive DecoyExplosives, learn at 1, grey at 20
- Global Thermal Sapper ChargeExplosives, learn at 1, grey at 60
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Volatile Blasting Trigger cost 70 gold97 silver. Most of that is Cobalt Bar - 3 at 22 gold64 silver each, 67 gold92 silver, 95.7% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 74 gold70 silver per craft, 37 gold35 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 37 gold4 silver, which does not clear it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 3 gold11 silver; the Auction House would keep 3 gold70 silver of a sale, leaving −59 silver40 copper. That is an estimated -0.8% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 119.1% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 1,962 units across 28 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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