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Volatile Thunderstick
A Engineering recipe learned at Cataclysm Engineering 1 that crafts Volatile Thunderstick from 3 reagents.
Reagents
2Electrified Ether12 gold
5Hardened Elementium Bar194 gold
6Volatile Fire14 gold85 silver
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Crafting estimate at current listings
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 1,083 gold10 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
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- Auction House cut (5%)
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- Estimated profit at that listed price
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- Not included: the recipe also accepts 1 optional reagent slot, which are not required and are left out of the cost.
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electrified Ether Parts · 779 on the Auction House · crafted by Electrified Ether (Engineering) | 2 | 12 gold | 24 gold | 2% |
| Hardened Elementium Bar Metal & Stone · 2,781 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Hardened Elementium (Mining) | 5 | 194 gold | 970 gold | 90% |
| Volatile Fire Elemental · 29,369 on the Auction House | 6 | 14 gold85 silver | 89 gold10 silver | 8% |
| Total per craft | 1,083 gold10 silver | 100% |
About Volatile Thunderstick
One craft takes 2 Electrified Ether, 5 Hardened Elementium Bar and 6 Volatile Fire.
- Recipe category
- Weapons (Cataclysm Engineering)
Volatile Thunderstick tooltip
Where the reagents come from
Electrified Ether. Made with Electrified Ether (Engineering, Cataclysm Engineering) from 2 
Volatile Air. Also a required reagent in 19 other recipes (19 Engineering); De-Weaponized Mechanical Companion takes the most, 8 per craft.
Hardened Elementium Bar. Made with Smelt Hardened Elementium (Mining, Cataclysm Mining) from 10 
Elementium Bar and 4 
Volatile Earth. At lowest listed prices that makes one Hardened Elementium Bar for 230 gold20 silver, against 194 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 46 other recipes (29 Blacksmithing, 16 Engineering and 1 Enchanting); the most per craft: Overpowered Chicken Splitter (Engineering, 12 per craft), Emberforged Elementium Boots (Blacksmithing, 10 per craft), Eternal Elementium Handguards (Blacksmithing, 10 per craft), Fists of Fury (Blacksmithing, 10 per craft) and Foundations of Courage (Blacksmithing, 10 per craft).
Volatile Fire. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 87 other recipes (35 Leatherworking, 23 Tailoring, 19 Blacksmithing and 4 Jewelcrafting); the most per craft: Eye of Many Deaths (Jewelcrafting, 75 per craft), Ring of Warring Elements (Jewelcrafting, 75 per craft), Jeweler's Ruby Monocle (Jewelcrafting, 50 per craft), Clutches of Evil (Leatherworking, 40 per craft) and Dragonfire Gloves (Leatherworking, 40 per craft).
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- Electrified EtherReagents, learn at 1, grey at 40
- Electrostatic CondenserDevices, learn at 1, grey at 30
- Elementium DragonlingDevices, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Elementium ToolboxDevices, learn at 1, grey at 75
3D Model
First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Volatile Thunderstick cost 1,083 gold10 silver. Most of that is Hardened Elementium Bar - 5 at 194 gold each, 970 gold, 89.6% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 1,140 gold10 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item has no current Auction House listing to compare it against, so the estimate above is left unknown rather than guessed.
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 Electrified Ether
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Data notes
- No Auction House price for the crafted item - output value unknown (it may be soulbound/BoE gear or an untracked item).