Engineering Recipes - Cost to Craft & Profit

Engineering at current prices

Every figure is an estimate at current lowest listed prices: listings are asking prices, not sales. A craft is ranked here only when its finished item and every reagent have a current listing, the estimated profit survives Blizzard’s 5% Auction House cut, enough people are listing the finished item that its price is a market rather than one seller’s ask, and that lowest listing is within 3 times its own 30-day median.

20 of the 528 Engineering recipes clear that bar right now. Of the rest, 65 lose money at current prices, 8 show an estimated profit on a listing too thin or too far from its own 30-day median to rank and 435 have a reagent or an output with no current listing, so no estimate is claimed for them.

Ranked crafts

20of 528 recipes

Top estimated profit

562 gold64 silverone craft, after the cut

Typical ranked craft

10 gold68 silvermedian of the ranked list

No estimate

435a price is missing, so none is 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 →

Where the money is

• Biggest estimated profitErratic Genesis Matrix562 gold64 silver estimated, per craftmaterials 103 gold · keeps 80% of the listed value
• Keeps the most of its listed valueRapidly Ticking Gear433 gold44 silver estimated, per craftmaterials 41 gold · keeps 87% of the listed value
• Smallest material billHorde Firework23 gold70 silver estimated, per craftmaterials 4 gold · keeps 79% of the listed value

Best Engineering crafts right now

The 12 Engineering crafts with the highest estimated profit that clear the market bar, highest first. Listed value is the finished item’s lowest listed price times the items one craft makes; Break-even is the listed value that would cover the materials and the 5% cut; Keeps is the share of the listed value left after both. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Recipe	Crafts	Materials	Listed value	Break-even	Estimated profit	Keeps
Erratic Genesis Matrix	Erratic Genesis Matrix	103 gold4 silver	700 gold72 silver	108 gold46 silver	562 gold64 silver	80%
Rapidly Ticking Gear	Rapidly Ticking Gear	41 gold56 silver	500 gold	43 gold74 silver	433 gold44 silver	87%
Razor-Sharp Gear	Razor-Sharp Gear	41 gold48 silver	320 gold45 silver	43 gold66 silver	262 gold94 silver	82%
Pure-Air Sail Extensions	Pure-Air Sail Extensions	37 gold32 silver	292 gold90 silver	39 gold28 silver	240 gold93 silver	82%
Quick Tinker's Gear	Quick Tinker's Gear	15 gold20 silver	46 gold70 silver	16 gold	29 gold16 silver	62%
Horde Firework	Horde Firework	4 gold80 silver	30 gold (5 per craft)	5 gold5 silver	23 gold70 silver	79%
Celestial Firework	Celestial Firework	4 gold80 silver	24 gold75 silver (5 per craft)	5 gold5 silver	18 gold71 silver	76%
Smooth Tinker's Gear	Smooth Tinker's Gear	15 gold20 silver	35 gold50 silver	16 gold	18 gold52 silver	52%
Grand Celebration Firework	Grand Celebration Firework	4 gold80 silver	20 gold90 silver (5 per craft)	5 gold5 silver	15 gold5 silver	72%
Rigid Tinker's Gear	Rigid Tinker's Gear	15 gold20 silver	30 gold36 silver	16 gold	13 gold64 silver	45%
Fractured Tinker's Gear	Fractured Tinker's Gear	15 gold20 silver	24 gold13 silver	16 gold	7 gold72 silver	32%
Entropy Enhancer	Entropy Enhancer	34 gold9 silver	41 gold53 silver	35 gold88 silver	5 gold36 silver	13%