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.

10 of the 528 Engineering recipes clear that bar right now. Of the rest, 75 lose money at current prices, 9 show an estimated profit on a listing too thin or too far from its own 30-day median to rank and 434 have a reagent or an output with no current listing, so no estimate is claimed for them.

Ranked crafts

10of 528 recipes

Top estimated profit

538 gold9 silverone craft, after the cut

Typical ranked craft

12 gold47 silvermedian of the ranked list

No estimate

434a 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 profitPure-Air Sail Extensions538 gold9 silver estimated, per craftmaterials 32 gold · keeps 90% of the listed value
• Smallest material billPorous Polishing Abrasive5 silver50 copper estimated, per craftmaterials 4 silver · keeps 55% of the listed value

Best Engineering crafts right now

The 10 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
Pure-Air Sail Extensions	Pure-Air Sail Extensions	32 gold84 silver	600 gold98 silver	34 gold56 silver	538 gold9 silver	90%
Arclight Capacitor	Arclight Capacitor	342 gold32 silver	411 gold72 silver	360 gold33 silver	48 gold81 silver	12%
Rapidly Ticking Gear	Rapidly Ticking Gear	54 gold18 silver	98 gold99 silver	57 gold3 silver	39 gold86 silver	40%
Endless Stack of Needles	Endless Stack of Needles	61 gold24 silver	89 gold22 silver (2 per craft)	64 gold46 silver	23 gold51 silver	26%
Chaos Circuit	Chaos Circuit	54 gold61 silver	73 gold75 silver	57 gold48 silver	15 gold45 silver	21%
Everburning Blasting Powder	Everburning Blasting Powder	33 gold79 silver	45 gold56 silver	35 gold56 silver	9 gold49 silver	21%
High-Explosive Gunpowder	High-Explosive Gunpowder	13 gold75 silver	22 gold46 silver (2 per craft)	14 gold47 silver	7 gold58 silver	34%
Handful of Laestrite Bolts	Handful of Laestrite Bolts	1 gold12 silver	1 gold71 silver	1 gold17 silver	50 silver45 copper	30%
Porous Polishing Abrasive	Porous Polishing Abrasive	4 silver	10 silver	4 silver21 copper	5 silver50 copper	55%
Sparkling Tinker's Gear	Sparkling Tinker's Gear	27 gold50 silver	29 gold	28 gold94 silver	5 silver	0%