Dense Dynamite in Vanilla 1.12.1: Engineering Explosive Guide

◆What Dense Dynamite does

It is a consumable explosive the engineer throws at a chosen spot. The 1.12.1 tooltip reads: inflicts 340 to 460 Fire damage in a 5 yard radius, with a 1 minute cooldown. The dynamite does not stun or slow — it is pure area damage. It stacks to 20 and does not bind, so surplus sticks can be sold to other engineers on the Auction House.

One important restriction: the requirement line says Engineering (250). A character without the profession, or with skill below 250, cannot use it — which is exactly why lighter versions for non-engineers exist, covered below.

Dense DynamiteItem Level 45Requires Engineering (250)Use: Inflicts 340 to 460 Fire damage in a 5 yard radius. (1 Min Cooldown)Max Stack: 20

◆How to make Dense Dynamite

1. Skill 250. The recipe unlocks at Engineering 250 and is taught by a profession trainer; no drop schematic is required. The leveling order up to that point is covered in the Engineering 1–300 guide.
2. Dense Blasting Powder. The engineer crafts it from 2 Dense Stone; the recipe is also learned at skill 250 from a trainer.
3. Runecloth. Each craft takes 3 pieces — it drops from humanoids of levels 50–60, see the Runecloth farming guide for routes.
4. Crafting. 2 Dense Blasting Powder + 3 Runecloth, 8 second cast, yields 2 sticks of dynamite.

Dense Stone comes from mining thorium veins, so dynamite is easy to make alongside thorium ore farming.

◆The engineering dynamite line in 1.12.1

All numbers come from item and recipe tooltips. Every dynamite shares the same 5 yard radius and 1 minute cooldown; only the damage grows.

For characters without Engineering there are Ez-Thro Dynamite (level 10, 51–69 damage) and Ez-Thro Dynamite II (level 30, 213–287 damage). Engineers craft them too, but anyone of the required level can throw them.

Use in PvE and PvP

• Dungeons. Dynamite hits every enemy within 5 yards, so it works best on a tight pack that the tank has gathered in one spot. Area Fire damage breaks Polymorph, Sap and other crowd control effects that end on damage — do not throw it next to a controlled target.
• Battlegrounds. In PvP dynamite is a finisher: 340–460 damage to several players at a flag or a node. It has no stun, so for control engineers bring a Thorium Grenade or an Iron Grenade.
• Combining explosives. In a hard fight dynamite complements pricier charges: the Goblin Sapper Charge hits harder but also hurts the engineer, while the Arcane Bomb is built against spellcasters.

Tips

• Carry a stack of dynamite next to your grenades: each tooltip lists its own cooldown, and in a calm fight dynamite is the cheapest way to add area damage.
• Stone and cloth are cheap, so dynamite is a decent way to push skill around 250 until the recipe turns grey.
• To compare dynamite with every bomb, the mortar and other devices, see the overview of engineering combat gadgets.

◆Related pages

• Engineering combat gadgets
• Engineering 1–300 guide
• Thorium Grenade
• Goblin Sapper Charge
• Arcane Bomb
• Engineering schematics

The best way to test Dense Dynamite is in action: create an account on WoW x5 and connect to the server — Vanilla 1.12.1 with x5 rates speeds up both Engineering leveling and material farming.