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Verified - US Auction House - Crafting material
Basically Beef
Cooking
Verified US market
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Basically Beef details
| Type | Cooking |
|---|---|
| Item level | 70 |
| Requires level | 1 |
| Max stack | 1,000 |
| Vendor sell price | 1 silver |
| Expansion | The War Within |
| First seen in our data | build 12.0.7.68887 |
Read from the 12.1.0.69875 game build. Prices are US Auction House data.
In-game tooltip for Basically Beef: "A meat from various creatures in Khaz Algar. Can be bought and sold on the Auction House."
What Basically Beef is used in
Skinning
| Recipe | Skill tier and category | Needs | Other reagents | Makes | Lists at (US) | Reagents per craft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Beast Lure Scent | Khaz Algar Skinning, Bait Recipes | 3 |  Beast Lure Scent | 1 gold | ||
| Elusive Creature Lure | Khaz Algar Skinning, Bait Recipes | 10 |  Elusive Creature Lure | 1 gold |
"Needs" is how many one craft consumes. Reagent cost adds up the required materials at the cheapest current listing of each; it is left blank when any reagent has no live price. Recipes, quantities, products and skill tiers are read from the game data.
Crafting value of Basically Beef
Basically Beef goes into 2 recipes: 2 in Skinning. All of them are Khaz Algar Skinning recipes.
The cheapest craft that uses Basically Beef is Beast Lure Scent (Khaz Algar Skinning): its reagents cost 1 gold3 silver per craft.
Further down the chain, Elusive Creature Lure is itself a reagent in 3 recipes, such as Infusion: Crystal, Infusion: Spores and Infusion: Writhing.
Reagents used with Basically Beef
Basically Beef is most often combined with Granulated Spices, which shares 1 of its 2 recipes.
Granulated Spices 1 shared recipe
What Basically Beef is crafted into
Elusive Creature Lure (Other). Made with Elusive Creature Lure, 10 Basically Beef per craft.
Beast Lure Scent (Other). Made with Beast Lure Scent, 3 Basically Beef per craft.
Basically Beef: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 78% above its 30-day median. Over these 30 days the lowest listing moved more than tenfold, so a single snapshot can sit far from typical.
| Now | 16 silver |
|---|---|
| 30-day low | 1 silver Aug 26 |
| 30-day high | 52 silver Aug 28 |
| 30-day median | 9 silver |
| 7-day median | 9 silver |
| Hourly snapshots | 676 |
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Basically Beef by region
Americas and Oceania (US) has the lowest listing of the regions we track. Each region is a separate Auction House, so gold and items do not move between them.
| Region | Lowest listed price | Listings | Units |
|---|---|---|---|
| Americas and Oceania (US) | 10 silver | 334 | 900,140 |
| Europe (EU) | 19 silver | 171 | 338,449 |
Other reagents in the same recipe tiers as Basically Beef
Khaz Algar Skinning has 11 recipes. Besides Basically Beef, the reagents they call for most are Elusive Creature Lure (3 recipes), Bismuth Bitterling (2 recipes), Bloody Perch (2 recipes), Crystalline Sturgeon (2 recipes), Dilly-Dally Dace (2 recipes), Crystalline Powder (1 recipe), Granulated Spices (1 recipe), Spiced Meat Stock (1 recipe), Viridescent Spores (1 recipe), Writhing Sample (1 recipe).
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About Basically Beef
Basically Beef is a crafting material in World of Warcraft. This page tracks its verified Auction House price and the recipes that consume it, so you can judge whether it is worth farming, buying, or selling right now.
Demand comes from Skinning. When a recipe that uses Basically Beef spikes in value, the material tends to follow, so watch the recipes above alongside the price history.
To read the chart: compare the current lowest listing against the typical range. A price sitting below its recent band is a buy or craft signal; a price above it favors selling or farming. The method matters more than any single number, since commodity prices move between hourly snapshots.