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Black Dragonscale

Leather

Verified US market

Lowest listed price7 gold

Median listing8 gold

12,602 available41 listings

Verified priceAuction House30 min agocommodity

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Black Dragonscale details

Type	Leather
Item level	10
Max stack	1,000
Vendor sell price	10 silver
Expansion	Classic
First seen in our data	build 1.15.9.68940

Read from the 12.1.0.69875 game build. Prices are US Auction House data.

What Black Dragonscale is used in

Leatherworking

Recipe	Skill tier and category	Needs	Other reagents	Makes	Reagents per craft
Golden Dragonstrike Breastplate	Outland Leatherworking, Chest, grey at 70	8	4 × Heavy Knothide Leather 3 × Primal Fire 2 × Rune Thread	Golden Dragonstrike Breastplate	1,930 gold
Black Dragonscale Boots	Classic Leatherworking, Boots, grey at 340	18	3 × Fiery Core 3 × Lava Core 2 × Rune Thread	Black Dragonscale Boots	149 gold
Black Dragonscale Breastplate	Classic Leatherworking, Chest, grey at 330	25	25 × Rugged Leather 1 × Cured Rugged Hide 2 × Rune Thread	Black Dragonscale Breastplate	313 gold
Black Dragonscale Leggings	Classic Leatherworking, Pants, grey at 340	25	25 × Rugged Leather 1 × Cured Rugged Hide 2 × Rune Thread	Black Dragonscale Leggings	313 gold
Black Dragonscale Shoulders	Classic Leatherworking, Shoulders, grey at 340	15	20 × Rugged Leather 1 × Cured Rugged Hide 1 × Rune Thread	Black Dragonscale Shoulders	211 gold
Chromatic Cloak	Classic Leatherworking, Cloaks, grey at 340	12	25 × Rugged Leather 4 × Brilliant Chromatic Scale 12 × Red Dragonscale 2 × Rune Thread	Chromatic Cloak	445 gold
Onyxia Scale Breastplate	Classic Leatherworking, Chest, grey at 340	60	40 × Rugged Leather 12 × Scale of Onyxia 2 × Rune Thread	Onyxia Scale Breastplate	875 gold
Skyfury Headdress	Classic Leatherworking, Ancient Patterns, grey at 300	16	1 × Blue Sapphire 2 × Huge Emerald 30 × Enchanted Leather 8 × Cured Rugged Hide	Skyfury Headdress	2,149 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 Black Dragonscale

Black Dragonscale goes into 8 recipes: 8 in Leatherworking. They span 2 skill tiers, from Classic Leatherworking to Outland Leatherworking.

The cheapest craft that uses Black Dragonscale is Black Dragonscale Boots (Classic Leatherworking): its reagents cost 149 gold61 silver per craft.

Leveling and recipes for Black Dragonscale

Leveling with Black Dragonscale: Golden Dragonstrike Breastplate (Chest) turns yellow at Leatherworking skill 50 and grey at 70. Skyfury Headdress (Ancient Patterns) stops giving Leatherworking skill-ups at 300. Black Dragonscale Breastplate (Chest) turns yellow at Leatherworking skill 310 and grey at 330. Black Dragonscale Boots (Boots) turns yellow at Leatherworking skill 320 and grey at 340. Black Dragonscale Leggings (Pants) turns yellow at Leatherworking skill 320 and grey at 340. Black Dragonscale Shoulders (Shoulders) turns yellow at Leatherworking skill 320 and grey at 340.

Recipe items that teach these crafts: Pattern: Black Dragonscale Boots, Pattern: Black Dragonscale Breastplate, Pattern: Black Dragonscale Leggings, Pattern: Black Dragonscale Shoulders, Pattern: Chromatic Cloak, Pattern: Onyxia Scale Breastplate and Ancient Pattern: Skyfury Headdress.

Reagents used with Black Dragonscale

Black Dragonscale is most often combined with Rune Thread, which shares 7 of its 8 recipes; next come Rugged Leather, Cured Rugged Hide and Blue Sapphire.

Rune Thread 7 shared recipes
Rugged Leather 5 shared recipes
Cured Rugged Hide 4 shared recipes
Blue Sapphire 1 shared recipe
Brilliant Chromatic Scale 1 shared recipe
Enchanted Leather 1 shared recipe
Fiery Core 1 shared recipe
Heavy Knothide Leather 1 shared recipe
Huge Emerald 1 shared recipe
Lava Core 1 shared recipe
Primal Fire 1 shared recipe
Red Dragonscale 1 shared recipe

What Black Dragonscale is crafted into

Onyxia Scale Breastplate (Mail). Made with Onyxia Scale Breastplate, 60 Black Dragonscale per craft.

Black Dragonscale Breastplate (Mail). Made with Black Dragonscale Breastplate, 25 Black Dragonscale per craft.

Black Dragonscale Leggings (Mail). Made with Black Dragonscale Leggings, 25 Black Dragonscale per craft.

Black Dragonscale Boots (Mail). Made with Black Dragonscale Boots, 18 Black Dragonscale per craft.

Black Dragonscale: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 2.0 times 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	8 gold
30-day low	1 gold Aug 23
30-day high	11 gold2 silver Aug 25
30-day median	3 gold98 silver
7-day median	5 gold58 silver
Hourly snapshots	681

US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.

Black Dragonscale by region

The lowest listing is 71% lower in Europe (EU) than in Americas and Oceania (US). 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)	7 gold	41	12,602
Europe (EU)	2 gold	21	20,969

Other reagents in the same recipe tiers as Black Dragonscale

Classic Leatherworking has 298 recipes. Besides Black Dragonscale, the reagents they call for most are Rune Thread (84 recipes), Rugged Leather (79 recipes), Cured Rugged Hide (69 recipes), Fine Thread (68 recipes), Heavy Leather (50 recipes), Thick Leather (38 recipes), Light Leather (34 recipes), Medium Leather (33 recipes), Coarse Thread (29 recipes), Enchanted Leather (29 recipes).

Outland Leatherworking has 141 recipes. Besides Black Dragonscale, the reagents they call for most are Heavy Knothide Leather (106 recipes), Rune Thread (46 recipes), Primal Nether (33 recipes), Primal Air (32 recipes), Primal Shadow (22 recipes), Primal Life (20 recipes), Fel Hide (18 recipes), Knothide Leather (18 recipes), Primal Earth (18 recipes), Primal Mana (18 recipes).

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About Black Dragonscale

Black Dragonscale 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 Leatherworking. When a recipe that uses Black Dragonscale spikes in value, the material tends to follow, so watch the recipes above alongside the price history.

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