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Honed Bone Shards
Leather
Verified US market
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Honed Bone Shards details
| Type | Leather |
|---|---|
| Item level | 70 |
| Max stack | 1,000 |
| Vendor sell price | 4 silver25 copper |
| 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 Honed Bone Shards: "A rare, species-specific material gathered from creatures with horns or tusks by players with the Skinning skill. Can be bought and sold on the Auction House."
What Honed Bone Shards is used in
Leatherworking
| Recipe | Skill tier and category | Needs | Other reagents | Makes | Lists at (US) | Reagents per craft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Carapace-Backed Hide | Khaz Algar Leatherworking, Reagents, grey at 50 | 5 |
|  Carapace-Backed Hide | 18 gold | 7 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 Honed Bone Shards
Honed Bone Shards goes into one recipe, Carapace-Backed Hide, taught in Khaz Algar Leatherworking.
Its product, Carapace-Backed Hide, from Khaz Algar Leatherworking, lists at 18 gold45 silver on the US Auction House.
One craft of Carapace-Backed Hide takes 5 Honed Bone Shards plus 1 Thunderous Hide, 1 Sunless Carapace and 5 Mosswool Thread; at current prices those reagents cost 7 gold15 silver per craft.
Honed Bone Shards is about 62% of that reagent bill at its current price; Thunderous Hide, Sunless Carapace and Mosswool Thread make up the rest.
Further down the chain, Carapace-Backed Hide is itself a reagent in 21 recipes, such as Algari Competitor's Leather Boots, Algari Competitor's Leather Chestpiece and Algari Competitor's Leather Mask.
Leveling and recipes for Honed Bone Shards
Carapace-Backed Hide (Reagents) turns yellow at Leatherworking skill 35 and grey at 50.
Reagents used with Honed Bone Shards
In Carapace-Backed Hide, Honed Bone Shards is combined with Mosswool Thread, Sunless Carapace and Thunderous Hide.
Mosswool Thread 1 shared recipe
Sunless Carapace 1 shared recipe
Thunderous Hide 1 shared recipe
What Honed Bone Shards is crafted into
Carapace-Backed Hide (Leather). Made with Carapace-Backed Hide, 5 Honed Bone Shards per craft.
Honed Bone Shards: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing sits at 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 | 89 silver |
|---|---|
| 30-day low | 10 silver Aug 26 |
| 30-day high | 99 gold Sep 17 |
| 30-day median | 89 silver50 copper |
| 7-day median | 93 silver |
| Hourly snapshots | 676 |
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Honed Bone Shards 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) | 91 silver | 181 | 6,155 |
| Europe (EU) | 1 gold29 silver | 89 | 33,008 |
Other reagents in the same recipe tiers as Honed Bone Shards
Khaz Algar Leatherworking has 90 recipes. Besides Honed Bone Shards, the reagents they call for most are Artisan's Acuity (74 recipes), Stormcharged Leather (49 recipes), Gloom Chitin (39 recipes), Chitin Armor Banding (27 recipes), Carapace-Backed Hide (21 recipes), Gloomfathom Hide (21 recipes), Sporecoated Hide (13 recipes), Crystalfused Hide (12 recipes), Thunderous Hide (11 recipes), Writhing Hide (7 recipes).
Leather priced near Honed Bone Shards
Stonehide Leather90 silver
Void-Tempered Leather90 silver
Borean Leather Scraps95 silver
Ruined Leather Scraps84 silver
Protogenic Pelt84 silver- Void-Tempered Leather1 gold
Rugged Hide79 silver
Heavy Callous Hide1 gold
Perfect Deviate Scale1 gold
Light Leather1 gold
Mist-Touched Leather1 gold
Lustrous Scaled Hide1 gold
About Honed Bone Shards
Honed Bone Shards 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 Honed Bone Shards 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.