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Lightning Eel
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Lightning Eel details
| Type | Other |
|---|---|
| Item level | 10 |
| Max stack | 1,000 |
| Vendor sell price | 10 copper |
| 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 Lightning Eel is used in
Cooking
| Recipe | Skill tier and category | Needs | Other reagents | Makes | Lists at (US) | Reagents per craft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Stormchops | Outland Cooking, Everyday Cooking, grey at 40 | 1 |
|  Stormchops | 12 gold | 3 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 Lightning Eel
Lightning Eel goes into one recipe, Stormchops, taught in Outland Cooking.
Its product, Stormchops, from Outland Cooking, lists at 12 gold on the US Auction House.
One craft of Stormchops takes 1 Lightning Eel plus 1 Clefthoof Meat; at current prices those reagents cost 3 gold44 silver per craft.
Lightning Eel is about 91% of that reagent bill at its current price; Clefthoof Meat makes up the rest.
Leveling and recipes for Lightning Eel
Stormchops (Everyday Cooking) turns yellow at Cooking skill 20 and grey at 40.
Recipe items that teach these crafts: Recipe: Stormchops.
Recipe: StormchopsReagents used with Lightning Eel
In Stormchops, Lightning Eel is combined with Clefthoof Meat.
Clefthoof Meat 1 shared recipe
What Lightning Eel is crafted into
Stormchops (Food & Drink). Made with Stormchops, 1 Lightning Eel per craft.
Lightning Eel: 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 | 3 gold13 silver |
|---|---|
| 30-day low | 33 silver Aug 25 |
| 30-day high | 195 gold99 silver Sep 5 |
| 30-day median | 3 gold13 silver |
| 7-day median | 3 gold13 silver |
| Hourly snapshots | 676 |
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Lightning Eel by region
The lowest listing is 37% 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) | 3 gold13 silver | 37 | 2,596 |
| Europe (EU) | 1 gold98 silver | 32 | 9,551 |
Other reagents in the same recipe tiers as Lightning Eel
Outland Cooking has 24 recipes. Besides Lightning Eel, the reagents they call for most are Barbed Gill Trout (2 recipes), Buzzard Meat (2 recipes), Clefthoof Meat (2 recipes), Talbuk Venison (2 recipes), Bloodfin Catfish (1 recipe), Chunk o' Basilisk (1 recipe), Crescent-Tail Skullfish (1 recipe), Enormous Barbed Gill Trout (1 recipe), Figluster's Mudfish (1 recipe), Furious Crawdad (1 recipe).
Other Reagents priced near Lightning Eel
Immortal Shard3 gold
Crystallized Water3 gold
Enchant Gloves - Precision3 gold
Guardian's Imperial Amethyst3 gold
Portal Reagents: Skyfire3 gold- Enchant Boots - Lesser Accuracy3 gold
Vivid Wild Jade3 gold- Enchant Gloves - Superior Haste3 gold
HU5H, Nonchalant Pup3 gold
True Iron Barrel3 gold- Enchant Weapon - Fiery Weapon3 gold
- Enchant Weapon - Minor Beastslayer3 gold
About Lightning Eel
Lightning Eel 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 Cooking. When a recipe that uses Lightning Eel 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.