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Background
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 327 gold80 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 330 gold84 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 3 gold19 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 15 silver95 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −327 gold80 silver (-99%)
- Evidence: 28 current listings holding 4,301 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Blackened Dragonscale FragmentLeather · 105 on the Auction House | 9 | 36 gold76 silver | 330 gold84 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 330 gold84 silver | 100% |
About Blackened Dragonscale
One craft takes 9 Blackened Dragonscale Fragment. Blackened Dragonscale is itself a reagent in 29 other recipes (Leatherworking).
Blackened Dragonscale tooltip
Blackened Dragonscale: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 47% above its 30-day median. Over these 30 days the lowest listing moved more than tenfold, so a single snapshot, including the one the estimate uses, can sit far from typical.
- Now
- 5 gold
- 30-day low
- 50 silver Oct 25
- 30-day high
- 14 gold81 silver Oct 24
- 30-day median
- 3 gold41 silver
- 7-day median
- 7 gold94 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 691
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Blackened Dragonscale Fragment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 1 other recipe (1 Leatherworking); Blackened Dragonscale takes the most, 10 per craft.
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Blackened Dragonscale cost 330 gold84 silver.
Break-even is 348 gold25 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 3 gold19 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −327 gold65 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 15 silver95 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 327 gold80 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -99.1% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 4,301 units across 28 auctions region-wide. Depth separates a market price from a single asking figure, but listings are not sales, so read it alongside the estimate.
Costs use each reagent’s lowest listed price; the estimate is the crafted item’s lowest listed price, times the items one craft makes, minus those reagents and Blizzard’s 5% sale cut. Listings are asking prices, not sales. Recalculated every snapshot and left blank rather than guessed when a price is missing. How we estimate crafting profit →
