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LeatherworkingKhaz Algar Leatherworking
Chitin Armor Banding
Reagent cost, the crafted item's lowest listed price and the estimated profit at that price, from current US Auction House listings - recalculated every snapshot.
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 11 gold3 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 31 gold72 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 45 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 2 gold25 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 11 gold3 silver (+35%)
- Evidence: 81 current listings holding 351 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
- Quality: Chitin Armor Banding comes in 3 quality ranks. This is the base comparison, rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result; your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide the rank you actually get, which this estimate does not model. Each rank’s lowest listing is in the rank table below.
- Not included: the recipe also accepts 2 finishing reagent slots, which are not required and are left out of the cost.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Leatherworking
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Khaz Algar Leatherworking
- Item level
- 70
- Reagent slots
- 3
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
1Sunless Carapace49 silver
30Gloom Chitin1 gold4 silver
1Kaheti Swarm Chitin3 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunless Carapace Leather · 11,350 on the Auction House | 1 | 49 silver | 49 silver | 2% |
| Gloom Chitin Leather · 250,595 on the Auction House | 30 | 1 gold4 silver | 31 gold20 silver | 98% |
| Kaheti Swarm Chitin Leather · 119,338 on the Auction House | 1 | 3 silver | 3 silver | 0% |
| Total per craft | 31 gold72 silver | 100% |
About Chitin Armor Banding
One craft takes 1 Sunless Carapace, 30 Gloom Chitin and 1 Kaheti Swarm Chitin. Chitin Armor Banding is itself a reagent in 27 other recipes (Leatherworking).
- Recipe category
- Reagents (Khaz Algar Patterns)
- Skill-up colours (Khaz Algar Leatherworking skill)
- Orange below 35 · Yellow 35 to 41 · Green 42 to 49 · Grey 50 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Chitin Armor Banding tooltip
More Reagents recipes (Khaz Algar Patterns)
Chitin Armor Banding is a reagent in
- Adrenal Surge ClaspLeatherworking
- Busy Bee's BuckleLeatherworking
- Glyph-Etched BindingLeatherworking
- Glyph-Etched BreastplateLeatherworking
- Glyph-Etched CuissesLeatherworking
- Glyph-Etched EpauletsLeatherworking
- Glyph-Etched GauntletsLeatherworking
- Glyph-Etched GuiseLeatherworking
- Glyph-Etched StompersLeatherworking
- Glyph-Etched VambracesLeatherworking
- Reinforced Setae FlyersLeatherworking
- Roiling Thunderstrike TalonsLeatherworking
and 15 more recipes.
Chitin Armor Banding quality ranks
Chitin Armor Banding comes in 3 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 400.
| Rank | Item | Lowest listed price | Listings (US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank 1 | Chitin Armor Banding | 45 gold | 81 listings, 351 units |
| Rank 2 | Chitin Armor Banding | 19 gold99 silver | 35 listings, 280 units |
| Rank 3 | Chitin Armor Banding | 30 gold99 silver | 54 listings, 737 units |
The crafting estimate above is the base comparison: rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result. Your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide which rank a craft actually makes, so a higher rank is never priced against rank 1 reagents here. Right now rank 1 lists above rank 2 and rank 3, so a craft that comes out at a higher rank is worth less at today’s listings, not more.
Chitin Armor Banding: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 40% below 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
- 45 gold
- 30-day low
- 10 gold Aug 22
- 30-day high
- 250 gold Aug 24
- 30-day median
- 75 gold
- 7-day median
- 45 gold
- Hourly snapshots
- 685
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Sunless Carapace. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 49 silver, rank 2 85 silver and rank 3 4 gold99 silver. Also a required reagent in 7 other recipes (5 Leatherworking and 2 Tailoring); Hideseeker's Tote takes the most, 2 per craft.
Gloom Chitin. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 1 gold4 silver, rank 2 1 gold5 silver and rank 3 1 gold45 silver. Also a required reagent in 38 other recipes (38 Leatherworking); the most per craft: Glyph-Etched Binding (Leatherworking, 150 per craft), Glyph-Etched Breastplate (Leatherworking, 150 per craft), Glyph-Etched Cuisses (Leatherworking, 150 per craft), Glyph-Etched Epaulets (Leatherworking, 150 per craft) and Glyph-Etched Gauntlets (Leatherworking, 150 per craft).
Kaheti Swarm Chitin. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 2 other recipes (2 Leatherworking); the most per craft: Adrenal Surge Clasp (Leatherworking, 10 per craft) and Vambraces of Deepening Darkness (Leatherworking, 10 per craft).
More Khaz Algar Leatherworking recipes in the same skill range
- Adrenal Surge ClaspNerubian Patterns, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Algari Competitor's Chain ChainmailCompetitor's Mail (PvP), learn at 1, grey at 70
- Algari Competitor's Chain CowlCompetitor's Mail (PvP), learn at 1, grey at 70
- Algari Competitor's Chain CuffsCompetitor's Mail (PvP), learn at 1, grey at 70
- Algari Competitor's Chain EpauletsCompetitor's Mail (PvP), learn at 1, grey at 70
- Algari Competitor's Chain GauntletsCompetitor's Mail (PvP), learn at 1, grey at 70
- Algari Competitor's Chain GirdleCompetitor's Mail (PvP), learn at 1, grey at 70
- Algari Competitor's Chain LeggingsCompetitor's Mail (PvP), learn at 1, grey at 70
- Algari Competitor's Chain TreadsCompetitor's Mail (PvP), learn at 1, grey at 70
- Algari Competitor's Leather BeltCompetitor's Leather (PvP), learn at 1, grey at 70
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Chitin Armor Banding cost 31 gold72 silver. Most of that is Gloom Chitin - 30 at 1 gold4 silver each, 31 gold20 silver, 98.4% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 33 gold38 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 45 gold, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 13 gold28 silver; the Auction House would keep 2 gold25 silver of a sale, leaving 11 gold3 silver. That is an estimated 34.8% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 16.9% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 351 units across 81 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 →
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