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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 44,835 gold26 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 44,996 gold76 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 170 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 8 gold50 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −44,835 gold26 silver (-100%)
- Evidence: 28 current listings holding 5,720 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Cobra Scale FragmentLeather · 9 on the Auction House | 9 | 4,999 gold64 silver | 44,996 gold76 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 44,996 gold76 silver | 100% |
About Cobra Scales
One craft takes 9 Cobra Scale Fragment. Cobra Scales is itself a reagent in 9 other recipes (Leatherworking).
Cobra Scales tooltip
Cobra Scales: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 8% 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
- 170 gold
- 30-day low
- 12 gold Oct 11
- 30-day high
- 569 gold93 silver Oct 14
- 30-day median
- 184 gold80 silver
- 7-day median
- 167 gold
- Hourly snapshots
- 692
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Cobra Scale 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); Cobra Scales takes the most, 10 per craft.
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Cobra Scales cost 44,996 gold76 silver.
Break-even is 47,365 gold1 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 170 gold, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −44,826 gold76 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 8 gold50 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 44,835 gold26 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -99.6% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 5,720 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 →
