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2Leatherworking Dragon Isles Leatherworking
Frostbite Scales
A Leatherworking recipe learned at Dragon Isles Leatherworking 1 that crafts 2 Frostbite Scales from 3 reagents.
Reagents
2Lustrous Scaled Hide3 gold
1Awakened Frost85 gold42 silver
1Awakened Decay27 gold29 silver
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Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 135 gold89 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 118 gold71 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 134 gold
- Items per craft
- 2
- Listed value of one craft
- 268 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 13 gold40 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 135 gold89 silver (+114%)
- Evidence: 27 current listings holding 325 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
- Items per craft: the game’s spell data creates 2 per craft, so the listed value of one craft is that many times the lowest listed price.
- Quality: Frostbite Scales 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 1 finishing reagent slot, which are not required and are left out of the cost.
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lustrous Scaled Hide Leather · 9,865 on the Auction House | 2 | 3 gold | 6 gold | 5% |
| Awakened Frost Elemental · 7,425 on the Auction House | 1 | 85 gold42 silver | 85 gold42 silver | 72% |
| Awakened Decay Elemental · 5,036 on the Auction House | 1 | 27 gold29 silver | 27 gold29 silver | 23% |
| Total per craft | 118 gold71 silver | 100% |
About Frostbite Scales
One craft takes 2 Lustrous Scaled Hide, 1 Awakened Frost and 1 Awakened Decay. Frostbite Scales is itself a reagent in 9 other recipes (Leatherworking and Engineering).
- Recipe category
- Reagents (Dragon Isles Patterns)
Frostbite Scales tooltip
Frostbite Scales quality ranks
Frostbite Scales comes in 3 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 375.
| Rank | Item | Lowest listed price | Listings (US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank 1 | Frostbite Scales | 134 gold | 27 listings, 325 units |
| Rank 2 | Frostbite Scales | 100 gold48 silver | 18 listings, 579 units |
| Rank 3 | Frostbite Scales | 146 gold57 silver | 22 listings, 1,194 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, so a craft that comes out at a higher rank is worth less at today’s listings, not more.
Frostbite Scales: 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, including the one the estimate uses, can sit far from typical.
- Now
- 134 gold
- 30-day low
- 2 gold Oct 18
- 30-day high
- 11,111 gold2 silver Oct 12
- 30-day median
- 133 gold99 silver
- 7-day median
- 135 gold
- 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
Lustrous Scaled Hide. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 3 gold, rank 2 3 gold20 silver and rank 3 11 gold99 silver. Also a required reagent in 15 other recipes (14 Leatherworking and 1 Engineering); Gnoll Tent takes the most, 15 per craft.
Awakened Frost. Made with Transmute: Awakened Frost (Alchemy, Dragon Isles Alchemy) from 1 
Awakened Earth and 1 
Awakened Air, 2 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Awakened Frost for 83 gold99 silver, against 85 gold42 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 45 other recipes (16 Alchemy, 9 Inscription, 9 Jewelcrafting and 5 Enchanting); the most per craft: Illusion: Primal Frost (Enchanting, 20 per craft), Darkmoon Deck Box: Rime (Inscription, 10 per craft), Frosted Armor Kit (Leatherworking, 10 per craft), Frozen Devotion (Enchanting, 6 per craft) and Draconic Phial Cauldron (Alchemy, 5 per craft).
Awakened Decay. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 14 other recipes (8 Alchemy, 3 Leatherworking, 2 Inscription and 1 Tailoring); the most per craft: Witherrot Tome (Leatherworking, 15 per craft), Toxified Armor Patch (Leatherworking, 8 per craft), Weathered Explorer's Stave (Inscription, 8 per craft), Forlorn Funeral Pall (Tailoring, 5 per craft) and Cauldron of Extracted Putrescence (Alchemy, 3 per craft).
More Dragon Isles Leatherworking recipes in the same skill range
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- Alchemist's HatProfession Equipment, learn at 1, grey at 50
- Allied Heartwarming Fur CoatBestial Patterns, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Allied Legguards of Sansok KhanBestial Patterns, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Ancestor's Dew DrippersElemental Patterns, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Artisan's SignToys, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Beloved Ottuk PlushieHouse Decor, learn at 1, grey at 60
- Beloved Ottuuuuuuk PlushieHouse Decor, learn at 1, grey at 60
- Bonewrought CrossbowWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 50
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Frostbite Scales cost 118 gold71 silver. Most of that is Awakened Frost - 1 at 85 gold42 silver each, 85 gold42 silver, 72.0% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 124 gold95 silver per craft, 62 gold47 silver per item at 2 items a craft - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 134 gold, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 149 gold29 silver; the Auction House would keep 13 gold40 silver of a sale, leaving 135 gold89 silver. That is an estimated 114.5% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 9.0% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 325 units across 27 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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