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LeatherworkingDragon Isles Leatherworking
Frostbite Scales
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 44 gold54 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 175 gold86 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 116 gold
- Items per craft
- 2
- Listed value of one craft
- 232 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 11 gold60 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 44 gold54 silver (+25%)
- Evidence: 25 current listings holding 1,142 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.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Leatherworking
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Dragon Isles Leatherworking
- Item level
- 60
- Reagent slots
- 3
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
2Lustrous Scaled Hide2 gold
1Awakened Frost147 gold46 silver
1Awakened Decay24 gold40 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lustrous Scaled Hide Leather · 3,629 on the Auction House | 2 | 2 gold | 4 gold | 2% |
| Awakened Frost Elemental · 2,195 on the Auction House | 1 | 147 gold46 silver | 147 gold46 silver | 84% |
| Awakened Decay Elemental · 1,227 on the Auction House | 1 | 24 gold40 silver | 24 gold40 silver | 14% |
| Total per craft | 175 gold86 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)
- Skill-up colours (Dragon Isles Leatherworking skill)
- Orange below 30 · Yellow 30 to 34 · Green 35 to 39 · Grey 40 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Frostbite Scales tooltip
More Reagents recipes (Dragon Isles Patterns)
Frostbite Scales is a reagent in
Oscillating Wilderness OpticalsEngineering- Acidic Hailstone TreadsLeatherworking
- Allied Heartwarming Fur CoatLeatherworking
- Expert Alchemist's HatLeatherworking
- Frosted Armor KitLeatherworking
- Life-Bound BootsLeatherworking
- Life-Bound GlovesLeatherworking
- Snowball MakersLeatherworking
- Toxic Thorn FootwrapsLeatherworking
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 | 116 gold | 25 listings, 1,142 units |
| Rank 2 | Frostbite Scales | 30 gold | 10 listings, 1,171 units |
| Rank 3 | Frostbite Scales | 192 gold85 silver | 18 listings, 716 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 is 17% above its 30-day median.
- Now
- 116 gold
- 30-day low
- 37 gold50 silver Sep 15
- 30-day high
- 185 gold Aug 28
- 30-day median
- 98 gold95 silver
- 7-day median
- 118 gold
- Hourly snapshots
- 688
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 2 gold, rank 2 2 gold and rank 3 27 gold34 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 90 gold40 silver, against 147 gold46 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
- Acidic Hailstone TreadsDecayed Patterns, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Adaptive Dracothyst ArmguardsMail Armor, learn at 1, grey at 100
- 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
- Bonewrought CrossbowWeapons, learn at 1, grey at 50
- Bow of the Dragon HuntersBestial Patterns, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Crimson Combatant's Adamant ChainmailBestial - Crimson Combatant, learn at 1, grey at 60
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Frostbite Scales cost 175 gold86 silver. Most of that is Awakened Frost - 1 at 147 gold46 silver each, 147 gold46 silver, 83.9% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 185 gold11 silver per craft, 92 gold55 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 116 gold, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 56 gold14 silver; the Auction House would keep 11 gold60 silver of a sale, leaving 44 gold54 silver. That is an estimated 25.3% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 20.7% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 1,142 units across 25 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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