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LeatherworkingClassic Leatherworking
Guardian Armor
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
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 303 gold55 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- …
- Auction House cut (5%)
- …
- Estimated profit at that listed price
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- Not included: the recipe also accepts 1 optional reagent slot, which are not required and are left out of the cost.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Leatherworking
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Classic Leatherworking
- Item level
- 20
- Reagent slots
- 4
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
2Cured Heavy Hide96 gold93 silver
12Heavy Leather5 gold88 silver
1Shadow Oil38 gold95 silver
2Fine Thread9 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cured Heavy Hide Leather · 5,748 on the Auction House · crafted by Cured Heavy Hide (Leatherworking) | 2 | 96 gold93 silver | 193 gold86 silver | 64% |
| Heavy Leather Leather · 18,591 on the Auction House · crafted by Heavy Leather (Leatherworking) | 12 | 5 gold88 silver | 70 gold56 silver | 23% |
| Shadow Oil Other · 176 on the Auction House · crafted by Shadow Oil (Alchemy) | 1 | 38 gold95 silver | 38 gold95 silver | 13% |
| Fine Thread Cloth · 4,578 on the Auction House | 2 | 9 silver | 18 silver | 0% |
| Total per craft | 303 gold55 silver | 100% |
About Guardian Armor
One craft takes 2 Cured Heavy Hide, 12 Heavy Leather, 1 Shadow Oil and 2 Fine Thread. It is taught by Pattern: Guardian Armor, which needs Classic Leatherworking 175.
- Recipe category
- Chest (Leatherworking Patterns)
- Skill-up colours (Classic Leatherworking skill)
- Orange below 195 · Yellow 195 to 204 · Green 205 to 214 · Grey 215 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Guardian Armor tooltip
How to learn Guardian Armor
Pattern: Guardian Armor- Teaches
- Teaches you how to craft Guardian Armor.
- Requires
- Classic Leatherworking (175)
- Auction House
- listed on 65 US realms, cheapest 165 gold90 silver, 192 for sale
More Chest recipes (Leatherworking Patterns)
- Handstitched Leather Vestyellow 40, grey 70
- Embossed Leather Vestyellow 70, grey 100
- White Leather Jerkinyellow 90, grey 120
- Fine Leather Tunicyellow 115, grey 145
- Light Scale Jerkinyellow 115, grey 145
- Moonglow Vestyellow 115, grey 145
- Black Whelp Tunicyellow 125, grey 150
- Chain Hauberkyellow 125, grey 150
- Crackling Scale Breastplateyellow 125, grey 150
- Dark Leather Tunicyellow 125, grey 150
- Hillman's Leather Vestyellow 125, grey 150
- Murloc Scale Breastplateyellow 125, grey 155
Where the reagents come from
Cured Heavy Hide. Made with Cured Heavy Hide (Leatherworking, Classic Leatherworking) from 1 
Heavy Hide and 3 
Salt. At lowest listed prices that makes one Cured Heavy Hide for 70 gold3 silver, against 96 gold93 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 19 other recipes (19 Leatherworking); Gem-studded Leather Belt takes the most, 4 per craft.
Heavy Leather. Made with Heavy Leather (Leatherworking, Classic Leatherworking) from 5 
Medium Leather. At lowest listed prices that makes one Heavy Leather for 12 gold50 silver, against 5 gold88 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 84 other recipes (49 Leatherworking, 15 Engineering, 13 Blacksmithing and 7 Tailoring); the most per craft: Dusky Bracers (Leatherworking, 16 per craft), Barbaric Harness (Leatherworking, 14 per craft), Guardian Cloak (Leatherworking, 14 per craft), Murloc Scale Bracers (Leatherworking, 14 per craft) and Comfortable Leather Hat (Leatherworking, 12 per craft).
Shadow Oil. Made with Shadow Oil (Alchemy, Classic Alchemy) from 2 Grave Moss and 1 
Crystal Vial. At lowest listed prices that makes one Shadow Oil for 28 gold1 silver, against 38 gold95 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 6 other recipes (2 Leatherworking, 1 Blacksmithing, 1 Alchemy and 1 Tailoring); the most per craft: Shadow Crescent Axe (Blacksmithing, 2 per craft), Dusky Leather Armor (Leatherworking, 1 per craft), Greater Shadow Protection Potion (Alchemy, 1 per craft), Heavy Scale Shirt (Leatherworking, 1 per craft) and Shadow Hood (Tailoring, 1 per craft).
Fine Thread. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 123 other recipes (67 Leatherworking, 55 Tailoring and 1 Blacksmithing); the most per craft: High Society Top Hat (Tailoring, 4 per craft), Black Silk Pack (Tailoring, 4 per craft), Green Leather Armor (Leatherworking, 4 per craft), Heavy Woolen Pants (Tailoring, 4 per craft) and Hillman's Leather Gloves (Leatherworking, 4 per craft).
More Classic Leatherworking recipes in the same skill range
- Animist's FootwrapsAncient Patterns, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Animist's LegguardsAncient Patterns, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Barbaric BeltBelts, learn at 1, grey at 240
- Barbaric BracersBracers, learn at 1, grey at 195
- Barbaric GlovesGloves, learn at 1, grey at 190
- Barbaric LeggingsPants, learn at 1, grey at 210
- Barbaric ShouldersShoulders, learn at 1, grey at 215
- Big Voodoo CloakCloaks, learn at 1, grey at 280
- Big Voodoo MaskHelms, learn at 1, grey at 260
- Big Voodoo PantsPants, learn at 1, grey at 280
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 4 reagents for one craft of Guardian Armor cost 303 gold55 silver. Most of that is Cured Heavy Hide - 2 at 96 gold93 silver each, 193 gold86 silver, 63.9% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 319 gold52 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item has no current Auction House listing to compare it against, so the estimate above is left unknown rather than guessed.
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 →
Other recipes that use Cured Heavy Hide
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Data notes
- No Auction House price for the crafted item - output value unknown (it may be soulbound/BoE gear or an untracked item).