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TailoringClassic Tailoring
Hands of Darkness
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)
- 14 gold34 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- …
- Auction House cut (5%)
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- 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
- Tailoring
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Classic Tailoring
- Item level
- 18
- Reagent slots
- 4
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
3Bolt of Silk Cloth42 silver
2Heavy Leather4 gold40 silver
2Shadow Protection Potion2 gold11 silver
2Fine Thread3 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bolt of Silk Cloth Cloth · 60,197 on the Auction House · crafted by Bolt of Silk Cloth (Tailoring) | 3 | 42 silver | 1 gold26 silver | 9% |
| Heavy Leather Leather · 17,631 on the Auction House · crafted by Heavy Leather (Leatherworking) | 2 | 4 gold40 silver | 8 gold80 silver | 61% |
| Shadow Protection Potion Potions · 150 on the Auction House · crafted by Shadow Protection Potion (Alchemy) | 2 | 2 gold11 silver | 4 gold22 silver | 29% |
| Fine Thread Cloth · 4,933 on the Auction House | 2 | 3 silver | 6 silver | 0% |
| Total per craft | 14 gold34 silver | 100% |
About Hands of Darkness
One craft takes 3 Bolt of Silk Cloth, 2 Heavy Leather, 2 Shadow Protection Potion and 2 Fine Thread. It is taught by Pattern: Hands of Darkness, which needs Classic Tailoring 145.
- Recipe category
- Gloves (Tailoring Patterns)
- Skill-up colours (Classic Tailoring skill)
- Orange below 165 · Yellow 165 to 179 · Green 180 to 194 · Grey 195 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Hands of Darkness tooltip
How to learn Hands of Darkness
Pattern: Hands of Darkness- Teaches
- Teaches you how to sew Hands of Darkness.
- Requires
- Classic Tailoring (145)
- Auction House
- listed on 59 US realms, cheapest 121 gold30 silver, 147 for sale
More Gloves recipes (Tailoring Patterns)
- Heavy Linen Glovesyellow 60, grey 95
- Heavy Woolen Glovesyellow 110, grey 145
- Gloves of Meditationyellow 150, grey 180
- Phoenix Glovesyellow 150, grey 185
- Azure Silk Glovesyellow 165, grey 195
- Truefaith Glovesyellow 170, grey 200
- Crimson Silk Glovesyellow 225, grey 255
- Black Mageweave Glovesyellow 230, grey 260
- Stormcloth Glovesyellow 235, grey 265
- Dreamweave Glovesyellow 240, grey 270
- Red Mageweave Glovesyellow 240, grey 270
- Shadoweave Glovesyellow 240, grey 270
Where the reagents come from
Bolt of Silk Cloth. Made with Bolt of Silk Cloth (Tailoring, Classic Tailoring) from 4 
Silk Cloth. At lowest listed prices that makes one Bolt of Silk Cloth for 32 silver, against 42 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 47 other recipes (42 Tailoring and 5 Leatherworking); Crimson Silk Robe takes the most, 8 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 13 gold40 silver, against 4 gold40 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 84 other recipes (50 Leatherworking, 15 Engineering, 13 Blacksmithing and 6 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 Protection Potion. Made with Shadow Protection Potion (Alchemy, Classic Alchemy) from 1 
Grave Moss, 1 
Kingsblood and 1 
Crystal Vial. At lowest listed prices that makes one Shadow Protection Potion for 16 gold96 silver, against 2 gold11 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 1 other recipe (1 Tailoring); the most per craft: Boots of Darkness (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 (68 Leatherworking, 54 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 Tailoring recipes in the same skill range
- Admiral's HatHats & Hoods, learn at 1, grey at 285
- Argent BootsBoots, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Argent ShouldersShoulders, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Azure ShouldersShoulders, learn at 1, grey at 240
- Azure Silk BeltBelts, learn at 1, grey at 225
- Azure Silk CloakCloaks, learn at 1, grey at 225
- Azure Silk HoodHats & Hoods, learn at 1, grey at 165
- Azure Silk PantsPants, learn at 1, grey at 190
- Azure Silk VestRobes & Tunics, learn at 1, grey at 200
- Barbaric Linen VestRobes & Tunics, learn at 1, grey at 130
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 4 reagents for one craft of Hands of Darkness cost 14 gold34 silver. Most of that is Heavy Leather - 2 at 4 gold40 silver each, 8 gold80 silver, 61.4% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 15 gold9 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 →
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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).