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Background
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 32 silver10 copper. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 3 gold8 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 3 gold58 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 17 silver90 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 32 silver10 copper (+10%)
- Evidence: 61 current listings holding 20,676 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Knothide Leather ScrapsLeather · 4,113 on the Auction House | 4 | 77 silver | 3 gold8 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 3 gold8 silver | 100% |
About Knothide Leather
One craft takes 4 Knothide Leather Scraps. Knothide Leather is itself a reagent in 31 other recipes (Leatherworking, Tailoring, Blacksmithing and Engineering).
Knothide Leather tooltip
Where the reagents come from
Knothide Leather Scraps. 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); Knothide Leather takes the most, 5 per craft.
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Knothide Leather cost 3 gold8 silver.
Break-even is 3 gold24 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 3 gold58 silver, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 50 silver; the Auction House would keep 17 silver90 copper of a sale, leaving 32 silver10 copper. That is an estimated 10.4% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 35.8% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 20,676 units across 61 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 →
