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LeatherworkingClassic Leatherworking
Living Breastplate
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)
- 758 gold87 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
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- Auction House cut (5%)
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- Estimated profit at that listed price
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Recipe facts
- Profession
- Leatherworking
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Classic Leatherworking
- Item level
- 29
- Reagent slots
- 5
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
16Rugged Leather5 gold11 silver
8Living Essence48 gold95 silver
2Mooncloth139 gold99 silver
1Cured Rugged Hide3 gold43 silver
2Rune Thread1 gold5 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rugged Leather Leather · 17,671 on the Auction House · crafted by Rugged Leather (Leatherworking) | 16 | 5 gold11 silver | 81 gold76 silver | 11% |
| Living Essence Elemental · 4,315 on the Auction House · crafted by Transmute: Earth to Life (Alchemy) | 8 | 48 gold95 silver | 391 gold60 silver | 52% |
| Mooncloth Cloth · 1,489 on the Auction House · crafted by Mooncloth (Tailoring) | 2 | 139 gold99 silver | 279 gold98 silver | 37% |
| Cured Rugged Hide Leather · 4,304 on the Auction House · crafted by Cured Rugged Hide (Leatherworking) | 1 | 3 gold43 silver | 3 gold43 silver | 0% |
| Rune Thread Cloth · 5,755 on the Auction House | 2 | 1 gold5 silver | 2 gold10 silver | 0% |
| Total per craft | 758 gold87 silver | 100% |
About Living Breastplate
One craft takes 16 Rugged Leather, 8 Living Essence, 2 Mooncloth, 1 Cured Rugged Hide and 2 Rune Thread. It is taught by Pattern: Living Breastplate, which needs Classic Leatherworking 300.
- Recipe category
- Chest (Leatherworking Patterns)
- Skill-up colours (Classic Leatherworking skill)
- Orange below 320 · Yellow 320 to 329 · Green 330 to 339 · Grey 340 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Living Breastplate tooltip
How to learn Living Breastplate
Pattern: Living Breastplate- Teaches
- Teaches you how to craft a Living Breastplate.
- Requires
- Classic Leatherworking (300)
- Auction House
- listed on 35 US realms, cheapest 32,847 gold94 silver, 59 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
Rugged Leather. Made with Rugged Leather (Leatherworking, Classic Leatherworking) from 6 
Thick Leather. At lowest listed prices that makes one Rugged Leather for 23 gold82 silver, against 5 gold11 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 105 other recipes (77 Leatherworking, 13 Blacksmithing, 7 Engineering and 7 Tailoring); Onyxia Scale Breastplate takes the most, 40 per craft.
Living Essence. Made with Transmute: Earth to Life (Alchemy, Classic Alchemy) from 1 
Essence of Earth. At lowest listed prices that makes one Living Essence for 79 silver, against 48 gold95 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 36 other recipes (16 Leatherworking, 7 Blacksmithing, 6 Tailoring and 3 Engineering); the most per craft: Force Reactive Disk (Engineering, 12 per craft), Bleakwood Hew (Blacksmithing, 6 per craft), Heavy Timbermaw Boots (Blacksmithing, 6 per craft), Living Leggings (Leatherworking, 6 per craft) and Timbermaw Brawlers (Leatherworking, 6 per craft).
Mooncloth. Made with Mooncloth (Tailoring, Classic Tailoring) from 2 
Felcloth. At lowest listed prices that makes one Mooncloth for 106 gold20 silver, against 139 gold99 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 25 other recipes (23 Tailoring and 2 Leatherworking); the most per craft: Animist's Legguards (Leatherworking, 12 per craft), Bottomless Bag (Tailoring, 12 per craft), Dwarven District Banner (Tailoring, 12 per craft), Belt of the Archmage (Tailoring, 10 per craft) and Flarecore Robe (Tailoring, 10 per craft).
Cured Rugged Hide. Made with Cured Rugged Hide (Leatherworking, Classic Leatherworking) from 1 
Rugged Hide and 1 
Deeprock Salt. At lowest listed prices that makes one Cured Rugged Hide for 94 silver, against 3 gold43 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 69 other recipes (68 Leatherworking and 1 Engineering); the most per craft: Displacement Boots (Leatherworking, 12 per craft), Helm of Lingering Power (Leatherworking, 12 per craft), Animist's Legguards (Leatherworking, 9 per craft), Junglefury Leggings (Leatherworking, 9 per craft) and Icy Scale Crown (Leatherworking, 8 per craft).
Rune Thread. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 215 other recipes (128 Leatherworking and 87 Tailoring); the most per craft: Displacement Boots (Leatherworking, 10 per craft), Belt of the Archmage (Tailoring, 6 per craft), Helm of Lingering Power (Leatherworking, 6 per craft), Lucien's Lost Soles (Leatherworking, 6 per craft) and Sanctified Leather Hat (Leatherworking, 6 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 5 reagents for one craft of Living Breastplate cost 758 gold87 silver. Most of that is Living Essence - 8 at 48 gold95 silver each, 391 gold60 silver, 51.6% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 798 gold81 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).