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LeatherworkingClassic Leatherworking
Living Shoulders
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)
- 208 gold4 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- …
- Auction House cut (5%)
- …
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- …
- 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
- 27
- Reagent slots
- 3
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
12Rugged Leather3 gold95 silver
4Living Essence40 gold
1Rune Thread64 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rugged Leather Leather · 16,714 on the Auction House · crafted by Rugged Leather (Leatherworking) | 12 | 3 gold95 silver | 47 gold40 silver | 23% |
| Living Essence Elemental · 4,899 on the Auction House · crafted by Transmute: Earth to Life (Alchemy) | 4 | 40 gold | 160 gold | 77% |
| Rune Thread Cloth · 2,247 on the Auction House | 1 | 64 silver | 64 silver | 0% |
| Total per craft | 208 gold4 silver | 100% |
About Living Shoulders
One craft takes 12 Rugged Leather, 4 Living Essence and 1 Rune Thread. It is taught by Pattern: Living Shoulders, which needs Classic Leatherworking 270.
- Recipe category
- Shoulders (Leatherworking Patterns)
- Skill-up colours (Classic Leatherworking skill)
- Orange below 290 · Yellow 290 to 299 · Green 300 to 309 · Grey 310 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Living Shoulders tooltip
How to learn Living Shoulders
Pattern: Living Shoulders- Teaches
- Teaches you how to craft Living Shoulders.
- Requires
- Classic Leatherworking (270)
- Auction House
- listed on 27 US realms, cheapest 40 gold, 52 for sale
More Shoulders recipes (Leatherworking Patterns)
- Hillman's Shouldersyellow 155, grey 180
- Spritescale Epauletsyellow 155, grey 180
- Chain Pauldronsyellow 160, grey 185
- Earthen Leather Shouldersyellow 160, grey 185
- Dark Leather Shouldersyellow 165, grey 190
- Barbaric Shouldersyellow 195, grey 215
- Heavy Scale Pauldronsyellow 195, grey 215
- Nightscape Shouldersyellow 230, grey 250
- Wild Leather Shouldersyellow 240, grey 260
- Tough Scorpid Shouldersyellow 260, grey 280
- Ironfeather Shouldersyellow 290, grey 310
- Blue Dragonscale Shouldersyellow 315, grey 335
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 3 gold90 silver, against 3 gold95 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 73 silver, against 40 gold 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), Living Breastplate (Leatherworking, 8 per craft), Bleakwood Hew (Blacksmithing, 6 per craft), Heavy Timbermaw Boots (Blacksmithing, 6 per craft) and Living Leggings (Leatherworking, 6 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 HarnessChest, learn at 1, grey at 230
- Barbaric LeggingsPants, learn at 1, grey at 210
- 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 3 reagents for one craft of Living Shoulders cost 208 gold4 silver. Most of that is Living Essence - 4 at 40 gold each, 160 gold, 76.9% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 218 gold98 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).