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Medium Armor Kit

A Leatherworking recipe learned at Classic Leatherworking 75 that crafts Medium Armor Kit from 2 reagents.

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Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 13 gold70 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
14 gold17 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price
49 silver
Auction House cut (5%)
2 silver45 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price
−13 gold70 silver (-97%)
  • Evidence: 15 current listings holding 102 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
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Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Medium Leather
Leather · 32,710 on the Auction House · crafted by Medium Leather (Leatherworking)
43 gold54 silver14 gold16 silver100%
Coarse Thread
Cloth · 3,465 on the Auction House
11 silver1 silver0%
Total per craft14 gold17 silver100%

About Medium Armor Kit

One craft takes 4 Medium Leather and 1 Coarse Thread.

Recipe category
Armor Kits (Leatherworking Patterns)

Medium Armor Kit tooltip

Medium Armor Kit
Item Level 7
Item Enhancement
Requires Level 3
Use: Permanently increase the armor value of an item worn on the chest, legs, hands or feet. Cannot be applied to items higher than level.
Sell price: 2s

Medium Armor Kit: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 9% below its 30-day median. Over these 30 days the lowest listing moved more than tenfold, so a single snapshot, including the one the estimate uses, can sit far from typical.

Now
49 silver
30-day low
10 silver Oct 13
30-day high
7 gold Oct 16
30-day median
54 silver
7-day median
75 silver
Hourly snapshots
691

US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.

Where the reagents come from

Medium Leather. Made with Medium Leather (Leatherworking, Classic Leatherworking) from 4 Light Leather. At lowest listed prices that makes one Medium Leather for 5 gold4 silver, against 3 gold54 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 55 other recipes (32 Leatherworking, 12 Blacksmithing, 8 Engineering and 3 Tailoring); Hillman's Leather Gloves takes the most, 14 per craft.

Coarse Thread. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 50 other recipes (28 Leatherworking and 22 Tailoring); the most per craft: Embossed Leather Boots (Leatherworking, 5 per craft), Rugged Leather Pants (Leatherworking, 5 per craft), Embossed Leather Vest (Leatherworking, 4 per craft), Fine Leather Tunic (Leatherworking, 4 per craft) and Light Leather Bracers (Leatherworking, 4 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Medium Armor Kit cost 14 gold17 silver. Most of that is Medium Leather - 4 at 3 gold54 silver each, 14 gold16 silver, 99.9% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 14 gold91 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 49 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −13 gold68 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 2 silver45 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 13 gold70 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -96.7% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 102 units across 15 auctions region-wide. Depth separates a market price from a single asking figure, but listings are not sales, so read it alongside the estimate.

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