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Background
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 29 gold44 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 48 gold6 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 19 gold60 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 98 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −29 gold44 silver (-61%)
- Evidence: 49 current listings holding 8,226 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Nerubian Chitin FragmentLeather · 200 on the Auction House | 9 | 5 gold34 silver | 48 gold6 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 48 gold6 silver | 100% |
About Nerubian Chitin
One craft takes 9 Nerubian Chitin Fragment. Nerubian Chitin is itself a reagent in 14 other recipes (Leatherworking).
Nerubian Chitin tooltip
Nerubian Chitin: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 16% above its 30-day median.
- Now
- 19 gold60 silver
- 30-day low
- 4 gold Oct 10
- 30-day high
- 22 gold49 silver Oct 12
- 30-day median
- 16 gold83 silver
- 7-day median
- 18 gold
- Hourly snapshots
- 692
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Nerubian Chitin Fragment. 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); Nerubian Chitin takes the most, 10 per craft.
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Nerubian Chitin cost 48 gold6 silver.
Break-even is 50 gold58 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 19 gold60 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −28 gold46 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 98 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 29 gold44 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -61.3% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 8,226 units across 49 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 →
