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Recipe
Prismatic Scale
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
At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 186 gold31 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 192 gold96 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 6 gold99 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 34 silver95 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −186 gold31 silver (-97%)
- Evidence: 43 current listings holding 4,164 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Recipe facts
- Item level
- 30
- Reagent slots
- 1
- Cast time
- 1 sec
Crafts
Reagents
9Prismatic Scale Fragment21 gold44 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prismatic Scale Fragment Leather · 629 on the Auction House | 9 | 21 gold44 silver | 192 gold96 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 192 gold96 silver | 100% |
About Prismatic Scale
One craft takes 9 Prismatic Scale Fragment. Prismatic Scale is itself a reagent in 20 other recipes (Leatherworking).
Prismatic Scale tooltip
Prismatic Scale is a reagent in
Contender's Dragonscale BeltLeatherworking- Contender's Dragonscale BootsLeatherworking
- Contender's Dragonscale BracersLeatherworking
- Contender's Dragonscale ChestguardLeatherworking
- Contender's Dragonscale GlovesLeatherworking
- Contender's Dragonscale HelmLeatherworking
- Contender's Dragonscale LeggingsLeatherworking
- Contender's Dragonscale ShouldersLeatherworking
- Contender's Scale BeltLeatherworking
- Contender's Scale BootsLeatherworking
- Contender's Scale BracersLeatherworking
- Contender's Scale ChestguardLeatherworking
and 8 more recipes.
Prismatic Scale: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 17% above 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
- 6 gold99 silver
- 30-day low
- 2 gold Sep 4
- 30-day high
- 1,457 gold22 silver Sep 18
- 30-day median
- 5 gold95 silver
- 7-day median
- 5 gold75 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 685
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Prismatic Scale 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); Prismatic Scale takes the most, 10 per craft.
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Prismatic Scale cost 192 gold96 silver.
Break-even is 203 gold11 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 6 gold99 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −185 gold97 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 34 silver95 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 186 gold31 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -96.6% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 4,164 units across 43 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 →