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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 26 gold49 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
29 gold80 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price
3 gold48 silver
Auction House cut (5%)
17 silver40 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price
−26 gold49 silver (-89%)
  • Evidence: 128 current listings holding 4,484 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Verified priceAuction HouseUS region
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Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Prismatic Scale Fragment
Leather · 1,220 on the Auction House
102 gold98 silver29 gold80 silver100%
Total per craft29 gold80 silver100%

About Prismatic Scale

One craft takes 10 Prismatic Scale Fragment. Prismatic Scale is itself a reagent in 20 other recipes (Leatherworking).

Recipe category
Materials (Pandaria Patterns)

Prismatic Scale tooltip

Prismatic Scale
Item Level 30
Trade Goods
Sell price: 5s

Prismatic Scale: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 10% 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
6 gold
30-day low
24 silver Nov 4
30-day high
197 gold Oct 24
30-day median
6 gold68 silver
7-day median
7 gold54 silver
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

Prismatic Scale Fragment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it.

More Pandaria Leatherworking recipes in the same skill range

Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Prismatic Scale cost 29 gold80 silver.

Break-even is 31 gold36 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 3 gold48 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −26 gold32 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 17 silver40 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 26 gold49 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -88.9% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 4,484 units across 128 auctions region-wide. Depth separates a market price from a single asking figure, but listings are not sales, so read it alongside the estimate.

Guides and routes on this site that cover Prismatic Scale.

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