Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 6 gold78 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 55 gold91 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 65 gold99 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 3 gold29 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: 6 gold78 silver (+12%)

Evidence: 28 current listings holding 146 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Quality: Sporecoated Hide comes in 3 quality ranks. This is the base comparison, rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result; your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide the rank you actually get, which this estimate does not model. Each rank’s lowest listing is in the rank table below.
Not included: the recipe also accepts 2 finishing reagent slots, which are not required and are left out of the cost.

Verified priceAuction House2 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Leatherworking
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Khaz Algar Leatherworking
Item level: 70
Reagent slots: 2
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Sporecoated Hide65 gold

Reagents

1Carapace-Backed Hide18 gold81 silver
5Viridescent Spores7 gold42 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Carapace-Backed Hide Leather · 294 on the Auction House	1	18 gold81 silver	18 gold81 silver	34%
Viridescent Spores Other · 10,273 on the Auction House	5	7 gold42 silver	37 gold10 silver	66%
Total per craft			55 gold91 silver	100%

About Sporecoated Hide

One craft takes 1 Carapace-Backed Hide and 5 Viridescent Spores. Sporecoated Hide is itself a reagent in 14 other recipes (Leatherworking and Engineering).

Recipe category: Reagents (Khaz Algar Patterns)
Skill-up colours (Khaz Algar Leatherworking skill): Orange below 35 · Yellow 35 to 41 · Green 42 to 49 · Grey 50 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Sporecoated Hide tooltip

Sporecoated Hide

Item Level 70

Trade Goods

“Crafted by players with the Leatherworking skill. Can be bought and sold on the Auction House.”

Sell price: 2g 85s

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Sporecoated Hide is a reagent in

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Sporecoated Hide quality ranks

Sporecoated Hide comes in 3 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 400.

Rank	Item	Lowest listed price	Listings (US)
Rank 1	Sporecoated Hide	65 gold99 silver	28 listings, 146 units
Rank 2	Sporecoated Hide	50 gold	37 listings, 1,935 units
Rank 3	Sporecoated Hide	99 gold	28 listings, 329 units

The crafting estimate above is the base comparison: rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result. Your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide which rank a craft actually makes, so a higher rank is never priced against rank 1 reagents here. Right now rank 1 lists above rank 2, so a craft that comes out at a higher rank is worth less at today’s listings, not more.

Sporecoated Hide: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 38% 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: 65 gold99 silver
30-day low: 12 gold99 silver Sep 20
30-day high: 22,222 gold22 silver Sep 11
30-day median: 47 gold83 silver
7-day median: 75 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

Carapace-Backed Hide. Made with Carapace-Backed Hide (Leatherworking, Khaz Algar Leatherworking) from 1 Thunderous Hide, 1 Sunless Carapace, 5 Honed Bone Shards and 5 Mosswool Thread. At lowest listed prices that makes one Carapace-Backed Hide for 4 gold98 silver, against 18 gold81 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 18 gold81 silver, rank 2 18 gold74 silver and rank 3 40 gold. Also a required reagent in 20 other recipes (20 Leatherworking); Well-Lit Incontinental Couch takes the most, 6 per craft.

Viridescent Spores. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 46 other recipes (25 Enchanting, 14 Inscription, 4 Alchemy and 1 Leatherworking); the most per craft: Silver Tongue's Quill (Inscription, 20 per craft), Algari Missive of the Aurora (Inscription, 5 per craft), Algari Missive of the Feverflare (Inscription, 5 per craft), Algari Missive of the Fireflash (Inscription, 5 per craft) and Algari Missive of the Harmonious (Inscription, 5 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Sporecoated Hide cost 55 gold91 silver. Most of that is Viridescent Spores - 5 at 7 gold42 silver each, 37 gold10 silver, 66.4% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 58 gold85 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 65 gold99 silver, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 10 gold8 silver; the Auction House would keep 3 gold29 silver of a sale, leaving 6 gold78 silver. That is an estimated 12.1% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 32.7% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 146 units across 28 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 →

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