Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 34 gold25 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 51 gold35 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 18 gold
Auction House cut (5%): 90 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: −34 gold25 silver (-67%)

Evidence: 14 current listings holding 55 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Outlier: the crafted item’s lowest listing is 80% below its 30-day median of 91 gold, so this estimate rests on a listing far below its usual level.
Quality: Writhing 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 House1 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

Writhing Hide18 gold

Reagents

1Carapace-Backed Hide20 gold45 silver
5Writhing Sample6 gold18 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Carapace-Backed Hide Leather · 200 on the Auction House	1	20 gold45 silver	20 gold45 silver	40%
Writhing Sample Other · 19,306 on the Auction House	5	6 gold18 silver	30 gold90 silver	60%
Total per craft			51 gold35 silver	100%

About Writhing Hide

One craft takes 1 Carapace-Backed Hide and 5 Writhing Sample. Writhing Hide is itself a reagent in 8 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

Writhing Hide tooltip

Writhing 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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Writhing Hide quality ranks

Writhing 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	Writhing Hide	18 gold	14 listings, 55 units
Rank 2	Writhing Hide	30 gold	23 listings, 1,030 units
Rank 3	Writhing Hide	34 gold	35 listings, 922 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.

Writhing Hide: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 80% 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: 18 gold
30-day low: 5 gold Sep 10
30-day high: 23,333 gold33 silver Sep 11
30-day median: 91 gold
7-day median: 70 gold
Hourly snapshots: 689

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 6 gold45 silver, against 20 gold45 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 20 gold45 silver, rank 2 11 gold11 silver and rank 3 55 gold26 silver. Also a required reagent in 20 other recipes (20 Leatherworking); Well-Lit Incontinental Couch takes the most, 6 per craft.

Writhing Sample. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 24 other recipes (9 Inscription, 6 Enchanting, 5 Alchemy and 2 Tailoring); the most per craft: Vagabond's Bounding Baton (Inscription, 20 per craft), Vagabond's Careful Crutch (Inscription, 20 per craft), Vagabond's Torch (Inscription, 20 per craft), Cursed Critical Strike (Enchanting, 10 per craft) and Cursed Haste (Enchanting, 10 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Writhing Hide cost 51 gold35 silver. Most of that is Writhing Sample - 5 at 6 gold18 silver each, 30 gold90 silver, 60.2% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 54 gold5 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 18 gold, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −33 gold35 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 90 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 34 gold25 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -66.7% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 55 units across 14 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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