Skinning Recipes - Cost to Craft & Profit

Skinning at current prices

Every figure is an estimate at current lowest listed prices: listings are asking prices, not sales. A craft is ranked here only when its finished item and every reagent have a current listing, the estimated profit survives Blizzard’s 5% Auction House cut, enough people are listing the finished item that its price is a market rather than one seller’s ask, and that lowest listing is within 3 times its own 30-day median.

4 of the 33 Skinning recipes clear that bar right now. Of the rest, 4 show an estimated profit on a listing too thin or too far from its own 30-day median to rank and 25 have a reagent or an output with no current listing, so no estimate is claimed for them.

Ranked crafts

4of 33 recipes

Top estimated profit

16 gold71 silverone craft, after the cut

Typical ranked craft

7 gold54 silvermedian of the ranked list

No estimate

25a price is missing, so none is guessed

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 →

Where the money is

• Biggest estimated profitArathor Hammerfish Lure16 gold71 silver estimated, per craftmaterials 1 gold · keeps 88% of the listed value
• Smallest material billSpecular Rainbowfish Lure6 gold69 silver estimated, per craftmaterials 90 silver · keeps 84% of the listed value

Best Skinning crafts right now

The 4 Skinning crafts with the highest estimated profit that clear the market bar, highest first. Listed value is the finished item’s lowest listed price times the items one craft makes; Break-even is the listed value that would cover the materials and the 5% cut; Keeps is the share of the listed value left after both. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Recipe	Crafts	Materials	Listed value	Break-even	Estimated profit	Keeps
Arathor Hammerfish Lure	Arathor Hammerfish Lure	1 gold34 silver	19 gold	1 gold41 silver	16 gold71 silver	88%
Quiet River Bass Lure	Quiet River Bass Lure	1 gold10 silver	9 gold99 silver	1 gold15 silver	8 gold39 silver	84%
Specular Rainbowfish Lure	Specular Rainbowfish Lure	90 silver	7 gold99 silver	94 silver74 copper	6 gold69 silver	84%
Islefin Dorado Lure	Islefin Dorado Lure	1 gold90 silver	7 gold55 silver	2 gold	5 gold27 silver	70%

Where to go next

• Farming routesWhere the reagents in these recipes are gathered.
• All profession guidesLeveling paths for every profession that has one.