Raw Spotted Yellowtail

What is Raw Spotted Yellowtail?

Raw Spotted Yellowtail is a common cooking item in World of Warcraft: Forever. Used in 2 recipes including Spotted Yellowtail and Specklefin Feast.

Where do you buy Raw Spotted Yellowtail?

Vendors sell it for 80c and buy it back for 4c. It can also be listed on the auction house, and the vendors and zones players have seen it at are listed on this page as they are reported.

What is Raw Spotted Yellowtail used for?

It is a reagent in 2 Forever recipes, including Spotted Yellowtail and Specklefin Feast.

How much does Raw Spotted Yellowtail cost on the auction house?

About 27c at the median on Normal Horde US, from the scan at 2026-11-09 08:10 UTC. Across the 18 Forever markets with a price it runs from 18c on Normal Horde EU to 4s 99c on RP PvP Alliance EU.

Is Raw Spotted Yellowtail different in Forever than in Classic Era?

No. Forever keeps the same item level, requirements, and vendor prices as Classic Era.

How fast does Raw Spotted Yellowtail sell on the auction house?

Barely sells on Normal Horde US: about 78 sold a day over the last week, and the current listings clear in about 18 days. AHledger estimates it from consecutive scans of the auction house; a cancelled listing can look like a sale, so the figure is a guide.

Where is the best place to farm Raw Spotted Yellowtail?

Of the sources players have reported, Brinescale Skirmisher in Stranglethorn Vale drops it most often: 2% of 55 loot windows. A stack of 20 takes about 550 kills at that rate, and sells for 5s 40c at the median on Normal Horde US.

What is the best thing to craft with Raw Spotted Yellowtail?

At the current medians on Normal Horde US, Spotted Yellowtail (Cooking) pays the most of the recipes that use it: +3s 1c a craft after the auction house cut.

Unchanged from Classic Era: Raw Spotted Yellowtail keeps the same item level, requirements, stats, and vendor prices in Forever.

Era values from Blizzard's Game Data API; Forever values from Forever's game data.

Class

Trade Goods

Subclass

Cooking

Quality

common

Item level

45

Requires level

35

Stack size

20

Vendor sell

4c

Vendor buy

80c

Blizzard item id

4603

Client build

1.60.1 (build 70862)

How to make gold at level 30 to 40

• Vendors sell it for 80c and buy it back for 4c. That is the ceiling for an auction price while vendors stock it.
• Consumed by 2 recipes, which is where its demand comes from.
• Dropped by
  • Brinescale Skirmisher in Stranglethorn Vale (The Vile Reef)2% of 55 looted
• Sold by Innkeeper Heather in Westfall (Sentinel Hill) for 72c, Laird in Darkshore (Auberdine) for 72c, Innkeeper Wiley in The Barrens (Ratchet) for 80c, Kilxx in The Barrens (Ratchet) for 80c, Wik'Tar in Ashenvale (Zoram'gar Outpost) for 72c, Vernon Hale in Redridge Mountains (Lakeshire) for 72c and 19 more.
• Fished in Stranglethorn Vale (Booty Bay) (20% of 577 looted), in The Hinterlands (The Overlook Cliffs) (33% of 86 looted), in Dustwallow Marsh (The Great Sea) (5% of 328 looted), in Tanaris (Lost Rigger Cove) (5% of 235 looted).
• Farm it or buy it. The best reported spot is Brinescale Skirmisher in Stranglethorn Vale (The Vile Reef) at 2% of 55 loot windows, about 550 kills for a stack of 20. A stack sells for 5s 40c at the median on Normal Horde US.
• Sources are what 55 players running the addon saw in game, summed across everyone who contributes; a rate needs at least twenty loot windows.

Seen inside Excavation Site: Wetlands.

• Stranglethorn Vale
• Westfall
• Darkshore
• The Barrens