The two options for where to get Cerulean Dye in WoW Forever are Alchemy crafting and the auction house. Its uses span Tailoring, Enchanting, Leatherworking and Engineering.
How to craft Cerulean Dye
Recipe, trainer and materials
- Learn the recipe from an Alchemy trainer; Alchemist Mallory in Goldshire is one option.
- Supply 2 Frilled Lichen and 1 Empty Vial for each craft.
- Cast the recipe, which takes 5 seconds and has no cooldown.
The learning requirement is Alchemy 40. Training costs 1s 50c or 1s 57c.
Skill points and item details
The recipe becomes yellow at 50, green at 70 and gray at 90; gray crafts give no further skill points. We'd stop using it for leveling at that point, since further crafts cannot advance your Alchemy.
Cerulean Dye is an Uncommon, item-level-25 reagent in build 1.60.1.70888, and Classic Era's client has no corresponding item. It stacks to 20.
For the rest of your profession progression, use our WoW Forever Alchemy guide.
Where to find Frilled Lichen and Empty Vials
Frilled Lichen
Herbalism gathers Frilled Lichen as an additional drop alongside ordinary herbs; scarce materials do not have dedicated gathering nodes. Farming it therefore means gathering herbs rather than searching for a separate lichen node.
You can buy Frilled Lichen on the auction house instead of gathering it yourself. Our WoW Forever Herbalism guide covers the gathering side of the profession.
Empty Vials
Vendors sell Empty Vials, and they are also traded on the auction house. The vial is a purchased component rather than another herb to farm.
Where to buy Cerulean Dye
For non-alchemists, the finished dye is available through the auction house. We'd buy the finished reagent for an occasional craft rather than take up Alchemy solely for it: you can obtain the dye directly without learning its recipe.
On November 12, Cerulean Dye appeared in all 8 auction houses measured in each of the US and EU regions; house prices ranged from 22s 50c to 44s 17c in the US and from 17s 19c to 39s 34c in the EU. Those ranges make your own realm's price more useful than a single universal buying target.
A vendor pays you 75c for one Cerulean Dye. That is its resale value to an NPC, not an auction purchase price.
What Cerulean Dye is used for
Recipe totals run from 56 to 127 or 131. The 131-recipe breakdown assigns 108 to Tailoring, 12 to Enchanting, 9 to Leatherworking and 2 to Engineering.
Tailoring: bags and cloth equipment
Useful bag recipes and representative cloth crafts take the following amounts; the skill column shows when each recipe becomes yellow, not when you can first learn it.
| Craft | Cerulean Dye per craft | Yellow at Tailoring |
| Woolen Reagent Bag | 1 | 75 |
| Filigreed Flame Gown | 2 | 80 |
| Flame Gloves | 3 | 100 |
| Flame Circlet | 4 | 125 |
| Flame Gown | 6 | 130 |
| Silk Reagent Bag | 3 | 135 |
| Flame Leggings | 8 | 145 |
| Gilded Handwraps | 1 | 185 |
| Mageweave Reagent Bag | 1 | 205 |
| Runecloth Bag | 2 | 230 |
| Mooncloth Bag | 4 | 270 |
| Mooncloth Reagent Bag | 1 | 270 |
The first-learning requirement for Woolen Reagent Bag is Tailoring 70; Filigreed Flame Gown is Tailoring 75.
The other bag ingredients vary: Woolen Reagent Bag uses Bolt of Woolen Cloth and Fine Thread, while Silk Reagent Bag adds Bolt of Silk Cloth, Heavy Leather and Fine Thread. Mageweave Reagent Bag uses Bolt of Mageweave, Heavy Silken Thread and Magenta Dye alongside its Cerulean Dye.
Runecloth Bag also needs Bolt of Runecloth, Rugged Leather, Rune Thread and Magenta Dye; Mooncloth Bag instead combines Bolt of Runecloth, Mooncloth, Rune Thread and both Viridian and Magenta Dye with its Cerulean Dye. Gilded Handwraps additionally use Bolt of Mageweave, Heavy Silken Thread, Magenta Dye and Gold Bar.
Enchanting: enchants, staves and relics
Dreamstaff. Image: Wowhead.
Enchanting uses include the following examples.
| Craft | Cerulean Dye per craft | Yellow at Enchanting |
| Enchant Weapon – Revelation | 4 | 140 |
| Dreamstaff | 2 | 225 |
| Radiant Staff | 2 | 225 |
| Libram of Invocation | 1 | 225 |
| Talons of Wrath | 1 | 225 |
| Enchant Necklace – Deflection | 4 | 225 |
| Enchant Necklace – Spell Power | 4 | 225 |
| Truesilver Conduit | 1 | 225 |
| Twisting Essence Jar | 1 | 225 |
Idol of the Dream, Libram of Holy Alacrity and Totem of Thunder each consume 2 dye and have a yellow threshold of 320.
Leatherworking: Stormrider's gear
Every listed Stormrider's Leather recipe consumes the dye, with different quantities by piece.
| Craft | Cerulean Dye per craft | Yellow at Leatherworking |
| Stormrider's Leather Armor | 1 | 80 |
| Stormrider's Leather Belt | 1 | 90 |
| Stormrider's Leather Gloves | 2 | 100 |
| Stormrider's Leather Pants | 2 | 105 |
| Stormrider's Leather Boots | 3 | 110 |
| Stormrider's Leather Hood | 4 | 125 |
| Stormrider's Leather Helm | 3 | 130 |
| Stormrider's Leather Tunic | 6 | 135 |
| Stormrider's Leather Kilt | 8 | 150 |
Engineering: tabs and batteries
SAF-T Tabs and 9-60 Battery Pack each require 1 Cerulean Dye; their yellow skill thresholds are Engineering 25 and 125 respectively.
Cerulean Dye prices on US and EU realms
The November 12, 2026 US and EU scans below show regional median house prices per item; prices differ by realm and change daily.
Frilled Lichen and Empty Vials are priced individually, while the daily sales figures represent an average realm in each region. Cerulean Dye sells more units per day than any of the finished bags shown here in both regions.
| Item | US price | EU price | Sold a day, US / EU |
| Cerulean Dye | 32s 45c | 29s 27c | 220 / 211 |
| Frilled Lichen | 14s 65c | 12s 77c | 347 / 341 |
| Empty Vial | 12c | 12c | 785 / 216 |
| Woolen Reagent Bag | 53s | 48s 65c | 60 / 45 |
| Silk Reagent Bag | 2g 21s | 2g 2s | 6 / 23 |
| Mageweave Reagent Bag | 3g 88s | 3g 35s | 8 / 16 |
| Runecloth Bag | 6g 42s | 5g 61s | 3 / 24 |
| Mooncloth Bag | 85g | 75g | 1 / 2 |
What players reported about Frilled Lichen
Seven players on the official WoW: Forever forums reported unusually sparse Frilled Lichen drops while leveling Herbalism in posts from October 7–14. Three players on those forums reported that drops seemed to decline after the beta's opening days, in posts from October 8–14.
Two players on the official forums reported no improvement from the Legacy scarce-resource talent in October 8–14 posts. Two players on those forums reported an apparent bug stopping drops beyond level 26 in October 15–17 posts.
One player on the official forums reported on October 8 that Briarthorn in Silverpine Forest yielded lichen more often than Earthroot in the Barrens. One player on those forums reported gathering approximately six Frilled Lichen an hour in certain zones on October 8.
