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Maroon Ink
Inscription
Verified US market
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Maroon Ink details
| Type | Inscription |
|---|---|
| Item level | 45 |
| Max stack | 1,000 |
| Vendor sell price | 5 silver |
| Expansion | Battle for Azeroth |
| First seen in our data | build 12.0.7.68887 |
Read from the 12.1.0.69875 game build. Prices are US Auction House data.
What Maroon Ink is used in
Inscription
"Needs" is how many one craft consumes. Reagent cost adds up the required materials at the cheapest current listing of each; it is left blank when any reagent has no live price. Recipes, quantities, products and skill tiers are read from the game data.
Crafting value of Maroon Ink
Maroon Ink goes into 10 recipes: 10 in Inscription. All of them are Kul Tiran Inscription recipes.
The highest-listed product is Contract: Ankoan, from Kul Tiran Inscription, at 499 gold99 silver on the US Auction House.
One craft of Contract: Ankoan takes 20 Maroon Ink plus 1 Light Parchment and 5 Ultramarine Ink; at current prices those reagents cost 56 gold26 silver per craft.
Maroon Ink is about 94% of that reagent bill at its current price; Light Parchment and Ultramarine Ink make up the rest.
The cheapest craft that uses Maroon Ink is Vantus Rune: Ny'alotha, the Waking City (Kul Tiran Inscription): its reagents cost 44 gold31 silver and Vantus Rune: Ny'alotha, the Waking City lists at 50 gold61 silver.
4 of the 8 distinct products have a current US commodity price.
Leveling and recipes for Maroon Ink
Leveling with Maroon Ink: Contract: Ankoan (Contracts) turns yellow at Inscription skill 165 and grey at 175. Contract: Unshackled (Contracts) turns yellow at Inscription skill 165 and grey at 175. Highborne Compendium of Mystical Bulwark (Trinkets) stops giving Inscription skill-ups at 175. Highborne Compendium of Storms (Trinkets) stops giving Inscription skill-ups at 175. Highborne Compendium of Sundering (Trinkets) stops giving Inscription skill-ups at 175. Highborne Compendium of Swirling Tides (Trinkets) stops giving Inscription skill-ups at 175.
Recipe items that teach these crafts: Technique: Contract: Ankoan, Technique: Contract: Unshackled, Vantus Rune Technique: Ny'alotha, the Waking City and Vantus Rune Technique: The Eternal Palace.
Reagents used with Maroon Ink
Maroon Ink is most often combined with Light Parchment, which shares 10 of its 10 recipes; next come Ultramarine Ink and Expulsom.
Light Parchment 10 shared recipes
Ultramarine Ink 10 shared recipes
Expulsom 6 shared recipes
How to make Maroon Ink
| Recipe | Profession | Skill tier and category | Reagents | Makes | Reagents per craft (US) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inscription | Kul Tiran Inscription, Inks, grey at 175 |
| 1 | 4 gold |
Maroon Ink (Kul Tiran Inscription) combines 1 Distilled Water and 1 Maroon Pigment, and those reagents cost 4 gold2 silver; buying 1 Maroon Ink instead costs 2 gold65 silver.
What Maroon Ink is crafted into
Highborne Compendium of Mystical Bulwark (Miscellaneous). Made with Highborne Compendium of Mystical Bulwark, 45 Maroon Ink per craft.
Highborne Compendium of Storms (Miscellaneous). Made with Highborne Compendium of Storms, 45 Maroon Ink per craft.
Highborne Compendium of Sundering (Miscellaneous). Made with Highborne Compendium of Sundering, 45 Maroon Ink per craft.
Highborne Compendium of Swirling Tides (Miscellaneous). Made with Highborne Compendium of Swirling Tides, 45 Maroon Ink per craft.
Maroon Ink: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 45% below its 30-day median. Over these 30 days the lowest listing moved more than tenfold, so a single snapshot can sit far from typical.
| Now | 2 gold65 silver |
|---|---|
| 30-day low | 1 gold Sep 18 |
| 30-day high | 197 gold Sep 6 |
| 30-day median | 4 gold80 silver |
| 7-day median | 2 gold75 silver |
| Hourly snapshots | 681 |
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Maroon Ink by region
Americas and Oceania (US) has the lowest listing of the regions we track. Each region is a separate Auction House, so gold and items do not move between them.
| Region | Lowest listed price | Listings | Units |
|---|---|---|---|
| Americas and Oceania (US) | 2 gold70 silver | 39 | 1,100 |
| Europe (EU) | 4 gold29 silver | 62 | 5,090 |
Other reagents in the same recipe tiers as Maroon Ink
Kul Tiran Inscription has 121 recipes. Besides Maroon Ink, the reagents they call for most are Light Parchment (95 recipes), Ultramarine Ink (80 recipes), Crimson Ink (69 recipes), Viridescent Ink (29 recipes), Expulsom (21 recipes), Distilled Water (8 recipes), Darkpine Lumber (6 recipes), Monelite Ore (4 recipes), Acacia Powder (3 recipes), Aromatic Fish Oil (3 recipes).
Inscription priced near Maroon Ink
Six of Storms2 gold
Eight of Storms2 gold
Five of Storms2 gold
Six of Lunacy2 gold
Eight of Blessings2 gold
Five of Blessings2 gold
Ace of Blessings2 gold
Roseate Pigment2 gold
Five of Lunacy2 gold
Ace of Storms2 gold
Ace of Lunacy2 gold
Seven of Furies2 gold
About Maroon Ink
Maroon Ink is a crafting material in World of Warcraft. This page tracks its verified Auction House price and the recipes that consume it, so you can judge whether it is worth farming, buying, or selling right now.
Demand comes from Inscription. When a recipe that uses Maroon Ink spikes in value, the material tends to follow, so watch the recipes above alongside the price history.
To read the chart: compare the current lowest listing against the typical range. A price sitting below its recent band is a buy or craft signal; a price above it favors selling or farming. The method matters more than any single number, since commodity prices move between hourly snapshots.