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Ruby Pigment

Inscription

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Verified US market

Lowest listed price3 gold5 silver
Median listing4 gold51 silver
17,330 available42 listings
Verified priceAuction Housecommodity

Commodities share one Auction House per region, so this price applies account-wide on US realms. Verify in-game before you trade.

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Ruby Pigment details

TypeInscription
Item level10
Max stack1,000
Vendor sell price25 copper
ExpansionClassic
First seen in our databuild 3.80.2.69874

Read from the 12.1.0.69875 game build. Prices are US Auction House data.

In-game tooltip for Ruby Pigment: "Rarely found when milling Firebloom, Purple Lotus, Arthas' Tears, Sungrass, Blindweed, Ghost Mushroom, or Gromsblood."

What Ruby Pigment is used in

Inscription

RecipeSkill tier and categoryNeedsOther reagentsMakesLists at (US)Reagents per craft
Fiery InkClassic Inscription, Ink, grey at 2301Fiery Ink2 gold3 gold

"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 Ruby Pigment

Ruby Pigment goes into one recipe, Fiery Ink, taught in Classic Inscription.

Its product, Fiery Ink, from Classic Inscription, lists at 2 gold on the US Auction House.

One craft of Fiery Ink takes 1 Ruby Pigment; at current prices those reagents cost 3 gold5 silver per craft.

Further down the chain, Fiery Ink is itself a reagent in 4 recipes, such as Fire Eater's Guide, Book of Stars and Shadowy Tarot.

Leveling and recipes for Ruby Pigment

Fiery Ink (Ink) turns yellow at Inscription skill 220 and grey at 230.

What Ruby Pigment is crafted into

Fiery Ink (Inscription). Made with Fiery Ink, 1 Ruby Pigment per craft.

Ruby Pigment: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 49% below its 30-day median.

Now3 gold5 silver
30-day low2 gold2 silver Sep 10
30-day high19 gold Sep 1
30-day median6 gold
7-day median4 gold94 silver
Hourly snapshots692

US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.

Ruby Pigment 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.

RegionLowest listed priceListingsUnits
Americas and Oceania (US)3 gold5 silver4217,330
Europe (EU)9 gold90 silver192,592

Other reagents in the same recipe tiers as Ruby Pigment

Classic Inscription has 99 recipes. Besides Ruby Pigment, the reagents they call for most are Light Parchment (75 recipes), Jadefire Ink (12 recipes), Moonglow Ink (12 recipes), Shimmering Ink (12 recipes), Celestial Ink (11 recipes), Midnight Ink (10 recipes), Ink of the Sky (5 recipes), Ironwood Lumber (5 recipes), Lion's Ink (5 recipes), Essence of Undeath (4 recipes).

Inscription priced near Ruby Pigment

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About Ruby Pigment

Ruby Pigment 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 Ruby Pigment 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.