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Shimmering Pigment
Inscription
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Shimmering Pigment details
| Type | Inscription |
|---|---|
| Item level | 60 |
| Requires level | 1 |
| Max stack | 1,000 |
| Vendor sell price | 10 silver |
| Expansion | Dragonflight |
| 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.
In-game tooltip for Shimmering Pigment: "A common pigment radiating with possibilities. Milled by players with the Inscription skill. Can be bought and sold on the auction house."
Shimmering Pigment quality ranks
Rank 1: Shimmering Pigment4 gold
Rank 2: Shimmering Pigment (this page)6 gold
Rank 3: Shimmering Pigment11 gold
Shimmering Pigment comes in 3 quality ranks in the current game data, from Rank 1 to Rank 3. Each rank is a separate item with its own Auction House listing.
Rank 3 lists at 11 gold22 silver, 126% more than Rank 1 at 4 gold96 silver.
What Shimmering Pigment is used in
Inscription
| Recipe | Skill tier and category | Needs | Other reagents | Makes | Lists at (US) | Reagents per craft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Blazing Ink | Dragon Isles Inscription, Inks, grey at 20 | 2 |
|  Blazing Ink | 17 gold | 21 gold |
| Flourishing Ink | Dragon Isles Inscription, Inks, grey at 20 | 2 |
|  Flourishing Ink | 80 gold | 88 gold |
| Serene Ink | Dragon Isles Inscription, Inks, grey at 20 | 2 |
|  Serene Ink | 8 gold | 22 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 Shimmering Pigment
Shimmering Pigment goes into 3 recipes: 3 in Inscription. All of them are Dragon Isles Inscription recipes.
The highest-listed product is Flourishing Ink, from Dragon Isles Inscription, at 80 gold75 silver on the US Auction House.
One craft of Flourishing Ink takes 2 Shimmering Pigment plus 1 Flourishing Pigment, 1 Draconic Vial and 1 Iridescent Water; at current prices those reagents cost 88 gold67 silver per craft.
Shimmering Pigment is about 15% of that reagent bill at its current price; Flourishing Pigment, Draconic Vial and Iridescent Water make up the rest.
The cheapest craft that uses Shimmering Pigment is Blazing Ink (Dragon Isles Inscription): its reagents cost 21 gold8 silver and Blazing Ink lists at 17 gold.
All 3 distinct products have a current US commodity price.
Further down the chain, Serene Ink is itself a reagent in 24 recipes, such as Chilled Rune, Azurescale Sigil and Pioneer's Writhebark Stave.
Further down the chain, Blazing Ink is itself a reagent in 22 recipes, such as Emberscale Sigil, Core Explorer's Compendium and Overseer's Writhebark Stave.
Further down the chain, Flourishing Ink is itself a reagent in 18 recipes, such as Runed Writhebark, Sagescale Sigil and Draconic Missive of the Peerless.
Leveling and recipes for Shimmering Pigment
Leveling with Shimmering Pigment: Blazing Ink (Inks) turns yellow at Inscription skill 10 and grey at 20. Flourishing Ink (Inks) turns yellow at Inscription skill 10 and grey at 20. Serene Ink (Inks) turns yellow at Inscription skill 10 and grey at 20.
Recipe items that teach these crafts: Technique: Blazing Ink, Technique: Flourishing Ink and Technique: Serene Ink.
Technique: Blazing InkReagents used with Shimmering Pigment
Shimmering Pigment is most often combined with Draconic Vial, which shares 3 of its 3 recipes; next come Iridescent Water, Blazing Pigment and Flourishing Pigment.
Draconic Vial 3 shared recipes
Iridescent Water 3 shared recipes
Blazing Pigment 1 shared recipe
Flourishing Pigment 1 shared recipe
Serene Pigment 1 shared recipe
What Shimmering Pigment is crafted into
Blazing Ink (Inscription). Made with Blazing Ink, 2 Shimmering Pigment per craft.
Flourishing Ink (Inscription). Made with Flourishing Ink, 2 Shimmering Pigment per craft.
Serene Ink (Inscription). Made with Serene Ink, 2 Shimmering Pigment per craft.
Shimmering Pigment: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 3.4 times 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 | 6 gold85 silver |
|---|---|
| 30-day low | 93 silver Sep 14 |
| 30-day high | 197 gold Sep 17 |
| 30-day median | 2 gold |
| 7-day median | 2 gold22 silver |
| Hourly snapshots | 681 |
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Shimmering Pigment by region
The lowest listing is 88% lower in Europe (EU) than in Americas and Oceania (US). 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) | 6 gold85 silver | 40 | 21,140 |
| Europe (EU) | 85 silver | 34 | 16,473 |
Other reagents in the same recipe tiers as Shimmering Pigment
Dragon Isles Inscription has 136 recipes. Besides Shimmering Pigment, the reagents they call for most are Glittering Parchment (72 recipes), Chilled Rune (41 recipes), Iridescent Water (34 recipes), Artisan's Mettle (32 recipes), Awakened Order (32 recipes), Burnished Ink (28 recipes), Flawless Proto Dragon Scale (28 recipes), Wildercloth (28 recipes), Serene Ink (24 recipes), Blazing Ink (21 recipes).
Inscription priced near Shimmering Pigment
Three of Mages6 gold- Serene Ink6 gold
Seven of Blessings6 gold
Nether Pigment6 gold
Ink of the Sea7 gold- Four of Mages7 gold
- Ace of Mages7 gold
Ashen Pigment7 gold
Six of the Moon7 gold- Five of the Moon7 gold
Codified Greenwood7 gold
Five of Blood7 gold
About Shimmering Pigment
Shimmering 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 Shimmering 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.