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Shimmering Pigment

Shimmering Pigment is a Common Inscription used in 3 recipes (Inscription).

Shimmering Pigment stacks to 1,000. 3 recipes consume it, taught by Inscription.

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Verified US market

Lowest listed price99 silver
Median listing3 gold97 silver
19,738 available38 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.

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

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 7 gold95 silver, 314% more than Rank 1 at 1 gold92 silver.

What Shimmering Pigment is used in

Inscription

RecipeSkill tier and categoryNeedsOther reagentsMakesLists at (US)Reagents per craft
Blazing InkDragon Isles Inscription, Inks, grey at 202Blazing Ink14 gold11 gold
Flourishing InkDragon Isles Inscription, Inks, grey at 202Flourishing Ink66 gold73 gold
Serene InkDragon Isles Inscription, Inks, grey at 202Serene Ink5 gold11 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 66 gold50 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 73 gold42 silver per craft.

Shimmering Pigment is about 8% 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 11 gold41 silver and Blazing Ink lists at 14 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.

Reagents 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.

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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 65% above its 30-day median. Over these 30 days the lowest listing moved more than tenfold, so a single snapshot can sit far from typical.

Now3 gold11 silver
30-day low71 silver Nov 4
30-day high20 gold89 silver Oct 11
30-day median1 gold88 silver
7-day median1 gold55 silver
Hourly snapshots691

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 14% 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.

RegionLowest listed priceListingsUnits
Americas and Oceania (US)99 silver3819,738
Europe (EU)85 silver3416,473

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).

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