Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 27 gold90 silver, but the crafted item’s listing is far from its 30-day median (see below).

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 127 gold27 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 163 gold34 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 8 gold16 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: 27 gold90 silver (+22%)

Evidence: 18 current listings holding 28 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Outlier: the crafted item’s lowest listing is 3.2 times its 30-day median of 50 gold42 silver, so this estimate rests on a listing far above its usual level.
Quality: Algari Missive of the Aurora comes in 3 quality ranks. This is the base comparison, rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result; your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide the rank you actually get, which this estimate does not model. Each rank’s lowest listing is in the rank table below.
Not included: the recipe also accepts 2 finishing reagent slots, which are not required and are left out of the cost.

Verified priceAuction House2 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Inscription
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Khaz Algar Inscription
Item level: 72
Reagent slots: 5
Cast time: 3.5 sec

Crafts

Algari Missive of the Aurora163 gold

Reagents

1Apricate Ink24 gold92 silver
1Boundless Cipher65 gold
2Fresh Parchment5 silver
5Distilled Algari Freshwater2 silver
5Viridescent Spores7 gold43 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Apricate Ink Inscription · 114 on the Auction House	1	24 gold92 silver	24 gold92 silver	20%
Boundless Cipher Inscription · 138 on the Auction House	1	65 gold	65 gold	51%
Fresh Parchment Inscription · 18,924 on the Auction House	2	5 silver	10 silver	0%
Distilled Algari Freshwater Inscription · 68,503 on the Auction House	5	2 silver	10 silver	0%
Viridescent Spores Other · 7,754 on the Auction House	5	7 gold43 silver	37 gold15 silver	29%
Total per craft			127 gold27 silver	100%

About Algari Missive of the Aurora

One craft takes 1 Apricate Ink, 1 Boundless Cipher, 2 Fresh Parchment, 5 Distilled Algari Freshwater and 5 Viridescent Spores. Algari Missive of the Aurora is itself a reagent in 60 other recipes (Blacksmithing, Engineering and Enchanting).

Recipe category: Combat Stats (Khaz Algar Techniques)
Skill-up colours (Khaz Algar Inscription skill): Orange below 35 · Yellow 35 to 39 · Green 40 to 44 · Grey 45 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Algari Missive of the Aurora tooltip

Algari Missive of the Aurora

Item Level 72

Trade Goods

“Can be bought and sold on the Auction House.”

Sell price: 10g 15s

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Algari Missive of the Aurora quality ranks

Algari Missive of the Aurora comes in 3 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 565.

Rank	Item	Lowest listed price	Listings (US)
Rank 1	Algari Missive of the Aurora	163 gold34 silver	18 listings, 28 units
Rank 2	Algari Missive of the Aurora	40 gold	14 listings, 86 units
Rank 3	Algari Missive of the Aurora	80 gold66 silver	13 listings, 86 units

The crafting estimate above is the base comparison: rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result. Your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide which rank a craft actually makes, so a higher rank is never priced against rank 1 reagents here. Right now rank 1 lists above rank 2 and rank 3, so a craft that comes out at a higher rank is worth less at today’s listings, not more.

Algari Missive of the Aurora: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 3.2 times its 30-day median. Over these 30 days the lowest listing moved more than tenfold, so a single snapshot, including the one the estimate uses, can sit far from typical.

Now: 163 gold34 silver
30-day low: 10 gold35 silver Sep 15
30-day high: 49,999 gold95 silver Sep 12
30-day median: 50 gold42 silver
7-day median: 164 gold36 silver
Hourly snapshots: 691

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

Where the reagents come from

Apricate Ink. Made with Apricate Ink (Inscription, Khaz Algar Inscription) from 5 Luredrop Pigment, 10 Nacreous Pigment and 20 Distilled Algari Freshwater. At lowest listed prices that makes one Apricate Ink for 24 gold90 silver, against 24 gold92 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 24 gold92 silver, rank 2 21 gold22 silver and rank 3 52 gold50 silver. Also a required reagent in 36 other recipes (34 Inscription and 2 Tailoring); Contract: Council of Dornogal takes the most, 25 per craft.

Boundless Cipher. Made with Boundless Cipher (Inscription, Khaz Algar Inscription) from 2 Apricate Ink, 5 Arathor's Spear and 20 Distilled Algari Freshwater. At lowest listed prices that makes one Boundless Cipher for 52 gold34 silver, against 65 gold listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 65 gold, rank 2 51 gold35 silver and rank 3 55 gold. Also a required reagent in 48 other recipes (48 Inscription); the most per craft: Inscribed Rolling Pin (Inscription, 15 per craft), Patient Alchemist's Mixing Rod (Inscription, 15 per craft), Vagabond's Bounding Baton (Inscription, 10 per craft), Vagabond's Careful Crutch (Inscription, 10 per craft) and Vagabond's Torch (Inscription, 6 per craft).

Fresh Parchment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 28 other recipes (28 Inscription); the most per craft: Dornogal Bookcase (Inscription, 30 per craft), Algari Missive of Crafting Speed (Inscription, 2 per craft), Algari Missive of Deftness (Inscription, 2 per craft), Algari Missive of Finesse (Inscription, 2 per craft) and Algari Missive of Ingenuity (Inscription, 2 per craft).

Distilled Algari Freshwater. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 18 other recipes (17 Inscription and 1 Alchemy); the most per craft: Apricate Ink (Inscription, 20 per craft), Boundless Cipher (Inscription, 20 per craft), Codified Greenwood (Inscription, 20 per craft), Shadow Ink (Inscription, 20 per craft) and Boulder Springs Hot Tub (Alchemy, 12 per craft).

Viridescent Spores. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 46 other recipes (25 Enchanting, 13 Inscription, 4 Alchemy and 2 Leatherworking); the most per craft: Silver Tongue's Quill (Inscription, 20 per craft), Algari Missive of the Feverflare (Inscription, 5 per craft), Algari Missive of the Fireflash (Inscription, 5 per craft), Algari Missive of the Harmonious (Inscription, 5 per craft) and Algari Missive of the Peerless (Inscription, 5 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 5 reagents for one craft of Algari Missive of the Aurora cost 127 gold27 silver. Most of that is Boundless Cipher - 1 at 65 gold each, 65 gold, 51.1% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 133 gold96 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 163 gold34 silver, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 36 gold7 silver; the Auction House would keep 8 gold16 silver of a sale, leaving 27 gold90 silver. That is an estimated 21.9% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 22.6% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 28 units across 18 auctions region-wide. Depth separates a market price from a single asking figure, but listings are not sales, so read it alongside the estimate.

Costs use each reagent’s lowest listed price; the estimate is the crafted item’s lowest listed price, times the items one craft makes, minus those reagents and Blizzard’s 5% sale cut. Listings are asking prices, not sales. Recalculated every snapshot and left blank rather than guessed when a price is missing. How we estimate crafting profit →

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