Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 138 gold64 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 148 gold86 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 10 gold75 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 53 silver75 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price: −138 gold64 silver (-93%)

Evidence: 23 current listings holding 186 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Quality: Algari Missive of the Fireflash 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 House1 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 Fireflash10 gold

Reagents

1Apricate Ink22 gold3 silver
1Boundless Cipher89 gold8 silver
2Fresh Parchment5 silver
5Distilled Algari Freshwater3 silver
5Viridescent Spores7 gold50 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Apricate Ink Inscription · 193 on the Auction House	1	22 gold3 silver	22 gold3 silver	15%
Boundless Cipher Inscription · 222 on the Auction House	1	89 gold8 silver	89 gold8 silver	60%
Fresh Parchment Inscription · 5,793 on the Auction House	2	5 silver	10 silver	0%
Distilled Algari Freshwater Inscription · 74,549 on the Auction House	5	3 silver	15 silver	0%
Viridescent Spores Other · 8,155 on the Auction House	5	7 gold50 silver	37 gold50 silver	25%
Total per craft			148 gold86 silver	100%

About Algari Missive of the Fireflash

One craft takes 1 Apricate Ink, 1 Boundless Cipher, 2 Fresh Parchment, 5 Distilled Algari Freshwater and 5 Viridescent Spores. Algari Missive of the Fireflash 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 45 · Yellow 45 to 49 · Green 50 to 54 · Grey 55 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Algari Missive of the Fireflash tooltip

Algari Missive of the Fireflash

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 Fireflash quality ranks

Algari Missive of the Fireflash 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 Fireflash	10 gold75 silver	23 listings, 186 units
Rank 2	Algari Missive of the Fireflash	67 gold15 silver	10 listings, 29 units
Rank 3	Algari Missive of the Fireflash	238 gold41 silver	14 listings, 36 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.

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

The current lowest listing is 28% below 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: 10 gold75 silver
30-day low: 1 gold12 silver Sep 10
30-day high: 59 gold99 silver Aug 23
30-day median: 14 gold85 silver
7-day median: 10 gold75 silver
Hourly snapshots: 689

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 29 gold65 silver, against 22 gold3 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 22 gold3 silver, rank 2 21 gold26 silver and rank 3 54 gold. 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 58 gold62 silver, against 89 gold8 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 89 gold8 silver, rank 2 51 gold35 silver and rank 3 63 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 Aurora (Inscription, 5 per craft), Algari Missive of the Feverflare (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 Fireflash cost 148 gold86 silver. Most of that is Boundless Cipher - 1 at 89 gold8 silver each, 89 gold8 silver, 59.8% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 156 gold69 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 10 gold75 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −138 gold11 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 53 silver75 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 138 gold64 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -93.1% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 186 units across 23 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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