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InscriptionKhaz Algar Inscription
Apricate Ink
Reagent cost, the crafted item's lowest listed price and the estimated profit at that price, from current US Auction House listings - recalculated every snapshot.
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 14 gold47 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 33 gold50 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 20 gold3 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 1 gold
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −14 gold47 silver (-43%)
- Evidence: 62 current listings holding 185 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: Apricate Ink 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.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Inscription
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Khaz Algar Inscription
- Item level
- 70
- Reagent slots
- 3
- Cast time
- 3.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
5Luredrop Pigment2 gold68 silver
10Nacreous Pigment1 gold95 silver
20Distilled Algari Freshwater3 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luredrop Pigment Inscription · 2,148 on the Auction House | 5 | 2 gold68 silver | 13 gold40 silver | 40% |
| Nacreous Pigment Inscription · 8,545 on the Auction House | 10 | 1 gold95 silver | 19 gold50 silver | 58% |
| Distilled Algari Freshwater Inscription · 96,380 on the Auction House | 20 | 3 silver | 60 silver | 2% |
| Total per craft | 33 gold50 silver | 100% |
About Apricate Ink
One craft takes 5 Luredrop Pigment, 10 Nacreous Pigment and 20 Distilled Algari Freshwater. Apricate Ink is itself a reagent in 35 other recipes (Inscription and Tailoring).
- Recipe category
- Inks (Khaz Algar Techniques)
- Skill-up colours (Khaz Algar Inscription skill)
- Orange below 20 · Yellow 20 to 24 · Green 25 to 29 · Grey 30 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Apricate Ink tooltip
More Inks recipes (Khaz Algar Techniques)
Apricate Ink is a reagent in
- Algari Competitor's EmblemInscription
- Algari Competitor's Insignia of AlacrityInscription
- Algari Competitor's MedallionInscription
- Algari Competitor's PillarInscription
- Algari Missive of the AuroraInscription
- Algari Missive of the FeverflareInscription
- Algari Missive of the FireflashInscription
- Algari Missive of the HarmoniousInscription
- Algari Missive of the PeerlessInscription
- Algari Missive of the QuickbladeInscription
- Algari Treatise on AlchemyInscription
- Algari Treatise on HerbalismInscription
and 23 more recipes.
Apricate Ink quality ranks
Apricate Ink comes in 3 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 505.
| Rank | Item | Lowest listed price | Listings (US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank 1 | Apricate Ink | 20 gold3 silver | 62 listings, 185 units |
| Rank 2 | Apricate Ink | 21 gold28 silver | 17 listings, 623 units |
| Rank 3 | Apricate Ink | 69 gold29 silver | 21 listings, 268 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.
Apricate Ink: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 35% 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
- 20 gold3 silver
- 30-day low
- 5 gold Aug 30
- 30-day high
- 150 gold97 silver Sep 7
- 30-day median
- 31 gold
- 7-day median
- 20 gold52 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 690
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Luredrop Pigment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 2 gold68 silver, rank 2 1 gold95 silver and rank 3 5 gold44 silver.
Nacreous Pigment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 1 gold95 silver, rank 2 1 gold77 silver and rank 3 3 gold19 silver.
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: Boundless Cipher (Inscription, 20 per craft), Codified Greenwood (Inscription, 20 per craft), Shadow Ink (Inscription, 20 per craft), Boulder Springs Hot Tub (Alchemy, 12 per craft) and Algari Missive of Crafting Speed (Inscription, 5 per craft).
More Khaz Algar Inscription recipes in the same skill range
- Algari Competitor's EmblemCompetitor's Crafts, learn at 1, grey at 70
- Algari Competitor's Insignia of AlacrityCompetitor's Crafts, learn at 1, grey at 70
- Algari Competitor's LampCompetitor's Crafts, learn at 1, grey at 70
- Algari Competitor's MedallionCompetitor's Crafts, learn at 1, grey at 70
- Algari Competitor's PillarCompetitor's Crafts, learn at 1, grey at 70
- Algari Competitor's StaffCompetitor's Crafts, learn at 1, grey at 70
- Algari FenceHouse Decor, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Algari FencepostHouse Decor, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Algari Missive of Crafting SpeedProfession Stats, learn at 1, grey at 55
- Algari Missive of DeftnessProfession Stats, learn at 1, grey at 55
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Apricate Ink cost 33 gold50 silver. Most of that is Nacreous Pigment - 10 at 1 gold95 silver each, 19 gold50 silver, 58.2% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 35 gold26 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 20 gold3 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −13 gold47 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 1 gold of a sale, so a craft loses 14 gold47 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -43.2% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 185 units across 62 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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