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Recipe
InscriptionCataclysm Inscription
Battle Tome
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
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 516 gold32 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- …
- Auction House cut (5%)
- …
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- …
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Inscription
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Cataclysm Inscription
- Item level
- 37
- Reagent slots
- 4
- Cast time
- 3 sec
Crafts
Reagents
10Light Parchment1 silver
8Inferno Ink41 gold
24Volatile Life5 gold9 silver
6Volatile Fire11 gold1 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Light Parchment Other · 641,719 on the Auction House | 10 | 1 silver | 10 silver | 0% |
| Inferno Ink Parts · 4,347 on the Auction House · crafted by Inferno Ink (Inscription) | 8 | 41 gold | 328 gold | 64% |
| Volatile Life Elemental · 43,900 on the Auction House | 24 | 5 gold9 silver | 122 gold16 silver | 24% |
| Volatile Fire Elemental · 50,404 on the Auction House | 6 | 11 gold1 silver | 66 gold6 silver | 13% |
| Total per craft | 516 gold32 silver | 100% |
About Battle Tome
One craft takes 10 Light Parchment, 8 Inferno Ink, 24 Volatile Life and 6 Volatile Fire.
- Recipe category
- Weapons & Off-Hands (Cataclysm Inscription)
- Skill-up colours (Cataclysm Inscription skill)
- Orange below 70 · Yellow 70 to 71 · Green 72 to 74 · Grey 75 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Battle Tome tooltip
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Where the reagents come from
Light Parchment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 306 other recipes (295 Inscription, 8 Enchanting and 3 Engineering); Codex of the Clear Mind takes the most, 200 per craft.
Inferno Ink. Made with Inferno Ink (Inscription, Cataclysm Inscription) from 2 
Burning Embers. At lowest listed prices that makes one Inferno Ink for 32 gold24 silver, against 41 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 13 other recipes (11 Inscription, 1 Tailoring and 1 Leatherworking); the most per craft: Rosethorn Staff (Inscription, 12 per craft), Silver Inlaid Staff (Inscription, 12 per craft), Darkmoon Card of Destruction (Inscription, 10 per craft), Divine Companion (Inscription, 8 per craft) and Dungeoneering Guide (Inscription, 8 per craft).
Volatile Life. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 44 other recipes (14 Alchemy, 13 Leatherworking, 8 Inscription and 3 Jewelcrafting); the most per craft: Elementium Moebius Band (Jewelcrafting, 75 per craft), Chestguard of Nature's Fury (Leatherworking, 50 per craft), Jeweler's Amber Monocle (Jewelcrafting, 50 per craft), Lifebound Alchemist Stone (Alchemy, 50 per craft) and Quicksilver Alchemist Stone (Alchemy, 50 per craft).
Volatile Fire. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 87 other recipes (35 Leatherworking, 23 Tailoring, 19 Blacksmithing and 4 Jewelcrafting); the most per craft: Eye of Many Deaths (Jewelcrafting, 75 per craft), Ring of Warring Elements (Jewelcrafting, 75 per craft), Jeweler's Ruby Monocle (Jewelcrafting, 50 per craft), Clutches of Evil (Leatherworking, 40 per craft) and Dragonfire Gloves (Leatherworking, 40 per craft).
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3D Model
First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 4 reagents for one craft of Battle Tome cost 516 gold32 silver. Most of that is Inferno Ink - 8 at 41 gold each, 328 gold, 63.5% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 543 gold49 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item has no current Auction House listing to compare it against, so the estimate above is left unknown rather than guessed.
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 →
Other recipes that use Light Parchment
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- Tome of Illusions: Elemental LordsEnchanting
- Tome of Illusions: NorthrendEnchanting
- Tome of Illusions: OutlandEnchanting
- Tome of Illusions: PandariaEnchanting
- Tome of Illusions: Secrets of the Shado-PanEnchanting
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Data notes
- No Auction House price for the crafted item - output value unknown (it may be soulbound/BoE gear or an untracked item).