Crafting estimate at current listings

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 145 gold30 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: …
Auction House cut (5%): …
Estimated profit at that listed price: …

Not included: the recipe also accepts 1 optional reagent slot, which are not required and are left out of the cost.

Verified priceAuction House54 min agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Inscription
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Cataclysm Inscription
Item level: 36
Reagent slots: 3
Cast time: 3 sec

Crafts

Book of Blood…

Reagents

10Light Parchment1 silver
3Inferno Ink40 gold40 silver
6Volatile Life4 gold

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Light Parchment Other · 796,822 on the Auction House	10	1 silver	10 silver	0%
Inferno Ink Parts · 4,405 on the Auction House · crafted by Inferno Ink (Inscription)	3	40 gold40 silver	121 gold20 silver	83%
Volatile Life Elemental · 42,785 on the Auction House	6	4 gold	24 gold	17%
Total per craft			145 gold30 silver	100%

About Book of Blood

One craft takes 10 Light Parchment, 3 Inferno Ink and 6 Volatile Life.

Recipe category: Weapons & Off-Hands (Cataclysm Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Cataclysm Inscription skill): Orange below 35 · Yellow 35 to 36 · Green 37 to 39 · Grey 40 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Book of Blood tooltip

Book of Blood

Item Level 36

Binds when equipped

Held In Off-handArmor

+7 Stamina

+5 Critical Strike

+4 Haste

+14 Intellect

Requires Level 30

Sell price: 15s

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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 34 gold42 silver, against 40 gold40 silver 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), Battle Tome (Inscription, 8 per craft) and Divine Companion (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).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Book of Blood cost 145 gold30 silver. Most of that is Inferno Ink - 3 at 40 gold40 silver each, 121 gold20 silver, 83.4% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 152 gold94 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 →

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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).