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InscriptionDragon Isles Inscription
Burnished 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 24 gold9 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 213 gold90 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 99 gold90 silver
- Items per craft
- 2
- Listed value of one craft
- 199 gold80 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 9 gold99 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −24 gold9 silver (-11%)
- Evidence: 12 current listings holding 84 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
- Items per craft: the game’s spell data creates 2 per craft, so the listed value of one craft is that many times the lowest listed price.
- Quality: Burnished 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
- Dragon Isles Inscription
- Item level
- 60
- Reagent slots
- 4
- Cast time
- 3.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
2Blazing Ink17 gold
2Flourishing Ink80 gold75 silver
2Serene Ink8 gold42 silver
1Iridescent Water1 gold56 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blazing Ink Inscription · 669 on the Auction House | 2 | 17 gold | 34 gold | 16% |
| Flourishing Ink Inscription · 486 on the Auction House | 2 | 80 gold75 silver | 161 gold50 silver | 76% |
| Serene Ink Inscription · 883 on the Auction House | 2 | 8 gold42 silver | 16 gold84 silver | 8% |
| Iridescent Water Inscription · 17,809 on the Auction House | 1 | 1 gold56 silver | 1 gold56 silver | 1% |
| Total per craft | 213 gold90 silver | 100% |
About Burnished Ink
One craft takes 2 Blazing Ink, 2 Flourishing Ink, 2 Serene Ink and 1 Iridescent Water. It is taught by Technique: Burnished Ink, which needs Dragon Isles Inscription 20. Burnished Ink is itself a reagent in 28 other recipes (Inscription).
- Recipe category
- Inks (Dragon Isles Techniques)
- Skill-up colours (Dragon Isles Inscription skill)
- Orange below 30 · Yellow 30 to 34 · Green 35 to 39 · Grey 40 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 2
Burnished Ink tooltip
How to learn Burnished Ink
Technique: Burnished Ink- Teaches
- Teaches you how to craft Burnished Ink.
- Requires
- Dragon Isles Inscription (20)
More Inks recipes (Dragon Isles Techniques)
Burnished Ink is a reagent in
- Azurescale SigilInscription
- Bronzescale SigilInscription
- Contract: Artisan's ConsortiumInscription
- Contract: Dream WardensInscription
- Contract: Loamm NiffenInscription
- Contract: Valdrakken AccordInscription
- Cosmic InkInscription
- Draconic Treatise on AlchemyInscription
- Draconic Treatise on BlacksmithingInscription
- Draconic Treatise on EnchantingInscription
- Draconic Treatise on EngineeringInscription
- Draconic Treatise on HerbalismInscription
and 16 more recipes.
Burnished Ink quality ranks
Burnished Ink comes in 3 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 260.
| Rank | Item | Lowest listed price | Listings (US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank 1 | Burnished Ink | 99 gold90 silver | 12 listings, 84 units |
| Rank 2 | Burnished Ink | 74 gold | 19 listings, 2,414 units |
| Rank 3 | Burnished Ink | 99 gold | 13 listings, 522 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.
Burnished Ink: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 55% above 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
- 99 gold90 silver
- 30-day low
- 10 gold Sep 18
- 30-day high
- 49,999 gold8 silver Sep 3
- 30-day median
- 64 gold37 silver
- 7-day median
- 50 gold94 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 682
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Blazing Ink. Made with Blazing Ink (Inscription, Dragon Isles Inscription) from 2 
Shimmering Pigment, 1 
Blazing Pigment, 1 
Draconic Vial and 1 Iridescent Water, 2 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Blazing Ink for 10 gold54 silver, against 17 gold listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 17 gold, rank 2 9 gold50 silver and rank 3 9 gold7 silver. Also a required reagent in 21 other recipes (20 Inscription and 1 Tailoring); Draconic Combatant's Insignia of Alacrity takes the most, 10 per craft.
Flourishing Ink. Made with Flourishing Ink (Inscription, Dragon Isles Inscription) from 2 Shimmering Pigment, 1 
Flourishing Pigment, 1 Draconic Vial and 1 Iridescent Water, 2 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Flourishing Ink for 44 gold33 silver, against 80 gold75 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 80 gold75 silver, rank 2 72 gold and rank 3 57 gold6 silver. Also a required reagent in 17 other recipes (17 Inscription); the most per craft: Draconic Combatant's Emblem (Inscription, 10 per craft), Verdant Combatant's Emblem (Inscription, 10 per craft), Literature of the Green Dragonflight (Inscription, 6 per craft), Obsidian Combatant's Emblem (Inscription, 6 per craft) and Literature of the Blue Dragonflight (Inscription, 4 per craft).
Serene Ink. Made with Serene Ink (Inscription, Dragon Isles Inscription) from 2 Shimmering Pigment, 1 
Serene Pigment, 1 Draconic Vial and 1 Iridescent Water, 2 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Serene Ink for 12 gold10 silver, against 8 gold42 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 8 gold42 silver, rank 2 13 gold and rank 3 6 gold90 silver. Also a required reagent in 23 other recipes (23 Inscription); the most per craft: Draconic Combatant's Medallion (Inscription, 10 per craft), Verdant Combatant's Medallion (Inscription, 10 per craft), Obsidian Combatant's Medallion (Inscription, 6 per craft), Literature of the Blue Dragonflight (Inscription, 5 per craft) and Literature of the Red Dragonflight (Inscription, 5 per craft).
Iridescent Water. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 34 other recipes (33 Inscription and 1 Engineering); the most per craft: Titanic Tyrhold Fountain (Engineering, 20 per craft), Cliffside Wylderdrake: Conical Head (Inscription, 8 per craft), Cliffside Wylderdrake: Red Hair (Inscription, 8 per craft), Cliffside Wylderdrake: Triple Head Horns (Inscription, 8 per craft) and Grotto Netherwing Drake: Chin Tendrils (Inscription, 8 per craft).
More Dragon Isles Inscription recipes in the same skill range
- Alchemist's Brilliant Mixing RodProfession Equipment, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Alchemist's Sturdy Mixing RodProfession Equipment, learn at 1, grey at 45
- Arcane Dispelling RuneArtisan Curios, learn at 1, grey at 60
- Azurescale SigilRunes and Sigils, learn at 1, grey at 65
- Blazing FortuneMysteries, learn at 1, grey at 30
- Bronzescale SigilRunes and Sigils, learn at 1, grey at 65
- Bundle O' Cards: Dragon IslesMysteries, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Buzzing RuneRunes and Sigils, learn at 1, grey at 45
- Chef's Smooth Rolling PinProfession Equipment, learn at 1, grey at 45
- Chef's Splendid Rolling PinProfession Equipment, learn at 1, grey at 100
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 4 reagents for one craft of Burnished Ink cost 213 gold90 silver. Most of that is Flourishing Ink - 2 at 80 gold75 silver each, 161 gold50 silver, 75.5% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 225 gold15 silver per craft, 112 gold57 silver per item at 2 items a craft - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 99 gold90 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −14 gold10 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 9 gold99 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 24 gold9 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -11.3% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 84 units across 12 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 →
Other recipes that use Blazing Ink
- Blazing FortuneInscription
- Chef's Smooth Rolling PinInscription
- Contract: Dragonscale ExpeditionInscription
- Core Explorer's CompendiumInscription
- Crimson Combatant's Insignia of AlacrityInscription
- Draconic Combatant's Insignia of AlacrityInscription
- Draconic Missive of IngenuityInscription
- Draconic Missive of ResourcefulnessInscription
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