Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 703 gold92 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 720 gold45 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 17 gold40 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 87 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: −703 gold92 silver (-98%)

Evidence: 6 current listings holding 54 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.

Verified priceAuction House1 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Inscription
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Kul Tiran Inscription
Item level: 50
Reagent slots: 3
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Codex of the Quiet Mind17 gold

Reagents

75Light Parchment1 silver
45Crimson Ink15 gold89 silver
15Viridescent Ink31 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Light Parchment Other · 1,000,599 on the Auction House	75	1 silver	75 silver	0%
Crimson Ink Inscription · 14,118 on the Auction House · crafted by Crimson Ink (Inscription)	45	15 gold89 silver	715 gold5 silver	99%
Viridescent Ink Inscription · 14,441 on the Auction House · crafted by Viridescent Ink (Inscription)	15	31 silver	4 gold65 silver	1%
Total per craft			720 gold45 silver	100%

About Codex of the Quiet Mind

One craft takes 75 Light Parchment, 45 Crimson Ink and 15 Viridescent Ink. It is taught by Technique: Codex of the Quiet Mind, which needs Kul Tiran Inscription 1.

Recipe category: Books & Scrolls (Kul Tiran Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Kul Tiran Inscription skill): Orange below 125 · Yellow 125 to 136 · Green 137 to 149 · Grey 150 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Codex of the Quiet Mind tooltip

Codex of the Quiet Mind

Item Level 50

Consumable

Requires Level 10

Use: Set out a codex, allowing nearby players to adjust their talents and azerite essences.

“Created by players with the Inscription skill. Can be bought and sold on the auction house.”

Sell price: 1c

How to learn Codex of the Quiet Mind

Technique: Codex of the Quiet Mind

Teaches: Teaches you how to craft a Codex of the Quiet Mind more efficiently.
Requires: Kul Tiran Inscription (1) · Revered with Tortollan Seekers
Binding: Binds when picked up

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Codex of the Quiet Mind: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 21% 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: 17 gold40 silver
30-day low: 4 gold63 silver Aug 29
30-day high: 226 gold50 silver Aug 30
30-day median: 21 gold99 silver
7-day median: 21 gold99 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

Light Parchment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 307 other recipes (296 Inscription, 8 Enchanting and 3 Engineering); Codex of the Clear Mind takes the most, 200 per craft.

Crimson Ink. Made with Crimson Ink (Inscription, Kul Tiran Inscription) from 1 Distilled Water and 1 Crimson Pigment. At lowest listed prices that makes one Crimson Ink for 13 gold72 silver, against 15 gold89 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 40 other recipes (39 Inscription and 1 Tailoring); the most per craft: Codex of the Quiet Mind (Inscription, 60 per craft), Crimson Ink Well (Inscription, 30 per craft), Honorable Combatant's Etched Vessel (Inscription, 30 per craft), Inscribed Vessel of Mysticism (Inscription, 30 per craft) and Sanguine Feather Quill of Lana'thel (Inscription, 30 per craft).

Viridescent Ink. Made with Viridescent Ink (Inscription, Kul Tiran Inscription) from 1 Distilled Water, 1 Acacia Powder and 1 Viridescent Pigment. At lowest listed prices that makes one Viridescent Ink for 18 silver, against 31 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 13 other recipes (13 Inscription); the most per craft: Codex of the Quiet Mind (Inscription, 30 per craft), Sanguine Feather Quill of Lana'thel (Inscription, 15 per craft), Sinister Combatant's Etched Vessel (Inscription, 15 per craft), Honorable Combatant's Etched Vessel (Inscription, 12 per craft) and Inscribed Vessel of Mysticism (Inscription, 12 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Codex of the Quiet Mind cost 720 gold45 silver. Most of that is Crimson Ink - 45 at 15 gold89 silver each, 715 gold5 silver, 99.3% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 758 gold36 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 17 gold40 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −703 gold5 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 87 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 703 gold92 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -97.7% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 54 units across 6 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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