Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 236 gold80 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 245 gold35 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 9 gold
Auction House cut (5%): 45 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: −236 gold80 silver (-96%)

Evidence: 9 current listings holding 262 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: Legion Inscription
Item level: 40
Reagent slots: 3
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Codex of the Tranquil Mind9 gold

Reagents

50Light Parchment1 silver
5Sallow Pigment40 gold
15Roseate Pigment2 gold99 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Light Parchment Other · 662,041 on the Auction House	50	1 silver	50 silver	0%
Sallow Pigment Inscription · 29,411 on the Auction House	5	40 gold	200 gold	82%
Roseate Pigment Inscription · 120,962 on the Auction House	15	2 gold99 silver	44 gold85 silver	18%
Total per craft			245 gold35 silver	100%

About Codex of the Tranquil Mind

One craft takes 50 Light Parchment, 5 Sallow Pigment and 15 Roseate Pigment. It is taught by Technique: Codex of the Tranquil Mind, which needs Legion Inscription 1.

Recipe category: Books & Scrolls (Legion Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Legion Inscription skill): Orange below 50 · Yellow 50 to 59 · Green 60 to 69 · Grey 70 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Codex of the Tranquil Mind tooltip

Codex of the Tranquil Mind

Item Level 40

Consumable

Requires Level 10

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

“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 Tranquil Mind

Technique: Codex of the Tranquil Mind

Teaches: Teaches you how to craft a Codex of the Tranquil Mind more efficiently.
Requires: Legion Inscription (1)
Binding: Binds when picked up

Other ranks of this recipe

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

The current lowest listing is 54% 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: 9 gold
30-day low: 8 gold55 silver Sep 5
30-day high: 249 gold99 silver Aug 23
30-day median: 19 gold61 silver
7-day median: 9 gold
Hourly snapshots: 686

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.

Sallow Pigment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 91 other recipes (91 Inscription); the most per craft: Suramar Dresser (Inscription, 25 per craft), Darkmoon Card of the Legion (Inscription, 24 per craft), Steamy Romance Novel Kit (Inscription, 24 per craft), Unwritten Legend (Inscription, 24 per craft) and Nightborne Jeweler's Table (Inscription, 20 per craft).

Roseate Pigment. Rewarded by the quests Control is Key and Control is Key. Also a required reagent in 97 other recipes (95 Inscription and 2 Tailoring); the most per craft: Straszan Mark (Inscription, 130 per craft), Aqual Mark (Inscription, 100 per craft), Songs of the Alliance (Inscription, 100 per craft), Songs of the Horde (Inscription, 100 per craft) and Glyph of Crackling Ox Lightning (Inscription, 70 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Codex of the Tranquil Mind cost 245 gold35 silver. Most of that is Sallow Pigment - 5 at 40 gold each, 200 gold, 81.5% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 258 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 9 gold, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −236 gold35 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 45 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 236 gold80 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -96.5% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 262 units across 9 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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