Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 12 gold18 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 459 gold95 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 496 gold98 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 24 gold84 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: 12 gold18 silver (+3%)

Evidence: 11 current listings holding 172 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: Shadowlands Inscription
Item level: 1
Reagent slots: 3
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Contract: Court of Harvesters496 gold

Reagents

5Luminous Ink20 gold
5Umbral Ink71 gold96 silver
1Dark Parchment15 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Luminous Ink Inscription · 1,114 on the Auction House · crafted by Luminous Ink (Inscription)	5	20 gold	100 gold	22%
Umbral Ink Inscription · 10,857 on the Auction House · crafted by Umbral Ink (Inscription)	5	71 gold96 silver	359 gold80 silver	78%
Dark Parchment Other · 11,597 on the Auction House	1	15 silver	15 silver	0%
Total per craft			459 gold95 silver	100%

About Contract: Court of Harvesters

One craft takes 5 Luminous Ink, 5 Umbral Ink and 1 Dark Parchment. It is taught by Technique: Contract: Court of Harvesters, which needs Shadowlands Inscription 60.

Recipe category: Contracts (Shadowlands Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Shadowlands Inscription skill): Orange below 80 · Yellow 80 to 84 · Green 85 to 89 · Grey 90 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Contract: Court of Harvesters tooltip

Contract: Court of Harvesters

Item Level 1

Consumable

Requires Level 51

Use: Enter a contract with the Court of Harvesters that allows you to gain reputation with them every time you complete a world quest in the Shadowlands.

Sell price: 25s

How to learn Contract: Court of Harvesters

Technique: Contract: Court of Harvesters

Teaches: Teaches you how to craft a Contract: Court of Harvesters.
Requires: Shadowlands Inscription (60) · Revered with Court of Harvesters
Binding: Binds when picked up

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Contract: Court of Harvesters: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing sits at its 30-day median.

Now: 496 gold98 silver
30-day low: 496 gold98 silver Sep 7
30-day high: 499 gold99 silver Aug 31
30-day median: 497 gold99 silver
7-day median: 496 gold98 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

Luminous Ink. Made with Luminous Ink (Inscription, Shadowlands Inscription) from 1 Luminous Pigment, 1 Aerated Water and 1 Rune Etched Vial. At lowest listed prices that makes one Luminous Ink for 20 gold38 silver, against 20 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 30 other recipes (30 Inscription); Soul Keeper's Spire takes the most, 22 per craft.

Umbral Ink. Made with Umbral Ink (Inscription, Shadowlands Inscription) from 1 Umbral Pigment, 1 Aerated Water and 1 Rune Etched Vial. At lowest listed prices that makes one Umbral Ink for 62 gold58 silver, against 71 gold96 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 29 other recipes (29 Inscription); the most per craft: Glyph of the Wild Mushroom (Inscription, 24 per craft), Mark of the Gloomstalker Dredbat (Inscription, 24 per craft), Mark of the Midnight Runestag (Inscription, 24 per craft), Mark of the Regal Dredbat (Inscription, 24 per craft) and Mark of the Sable Ardenmoth (Inscription, 24 per craft).

Dark Parchment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 28 other recipes (28 Inscription); the most per craft: Codex of the Still Mind (Inscription, 75 per craft), Newly Departed Codex (Inscription, 50 per craft), Tome of the Still Mind (Inscription, 25 per craft), Tome of Maldraxxian Rituals (Inscription, 10 per craft) and Crafter's Mark II (Inscription, 5 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Contract: Court of Harvesters cost 459 gold95 silver. Most of that is Umbral Ink - 5 at 71 gold96 silver each, 359 gold80 silver, 78.2% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 484 gold15 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 496 gold98 silver, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 37 gold3 silver; the Auction House would keep 24 gold84 silver of a sale, leaving 12 gold18 silver. That is an estimated 2.6% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 67.1% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 172 units across 11 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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