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InscriptionShadowlands Inscription
Contract: Death's Advance
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 one craft shows an estimated profit of 35 gold41 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 106 gold14 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 149 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 7 gold45 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 35 gold41 silver (+33%)
- Evidence: 10 current listings holding 248 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Inscription
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Shadowlands Inscription
- Item level
- 1
- Reagent slots
- 3
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
1Luminous Ink32 gold99 silver
1Umbral Ink73 gold
1Dark Parchment15 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luminous Ink Inscription · 577 on the Auction House · crafted by Luminous Ink (Inscription) | 1 | 32 gold99 silver | 32 gold99 silver | 31% |
| Umbral Ink Inscription · 9,301 on the Auction House · crafted by Umbral Ink (Inscription) | 1 | 73 gold | 73 gold | 69% |
| Dark Parchment Other · 16,664 on the Auction House | 1 | 15 silver | 15 silver | 0% |
| Total per craft | 106 gold14 silver | 100% |
About Contract: Death's Advance
One craft takes 1 Luminous Ink, 1 Umbral Ink and 1 Dark Parchment. It is taught by Technique: Contract: Death's Advance, which needs Shadowlands Inscription 60.
- Recipe category
- Contracts (Shadowlands Inscription)
- Skill-up colours (Shadowlands Inscription skill)
- Orange below 100 · Grey 100 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Contract: Death's Advance tooltip
How to learn Contract: Death's Advance
Technique: Contract: Death's Advance
- Teaches
- Teaches you how to craft a Contract: Death's Advance.
- Requires
- Shadowlands Inscription (60) · Revered with Death's Advance
- Binding
- Binds when picked up
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Contract: Death's Advance: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 58% above its 30-day median.
- Now
- 149 gold
- 30-day low
- 62 gold Sep 1
- 30-day high
- 500 gold Sep 8
- 30-day median
- 94 gold5 silver
- 7-day median
- 150 gold
- Hourly snapshots
- 684
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 24 gold32 silver, against 32 gold99 silver 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 60 gold38 silver, against 73 gold 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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- Crafter's Mark IOptional Reagents, learn at 1, grey at 55
- Crafter's Mark IIOptional Reagents, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Fae Revel MasqueHats, learn at 1, grey at 110
- Glyph of the Spectral LupineGlyphs, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Glyph of the Spectral VulpineGlyphs, learn at 1, grey at 100
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Contract: Death's Advance cost 106 gold14 silver. Most of that is Umbral Ink - 1 at 73 gold each, 73 gold, 68.8% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 111 gold72 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 149 gold, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 42 gold86 silver; the Auction House would keep 7 gold45 silver of a sale, leaving 35 gold41 silver. That is an estimated 33.4% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 17.4% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 248 units across 10 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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