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Inscription Shadowlands Inscription

Contract: Death's Advance

A Inscription recipe learned at Shadowlands Inscription 1 that crafts Contract: Death's Advance from 3 reagents.

Reagents

1Luminous Ink2 gold78 silver
1Umbral Ink29 gold99 silver
1Dark Parchment1 gold7 silver

Crafts

Contract: Death's Advance500 gold

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Where it comes from

Recipe item	Technique: Contract: Death's Advance	Requires Shadowlands Inscription 60 · Reputation with Death's Advance

Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 441 gold16 silver, but the crafted item’s listing is far from its 30-day median (see below).

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 33 gold84 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 500 gold
Auction House cut (5%): 25 gold
Estimated profit at that listed price: 441 gold16 silver (+1304%)

Evidence: 5 current listings holding 226 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Outlier: the crafted item’s lowest listing is 5.3 times its 30-day median of 94 gold95 silver, so this estimate rests on a listing far above its usual level.

Verified priceAuction House5 min agoUS region

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Luminous Ink Inscription · 21,036 on the Auction House · crafted by Luminous Ink (Inscription)	1	2 gold78 silver	2 gold78 silver	8%
Umbral Ink Inscription · 14,687 on the Auction House · crafted by Umbral Ink (Inscription)	1	29 gold99 silver	29 gold99 silver	89%
Dark Parchment Other · 5,895 on the Auction House	1	1 gold7 silver	1 gold7 silver	3%
Total per craft			33 gold84 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)

Contract: Death's Advance tooltip

Contract: Death's Advance

Item Level 1

Consumable

Requires Level 51

Use: Enter a contract with the Death's Advance that allows you to gain reputation with them every time you complete a world quest in the Shadowlands.

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

Contract: Death's Advance: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 5.3 times 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: 500 gold
30-day low: 25 gold95 silver Oct 21
30-day high: 500 gold Nov 6
30-day median: 94 gold95 silver
7-day median: 124 gold61 silver
Hourly snapshots: 692

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 2 gold77 silver, against 2 gold78 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 31 other recipes (31 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 33 gold52 silver, against 29 gold99 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 30 other recipes (30 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 29 other recipes (29 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), Fae Moonbough Scroll (Inscription, 10 per craft) and Tome of Maldraxxian Rituals (Inscription, 10 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Contract: Death's Advance cost 33 gold84 silver. Most of that is Umbral Ink - 1 at 29 gold99 silver each, 29 gold99 silver, 88.6% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 35 gold62 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 500 gold, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 466 gold16 silver; the Auction House would keep 25 gold of a sale, leaving 441 gold16 silver. That is an estimated 1303.7% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 5.4% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 226 units across 5 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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