Crafting estimate at current listings

No real market: too few listings for this price to mean anything yet.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 108 gold85 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 74 gold51 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 3 gold72 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: −38 gold6 silver

No real market: only 2 units across 1 auction region-wide. With this little supply the lowest listing is one asking price rather than a market rate, so treat the estimate above as arithmetic, not an opportunity; a buyer at that price is not established.

Evidence: 1 current listing holding 2 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Quality: Contract: Dragonscale Expedition comes in 3 quality ranks. This is the base comparison, rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result; your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide the rank you actually get, which this estimate does not model. Each rank’s lowest listing is in the rank table below.
Not included: the recipe also accepts 2 finishing reagent slots, which are not required and are left out of the cost.

Verified priceAuction House1 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Inscription
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Dragon Isles Inscription
Item level: 385
Reagent slots: 3
Cast time: 3.5 sec

Crafts

Contract: Dragonscale Expedition74 gold

Reagents

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Blazing Ink Inscription · 808 on the Auction House	1	17 gold	17 gold	16%
Chilled Rune Inscription · 37 on the Auction House	1	91 gold	91 gold	84%
Glittering Parchment Inscription · 675 on the Auction House	1	85 silver	85 silver	1%
Total per craft			108 gold85 silver	100%

About Contract: Dragonscale Expedition

One craft takes 1 Blazing Ink, 1 Chilled Rune and 1 Glittering Parchment. It is taught by Technique: Contract: Dragonscale Expedition, which needs Dragon Isles Inscription 40.

Recipe category: Contracts (Dragon Isles Techniques)
Skill-up colours (Dragon Isles Inscription skill): Orange below 50 · Yellow 50 to 54 · Green 55 to 59 · Grey 60 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Contract: Dragonscale Expedition tooltip

Contract: Dragonscale Expedition

Item Level 385

Consumable

Requires Level 61

Use: Enter a contract with the Dragonscale Expedition that allows you to gain 10 reputation with them every time you complete a world quest in the Dragon Isles.

Sell price: 1g

How to learn Contract: Dragonscale Expedition

Technique: Contract: Dragonscale Expedition

Teaches: Teaches you how to craft Contract: Dragonscale Expedition.
Requires: Dragon Isles Inscription (40)
Binding: Binds when picked up

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Contract: Dragonscale Expedition quality ranks

Contract: Dragonscale Expedition comes in 3 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 300.

Rank	Item	Lowest listed price	Listings (US)
Rank 1	Contract: Dragonscale Expedition	74 gold51 silver	1 listing, 2 units
Rank 2	Contract: Dragonscale Expedition	55 gold	14 listings, 111 units
Rank 3	Contract: Dragonscale Expedition	…	no current listing

The crafting estimate above is the base comparison: rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result. Your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide which rank a craft actually makes, so a higher rank is never priced against rank 1 reagents here. Right now rank 1 lists above rank 2, so a craft that comes out at a higher rank is worth less at today’s listings, not more.

Contract: Dragonscale Expedition: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 2.5 times its 30-day median.

Now: 74 gold51 silver
30-day low: 30 gold Aug 22
30-day high: 155 gold51 silver Sep 13
30-day median: 30 gold
7-day median: 74 gold51 silver
Hourly snapshots: 316

US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.

Where the reagents come from

Blazing Ink. Made with Blazing Ink (Inscription, Dragon Isles Inscription) from 2 Shimmering Pigment, 1 Blazing Pigment, 1 Draconic Vial and 1 Iridescent Water, 2 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Blazing Ink for 10 gold5 silver, against 17 gold listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 17 gold, rank 2 9 gold45 silver and rank 3 9 gold75 silver. Also a required reagent in 21 other recipes (20 Inscription and 1 Tailoring); Draconic Combatant's Insignia of Alacrity takes the most, 10 per craft.

Chilled Rune. Made with Chilled Rune (Inscription, Dragon Isles Inscription) from 1 Serene Ink and 5 Rousing Frost. At lowest listed prices that makes one Chilled Rune for 59 gold40 silver, against 91 gold listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 91 gold, rank 2 92 gold and rank 3 154 gold. Also a required reagent in 40 other recipes (40 Inscription); the most per craft: Illuminating Pillar of the Isles (Inscription, 8 per craft), Kinetic Pillar of the Isles (Inscription, 8 per craft), Weathered Explorer's Stave (Inscription, 5 per craft), Crackling Codex of the Isles (Inscription, 4 per craft) and Buzzing Rune (Inscription, 1 per craft).

Glittering Parchment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 73 other recipes (71 Inscription and 2 Enchanting); the most per craft: Core Explorer's Compendium (Inscription, 20 per craft), Crackling Codex of the Isles (Inscription, 20 per craft), Literature of the Green Dragonflight (Inscription, 16 per craft), Literature of the Red Dragonflight (Inscription, 16 per craft) and Literature of the Blue Dragonflight (Inscription, 15 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Contract: Dragonscale Expedition cost 108 gold85 silver. Most of that is Chilled Rune - 1 at 91 gold each, 91 gold, 83.6% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 114 gold57 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 74 gold51 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −34 gold34 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 3 gold72 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 38 gold6 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -35.0% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 2 units across 1 auction 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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