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Contract: Enlightened Brokers

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.

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Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 6 gold43 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
17 gold32 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price
25 gold
Auction House cut (5%)
1 gold25 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price
6 gold43 silver (+37%)
  • Evidence: 11 current listings holding 178 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Last verifiedAuction HouseUS region
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Recipe facts

Profession
Inscription
Requires skill
1
Expansion tier
Shadowlands Inscription
Item level
1
Reagent slots
2
Cast time
2 sec

Crafts

Reagents

Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Tranquil Ink
Inscription · 122,762 on the Auction House · crafted by Tranquil Ink (Inscription)
35 gold56 silver16 gold68 silver96%
Protogenic Pelt
Leather · 41,803 on the Auction House
164 silver64 silver4%
Total per craft17 gold32 silver100%

About Contract: Enlightened Brokers

One craft takes 3 Tranquil Ink and 1 Protogenic Pelt. It is taught by Technique: Contract: The Enlightened, which needs Shadowlands Inscription 75.

Recipe category
Contracts (Shadowlands Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Shadowlands Inscription skill)
Orange below 101 · Grey 101 and up
Skill points per craft
1

Contract: The Enlightened tooltip

Contract: The Enlightened
Item Level 1
Consumable
Requires Level 51
Use: Enter a contract with The Enlightened that allows you to gain reputation with them every time you complete a world quest in the Shadowlands.

How to learn Contract: Enlightened Brokers

Technique: Contract: The Enlightened

Teaches
Teaches you how to craft a Contract: The Enlightened.
Requires
Shadowlands Inscription (75) · Revered with The Enlightened
Binding
Binds when picked up

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Contract: The Enlightened: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 23% 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
25 gold
30-day low
15 gold22 silver Aug 22
30-day high
500 gold Sep 10
30-day median
32 gold33 silver
7-day median
45 gold29 silver
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

Tranquil Ink. Made with Tranquil Ink (Inscription, Shadowlands Inscription) from 1 Tranquil Pigment, 1 Aerated Water and 1 Rune Etched Vial. At lowest listed prices that makes one Tranquil Ink for 2 gold37 silver, against 5 gold56 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 17 other recipes (17 Inscription); Hollow Night Fae Shrine takes the most, 25 per craft.

Protogenic Pelt. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 4 other recipes (3 Leatherworking and 1 Inscription); the most per craft: Vestige of the Eternal (Leatherworking, 40 per craft), Crafter's Mark of the First Ones (Leatherworking, 20 per craft), Crafter's Mark IV (Leatherworking, 5 per craft) and Vantus Rune: Sepulcher of the First Ones (Inscription, 1 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Contract: Enlightened Brokers cost 17 gold32 silver. Most of that is Tranquil Ink - 3 at 5 gold56 silver each, 16 gold68 silver, 96.3% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 18 gold23 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 25 gold, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 7 gold68 silver; the Auction House would keep 1 gold25 silver of a sale, leaving 6 gold43 silver. That is an estimated 37.1% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 16.3% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 178 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.

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Guides and routes on this site that cover Contract: The Enlightened.

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