Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 162 gold80 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 171 gold35 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 9 gold
Auction House cut (5%): 45 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: −162 gold80 silver (-95%)

Evidence: 7 current listings holding 171 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 82% below its 30-day median of 49 gold96 silver, so this estimate rests on a listing far below its usual level.

Verified priceAuction House1 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Inscription
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Kul Tiran Inscription
Item level: 50
Reagent slots: 3
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Contract: Proudmoore Admiralty9 gold

Reagents

1Light Parchment1 silver
18Ultramarine Ink63 silver
10Crimson Ink16 gold

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Light Parchment Other · 662,657 on the Auction House	1	1 silver	1 silver	0%
Ultramarine Ink Inscription · 45,405 on the Auction House · crafted by Ultramarine Ink (Inscription)	18	63 silver	11 gold34 silver	7%
Crimson Ink Inscription · 4,857 on the Auction House · crafted by Crimson Ink (Inscription)	10	16 gold	160 gold	93%
Total per craft			171 gold35 silver	100%

About Contract: Proudmoore Admiralty

One craft takes 1 Light Parchment, 18 Ultramarine Ink and 10 Crimson Ink.

Recipe category: Contracts (Kul Tiran Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Kul Tiran Inscription skill): Orange below 95 · Yellow 95 to 114 · Green 115 to 134 · Grey 135 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Contract: Proudmoore Admiralty tooltip

Contract: Proudmoore Admiralty

Item Level 50

Consumable

Requires Level 50

Use: Enter a contract with the Proudmoore Admiralty that allows you to gain reputation with them every time you complete a world quest on Kul Tiras and Zandalar.

Sell price: 1g 15s

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Contract: Proudmoore Admiralty: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 82% 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: 9 gold
30-day low: 2 gold Sep 16
30-day high: 500 gold Sep 3
30-day median: 49 gold96 silver
7-day median: 9 gold
Hourly snapshots: 685

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

Where the reagents come from

Light Parchment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 307 other recipes (296 Inscription, 8 Enchanting and 3 Engineering); Codex of the Clear Mind takes the most, 200 per craft.

Ultramarine Ink. Made with Ultramarine Ink (Inscription, Kul Tiran Inscription) from 1 Distilled Water and 1 Ultramarine Pigment. At lowest listed prices that makes one Ultramarine Ink for 17 silver, against 63 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 45 other recipes (44 Inscription and 1 Jewelcrafting); the most per craft: Sinister Combatant's Etched Vessel (Inscription, 50 per craft), Glyph of Dire Bees (Inscription, 30 per craft), Glyph of Steaming Fury (Inscription, 30 per craft), Glyph of Storm's Wake (Inscription, 30 per craft) and Glyph of the Aerial Chameleon (Inscription, 30 per craft).

Crimson Ink. Made with Crimson Ink (Inscription, Kul Tiran Inscription) from 1 Distilled Water and 1 Crimson Pigment. At lowest listed prices that makes one Crimson Ink for 13 gold75 silver, against 16 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 40 other recipes (39 Inscription and 1 Tailoring); the most per craft: Codex of the Quiet Mind (Inscription, 60 per craft), Crimson Ink Well (Inscription, 30 per craft), Honorable Combatant's Etched Vessel (Inscription, 30 per craft), Inscribed Vessel of Mysticism (Inscription, 30 per craft) and Sanguine Feather Quill of Lana'thel (Inscription, 30 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Contract: Proudmoore Admiralty cost 171 gold35 silver. Most of that is Crimson Ink - 10 at 16 gold each, 160 gold, 93.4% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 180 gold36 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 9 gold, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −162 gold35 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 45 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 162 gold80 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -95.0% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 171 units across 7 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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