Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 3 gold59 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 153 gold33 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 157 gold62 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 7 gold88 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: −3 gold59 silver (-2%)

Evidence: 5 current listings holding 23 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 3.5 times its 30-day median of 45 gold, so this estimate rests on a listing far above its usual level.

Verified priceAuction House4 min 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: Talanji's Expedition157 gold

Reagents

1Light Parchment1 silver
18Ultramarine Ink74 silver
10Crimson Ink14 gold

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Light Parchment Other · 978,948 on the Auction House	1	1 silver	1 silver	0%
Ultramarine Ink Inscription · 46,728 on the Auction House · crafted by Ultramarine Ink (Inscription)	18	74 silver	13 gold32 silver	9%
Crimson Ink Inscription · 24,903 on the Auction House · crafted by Crimson Ink (Inscription)	10	14 gold	140 gold	91%
Total per craft			153 gold33 silver	100%

About Contract: Talanji's Expedition

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: Talanji's Expedition tooltip

Contract: Talanji's Expedition

Item Level 50

Consumable

Requires Level 50

Use: Enter a contract with Talanji's Expedition 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: Talanji's Expedition: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 3.5 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: 157 gold62 silver
30-day low: 8 gold Sep 3
30-day high: 550 gold Sep 6
30-day median: 45 gold
7-day median: 52 gold99 silver
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 6 silver, against 74 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 9 gold89 silver, against 14 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: Talanji's Expedition cost 153 gold33 silver. Most of that is Crimson Ink - 10 at 14 gold each, 140 gold, 91.3% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 161 gold40 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 157 gold62 silver, which does not clear it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 4 gold29 silver; the Auction House would keep 7 gold88 silver of a sale, leaving −3 gold59 silver. That is an estimated -2.3% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 183.7% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 23 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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