Crafting estimate at current listings

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 100 gold5 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: …
Auction House cut (5%): …
Estimated profit at that listed price: …

Quality: Contract: The Cartels of Undermine 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 House54 min agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Inscription
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Khaz Algar Inscription
Item level: 1
Reagent slots: 2
Cast time: 3.5 sec

Crafts

Contract: The Cartels of Undermine…

Reagents

25Shadow Ink4 gold
1Fresh Parchment5 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Shadow Ink Inscription · 572 on the Auction House	25	4 gold	100 gold	100%
Fresh Parchment Inscription · 19,572 on the Auction House	1	5 silver	5 silver	0%
Total per craft			100 gold5 silver	100%

About Contract: The Cartels of Undermine

One craft takes 25 Shadow Ink and 1 Fresh Parchment. It is taught by Technique: Contract: The Cartels of Undermine, which needs Khaz Algar Inscription 35.

Recipe category: Contracts (Khaz Algar Techniques)
Skill-up colours (Khaz Algar Inscription skill): Orange below 80 · Yellow 80 to 89 · Green 90 to 99 · Grey 100 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Contract: The Cartels of Undermine tooltip

Contract: The Cartels of Undermine

Item Level 1

Consumable

Requires Level 70

Use: Sign a contract with The Cartels of Undermine that allows you to gain 5 reputation with them every time you complete a world quest in Khaz Algar until the next weekly reset. This effect is shared across your Warband.

“A document drafted by Scribes pledging a Warband's allegiance to a faction.”

Sell price: 30g

How to learn Contract: The Cartels of Undermine

Technique: Contract: The Cartels of Undermine

Teaches: Teaches you how to craft Contract: The Cartels of Undermine.
Requires: Khaz Algar Inscription (35)
Binding: Binds when picked up

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Contract: The Cartels of Undermine quality ranks

Contract: The Cartels of Undermine comes in 3 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 555.

Rank	Item	Lowest listed price	Listings (US)
Rank 1	Contract: The Cartels of Undermine	…	no current listing
Rank 2	Contract: The Cartels of Undermine	…	no current listing
Rank 3	Contract: The Cartels of Undermine	1,329 gold17 silver	7 listings, 17 units

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.

Contract: The Cartels of Undermine: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 83% 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: 100 gold
30-day low: 49 gold75 silver Sep 11
30-day high: 49,999 gold97 silver Aug 27
30-day median: 600 gold
7-day median: 100 gold90 silver
Hourly snapshots: 689

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

Where the reagents come from

Shadow Ink. Made with Shadow Ink (Inscription, Khaz Algar Inscription) from 5 Orbinid Pigment, 5 Blossom Pigment and 20 Distilled Algari Freshwater. At lowest listed prices that makes one Shadow Ink for 18 gold15 silver, against 4 gold listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 4 gold, rank 2 7 gold36 silver and rank 3 16 gold41 silver. Also a required reagent in 36 other recipes (35 Inscription and 1 Tailoring); Contract: Assembly of the Deeps takes the most, 25 per craft.

Fresh Parchment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 28 other recipes (28 Inscription); the most per craft: Dornogal Bookcase (Inscription, 30 per craft), Algari Missive of Crafting Speed (Inscription, 2 per craft), Algari Missive of Deftness (Inscription, 2 per craft), Algari Missive of Finesse (Inscription, 2 per craft) and Algari Missive of Ingenuity (Inscription, 2 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Contract: The Cartels of Undermine cost 100 gold5 silver. Most of that is Shadow Ink - 25 at 4 gold each, 100 gold, 100.0% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 105 gold31 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item has no current Auction House listing to compare it against, so the estimate above is left unknown rather than guessed.

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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Data notes

No Auction House price for the crafted item - output value unknown (it may be soulbound/BoE gear or an untracked item).