Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 96 gold71 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 97 gold81 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 1 gold15 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 5 silver75 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price: −96 gold71 silver (-99%)

Evidence: 10 current listings holding 347 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.

Verified priceAuction House1 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

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

Crafts

Contract: The Honorbound1 gold

Reagents

1Light Parchment1 silver
12Ultramarine Ink65 silver
5Crimson Ink18 gold

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Light Parchment Other · 687,080 on the Auction House	1	1 silver	1 silver	0%
Ultramarine Ink Inscription · 45,012 on the Auction House · crafted by Ultramarine Ink (Inscription)	12	65 silver	7 gold80 silver	8%
Crimson Ink Inscription · 7,503 on the Auction House · crafted by Crimson Ink (Inscription)	5	18 gold	90 gold	92%
Total per craft			97 gold81 silver	100%

About Contract: The Honorbound

One craft takes 1 Light Parchment, 12 Ultramarine Ink and 5 Crimson Ink. It is taught by Technique: Contract: The Honorbound, which needs Kul Tiran Inscription 1.

Recipe category: Contracts (Kul Tiran Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Kul Tiran Inscription skill): Orange below 145 · Yellow 145 to 146 · Green 147 to 149 · Grey 150 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Contract: The Honorbound tooltip

Contract: The Honorbound

Item Level 1

Consumable

Requires Level 50

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

Sell price: 1g 15s

How to learn Contract: The Honorbound

Technique: Contract: The Honorbound

Teaches: Teaches you how to craft a Contract: The Honorbound more efficiently.
Requires: Kul Tiran Inscription (1)
Binding: Binds when picked up

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

The current lowest listing sits at its 30-day median.

Now: 1 gold15 silver
30-day low: 1 gold Aug 22
30-day high: 1 gold16 silver Sep 19
30-day median: 1 gold16 silver
7-day median: 1 gold16 silver
Hourly snapshots: 678

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 18 silver, against 65 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 18 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: The Honorbound cost 97 gold81 silver. Most of that is Crimson Ink - 5 at 18 gold each, 90 gold, 92.0% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 102 gold95 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 1 gold15 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −96 gold66 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 5 silver75 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 96 gold71 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -98.9% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 347 units across 10 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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