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Inscription Khaz Algar Inscription
Contract: The Severed Threads
A Inscription recipe learned at Khaz Algar Inscription 1 that crafts Contract: The Severed Threads from 2 reagents.
Reagents
25Shadow Ink5 gold91 silver
1Fresh Parchment5 silver
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| Recipe item |  Technique: Contract: The Severed Threads | Requires Khaz Algar Inscription 35 |
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Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 101 gold90 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 147 gold80 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 48 gold31 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 2 gold41 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −101 gold90 silver (-69%)
- Evidence: 5 current listings holding 48 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 79% below its 30-day median of 225 gold59 silver, so this estimate rests on a listing far below its usual level.
- Quality: Contract: The Severed Threads 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.
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shadow Ink Inscription · 934 on the Auction House | 25 | 5 gold91 silver | 147 gold75 silver | 100% |
| Fresh Parchment Inscription · 18,404 on the Auction House | 1 | 5 silver | 5 silver | 0% |
| Total per craft | 147 gold80 silver | 100% |
About Contract: The Severed Threads
One craft takes 25 Shadow Ink and 1 Fresh Parchment. It is taught by Technique: Contract: The Severed Threads, which needs Khaz Algar Inscription 35.
- Recipe category
- Contracts (Khaz Algar Techniques)
Contract: The Severed Threads tooltip
How to learn Contract: The Severed Threads
Technique: Contract: The Severed Threads
- Teaches
- Teaches you how to craft Contract: The Severed Threads.
- Requires
- Khaz Algar Inscription (35)
- Binding
- Binds when picked up
Contract: The Severed Threads quality ranks
Contract: The Severed Threads 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 Severed Threads | 48 gold31 silver | 5 listings, 48 units |
| Rank 2 | Contract: The Severed Threads | 268 gold | 5 listings, 14 units |
| Rank 3 | Contract: The Severed Threads | … | no current listing |
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 Severed Threads: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 79% below its 30-day median.
- Now
- 48 gold31 silver
- 30-day low
- 48 gold31 silver Nov 1
- 30-day high
- 350 gold89 silver Oct 9
- 30-day median
- 225 gold59 silver
- 7-day median
- 50 gold85 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 691
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 6 gold35 silver, against 5 gold91 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 5 gold91 silver, rank 2 5 gold and rank 3 54 gold22 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 Severed Threads cost 147 gold80 silver. Most of that is Shadow Ink - 25 at 5 gold91 silver each, 147 gold75 silver, 100.0% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 155 gold57 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 48 gold31 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −99 gold49 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 2 gold41 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 101 gold90 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -68.9% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 48 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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