Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 280 gold79 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 51 gold71 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 350 gold
Auction House cut (5%): 17 gold50 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: 280 gold79 silver (+543%)

Evidence: 5 current listings holding 25 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 House19 min 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: Unshackled350 gold

Reagents

1Light Parchment1 silver
20Maroon Ink2 gold40 silver
5Ultramarine Ink74 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Light Parchment Other · 978,948 on the Auction House	1	1 silver	1 silver	0%
Maroon Ink Inscription · 13,733 on the Auction House · crafted by Maroon Ink (Inscription)	20	2 gold40 silver	48 gold	93%
Ultramarine Ink Inscription · 46,728 on the Auction House · crafted by Ultramarine Ink (Inscription)	5	74 silver	3 gold70 silver	7%
Total per craft			51 gold71 silver	100%

About Contract: Unshackled

One craft takes 1 Light Parchment, 20 Maroon Ink and 5 Ultramarine Ink. It is taught by Technique: Contract: Unshackled, which needs Kul Tiran Inscription 160.

Recipe category: Contracts (Kul Tiran Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Kul Tiran Inscription skill): Orange below 165 · Yellow 165 to 169 · Green 170 to 174 · Grey 175 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Contract: Unshackled tooltip

Contract: Unshackled

Item Level 1

Consumable

Requires Level 50

Use: Enter a contract with the Unshackled 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: Unshackled

Technique: Contract: Unshackled

Teaches: Teaches you how to craft Contract: Unshackled.
Requires: Kul Tiran Inscription (160) · Revered with The Unshackled
Binding: Binds when picked up

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Contract: Unshackled: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 63% 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: 350 gold
30-day low: 250 gold Sep 15
30-day high: 4,000 gold Aug 30
30-day median: 950 gold
7-day median: 350 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 306 other recipes (295 Inscription, 8 Enchanting and 3 Engineering); Codex of the Clear Mind takes the most, 200 per craft.

Maroon Ink. Made with Maroon Ink (Inscription, Kul Tiran Inscription) from 1 Distilled Water and 1 Maroon Pigment. At lowest listed prices that makes one Maroon Ink for 3 gold14 silver, against 2 gold40 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 9 other recipes (9 Inscription); the most per craft: Uncanny Combatant's Etched Vessel (Inscription, 60 per craft), Notorious Combatant's Etched Vessel (Inscription, 50 per craft), Highborne Compendium of Mystical Bulwark (Inscription, 45 per craft), Highborne Compendium of Storms (Inscription, 45 per craft) and Highborne Compendium of Sundering (Inscription, 45 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 44 other recipes (43 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).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Contract: Unshackled cost 51 gold71 silver. Most of that is Maroon Ink - 20 at 2 gold40 silver each, 48 gold, 92.8% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 54 gold43 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 350 gold, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 298 gold29 silver; the Auction House would keep 17 gold50 silver of a sale, leaving 280 gold79 silver. That is an estimated 543.0% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 5.9% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 25 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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