Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 21 gold89 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 78 gold89 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 60 gold
Auction House cut (5%): 3 gold
Estimated profit at that listed price: −21 gold89 silver (-28%)

Evidence: 9 current listings holding 39 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 House25 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: Zandalari Empire60 gold

Reagents

1Light Parchment1 silver
12Ultramarine Ink74 silver
5Crimson 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)	12	74 silver	8 gold88 silver	11%
Crimson Ink Inscription · 24,903 on the Auction House · crafted by Crimson Ink (Inscription)	5	14 gold	70 gold	89%
Total per craft			78 gold89 silver	100%

About Contract: Zandalari Empire

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

Recipe category: Contracts (Kul Tiran Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Kul Tiran Inscription skill): Orange below 115 · Yellow 115 to 131 · Green 132 to 149 · Grey 150 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Contract: Zandalari Empire tooltip

Contract: Zandalari Empire

Item Level 50

Consumable

Requires Level 50

Use: Enter a contract with the Zandalari Empire 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: Zandalari Empire

Technique: Contract: Zandalari Empire

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

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Contract: Zandalari Empire: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 51% 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: 60 gold
30-day low: 5 gold93 silver Aug 23
30-day high: 49,999 gold97 silver Sep 1
30-day median: 122 gold96 silver
7-day median: 60 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 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: Zandalari Empire cost 78 gold89 silver. Most of that is Crimson Ink - 5 at 14 gold each, 70 gold, 88.7% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 83 gold4 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 60 gold, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −18 gold89 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 3 gold of a sale, so a craft loses 21 gold89 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -27.7% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 39 units across 9 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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