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InscriptionDragon Isles Inscription
Core Explorer's Compendium
Reagent cost, the crafted item's lowest listed price and the estimated profit at that price, from current US Auction House listings - recalculated every snapshot.
Crafting estimate at current listings
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 142 gold80 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- …
- Auction House cut (5%)
- …
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- …
- Not included: the recipe also accepts 2 finishing reagent slots, 3 optional reagent slots, which are not required and are left out of the cost.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Inscription
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Dragon Isles Inscription
- Item level
- 270
- Reagent slots
- 4
- Cast time
- 3.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
1Blazing Ink17 gold
1Chilled Rune91 gold
20Glittering Parchment75 silver
5Rousing Earth3 gold96 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blazing Ink Inscription · 669 on the Auction House | 1 | 17 gold | 17 gold | 12% |
| Chilled Rune Inscription · 36 on the Auction House | 1 | 91 gold | 91 gold | 64% |
| Glittering Parchment Inscription · 2,981 on the Auction House | 20 | 75 silver | 15 gold | 11% |
| Rousing Earth Elemental · 5,094 on the Auction House | 5 | 3 gold96 silver | 19 gold80 silver | 14% |
| Total per craft | 142 gold80 silver | 100% |
About Core Explorer's Compendium
One craft takes 1 Blazing Ink, 1 Chilled Rune, 20 Glittering Parchment and 5 Rousing Earth. It is taught by Technique: Core Explorer's Compendium, which needs Dragon Isles Inscription 15.
- Recipe category
- Weapons (Dragon Isles Techniques)
- Skill-up colours (Dragon Isles Inscription skill)
- Orange below 25 · Yellow 25 to 29 · Green 30 to 34 · Grey 35 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 2
Core Explorer's Compendium tooltip
How to learn Core Explorer's Compendium
Technique: Core Explorer's Compendium
- Teaches
- Teaches you how to craft Core Explorer's Compendium.
- Requires
- Dragon Isles Inscription (15)
- Binding
- Binds when picked up
More Weapons recipes (Dragon Isles Techniques)
Where the reagents come from
Blazing Ink. Made with Blazing Ink (Inscription, Dragon Isles Inscription) from 2 
Shimmering Pigment, 1 
Blazing Pigment, 1 
Draconic Vial and 1 
Iridescent Water, 2 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Blazing Ink for 10 gold54 silver, against 17 gold listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 17 gold, rank 2 9 gold50 silver and rank 3 9 gold7 silver. Also a required reagent in 21 other recipes (20 Inscription and 1 Tailoring); Draconic Combatant's Insignia of Alacrity takes the most, 10 per craft.
Chilled Rune. Made with Chilled Rune (Inscription, Dragon Isles Inscription) from 1 
Serene Ink and 5 
Rousing Frost. At lowest listed prices that makes one Chilled Rune for 80 gold17 silver, against 91 gold listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 91 gold, rank 2 92 gold3 silver and rank 3 154 gold38 silver. Also a required reagent in 40 other recipes (40 Inscription); the most per craft: Illuminating Pillar of the Isles (Inscription, 8 per craft), Kinetic Pillar of the Isles (Inscription, 8 per craft), Weathered Explorer's Stave (Inscription, 5 per craft), Crackling Codex of the Isles (Inscription, 4 per craft) and Buzzing Rune (Inscription, 1 per craft).
Glittering Parchment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 73 other recipes (71 Inscription and 2 Enchanting); the most per craft: Crackling Codex of the Isles (Inscription, 20 per craft), Literature of the Green Dragonflight (Inscription, 16 per craft), Literature of the Red Dragonflight (Inscription, 16 per craft), Literature of the Blue Dragonflight (Inscription, 15 per craft) and Draconic Scribe's Basin (Enchanting, 9 per craft).
Rousing Earth. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 14 other recipes (5 Jewelcrafting, 4 Engineering, 4 Enchanting and 1 Skinning); the most per craft: Haphazardly Tethered Wires (Engineering, 4 per craft), Scepter of Spectacle: Earth (Enchanting, 3 per craft), Empty Soul Cage (Jewelcrafting, 2 per craft), Glossy Stone (Jewelcrafting, 2 per craft) and Illusory Adornment: Earth (Enchanting, 2 per craft).
More Dragon Isles Inscription recipes in the same skill range
- Alchemist's Brilliant Mixing RodProfession Equipment, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Alchemist's Sturdy Mixing RodProfession Equipment, learn at 1, grey at 45
- Arcane Dispelling RuneArtisan Curios, learn at 1, grey at 60
- Azurescale SigilRunes and Sigils, learn at 1, grey at 65
- Blazing FortuneMysteries, learn at 1, grey at 30
- Blazing InkInks, learn at 1, grey at 20
- Bronzescale SigilRunes and Sigils, learn at 1, grey at 65
- Bundle O' Cards: Dragon IslesMysteries, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Burnished InkInks, learn at 1, grey at 40
- Buzzing RuneRunes and Sigils, learn at 1, grey at 45
3D Model
First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 4 reagents for one craft of Core Explorer's Compendium cost 142 gold80 silver. Most of that is Chilled Rune - 1 at 91 gold each, 91 gold, 63.7% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 150 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 →
Other recipes that use Blazing Ink
- Blazing FortuneInscription
- Burnished InkInscription
- Chef's Smooth Rolling PinInscription
- Contract: Dragonscale ExpeditionInscription
- Crimson Combatant's Insignia of AlacrityInscription
- Draconic Combatant's Insignia of AlacrityInscription
- Draconic Missive of IngenuityInscription
- Draconic Missive of ResourcefulnessInscription
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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).