Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 508 gold70 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 1,201 gold30 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price (each): 900 gold
Items per craft: 2
Listed value of one craft: 1,800 gold
Auction House cut (5%): 90 gold
Estimated profit at that listed price: 508 gold70 silver (+42%)

Evidence: 24 current listings holding 274 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Items per craft: the game’s spell data creates 2 per craft, so the listed value of one craft is that many times the lowest listed price.
Quality: Cosmic Ink 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.

Verified priceAuction House1 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Inscription
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Dragon Isles Inscription
Item level: 60
Reagent slots: 5
Cast time: 3.5 sec

Crafts

Cosmic Ink900 gold

Reagents

1Serene Ink9 gold90 silver
2Burnished Ink99 gold99 silver
1Runed Writhebark840 gold
1Iridescent Water1 gold56 silver
1Awakened Frost149 gold86 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Serene Ink Inscription · 1,750 on the Auction House	1	9 gold90 silver	9 gold90 silver	1%
Burnished Ink Inscription · 237 on the Auction House	2	99 gold99 silver	199 gold98 silver	17%
Runed Writhebark Inscription · 524 on the Auction House	1	840 gold	840 gold	70%
Iridescent Water Inscription · 18,232 on the Auction House	1	1 gold56 silver	1 gold56 silver	0%
Awakened Frost Elemental · 3,645 on the Auction House	1	149 gold86 silver	149 gold86 silver	12%
Total per craft			1,201 gold30 silver	100%

About Cosmic Ink

One craft takes 1 Serene Ink, 2 Burnished Ink, 1 Runed Writhebark, 1 Iridescent Water and 1 Awakened Frost. It is taught by Technique: Cosmic Ink, which needs Dragon Isles Inscription 35. Cosmic Ink is itself a reagent in 11 other recipes (Inscription).

Recipe category: Inks (Dragon Isles Techniques)
Skill-up colours (Dragon Isles Inscription skill): Orange below 45 · Yellow 45 to 49 · Green 50 to 54 · Grey 55 and up
Skill points per craft: 2

Cosmic Ink tooltip

Cosmic Ink

Item Level 60

Trade Goods

“A deep black ink crafted by players with the Inscription skill. Can be bought and sold on the auction house.”

Sell price: 1g 20s

How to learn Cosmic Ink

Technique: Cosmic Ink

Teaches: Teaches you how to craft Cosmic Ink.
Requires: Dragon Isles Inscription (35)

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Cosmic Ink is a reagent in

Cosmic Ink quality ranks

Cosmic Ink comes in 3 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 300.

Rank	Item	Lowest listed price	Listings (US)
Rank 1	Cosmic Ink	900 gold	24 listings, 274 units
Rank 2	Cosmic Ink	439 gold	34 listings, 8,626 units
Rank 3	Cosmic Ink	2,999 gold91 silver	14 listings, 714 units

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. Right now rank 1 lists above rank 2, so a craft that comes out at a higher rank is worth less at today’s listings, not more.

Cosmic Ink: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 68% above 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: 900 gold
30-day low: 10 gold Sep 18
30-day high: 49,999 gold94 silver Sep 18
30-day median: 536 gold81 silver
7-day median: 900 gold
Hourly snapshots: 669

US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.

Where the reagents come from

Serene Ink. Made with Serene Ink (Inscription, Dragon Isles Inscription) from 2 Shimmering Pigment, 1 Serene Pigment, 1 Draconic Vial and 1 Iridescent Water, 2 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Serene Ink for 11 gold21 silver, against 9 gold90 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 9 gold90 silver, rank 2 13 gold and rank 3 6 gold90 silver. Also a required reagent in 23 other recipes (23 Inscription); Draconic Combatant's Medallion takes the most, 10 per craft.

Burnished Ink. Made with Burnished Ink (Inscription, Dragon Isles Inscription) from 2 Blazing Ink, 2 Flourishing Ink, 2 Serene Ink and 1 Iridescent Water, 2 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Burnished Ink for 112 gold65 silver, against 99 gold99 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 99 gold99 silver, rank 2 73 gold67 silver and rank 3 99 gold. Also a required reagent in 27 other recipes (27 Inscription); the most per craft: Glyph of the Lunar Chameleon (Inscription, 4 per craft), Glyph of the Shath'Yar (Inscription, 4 per craft), Mark of the Auric Dreamstag (Inscription, 4 per craft), Contract: Artisan's Consortium (Inscription, 3 per craft) and Azurescale Sigil (Inscription, 2 per craft).

Runed Writhebark. Made with Runed Writhebark (Inscription, Dragon Isles Inscription) from 5 Writhebark, 1 Flourishing Ink, 1 Chilled Rune and 5 Rousing Air. At lowest listed prices that makes one Runed Writhebark for 33,769 gold50 silver, against 840 gold listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 840 gold, rank 2 469 gold and rank 3 not listed. Also a required reagent in 21 other recipes (14 Inscription, 4 Leatherworking and 3 Enchanting); the most per craft: Lydiara's Binding Rune (Inscription, 50 per craft), Alchemist's Brilliant Mixing Rod (Inscription, 12 per craft), Chef's Splendid Rolling Pin (Inscription, 12 per craft), Scribe's Resplendent Quill (Inscription, 12 per craft) and Illuminating Pillar of the Isles (Inscription, 10 per craft).

Iridescent Water. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 34 other recipes (33 Inscription and 1 Engineering); the most per craft: Titanic Tyrhold Fountain (Engineering, 20 per craft), Cliffside Wylderdrake: Conical Head (Inscription, 8 per craft), Cliffside Wylderdrake: Red Hair (Inscription, 8 per craft), Cliffside Wylderdrake: Triple Head Horns (Inscription, 8 per craft) and Grotto Netherwing Drake: Chin Tendrils (Inscription, 8 per craft).

Awakened Frost. Made with Transmute: Awakened Frost (Alchemy, Dragon Isles Alchemy) from 1 Awakened Earth and 1 Awakened Air, 2 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Awakened Frost for 95 gold74 silver, against 149 gold86 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 45 other recipes (16 Alchemy, 9 Jewelcrafting, 8 Inscription and 5 Enchanting); the most per craft: Illusion: Primal Frost (Enchanting, 20 per craft), Darkmoon Deck Box: Rime (Inscription, 10 per craft), Frosted Armor Kit (Leatherworking, 10 per craft), Frozen Devotion (Enchanting, 6 per craft) and Draconic Phial Cauldron (Alchemy, 5 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 5 reagents for one craft of Cosmic Ink cost 1,201 gold30 silver. Most of that is Runed Writhebark - 1 at 840 gold each, 840 gold, 69.9% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 1,264 gold52 silver per craft, 632 gold26 silver per item at 2 items a craft - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 900 gold, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 598 gold70 silver; the Auction House would keep 90 gold of a sale, leaving 508 gold70 silver. That is an estimated 42.3% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 15.0% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 274 units across 24 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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