Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 58 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 1 gold51 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 2 gold20 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 11 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: 58 silver (+38%)

Evidence: 9 current listings holding 301 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 House1 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Inscription
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Pandaria Inscription
Item level: 35
Reagent slots: 2
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Crane Wing Inscription2 gold

Reagents

1Light Parchment1 silver
3Ink of Dreams50 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Light Parchment Other · 663,331 on the Auction House	1	1 silver	1 silver	1%
Ink of Dreams Inscription · 7,380 on the Auction House · crafted by Ink of Dreams (Inscription)	3	50 silver	1 gold50 silver	99%
Total per craft			1 gold51 silver	100%

About Crane Wing Inscription

One craft takes 1 Light Parchment and 3 Ink of Dreams.

Recipe category: Shoulder Inscription (Pandaria Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Pandaria Inscription skill): Orange below 25 · Grey 25 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Crane Wing Inscription tooltip

Crane Wing Inscription

Item Level 35

Item Enhancement

Requires Level 32

Use: Crane Wing Inscription

Sell price: 1g 87s

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Crane Wing Inscription: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing sits at 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: 2 gold20 silver
30-day low: 1 gold Aug 24
30-day high: 1,000 gold Sep 20
30-day median: 2 gold22 silver
7-day median: 2 gold22 silver
Hourly snapshots: 689

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.

Ink of Dreams. Made with Ink of Dreams (Inscription, Pandaria Inscription) from 2 Shadow Pigment. At lowest listed prices that makes one Ink of Dreams for 40 silver, against 50 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 25 other recipes (24 Inscription and 1 Leatherworking); the most per craft: Runescroll of Fortitude III (Inscription, 10 per craft), Ghost Iron Staff (Inscription, 8 per craft), Rain Poppy Staff (Inscription, 8 per craft), Lucky Traveler's Bench (Inscription, 6 per craft) and Pandaren Wooden Table (Inscription, 6 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Crane Wing Inscription cost 1 gold51 silver. Most of that is Ink of Dreams - 3 at 50 silver each, 1 gold50 silver, 99.3% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 1 gold58 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 2 gold20 silver, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 69 silver; the Auction House would keep 11 silver of a sale, leaving 58 silver. That is an estimated 38.4% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 15.9% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 301 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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