Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 1 gold45 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 13 gold75 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 16 gold
Auction House cut (5%): 80 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: 1 gold45 silver (+10%)

Evidence: 20 current listings holding 4,857 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: Kul Tiran Inscription
Item level: 45
Reagent slots: 2
Cast time: 1.5 sec

Crafts

Crimson Ink16 gold

Reagents

1Distilled Water2 silver
1Crimson Pigment13 gold73 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Distilled Water Other · 20,716 on the Auction House	1	2 silver	2 silver	0%
Crimson Pigment Inscription · 16,046 on the Auction House	1	13 gold73 silver	13 gold73 silver	100%
Total per craft			13 gold75 silver	100%

About Crimson Ink

One craft takes 1 Distilled Water and 1 Crimson Pigment. It is learned automatically with Kul Tiran Inscription. Crimson Ink is itself a reagent in 27 other recipes (Inscription).

Recipe category: Inks (Kul Tiran Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Kul Tiran Inscription skill): Orange below 25 · Yellow 25 to 36 · Green 37 to 49 · Grey 50 and up
Skill points per craft: 1
How it is learned: Automatically with Kul Tiran Inscription

Crimson Ink tooltip

Crimson Ink

Item Level 45

Trade Goods

“Crafted by players with the Inscription skill. Can be bought and sold on the auction house.”

Sell price: 5s

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Crimson Ink is a reagent in

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Crimson Ink: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 3% 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: 15 gold25 silver
30-day low: 6 gold33 silver Aug 23
30-day high: 71 gold96 silver Sep 2
30-day median: 15 gold66 silver
7-day median: 15 gold37 silver
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

Distilled Water. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 10 other recipes (7 Inscription, 2 Alchemy and 1 Enchanting); Sanguinated Dilution takes the most, 10 per craft.

Crimson Pigment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it.

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Crimson Ink cost 13 gold75 silver. Most of that is Crimson Pigment - 1 at 13 gold73 silver each, 13 gold73 silver, 99.9% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 14 gold47 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 16 gold, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 2 gold25 silver; the Auction House would keep 80 silver of a sale, leaving 1 gold45 silver. That is an estimated 10.5% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 35.6% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 4,857 units across 20 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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