Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 293 gold83 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 298 gold85 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 623 gold88 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 31 gold19 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: 293 gold83 silver (+98%)

Evidence: 5 current listings holding 10 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Quality: Draconic Missive of Finesse 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 House2 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Inscription
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Dragon Isles Inscription
Item level: 62
Reagent slots: 3
Cast time: 1.5 sec

Crafts

Draconic Missive of Finesse623 gold

Reagents

1Flourishing Ink95 gold22 silver
1Chilled Rune200 gold33 silver
1Glittering Parchment3 gold30 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Flourishing Ink Inscription · 421 on the Auction House	1	95 gold22 silver	95 gold22 silver	32%
Chilled Rune Inscription · 33 on the Auction House	1	200 gold33 silver	200 gold33 silver	67%
Glittering Parchment Inscription · 403 on the Auction House	1	3 gold30 silver	3 gold30 silver	1%
Total per craft			298 gold85 silver	100%

About Draconic Missive of Finesse

One craft takes 1 Flourishing Ink, 1 Chilled Rune and 1 Glittering Parchment. It is taught by Technique: Draconic Missive of Finesse, which needs Dragon Isles Inscription 35. Draconic Missive of Finesse is itself a reagent in 6 other recipes (Blacksmithing).

Recipe category: Gathering Tool Missives (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: 1

Draconic Missive of Finesse tooltip

Draconic Missive of Finesse

Item Level 62

Trade Goods

Sell price: 15s

How to learn Draconic Missive of Finesse

Technique: Draconic Missive of Finesse

Teaches: Teaches you how to craft Draconic Missive of Finesse.
Requires: Dragon Isles Inscription (35)
Binding: Binds when picked up

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Draconic Missive of Finesse quality ranks

Draconic Missive of Finesse comes in 3 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 275.

Rank	Item	Lowest listed price	Listings (US)
Rank 1	Draconic Missive of Finesse	623 gold88 silver	5 listings, 10 units
Rank 2	Draconic Missive of Finesse	99 gold97 silver	11 listings, 73 units
Rank 3	Draconic Missive of Finesse	150 gold	6 listings, 240 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 and rank 3, so a craft that comes out at a higher rank is worth less at today’s listings, not more.

Draconic Missive of Finesse: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 2.4 times 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: 623 gold88 silver
30-day low: 250 gold Sep 14
30-day high: 45,099 gold Sep 16
30-day median: 258 gold18 silver
7-day median: 627 gold
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

Flourishing Ink. Made with Flourishing Ink (Inscription, Dragon Isles Inscription) from 2 Shimmering Pigment, 1 Flourishing Pigment, 1 Draconic Vial and 1 Iridescent Water, 2 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Flourishing Ink for 38 gold49 silver, against 95 gold22 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 95 gold22 silver, rank 2 72 gold and rank 3 55 gold6 silver. Also a required reagent in 17 other recipes (17 Inscription); Draconic Combatant's Emblem 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 114 gold65 silver, against 200 gold33 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 200 gold33 silver, rank 2 92 gold and rank 3 153 gold. 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: Core Explorer's Compendium (Inscription, 20 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) and Literature of the Blue Dragonflight (Inscription, 15 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Draconic Missive of Finesse cost 298 gold85 silver. Most of that is Chilled Rune - 1 at 200 gold33 silver each, 200 gold33 silver, 67.0% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 314 gold57 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 623 gold88 silver, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 325 gold3 silver; the Auction House would keep 31 gold19 silver of a sale, leaving 293 gold83 silver. That is an estimated 98.3% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 9.6% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 10 units across 5 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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