Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 297 gold18 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 298 gold85 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 1 gold75 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 8 silver75 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price: −297 gold18 silver (-99%)

Evidence: 14 current listings holding 65 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Outlier: the crafted item’s lowest listing is 78% below its 30-day median of 7 gold83 silver, so this estimate rests on a listing far below its usual level.
Quality: Draconic Missive of the Quickblade 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: 3.5 sec

Crafts

Draconic Missive of the Quickblade1 gold

Reagents

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

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Chilled Rune Inscription · 33 on the Auction House	1	200 gold33 silver	200 gold33 silver	67%
Flourishing Ink Inscription · 421 on the Auction House	1	95 gold22 silver	95 gold22 silver	32%
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 the Quickblade

One craft takes 1 Chilled Rune, 1 Flourishing Ink and 1 Glittering Parchment. It is taught by Technique: Draconic Missive of the Quickblade, which needs Dragon Isles Inscription 45. Draconic Missive of the Quickblade is itself a reagent in 60 other recipes (Blacksmithing).

Recipe category: Missives (Dragon Isles Techniques)
Skill-up colours (Dragon Isles Inscription skill): Orange below 55 · Yellow 55 to 59 · Green 60 to 64 · Grey 65 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Draconic Missive of the Quickblade tooltip

Draconic Missive of the Quickblade

Item Level 62

Trade Goods

Sell price: 15s

How to learn Draconic Missive of the Quickblade

Technique: Draconic Missive of the Quickblade

Teaches: Teaches you how to craft Draconic Missive of the Quickblade.
Requires: Dragon Isles Inscription (45)

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Draconic Missive of the Quickblade quality ranks

Draconic Missive of the Quickblade 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 the Quickblade	1 gold75 silver	14 listings, 65 units
Rank 2	Draconic Missive of the Quickblade	750 gold	5 listings, 42 units
Rank 3	Draconic Missive of the Quickblade	49 gold99 silver	5 listings, 12 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.

Draconic Missive of the Quickblade: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 78% 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: 1 gold75 silver
30-day low: 1 gold75 silver Sep 20
30-day high: 49,000 gold1 silver Aug 30
30-day median: 7 gold83 silver
7-day median: 4 gold99 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

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); Illuminating Pillar of the Isles takes the most, 8 per craft.

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); the most per craft: Draconic Combatant's Emblem (Inscription, 10 per craft), Verdant Combatant's Emblem (Inscription, 10 per craft), Literature of the Green Dragonflight (Inscription, 6 per craft), Obsidian Combatant's Emblem (Inscription, 6 per craft) and Literature of the Blue Dragonflight (Inscription, 4 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 the Quickblade 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 1 gold75 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −297 gold10 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 8 silver75 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 297 gold18 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -99.4% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 65 units across 14 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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