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InscriptionDragon Isles Inscription
Flourishing Ink
Reagent cost, the crafted item's lowest listed price and the estimated profit at that price, from current US Auction House listings - recalculated every snapshot.
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 64 gold75 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 88 gold67 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 80 gold75 silver
- Items per craft
- 2
- Listed value of one craft
- 161 gold50 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 8 gold7 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 64 gold75 silver (+73%)
- Evidence: 25 current listings holding 486 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: Flourishing 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.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Inscription
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Dragon Isles Inscription
- Item level
- 60
- Reagent slots
- 4
- Cast time
- 3.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
2Shimmering Pigment4 gold96 silver
1Flourishing Pigment69 gold69 silver
1Draconic Vial7 gold50 silver
1Iridescent Water1 gold56 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shimmering Pigment Inscription · 5,088 on the Auction House | 2 | 4 gold96 silver | 9 gold92 silver | 11% |
| Flourishing Pigment Inscription · 720 on the Auction House | 1 | 69 gold69 silver | 69 gold69 silver | 79% |
| Draconic Vial Other · 1,497 on the Auction House | 1 | 7 gold50 silver | 7 gold50 silver | 8% |
| Iridescent Water Inscription · 17,809 on the Auction House | 1 | 1 gold56 silver | 1 gold56 silver | 2% |
| Total per craft | 88 gold67 silver | 100% |
About Flourishing Ink
One craft takes 2 Shimmering Pigment, 1 Flourishing Pigment, 1 Draconic Vial and 1 Iridescent Water. It is taught by Technique: Flourishing Ink, which needs Dragon Isles Inscription 1. Flourishing Ink is itself a reagent in 18 other recipes (Inscription).
- Recipe category
- Inks (Dragon Isles Techniques)
- Skill-up colours (Dragon Isles Inscription skill)
- Orange below 10 · Yellow 10 to 14 · Green 15 to 19 · Grey 20 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
- How it is learned
- Automatically with Dragon Isles Inscription
Flourishing Ink tooltip
How to learn Flourishing Ink
Technique: Flourishing Ink- Teaches
- Teaches you how to craft Flourishing Ink.
- Requires
- Dragon Isles Inscription (1)
More Inks recipes (Dragon Isles Techniques)
Flourishing Ink is a reagent in
- Burnished InkInscription
- Contract: Maruuk CentaurInscription
- Crimson Combatant's EmblemInscription
- Draconic Combatant's EmblemInscription
- Draconic Missive of Crafting SpeedInscription
- Draconic Missive of FinesseInscription
- Draconic Missive of MulticraftInscription
- Draconic Missive of the PeerlessInscription
- Draconic Missive of the QuickbladeInscription
- Flourishing FortuneInscription
- Illusion Parchment: Whirling BreezeInscription
- Literature of the Blue DragonflightInscription
and 6 more recipes.
Flourishing Ink quality ranks
Flourishing Ink comes in 3 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 80.
| Rank | Item | Lowest listed price | Listings (US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank 1 | Flourishing Ink | 80 gold75 silver | 25 listings, 486 units |
| Rank 2 | Flourishing Ink | 72 gold | 14 listings, 444 units |
| Rank 3 | Flourishing Ink | 57 gold6 silver | 10 listings, 961 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.
Flourishing Ink: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 6% 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
- 95 gold
- 30-day low
- 23 gold Sep 3
- 30-day high
- 49,999 gold97 silver Sep 11
- 30-day median
- 89 gold55 silver
- 7-day median
- 95 gold22 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 684
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Shimmering Pigment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 4 gold96 silver, rank 2 6 gold85 silver and rank 3 11 gold22 silver. Also a required reagent in 2 other recipes (2 Inscription); Blazing Ink takes the most, 2 per craft.
Flourishing Pigment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 69 gold69 silver, rank 2 69 gold69 silver and rank 3 125 gold15 silver.
Draconic Vial. Made with Draconic Vial (Jewelcrafting, Dragon Isles Jewelcrafting) from 1 
Silken Gemdust, 1 
Rousing Fire, 5 
Fractured Glass and 5 
Draconic Stopper, 5 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Draconic Vial for 11 gold62 silver, against 7 gold50 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 7 gold50 silver, rank 2 10 gold and rank 3 13 gold94 silver. Also a required reagent in 34 other recipes (31 Alchemy, 2 Inscription and 1 Engineering); the most per craft: Aerated Phial of Deftness (Alchemy, 10 per craft), Crystalline Phial of Perception (Alchemy, 10 per craft), Steaming Phial of Finesse (Alchemy, 10 per craft), Aerated Mana Potion (Alchemy, 5 per craft) and Bottled Putrescence (Alchemy, 5 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).
More Dragon Isles Inscription recipes in the same skill range
- Alchemist's Brilliant Mixing RodProfession Equipment, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Alchemist's Sturdy Mixing RodProfession Equipment, learn at 1, grey at 45
- Arcane Dispelling RuneArtisan Curios, learn at 1, grey at 60
- Azurescale SigilRunes and Sigils, learn at 1, grey at 65
- Blazing FortuneMysteries, learn at 1, grey at 30
- Bronzescale SigilRunes and Sigils, learn at 1, grey at 65
- Bundle O' Cards: Dragon IslesMysteries, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Buzzing RuneRunes and Sigils, learn at 1, grey at 45
- Chef's Smooth Rolling PinProfession Equipment, learn at 1, grey at 45
- Chef's Splendid Rolling PinProfession Equipment, learn at 1, grey at 100
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 4 reagents for one craft of Flourishing Ink cost 88 gold67 silver. Most of that is Flourishing Pigment - 1 at 69 gold69 silver each, 69 gold69 silver, 78.6% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 93 gold33 silver per craft, 46 gold66 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 80 gold75 silver, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 72 gold83 silver; the Auction House would keep 8 gold7 silver of a sale, leaving 64 gold75 silver. That is an estimated 73.0% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 11.1% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 486 units across 25 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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