Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 44 gold95 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 15 gold1 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 63 gold12 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 3 gold15 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: 44 gold95 silver (+300%)

Evidence: 11 current listings holding 371 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 House2 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Inscription
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Northrend Inscription
Item level: 30
Reagent slots: 2
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Glyph of Dalaran Brilliance63 gold

Reagents

1Light Parchment1 silver
3Ink of the Sea5 gold

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Light Parchment Other · 970,696 on the Auction House	1	1 silver	1 silver	0%
Ink of the Sea Inscription · 6,697 on the Auction House · crafted by Ink of the Sea (Inscription)	3	5 gold	15 gold	100%
Total per craft			15 gold1 silver	100%

About Glyph of Dalaran Brilliance

One craft takes 1 Light Parchment and 3 Ink of the Sea. It is taught by Technique: Glyph of Dalaran Brilliance, which needs Northrend Inscription 1.

Recipe category: Glyphs (Northrend Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Northrend Inscription skill): Yellow 1 to 9 · Green 10 to 19 · Grey 20 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Glyph of Dalaran Brilliance tooltip

Glyph of Dalaran Brilliance

Item Level 30

Glyph

Requires Level 11

Use: Modify your Arcane Intellect's look to that of the Kirin Tor's Dalaran Brilliance.

Sell price: 1s

How to learn Glyph of Dalaran Brilliance

Technique: Glyph of Dalaran Brilliance

Teaches: Teaches you how to inscribe a Glyph of Dalaran Brilliance.
Requires: Northrend Inscription (1)
Binding: Binds when picked up

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Glyph of Dalaran Brilliance: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 17% 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: 63 gold12 silver
30-day low: 1 gold46 silver Aug 24
30-day high: 250 gold Sep 14
30-day median: 53 gold88 silver
7-day median: 65 gold
Hourly snapshots: 691

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 the Sea. Made with Ink of the Sea (Inscription, Northrend Inscription) from 2 Azure Pigment. At lowest listed prices that makes one Ink of the Sea for 2 gold60 silver, against 5 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 21 other recipes (21 Inscription); the most per craft: Dalaran Scholar's Bookcase (Inscription, 6 per craft), Dalaran Street Sign (Inscription, 5 per craft), Rituals of the New Moon (Inscription, 5 per craft), Twilight Tome (Inscription, 5 per craft) and Dalaran Post (Inscription, 3 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Glyph of Dalaran Brilliance cost 15 gold1 silver. Most of that is Ink of the Sea - 3 at 5 gold each, 15 gold, 99.9% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 15 gold80 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 63 gold12 silver, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 48 gold11 silver; the Auction House would keep 3 gold15 silver of a sale, leaving 44 gold95 silver. That is an estimated 299.5% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 6.6% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 371 units across 11 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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