Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 17 gold41 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 614 gold96 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 629 gold
Auction House cut (5%): 31 gold45 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: −17 gold41 silver (-3%)

Evidence: 10 current listings holding 185 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 House58 min agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Inscription
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Legion Inscription
Item level: 11
Reagent slots: 3
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Glyph of Dark Absolution629 gold

Reagents

1Light Parchment1 silver
15Sallow Pigment40 gold
5Roseate Pigment2 gold99 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Light Parchment Other · 662,041 on the Auction House	1	1 silver	1 silver	0%
Sallow Pigment Inscription · 29,411 on the Auction House	15	40 gold	600 gold	98%
Roseate Pigment Inscription · 120,962 on the Auction House	5	2 gold99 silver	14 gold95 silver	2%
Total per craft			614 gold96 silver	100%

About Glyph of Dark Absolution

One craft takes 1 Light Parchment, 15 Sallow Pigment and 5 Roseate Pigment. It is taught by Technique: Glyph of Dark Absolution, which needs Pandaria Inscription 1.

Recipe category: Glyphs (Legion Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Legion Inscription skill): Orange below 20 · Yellow 20 to 44 · Green 45 to 69 · Grey 70 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Glyph of Dark Absolution tooltip

Glyph of Dark Absolution

Item Level 11

Glyph

Requires Level 11

Use: Your Penance leans more towards Shadow.

Sell price: 1s

How to learn Glyph of Dark Absolution

Technique: Glyph of Dark Absolution

Teaches: Teaches you how to inscribe a Glyph of Dark Absolution.
Requires: Pandaria Inscription (1)
Binding: Binds when picked up

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Glyph of Dark Absolution: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 26% above its 30-day median.

Now: 629 gold
30-day low: 300 gold87 silver Sep 14
30-day high: 699 gold99 silver Sep 1
30-day median: 500 gold
7-day median: 475 gold49 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

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.

Sallow Pigment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 90 other recipes (90 Inscription); the most per craft: Suramar Dresser (Inscription, 25 per craft), Darkmoon Card of the Legion (Inscription, 24 per craft), Steamy Romance Novel Kit (Inscription, 24 per craft), Unwritten Legend (Inscription, 24 per craft) and Nightborne Jeweler's Table (Inscription, 20 per craft).

Roseate Pigment. Rewarded by the quests Control is Key and Control is Key. Also a required reagent in 96 other recipes (94 Inscription and 2 Tailoring); the most per craft: Straszan Mark (Inscription, 130 per craft), Aqual Mark (Inscription, 100 per craft), Songs of the Alliance (Inscription, 100 per craft), Songs of the Horde (Inscription, 100 per craft) and Glyph of Crackling Ox Lightning (Inscription, 70 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Glyph of Dark Absolution cost 614 gold96 silver. Most of that is Sallow Pigment - 15 at 40 gold each, 600 gold, 97.6% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 647 gold32 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 629 gold, which does not clear it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 14 gold4 silver; the Auction House would keep 31 gold45 silver of a sale, leaving −17 gold41 silver. That is an estimated -2.8% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 224.0% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 185 units across 10 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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