Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 109 gold51 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 185 gold51 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 80 gold
Auction House cut (5%): 4 gold
Estimated profit at that listed price: −109 gold51 silver (-59%)

Evidence: 17 current listings holding 533 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: Kul Tiran Inscription
Item level: 11
Reagent slots: 4
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Glyph of Dire Bees80 gold

Reagents

1Light Parchment1 silver
10Crimson Ink15 gold89 silver
10Choral Honey38 silver
30Ultramarine Ink76 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Light Parchment Other · 850,653 on the Auction House	1	1 silver	1 silver	0%
Crimson Ink Inscription · 13,818 on the Auction House · crafted by Crimson Ink (Inscription)	10	15 gold89 silver	158 gold90 silver	86%
Choral Honey Cooking · 4,362 on the Auction House	10	38 silver	3 gold80 silver	2%
Ultramarine Ink Inscription · 40,219 on the Auction House · crafted by Ultramarine Ink (Inscription)	30	76 silver	22 gold80 silver	12%
Total per craft			185 gold51 silver	100%

About Glyph of Dire Bees

One craft takes 1 Light Parchment, 10 Crimson Ink, 10 Choral Honey and 30 Ultramarine Ink. It is taught by Technique: Glyph of Dire Bees, which needs Kul Tiran Inscription 150.

Recipe category: Glyphs (Kul Tiran Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Kul Tiran Inscription skill): Orange below 150 · Yellow 150 to 161 · Green 162 to 174 · Grey 175 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Glyph of Dire Bees tooltip

Glyph of Dire Bees

Item Level 11

Glyph

Requires Level 11

Use: Your Dire Beast ability calls on bees!! DIRE BEES!!!

Sell price: 1s

How to learn Glyph of Dire Bees

Technique: Glyph of Dire Bees

Teaches: Teaches you how to inscribe a Glyph of Dire Bees.
Requires: Kul Tiran Inscription (150)
Binding: Binds when picked up

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Glyph of Dire Bees: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 18% 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: 80 gold
30-day low: 33 gold Sep 13
30-day high: 500 gold Sep 5
30-day median: 97 gold
7-day median: 88 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

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.

Crimson Ink. Made with Crimson Ink (Inscription, Kul Tiran Inscription) from 1 Distilled Water and 1 Crimson Pigment. At lowest listed prices that makes one Crimson Ink for 13 gold72 silver, against 15 gold89 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 39 other recipes (38 Inscription and 1 Tailoring); the most per craft: Codex of the Quiet Mind (Inscription, 60 per craft), Crimson Ink Well (Inscription, 30 per craft), Honorable Combatant's Etched Vessel (Inscription, 30 per craft), Inscribed Vessel of Mysticism (Inscription, 30 per craft) and Sanguine Feather Quill of Lana'thel (Inscription, 30 per craft).

Choral Honey. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 4 other recipes (4 Cooking); the most per craft: Honey Potpie (Cooking, 10 per craft), Honey-Glazed Haunches (Cooking, 5 per craft), Loa Loaf (Cooking, 5 per craft) and Ravenberry Tarts (Cooking, 5 per craft).

Ultramarine Ink. Made with Ultramarine Ink (Inscription, Kul Tiran Inscription) from 1 Distilled Water and 1 Ultramarine Pigment. At lowest listed prices that makes one Ultramarine Ink for 16 silver, against 76 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 44 other recipes (43 Inscription and 1 Jewelcrafting); the most per craft: Sinister Combatant's Etched Vessel (Inscription, 50 per craft), Glyph of Steaming Fury (Inscription, 30 per craft), Glyph of Storm's Wake (Inscription, 30 per craft), Glyph of the Aerial Chameleon (Inscription, 30 per craft) and Glyph of the Aquatic Chameleon (Inscription, 30 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 4 reagents for one craft of Glyph of Dire Bees cost 185 gold51 silver. Most of that is Crimson Ink - 10 at 15 gold89 silver each, 158 gold90 silver, 85.7% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 195 gold27 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 80 gold, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −105 gold51 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 4 gold of a sale, so a craft loses 109 gold51 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -59.0% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 533 units across 17 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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