Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 82 gold66 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 535 gold1 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 476 gold15 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 23 gold80 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: −82 gold66 silver (-16%)

Evidence: 19 current listings holding 312 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: Legion Inscription
Item level: 11
Reagent slots: 3
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Glyph of Ember Shards476 gold

Reagents

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Light Parchment Other · 663,331 on the Auction House	1	1 silver	1 silver	0%
Sallow Pigment Inscription · 41,621 on the Auction House	15	35 gold	525 gold	98%
Roseate Pigment Inscription · 122,054 on the Auction House	5	2 gold	10 gold	2%
Total per craft			535 gold1 silver	100%

About Glyph of Ember Shards

One craft takes 1 Light Parchment, 15 Sallow Pigment and 5 Roseate Pigment. It is taught by Technique: Glyph of Ember Shards, which needs Legion 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 Ember Shards tooltip

Glyph of Ember Shards

Item Level 11

Glyph

Requires Level 11

Use: As a Destruction Warlock your Soul Shards can be encased in burning embers that float above your head.

Sell price: 1s

How to learn Glyph of Ember Shards

Technique: Glyph of Ember Shards

Teaches: Teaches you how to craft a Glyph of Ember Shards.
Requires: Legion Inscription (1)
Binding: Binds when picked up

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Glyph of Ember Shards: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing sits at its 30-day median.

Now: 476 gold15 silver
30-day low: 250 gold67 silver Sep 1
30-day high: 699 gold99 silver Sep 1
30-day median: 476 gold15 silver
7-day median: 474 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.

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 Ember Shards cost 535 gold1 silver. Most of that is Sallow Pigment - 15 at 35 gold each, 525 gold, 98.1% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 563 gold16 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 476 gold15 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −58 gold86 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 23 gold80 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 82 gold66 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -15.5% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 312 units across 19 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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