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Glyph of Evaporation

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.

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Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 34 gold62 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
35 gold89 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price
1 gold33 silver
Auction House cut (5%)
6 silver65 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price
34 gold62 silver (-96%)
  • Evidence: 29 current listings holding 288 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
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Recipe facts

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

Crafts

Reagents

Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Light Parchment
Other · 850,653 on the Auction House
11 silver1 silver0%
Lion's Ink
Inscription · 5,275 on the Auction House · crafted by Lion's Ink (Inscription)
311 gold96 silver35 gold88 silver100%
Total per craft35 gold89 silver100%

About Glyph of Evaporation

One craft takes 1 Light Parchment and 3 Lion's Ink. It is taught by Technique: Glyph of Evaporation, which needs Pandaria Inscription 1.

Recipe category
Glyphs (Classic Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Classic Inscription skill)
Orange below 300 · Grey 300 and up
Skill points per craft
1

Glyph of Evaporation tooltip

Glyph of Evaporation
Item Level 11
Glyph
Requires Level 11
Use: Reduces the size of your Water Elemental by 15%.
Sell price: 1s

How to learn Glyph of Evaporation

Technique: Glyph of Evaporation

Teaches
Teaches you how to inscribe a Glyph of Evaporation.
Requires
Pandaria Inscription (1)
Auction House
listed on 49 US realms, cheapest 99 gold, 75 for sale

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Glyph of Evaporation: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 32% 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
1 gold32 silver
30-day low
75 silver Aug 28
30-day high
56 gold42 silver Aug 29
30-day median
1 gold93 silver
7-day median
1 gold78 silver
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.

Lion's Ink. Made with Lion's Ink (Inscription, Classic Inscription) from 2 Golden Pigment. At lowest listed prices that makes one Lion's Ink for 16 gold50 silver, against 11 gold96 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 4 other recipes (4 Inscription); the most per craft: Glyph of Spirit Raptors (Inscription, 3 per craft), Glyph of the Blazing Trail (Inscription, 3 per craft), Glyph of the Geist (Inscription, 3 per craft) and Research: Lion's Ink (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 Evaporation cost 35 gold89 silver. Most of that is Lion's Ink - 3 at 11 gold96 silver each, 35 gold88 silver, 100.0% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 37 gold77 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 1 gold33 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: 34 gold56 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 6 silver65 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 34 gold62 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -96.5% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 288 units across 29 auctions region-wide. Depth separates a market price from a single asking figure, but listings are not sales, so read it alongside the estimate.

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