Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 164 gold98 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 310 gold1 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 499 gold99 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 24 gold99 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: 164 gold98 silver (+53%)

Evidence: 9 current listings holding 110 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 Flickering499 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	6	35 gold	210 gold	68%
Roseate Pigment Inscription · 122,054 on the Auction House	50	2 gold	100 gold	32%
Total per craft			310 gold1 silver	100%

About Glyph of Flickering

One craft takes 1 Light Parchment, 6 Sallow Pigment and 50 Roseate Pigment. It is taught by Technique: Glyph of Flickering, 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 Flickering tooltip

Glyph of Flickering

Item Level 11

Glyph

Requires Level 11

Use: Reduces the size of your Fire Elemental by 15%.

Sell price: 1s

How to learn Glyph of Flickering

Technique: Glyph of Flickering

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

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Glyph of Flickering: lowest listed price, last 30 days

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

Now: 376 gold15 silver
30-day low: 200 gold39 silver Aug 29
30-day high: 625 gold Sep 8
30-day median: 376 gold15 silver
7-day median: 376 gold14 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.

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 Flickering cost 310 gold1 silver. Most of that is Sallow Pigment - 6 at 35 gold each, 210 gold, 67.7% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 326 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 499 gold99 silver, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 189 gold98 silver; the Auction House would keep 24 gold99 silver of a sale, leaving 164 gold98 silver. That is an estimated 53.2% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 13.2% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 110 units across 9 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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