Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 81 gold54 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 535 gold1 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 649 gold
Auction House cut (5%): 32 gold45 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: 81 gold54 silver (+15%)

Evidence: 13 current listings holding 196 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 House1 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 Floating Shards649 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 Floating Shards

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

Glyph of Floating Shards

Item Level 11

Glyph

Requires Level 11

Use: Your Soul Shards now float above your head.

Sell price: 1s

How to learn Glyph of Floating Shards

Technique: Glyph of Floating Shards

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

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

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

Now: 496 gold15 silver
30-day low: 266 gold85 silver Aug 29
30-day high: 745 gold Sep 16
30-day median: 494 gold99 silver
7-day median: 476 gold7 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 Floating 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 649 gold, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 113 gold99 silver; the Auction House would keep 32 gold45 silver of a sale, leaving 81 gold54 silver. That is an estimated 15.2% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 28.5% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 196 units across 13 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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