Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 85 gold49 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 389 gold51 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 500 gold
Auction House cut (5%): 25 gold
Estimated profit at that listed price: 85 gold49 silver (+22%)

Evidence: 56 current listings holding 279 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 House25 min 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 Polymorphic Proportions500 gold

Reagents

1Light Parchment1 silver
6Sallow Pigment40 gold
50Roseate Pigment2 gold99 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Light Parchment Other · 978,948 on the Auction House	1	1 silver	1 silver	0%
Sallow Pigment Inscription · 76,950 on the Auction House	6	40 gold	240 gold	62%
Roseate Pigment Inscription · 172,585 on the Auction House	50	2 gold99 silver	149 gold50 silver	38%
Total per craft			389 gold51 silver	100%

About Glyph of Polymorphic Proportions

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

Glyph of Polymorphic Proportions

Item Level 11

Glyph

Requires Level 11

Use: Your Polymorphs are slightly larger.

Sell price: 1s

How to learn Glyph of Polymorphic Proportions

Technique: Glyph of Polymorphic Proportions

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

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Glyph of Polymorphic Proportions: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 50% above its 30-day median.

Now: 500 gold
30-day low: 171 gold82 silver Aug 29
30-day high: 1,017 gold Sep 15
30-day median: 333 gold33 silver
7-day median: 342 gold49 silver
Hourly snapshots: 685

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 Polymorphic Proportions cost 389 gold51 silver. Most of that is Sallow Pigment - 6 at 40 gold each, 240 gold, 61.6% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 410 gold1 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 500 gold, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 110 gold49 silver; the Auction House would keep 25 gold of a sale, leaving 85 gold49 silver. That is an estimated 21.9% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 22.6% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 279 units across 56 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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