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InscriptionClassic Inscription
Glyph of Shadow
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.
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 3 gold84 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 26 gold56 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 32 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 1 gold60 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 3 gold84 silver (+14%)
- Evidence: 116 current listings holding 46,707 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Inscription
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Classic Inscription
- Item level
- 11
- Reagent slots
- 2
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
1Light Parchment1 silver
3Celestial Ink8 gold85 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Light Parchment Other · 916,350 on the Auction House | 1 | 1 silver | 1 silver | 0% |
| Celestial Ink Inscription · 2,444 on the Auction House · crafted by Celestial Ink (Inscription) | 3 | 8 gold85 silver | 26 gold55 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 26 gold56 silver | 100% |
About Glyph of Shadow
One craft takes 1 Light Parchment and 3 Celestial Ink.
- 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 Shadow tooltip
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Glyph of Shadow: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 9% 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
- 32 gold
- 30-day low
- 13 gold37 silver Sep 3
- 30-day high
- 250 gold Sep 19
- 30-day median
- 35 gold
- 7-day median
- 35 gold
- Hourly snapshots
- 688
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.
Celestial Ink. Made with Celestial Ink (Inscription, Classic Inscription) from 2 
Violet Pigment. At lowest listed prices that makes one Celestial Ink for 8 gold76 silver, against 8 gold85 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 10 other recipes (10 Inscription); the most per craft: Glyph of Fire From the Heavens (Inscription, 3 per craft), Glyph of the Weaponmaster (Inscription, 3 per craft), Research: Celestial Ink (Inscription, 3 per craft), Certificate of Ownership (Inscription, 2 per craft) and Scroll of Agility IV (Inscription, 1 per craft).
More Classic Inscription recipes in the same skill range
- Book of StarsOff-hand, learn at 1, grey at 260
- Book of SurvivalOff-hand, learn at 1, grey at 175
- Brill CoffinHouse Decor, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Brill Coffin LidHouse Decor, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Celestial InkInk, learn at 1, grey at 205
- Certificate of OwnershipOther, learn at 1, grey at 215
- Dawnstar InkInk, learn at 1, grey at 135
- Encased Frigid HeartAncient Techniques, learn at 1, grey at 300
- Enchanting VellumOther, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Fiery InkInk, learn at 1, grey at 230
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Glyph of Shadow cost 26 gold56 silver. Most of that is Celestial Ink - 3 at 8 gold85 silver each, 26 gold55 silver, 100.0% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 27 gold95 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 32 gold, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 5 gold44 silver; the Auction House would keep 1 gold60 silver of a sale, leaving 3 gold84 silver. That is an estimated 14.5% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 29.4% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 46,707 units across 116 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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