Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 72 gold87 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 181 gold71 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 267 gold98 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 13 gold39 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: 72 gold87 silver (+40%)

Evidence: 38 current listings holding 214 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: Kul Tiran Inscription
Item level: 11
Reagent slots: 3
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Glyph of the Cold Waves267 gold

Reagents

1Light Parchment1 silver
10Crimson Ink15 gold89 silver
30Ultramarine Ink76 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Light Parchment Other · 1,000,599 on the Auction House	1	1 silver	1 silver	0%
Crimson Ink Inscription · 14,118 on the Auction House · crafted by Crimson Ink (Inscription)	10	15 gold89 silver	158 gold90 silver	87%
Ultramarine Ink Inscription · 48,657 on the Auction House · crafted by Ultramarine Ink (Inscription)	30	76 silver	22 gold80 silver	13%
Total per craft			181 gold71 silver	100%

About Glyph of the Cold Waves

One craft takes 1 Light Parchment, 10 Crimson Ink and 30 Ultramarine Ink. It is taught by Technique: Glyph of the Cold Waves, which needs Kul Tiran Inscription 150.

Recipe category: Glyphs (Kul Tiran Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Kul Tiran Inscription skill): Orange below 150 · Yellow 150 to 161 · Green 162 to 174 · Grey 175 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Glyph of the Cold Waves tooltip

Glyph of the Cold Waves

Item Level 11

Glyph

Requires Level 11

Use: Your Water Elemental is replaced by a Cresting Wave Elemental.

Sell price: 1s

How to learn Glyph of the Cold Waves

Technique: Glyph of the Cold Waves

Teaches: Teaches you how to inscribe a Glyph of the Cold Waves.
Requires: Kul Tiran Inscription (150)
Binding: Binds when picked up

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Glyph of the Cold Waves: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 65% above 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: 267 gold96 silver
30-day low: 100 gold Sep 5
30-day high: 1,249 gold Sep 13
30-day median: 161 gold92 silver
7-day median: 140 gold90 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.

Crimson Ink. Made with Crimson Ink (Inscription, Kul Tiran Inscription) from 1 Distilled Water and 1 Crimson Pigment. At lowest listed prices that makes one Crimson Ink for 13 gold72 silver, against 15 gold89 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 39 other recipes (38 Inscription and 1 Tailoring); the most per craft: Codex of the Quiet Mind (Inscription, 60 per craft), Crimson Ink Well (Inscription, 30 per craft), Honorable Combatant's Etched Vessel (Inscription, 30 per craft), Inscribed Vessel of Mysticism (Inscription, 30 per craft) and Sanguine Feather Quill of Lana'thel (Inscription, 30 per craft).

Ultramarine Ink. Made with Ultramarine Ink (Inscription, Kul Tiran Inscription) from 1 Distilled Water and 1 Ultramarine Pigment. At lowest listed prices that makes one Ultramarine Ink for 16 silver, against 76 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 44 other recipes (43 Inscription and 1 Jewelcrafting); the most per craft: Sinister Combatant's Etched Vessel (Inscription, 50 per craft), Glyph of Dire Bees (Inscription, 30 per craft), Glyph of Steaming Fury (Inscription, 30 per craft), Glyph of Storm's Wake (Inscription, 30 per craft) and Glyph of the Aerial Chameleon (Inscription, 30 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Glyph of the Cold Waves cost 181 gold71 silver. Most of that is Crimson Ink - 10 at 15 gold89 silver each, 158 gold90 silver, 87.4% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 191 gold27 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 267 gold98 silver, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 86 gold27 silver; the Auction House would keep 13 gold39 silver of a sale, leaving 72 gold87 silver. That is an estimated 40.1% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 15.5% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 214 units across 38 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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