Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 159 gold59 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 181 gold41 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 358 gold95 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 17 gold94 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: 159 gold59 silver (+88%)

Evidence: 22 current listings holding 81 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 Dark Depths358 gold

Reagents

1Light Parchment1 silver
10Crimson Ink15 gold89 silver
30Ultramarine Ink75 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Light Parchment Other · 769,856 on the Auction House	1	1 silver	1 silver	0%
Crimson Ink Inscription · 14,117 on the Auction House · crafted by Crimson Ink (Inscription)	10	15 gold89 silver	158 gold90 silver	88%
Ultramarine Ink Inscription · 43,990 on the Auction House · crafted by Ultramarine Ink (Inscription)	30	75 silver	22 gold50 silver	12%
Total per craft			181 gold41 silver	100%

About Glyph of the Dark Depths

One craft takes 1 Light Parchment, 10 Crimson Ink and 30 Ultramarine Ink. It is taught by Technique: Glyph of the Dark Depths, 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 Dark Depths tooltip

Glyph of the Dark Depths

Item Level 11

Glyph

Requires Level 11

Use: Your Water Elemental is replaced by a darker Depths Elemental.

Sell price: 1s

How to learn Glyph of the Dark Depths

Technique: Glyph of the Dark Depths

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

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Glyph of the Dark Depths: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 50% 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: 358 gold95 silver
30-day low: 109 gold91 silver Sep 12
30-day high: 3,999 gold Sep 19
30-day median: 240 gold2 silver
7-day median: 199 gold94 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 75 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 Dark Depths cost 181 gold41 silver. Most of that is Crimson Ink - 10 at 15 gold89 silver each, 158 gold90 silver, 87.6% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 190 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 358 gold95 silver, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 177 gold54 silver; the Auction House would keep 17 gold94 silver of a sale, leaving 159 gold59 silver. That is an estimated 88.0% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 10.1% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 81 units across 22 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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