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Glyph of the Hook

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.

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Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 98 gold36 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
455 gold61 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price
376 gold5 silver
Auction House cut (5%)
18 gold80 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price
98 gold36 silver (-22%)
  • Evidence: 26 current listings holding 221 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
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Recipe facts

Profession
Inscription
Requires skill
1
Expansion tier
Legion Inscription
Item level
11
Reagent slots
3
Cast time
2 sec

Crafts

Reagents

Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Light Parchment
Other · 871,743 on the Auction House
11 silver1 silver0%
Sallow Pigment
Inscription · 32,898 on the Auction House
837 gold296 gold65%
Roseate Pigment
Inscription · 17,208 on the Auction House
403 gold99 silver159 gold60 silver35%
Total per craft455 gold61 silver100%

About Glyph of the Hook

One craft takes 1 Light Parchment, 8 Sallow Pigment and 40 Roseate Pigment. It is taught by Technique: Glyph of the Hook, 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 the Hook tooltip

Glyph of the Hook
Item Level 11
Glyph
Requires Level 11
Use: Your Harpoon spell throws a Grappling Hook rather than your current weapon.
Sell price: 1s

How to learn Glyph of the Hook

Technique: Glyph of the Hook

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

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Glyph of the Hook: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 17% above its 30-day median.

Now
376 gold5 silver
30-day low
144 gold49 silver Aug 29
30-day high
400 gold Sep 13
30-day median
320 gold60 silver
7-day median
376 gold13 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 the Hook cost 455 gold61 silver. Most of that is Sallow Pigment - 8 at 37 gold each, 296 gold, 65.0% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 479 gold58 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 376 gold5 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: 79 gold56 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 18 gold80 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 98 gold36 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -21.6% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 221 units across 26 auctions region-wide. Depth separates a market price from a single asking figure, but listings are not sales, so read it alongside the estimate.

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