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RecipeInscriptionNorthrend Inscription

Glyph of the Orca

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

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
18 gold94 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price
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Auction House cut (5%)
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Estimated profit at that listed price
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Verified priceAuction HouseUS region

Recipe facts

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

Crafts

Glyph of the Orca…

Reagents

Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Light Parchment
Other · 850,916 on the Auction House		11 silver1 silver0%
Ink of the Sea
Inscription · 5,864 on the Auction House · crafted by Ink of the Sea (Inscription)		36 gold31 silver18 gold93 silver100%
Total per craft18 gold94 silver100%

About Glyph of the Orca

One craft takes 1 Light Parchment and 3 Ink of the Sea.

Recipe category
Glyphs (Northrend Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Northrend Inscription skill)
Yellow 1 to 9 · Green 10 to 19 · Grey 20 and up
Skill points per craft
1

Glyph of the Orca tooltip

Glyph of the Orca
Item Level 11
Miscellaneous
Requires Level 11
Use: Unlocks the Orca Aquatic Form option in the Barber Shop.
Sell price: 1s

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

The current lowest listing is 34% 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
16 gold43 silver
30-day low
10 gold43 silver Sep 20
30-day high
250 gold Aug 22
30-day median
24 gold79 silver
7-day median
20 gold
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.

Ink of the Sea. Made with Ink of the Sea (Inscription, Northrend Inscription) from 2 Azure Pigment. At lowest listed prices that makes one Ink of the Sea for 4 gold60 silver, against 6 gold31 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 21 other recipes (21 Inscription); the most per craft: Dalaran Scholar's Bookcase (Inscription, 6 per craft), Dalaran Street Sign (Inscription, 5 per craft), Rituals of the New Moon (Inscription, 5 per craft), Twilight Tome (Inscription, 5 per craft) and Dalaran Post (Inscription, 3 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Glyph of the Orca cost 18 gold94 silver. Most of that is Ink of the Sea - 3 at 6 gold31 silver each, 18 gold93 silver, 99.9% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 19 gold93 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item has no current Auction House listing to compare it against, so the estimate above is left unknown rather than guessed.

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 →

Other recipes that use Light Parchment

Guides and routes on this site that cover Glyph of the Orca.

Data notes

  • No Auction House price for the crafted item - output value unknown (it may be soulbound/BoE gear or an untracked item).
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