Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 83 gold16 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 421 gold51 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 356 gold15 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 17 gold80 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: −83 gold16 silver (-20%)

Evidence: 17 current listings holding 239 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 House2 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

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

Crafts

Glyph of the Spectral Raptor356 gold

Reagents

1Light Parchment1 silver
6Sallow Pigment37 gold
50Roseate Pigment3 gold99 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Light Parchment Other · 850,916 on the Auction House	1	1 silver	1 silver	0%
Sallow Pigment Inscription · 31,271 on the Auction House	6	37 gold	222 gold	53%
Roseate Pigment Inscription · 15,622 on the Auction House	50	3 gold99 silver	199 gold50 silver	47%
Total per craft			421 gold51 silver	100%

About Glyph of the Spectral Raptor

One craft takes 1 Light Parchment, 6 Sallow Pigment and 50 Roseate Pigment. It is taught by Technique: Glyph of the Spectral Raptor, 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 Spectral Raptor tooltip

Glyph of the Spectral Raptor

Item Level 11

Glyph

Requires Level 11

Use: Alters the appearance of your Ghost Wolf transformation, causing it to resemble a large, spectral raptor.

Sell price: 1s

How to learn Glyph of the Spectral Raptor

Technique: Glyph of the Spectral Raptor

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

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Glyph of the Spectral Raptor: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 4% 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: 356 gold15 silver
30-day low: 128 gold Sep 9
30-day high: 1,500 gold Sep 21
30-day median: 369 gold95 silver
7-day median: 351 gold15 silver
Hourly snapshots: 690

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 Spectral Raptor cost 421 gold51 silver. Most of that is Sallow Pigment - 6 at 37 gold each, 222 gold, 52.7% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 443 gold69 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 356 gold15 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −65 gold36 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 17 gold80 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 83 gold16 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -19.7% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 239 units across 17 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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