Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 216 gold40 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 182 gold1 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 419 gold38 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 20 gold96 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: 216 gold40 silver (+119%)

Evidence: 17 current listings holding 308 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 Tides419 gold

Reagents

1Light Parchment1 silver
10Crimson Ink15 gold92 silver
30Ultramarine Ink76 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Light Parchment Other · 1,003,420 on the Auction House	1	1 silver	1 silver	0%
Crimson Ink Inscription · 13,947 on the Auction House · crafted by Crimson Ink (Inscription)	10	15 gold92 silver	159 gold20 silver	87%
Ultramarine Ink Inscription · 50,291 on the Auction House · crafted by Ultramarine Ink (Inscription)	30	76 silver	22 gold80 silver	13%
Total per craft			182 gold1 silver	100%

About Glyph of the Tides

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

Recipe category: Glyphs (Kul Tiran Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Kul Tiran Inscription skill): Orange below 150 · Grey 150 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Glyph of the Tides tooltip

Glyph of the Tides

Item Level 11

Glyph

Requires Level 11

Use: Your Water Elemental is replaced by a bluer Tidal Elemental.

Sell price: 1s

How to learn Glyph of the Tides

Technique: Glyph of the Tides

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

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

The current lowest listing is 16% below its 30-day median.

Now: 419 gold38 silver
30-day low: 409 gold65 silver Sep 12
30-day high: 1,499 gold25 silver Sep 1
30-day median: 500 gold37 silver
7-day median: 419 gold65 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 gold75 silver, against 15 gold92 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 17 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 Tides cost 182 gold1 silver. Most of that is Crimson Ink - 10 at 15 gold92 silver each, 159 gold20 silver, 87.5% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 191 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 419 gold38 silver, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 237 gold37 silver; the Auction House would keep 20 gold96 silver of a sale, leaving 216 gold40 silver. That is an estimated 118.9% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 8.8% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 308 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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