Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 14 gold96 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 353 gold31 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 356 gold15 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 17 gold80 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: −14 gold96 silver (-4%)

Evidence: 11 current listings holding 108 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 Trusted Steed356 gold

Reagents

1Light Parchment1 silver
2Sallow Pigment37 gold
70Roseate 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	2	37 gold	74 gold	21%
Roseate Pigment Inscription · 15,622 on the Auction House	70	3 gold99 silver	279 gold30 silver	79%
Total per craft			353 gold31 silver	100%

About Glyph of the Trusted Steed

One craft takes 1 Light Parchment, 2 Sallow Pigment and 70 Roseate Pigment. It is taught by Technique: Glyph of the Trusted Steed, 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 Trusted Steed tooltip

Glyph of the Trusted Steed

Item Level 11

Glyph

Requires Level 11

Use: Your Divine Steed is a charger instead of your racial mount.

Sell price: 1s

How to learn Glyph of the Trusted Steed

Technique: Glyph of the Trusted Steed

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

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Glyph of the Trusted Steed: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 5% above its 30-day median.

Now: 356 gold15 silver
30-day low: 212 gold Aug 26
30-day high: 1,500 gold Sep 1
30-day median: 339 gold95 silver
7-day median: 300 gold
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 Trusted Steed cost 353 gold31 silver. Most of that is Roseate Pigment - 70 at 3 gold99 silver each, 279 gold30 silver, 79.1% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 371 gold90 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.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 2 gold84 silver; the Auction House would keep 17 gold80 silver of a sale, leaving −14 gold96 silver. That is an estimated -4.2% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 627.0% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 108 units across 11 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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