Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 46 gold63 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 72 gold76 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 27 gold50 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 1 gold37 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: −46 gold63 silver (-64%)

Evidence: 10 current listings holding 379 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: Pandaria Inscription
Item level: 35
Reagent slots: 2
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Greater Crane Wing Inscription27 gold

Reagents

1Light Parchment1 silver
3Starlight Ink24 gold25 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%
Starlight Ink Inscription · 10,849 on the Auction House · crafted by Starlight Ink (Inscription)	3	24 gold25 silver	72 gold75 silver	100%
Total per craft			72 gold76 silver	100%

About Greater Crane Wing Inscription

One craft takes 1 Light Parchment and 3 Starlight Ink.

Recipe category: Shoulder Inscription (Pandaria Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Pandaria Inscription skill): Orange below 75 · Grey 75 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Greater Crane Wing Inscription tooltip

Greater Crane Wing Inscription

Item Level 35

Item Enhancement

Requires Level 32

Use: Greater Crane Wing Inscription

Sell price: 1g 87s

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Greater Crane Wing Inscription: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 10% above its 30-day median.

Now: 27 gold50 silver
30-day low: 10 gold Sep 17
30-day high: 45 gold Aug 22
30-day median: 24 gold99 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.

Starlight Ink. Made with Starlight Ink (Inscription, Pandaria Inscription) from 2 Misty Pigment. At lowest listed prices that makes one Starlight Ink for 20 gold, against 24 gold25 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 18 other recipes (17 Inscription and 1 Leatherworking); the most per craft: Inscribed Crane Staff (Inscription, 20 per craft), Inscribed Serpent Staff (Inscription, 20 per craft), Inscribed Tiger Staff (Inscription, 20 per craft), Lorewalker's Bookcase (Inscription, 20 per craft) and Darkmoon Card of Mists (Inscription, 10 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Greater Crane Wing Inscription cost 72 gold76 silver. Most of that is Starlight Ink - 3 at 24 gold25 silver each, 72 gold75 silver, 100.0% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 76 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 27 gold50 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −45 gold26 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 1 gold37 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 46 gold63 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -64.1% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 379 units across 10 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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