Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 30 gold51 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 72 gold31 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 44 gold
Auction House cut (5%): 2 gold20 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: −30 gold51 silver (-42%)

Evidence: 11 current listings holding 330 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 Ox Horn Inscription44 gold

Reagents

1Light Parchment1 silver
3Starlight Ink24 gold10 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Light Parchment Other · 796,822 on the Auction House	1	1 silver	1 silver	0%
Starlight Ink Inscription · 10,174 on the Auction House · crafted by Starlight Ink (Inscription)	3	24 gold10 silver	72 gold30 silver	100%
Total per craft			72 gold31 silver	100%

About Greater Ox Horn 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 Ox Horn Inscription tooltip

Greater Ox Horn Inscription

Item Level 35

Item Enhancement

Requires Level 32

Use: Greater Ox Horn Inscription

Sell price: 1g 87s

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Greater Ox Horn Inscription: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 2.9 times 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: 44 gold
30-day low: 4 gold Aug 28
30-day high: 44 gold95 silver Sep 20
30-day median: 15 gold
7-day median: 13 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.

Starlight Ink. Made with Starlight Ink (Inscription, Pandaria Inscription) from 2 Misty Pigment. At lowest listed prices that makes one Starlight Ink for 28 gold50 silver, against 24 gold10 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 Ox Horn Inscription cost 72 gold31 silver. Most of that is Starlight Ink - 3 at 24 gold10 silver each, 72 gold30 silver, 100.0% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 76 gold11 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 44 gold, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −28 gold31 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 2 gold20 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 30 gold51 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -42.2% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 330 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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