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2Inscription Dragon Isles Inscription
Howling Rune
A Inscription recipe learned at Dragon Isles Inscription 1 that crafts 2 Howling Rune from 1 reagent.
Reagents
1Chilled Rune54 gold33 silver
Crafts
Background
| Recipe item |  Technique: Howling Rune | Requires Dragon Isles Inscription 25 |
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Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 53 gold per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 54 gold33 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 70 silver
- Items per craft
- 2
- Listed value of one craft
- 1 gold40 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 7 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −53 gold (-98%)
- Evidence: 29 current listings holding 699 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
- Items per craft: the game’s spell data creates 2 per craft, so the listed value of one craft is that many times the lowest listed price.
- Quality: Howling Rune comes in 3 quality ranks. This is the base comparison, rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result; your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide the rank you actually get, which this estimate does not model. Each rank’s lowest listing is in the rank table below.
- Not included: the recipe also accepts 2 finishing reagent slots, which are not required and are left out of the cost.
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chilled Rune Inscription · 269 on the Auction House | 1 | 54 gold33 silver | 54 gold33 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 54 gold33 silver | 100% |
About Howling Rune
One craft takes 1 Chilled Rune. It is taught by Technique: Howling Rune, which needs Dragon Isles Inscription 25.
- Recipe category
- Runes and Sigils (Dragon Isles Techniques)
Howling Rune tooltip
How to learn Howling Rune
- Teaches
- Teaches you how to craft Howling Rune.
- Requires
- Dragon Isles Inscription (25)
Howling Rune quality ranks
Howling Rune comes in 3 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 300.
| Rank | Item | Lowest listed price | Listings (US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank 1 | Howling Rune | 70 silver | 29 listings, 699 units |
| Rank 2 | Howling Rune | 10 silver | 46 listings, 1,206 units |
| Rank 3 | Howling Rune | 1 gold80 silver | 74 listings, 1,725 units |
The crafting estimate above is the base comparison: rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result. Your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide which rank a craft actually makes, so a higher rank is never priced against rank 1 reagents here. Right now rank 1 lists above rank 2, so a craft that comes out at a higher rank is worth less at today’s listings, not more.
Howling Rune: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 21% above 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
- 70 silver
- 30-day low
- 11 silver Oct 10
- 30-day high
- 4 gold54 silver Oct 31
- 30-day median
- 58 silver
- 7-day median
- 71 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 691
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Chilled Rune. Made with Chilled Rune (Inscription, Dragon Isles Inscription) from 1 
Serene Ink and 5 
Rousing Frost. At lowest listed prices that makes one Chilled Rune for 53 gold, against 54 gold33 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 54 gold33 silver, rank 2 75 gold47 silver and rank 3 129 gold99 silver. Also a required reagent in 40 other recipes (40 Inscription); Illuminating Pillar of the Isles takes the most, 8 per craft.
More Dragon Isles Inscription recipes in the same skill range
Alchemist's Brilliant Mixing RodProfession Equipment, learn at 1, grey at 100- Alchemist's Sturdy Mixing RodProfession Equipment, learn at 1, grey at 45
- Arcane Dispelling RuneArtisan Curios, learn at 1, grey at 60
- Blazing FortuneMysteries, learn at 1, grey at 30
- Blazing InkInks, learn at 1, grey at 20
- Bundle O' Cards: Dragon IslesMysteries, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Burnished InkInks, learn at 1, grey at 40
- Chef's Smooth Rolling PinProfession Equipment, learn at 1, grey at 45
- Chef's Splendid Rolling PinProfession Equipment, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Chilled RuneReagents, learn at 1, grey at 20
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Howling Rune cost 54 gold33 silver.
Break-even is 57 gold18 silver per craft, 28 gold59 silver per item at 2 items a craft - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 70 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −52 gold93 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 7 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 53 gold at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -97.6% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 699 units across 29 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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