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InscriptionDragon Isles Inscription
Howling Rune
Reagent cost, the crafted item's lowest listed price and the estimated profit at that price, from current US Auction House listings - recalculated every snapshot.
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 90 gold43 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 91 gold
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 30 silver
- Items per craft
- 2
- Listed value of one craft
- 60 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 3 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −90 gold43 silver (-99%)
- Evidence: 19 current listings holding 83 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.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Inscription
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Dragon Isles Inscription
- Item level
- 60
- Reagent slots
- 1
- Cast time
- 3.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
1Chilled Rune91 gold
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chilled Rune Inscription · 39 on the Auction House | 1 | 91 gold | 91 gold | 100% |
| Total per craft | 91 gold | 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)
- Skill-up colours (Dragon Isles Inscription skill)
- Orange below 35 · Yellow 35 to 39 · Green 40 to 44 · Grey 45 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Howling Rune tooltip
How to learn Howling Rune
Technique: Howling Rune- Teaches
- Teaches you how to craft Howling Rune.
- Requires
- Dragon Isles Inscription (25)
More Runes and Sigils recipes (Dragon Isles Techniques)
- Buzzing Runeyellow 35, grey 45
- Chirping Runeyellow 35, grey 45
- Hissing Runeyellow 35, grey 45
- Azurescale Sigilyellow 50, grey 65
- Bronzescale Sigilyellow 50, grey 65
- Emberscale Sigilyellow 50, grey 75
- Jetscale Sigilyellow 50, grey 75
- Sagescale Sigilyellow 50, grey 75
- Vantus Rune: Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucibleyellow 60, grey 85
- Vantus Rune: Amirdrassil, the Dream's Hopeyellow 60, grey 85
- Vantus Rune: Vault of the Incarnatesyellow 60, grey 85
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 | 30 silver | 19 listings, 83 units |
| Rank 2 | Howling Rune | 14 silver | 23 listings, 350 units |
| Rank 3 | Howling Rune | 34 silver | 27 listings, 1,816 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 53% below 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
- 26 silver
- 30-day low
- 26 silver Sep 20
- 30-day high
- 45,009 gold Sep 3
- 30-day median
- 55 silver
- 7-day median
- 35 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 681
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 82 gold10 silver, against 91 gold listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 91 gold, rank 2 92 gold3 silver and rank 3 154 gold38 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 91 gold.
Break-even is 95 gold78 silver per craft, 47 gold89 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 30 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −90 gold40 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 3 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 90 gold43 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -99.4% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 83 units across 19 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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