RecipeInscriptionClassic Inscription

Hunter's Ink

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 2 gold78 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 7 gold77 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 5 gold25 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 26 silver25 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price: −2 gold78 silver (-36%)

Evidence: 40 current listings holding 1,416 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: Classic Inscription
Item level: 10
Reagent slots: 1
Cast time: 1.5 sec

Crafts

Hunter's Ink5 gold

Reagents

1Verdant Pigment7 gold77 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Verdant Pigment Inscription · 2,858 on the Auction House	1	7 gold77 silver	7 gold77 silver	100%
Total per craft			7 gold77 silver	100%

About Hunter's Ink

One craft takes 1 Verdant Pigment. Hunter's Ink is itself a reagent in 1 other recipe (Inscription).

Recipe category: Ink (Classic Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Classic Inscription skill): Orange below 85 · Yellow 85 to 89 · Green 90 to 94 · Grey 95 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Hunter's Ink tooltip

Hunter's Ink

Item Level 10

Trade Goods

Sell price: 5s

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Hunter's Ink: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 59% 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: 2 gold25 silver
30-day low: 1 gold Aug 31
30-day high: 197 gold Aug 24
30-day median: 5 gold50 silver
7-day median: 7 gold25 silver
Hourly snapshots: 686

US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.

Where the reagents come from

Verdant Pigment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it.

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Hunter's Ink cost 7 gold77 silver.

Break-even is 8 gold17 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 5 gold25 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −2 gold52 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 26 silver25 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 2 gold78 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -35.8% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 1,416 units across 40 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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