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InscriptionDragon Isles Inscription
Illusion Parchment: Shadow Orb
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
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 40 gold57 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- …
- Items per craft
- 5
- Listed value of one craft
- …
- Auction House cut (5%)
- …
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- …
- Items per craft: the game’s spell data creates 5 per craft, so the listed value of one craft is that many times the lowest listed price.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Inscription
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Dragon Isles Inscription
- Item level
- 60
- Reagent slots
- 4
- Cast time
- 3.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
1Serene Ink9 gold90 silver
3Glittering Parchment85 silver
3Iridescent Water1 gold50 silver
1Awakened Decay23 gold62 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Serene Ink Inscription · 885 on the Auction House | 1 | 9 gold90 silver | 9 gold90 silver | 24% |
| Glittering Parchment Inscription · 401 on the Auction House | 3 | 85 silver | 2 gold55 silver | 6% |
| Iridescent Water Inscription · 3,648 on the Auction House | 3 | 1 gold50 silver | 4 gold50 silver | 11% |
| Awakened Decay Elemental · 746 on the Auction House | 1 | 23 gold62 silver | 23 gold62 silver | 58% |
| Total per craft | 40 gold57 silver | 100% |
About Illusion Parchment: Shadow Orb
One craft takes 1 Serene Ink, 3 Glittering Parchment, 3 Iridescent Water and 1 Awakened Decay. It is taught by Technique: Illusion Parchment: Shadow Orb, which needs Dragon Isles Inscription 10.
- Recipe category
- Scrolls (Dragon Isles Techniques)
- Skill-up colours (Dragon Isles Inscription skill)
- Orange below 20 · Yellow 20 to 21 · Green 22 to 24 · Grey 25 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Illusion Parchment: Shadow Orb tooltip
How to learn Illusion Parchment: Shadow Orb
Technique: Illusion Parchment: Shadow Orb
- Teaches
- Teaches you how to craft Illusion Parchment: Shadow Orb.
- Requires
- Dragon Isles Inscription (10)
- Auction House
- listed on 44 US realms, cheapest 79 gold99 silver, 92 for sale
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Illusion Parchment: Shadow Orb: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 22% below its 30-day median.
- Now
- 14 gold
- 30-day low
- 4 gold3 silver Sep 11
- 30-day high
- 21 gold50 silver Sep 4
- 30-day median
- 18 gold2 silver
- 7-day median
- 14 gold85 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 680
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Serene Ink. Made with Serene Ink (Inscription, Dragon Isles Inscription) from 2 
Shimmering Pigment, 1 
Serene Pigment, 1 
Draconic Vial and 1 Iridescent Water, 2 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Serene Ink for 11 gold56 silver, against 9 gold90 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 9 gold90 silver, rank 2 12 gold50 silver and rank 3 4 gold90 silver. Also a required reagent in 23 other recipes (23 Inscription); Draconic Combatant's Medallion takes the most, 10 per craft.
Glittering Parchment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 73 other recipes (71 Inscription and 2 Enchanting); the most per craft: Core Explorer's Compendium (Inscription, 20 per craft), Crackling Codex of the Isles (Inscription, 20 per craft), Literature of the Green Dragonflight (Inscription, 16 per craft), Literature of the Red Dragonflight (Inscription, 16 per craft) and Literature of the Blue Dragonflight (Inscription, 15 per craft).
Iridescent Water. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 34 other recipes (33 Inscription and 1 Engineering); the most per craft: Titanic Tyrhold Fountain (Engineering, 20 per craft), Cliffside Wylderdrake: Conical Head (Inscription, 8 per craft), Cliffside Wylderdrake: Red Hair (Inscription, 8 per craft), Cliffside Wylderdrake: Triple Head Horns (Inscription, 8 per craft) and Grotto Netherwing Drake: Chin Tendrils (Inscription, 8 per craft).
Awakened Decay. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 14 other recipes (8 Alchemy, 4 Leatherworking, 1 Inscription and 1 Tailoring); the most per craft: Witherrot Tome (Leatherworking, 15 per craft), Toxified Armor Patch (Leatherworking, 8 per craft), Weathered Explorer's Stave (Inscription, 8 per craft), Forlorn Funeral Pall (Tailoring, 5 per craft) and Cauldron of Extracted Putrescence (Alchemy, 3 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
- Azurescale SigilRunes and Sigils, learn at 1, grey at 65
- Blazing FortuneMysteries, learn at 1, grey at 30
- Blazing InkInks, learn at 1, grey at 20
- Bronzescale SigilRunes and Sigils, learn at 1, grey at 65
- Bundle O' Cards: Dragon IslesMysteries, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Burnished InkInks, learn at 1, grey at 40
- Buzzing RuneRunes and Sigils, learn at 1, grey at 45
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 4 reagents for one craft of Illusion Parchment: Shadow Orb cost 40 gold57 silver. Most of that is Awakened Decay - 1 at 23 gold62 silver each, 23 gold62 silver, 58.2% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 42 gold70 silver per craft, 8 gold54 silver per item at 5 items a craft - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item has no current Auction House listing to compare it against, so the estimate above is left unknown rather than guessed.
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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Data notes
- No Auction House price for the crafted item - output value unknown (it may be soulbound/BoE gear or an untracked item).