RecipeInscriptionNorthrend Inscription

Ink of the Sea

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 one craft shows an estimated profit of 1 gold80 silver, but the crafted item’s listing is far from its 30-day median (see below).

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 2 gold
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 4 gold
Auction House cut (5%): 20 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: 1 gold80 silver (+90%)

Evidence: 42 current listings holding 6,150 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Outlier: the crafted item’s lowest listing is 68% below its 30-day median of 12 gold51 silver, so this estimate rests on a listing far below its usual level.

Verified priceAuction House1 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Inscription
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Northrend Inscription
Item level: 20
Reagent slots: 1
Cast time: 1.5 sec

Crafts

Ink of the Sea4 gold

Reagents

2Azure Pigment1 gold

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Azure Pigment Inscription · 13,035 on the Auction House	2	1 gold	2 gold	100%
Total per craft			2 gold	100%

About Ink of the Sea

One craft takes 2 Azure Pigment. It is learned automatically with Northrend Inscription. Ink of the Sea is itself a reagent in 20 other recipes (Inscription).

Recipe category: Inks (Northrend Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Northrend Inscription skill): Yellow 1 to 9 · Green 10 to 19 · Grey 20 and up
Skill points per craft: 1
How it is learned: Automatically with Northrend Inscription

Ink of the Sea tooltip

Ink of the Sea

Item Level 20

Trade Goods

Sell price: 5s

More Inks recipes (Northrend Inscription)

Snowfall Inkyellow 1, grey 20

Ink of the Sea is a reagent in

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Ink of the Sea: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 68% 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: 4 gold
30-day low: 2 gold Sep 18
30-day high: 79 gold65 silver Sep 4
30-day median: 12 gold51 silver
7-day median: 6 gold40 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

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

More Northrend Inscription recipes in the same skill range

Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Ink of the Sea cost 2 gold.

Break-even is 2 gold10 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 4 gold, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 2 gold; the Auction House would keep 20 silver of a sale, leaving 1 gold80 silver. That is an estimated 90.0% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 10.0% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 6,150 units across 42 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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