RecipeInscriptionClassic Inscription

Ink of the Sky

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 1 gold85 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 29 gold50 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 29 gold10 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 1 gold45 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: −1 gold85 silver (-6%)

Evidence: 26 current listings holding 470 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 House2 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

Ink of the Sky29 gold

Reagents

1Sapphire Pigment29 gold50 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Sapphire Pigment Inscription · 1,312 on the Auction House	1	29 gold50 silver	29 gold50 silver	100%
Total per craft			29 gold50 silver	100%

About Ink of the Sky

One craft takes 1 Sapphire Pigment. Ink of the Sky is itself a reagent in 4 other recipes (Inscription).

Recipe category: Ink (Classic Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Classic Inscription skill): Orange below 290 · Yellow 290 to 294 · Green 295 to 299 · Grey 300 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Ink of the Sky tooltip

Ink of the Sky

Item Level 10

Trade Goods

Sell price: 5s

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

The current lowest listing is 3% 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: 29 gold10 silver
30-day low: 12 gold25 silver Sep 19
30-day high: 199 gold99 silver Sep 20
30-day median: 29 gold94 silver
7-day median: 17 gold
Hourly snapshots: 689

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

Where the reagents come from

Sapphire 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 Ink of the Sky cost 29 gold50 silver.

Break-even is 31 gold5 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 29 gold10 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −40 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 1 gold45 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 1 gold85 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -6.3% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 470 units across 26 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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