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Key to the Planes

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.

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Crafting estimate at current listings

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
148 gold4 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price
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Auction House cut (5%)
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Estimated profit at that listed price
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  • Not included: the recipe also accepts 1 optional reagent slot, which are not required and are left out of the cost.
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Recipe facts

Profession
Inscription
Requires skill
1
Expansion tier
Cataclysm Inscription
Item level
36
Reagent slots
5
Cast time
3 sec

Crafts

Key to the Planes…

Reagents

Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Light Parchment
Other · 662,373 on the Auction House		101 silver10 silver0%
Inferno Ink
Parts · 4,154 on the Auction House · crafted by Inferno Ink (Inscription)		242 gold48 silver84 gold96 silver57%
Volatile Water
Elemental · 60,997 on the Auction House		219 gold38 gold26%
Volatile Air
Elemental · 29,480 on the Auction House		210 gold25 silver20 gold50 silver14%
Volatile Earth
Elemental · 19,332 on the Auction House		22 gold24 silver4 gold48 silver3%
Total per craft148 gold4 silver100%

About Key to the Planes

One craft takes 10 Light Parchment, 2 Inferno Ink, 2 Volatile Water, 2 Volatile Air and 2 Volatile Earth.

Recipe category
Weapons & Off-Hands (Cataclysm Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Cataclysm Inscription skill)
Orange below 50 · Yellow 50 to 51 · Green 52 to 54 · Grey 55 and up
Skill points per craft
1

Key to the Planes tooltip

Key to the Planes
Item Level 36
Binds when equipped
Two-HandWeapon
9 - 12 DamageSpeed 3.60
(2.9 damage per second)
+8 Intellect
+12 Stamina
+8 Critical Strike
+8 Haste
Requires Level 30
Sell price: 15s

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Where the reagents come from

Light Parchment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 306 other recipes (295 Inscription, 8 Enchanting and 3 Engineering); Codex of the Clear Mind takes the most, 200 per craft.

Inferno Ink. Made with Inferno Ink (Inscription, Cataclysm Inscription) from 2 Burning Embers. At lowest listed prices that makes one Inferno Ink for 152 gold96 silver, against 42 gold48 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 13 other recipes (11 Inscription, 1 Tailoring and 1 Leatherworking); the most per craft: Rosethorn Staff (Inscription, 12 per craft), Silver Inlaid Staff (Inscription, 12 per craft), Darkmoon Card of Destruction (Inscription, 10 per craft), Battle Tome (Inscription, 8 per craft) and Divine Companion (Inscription, 8 per craft).

Volatile Water. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 60 other recipes (22 Leatherworking, 15 Tailoring, 11 Blacksmithing and 6 Jewelcrafting); the most per craft: Brazen Elementium Medallion (Jewelcrafting, 75 per craft), Entwined Elementium Choker (Jewelcrafting, 75 per craft), Jeweler's Sapphire Monocle (Jewelcrafting, 50 per craft), Clutches of Evil (Leatherworking, 40 per craft) and Dragonfire Gloves (Leatherworking, 40 per craft).

Volatile Air. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 33 other recipes (10 Leatherworking, 8 Tailoring, 6 Enchanting and 4 Jewelcrafting); the most per craft: Band of Blades (Jewelcrafting, 75 per craft), Elementium Destroyer's Ring (Jewelcrafting, 75 per craft), Assassin's Chestplate (Leatherworking, 30 per craft), Belt of Nefarious Whispers (Leatherworking, 30 per craft) and Dream of Skywall (Tailoring, 30 per craft).

Volatile Earth. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 40 other recipes (17 Blacksmithing, 9 Leatherworking, 4 Jewelcrafting and 4 Enchanting); the most per craft: Elementium Guardian (Jewelcrafting, 75 per craft), Punisher's Band (Jewelcrafting, 75 per craft), Dragonkiller Tunic (Leatherworking, 50 per craft), Dream of Deepholm (Tailoring, 30 per craft) and Corded Viper Belt (Leatherworking, 25 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 5 reagents for one craft of Key to the Planes cost 148 gold4 silver. Most of that is Inferno Ink - 2 at 42 gold48 silver each, 84 gold96 silver, 57.4% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 155 gold83 silver - 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).
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