RecipeInscriptionClassic Inscription

Lion'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 64 silver80 copper per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 18 gold66 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 18 gold96 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 94 silver80 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price: −64 silver80 copper (-4%)

Evidence: 13 current listings holding 5,216 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.

Last verifiedAuction House4 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

Lion's Ink18 gold

Reagents

2Golden Pigment9 gold33 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Golden Pigment Inscription · 7,134 on the Auction House	2	9 gold33 silver	18 gold66 silver	100%
Total per craft			18 gold66 silver	100%

About Lion's Ink

One craft takes 2 Golden Pigment. Lion's Ink is itself a reagent in 4 other recipes (Inscription).

Recipe category: Ink (Classic Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Classic Inscription skill): Orange below 95 · Yellow 95 to 99 · Green 100 to 104 · Grey 105 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Lion's Ink tooltip

Lion's Ink

Item Level 10

Trade Goods

Sell price: 5s

More Ink recipes (Classic Inscription)

Lion's Ink is a reagent in

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

The current lowest listing is 5% 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: 18 gold96 silver
30-day low: 1 gold Sep 17
30-day high: 34 gold98 silver Aug 23
30-day median: 20 gold
7-day median: 17 gold
Hourly snapshots: 684

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

Where the reagents come from

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

More Classic Inscription recipes in the same skill range

Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Lion's Ink cost 18 gold66 silver.

Break-even is 19 gold64 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 18 gold96 silver, which does not clear it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 30 silver; the Auction House would keep 94 silver80 copper of a sale, leaving −64 silver80 copper. That is an estimated -3.5% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 316.0% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 5,216 units across 13 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 →

Featured in guides

Guides and routes on this site that cover Lion's Ink.