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Luminous 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 one craft shows an estimated profit of 1 gold12 silver, but the crafted item’s listing is far from its 30-day median (see below).
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 1 gold68 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 2 gold95 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 14 silver75 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 1 gold12 silver (+67%)
- Evidence: 37 current listings holding 16,107 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 88% below its 30-day median of 24 gold98 silver, so this estimate rests on a listing far below its usual level.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Inscription
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Shadowlands Inscription
- Item level
- 50
- Reagent slots
- 3
- Cast time
- 1.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
1Luminous Pigment1 gold30 silver
1Aerated Water30 silver
1Rune Etched Vial8 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luminous Pigment Inscription · 90,329 on the Auction House | 1 | 1 gold30 silver | 1 gold30 silver | 77% |
| Aerated Water Other · 13,975 on the Auction House | 1 | 30 silver | 30 silver | 18% |
| Rune Etched Vial Other · 23,119 on the Auction House | 1 | 8 silver | 8 silver | 5% |
| Total per craft | 1 gold68 silver | 100% |
About Luminous Ink
One craft takes 1 Luminous Pigment, 1 Aerated Water and 1 Rune Etched Vial. It is learned automatically with Shadowlands Inscription. Luminous Ink is itself a reagent in 30 other recipes (Inscription).
- Recipe category
- Ink (Shadowlands Inscription)
- Skill-up colours (Shadowlands Inscription skill)
- Orange below 15 · Yellow 15 to 19 · Green 20 to 24 · Grey 25 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
- How it is learned
- Automatically with Shadowlands Inscription
Luminous Ink tooltip
More Ink recipes (Shadowlands Inscription)
Luminous Ink is a reagent in
- Aspiring Soul's ChairInscription
- Broker's Hex TableInscription
- Cartel Ta BookcaseInscription
- Codex of the Still MindInscription
- Contract: Court of HarvestersInscription
- Contract: Death's AdvanceInscription
- Contract: The AscendedInscription
- Contract: The Undying ArmyInscription
- Contract: The Wild HuntInscription
- Fae Revel MasqueInscription
- Glyph of the Spectral LupineInscription
- Glyph of the Spectral VulpineInscription
and 18 more recipes.
Luminous Ink: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 20% 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
- 20 gold
- 30-day low
- 10 gold Sep 10
- 30-day high
- 197 gold Aug 26
- 30-day median
- 24 gold98 silver
- 7-day median
- 24 gold1 silver
- 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
Luminous Pigment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it.
Aerated Water. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 3 other recipes (2 Inscription and 1 Blacksmithing); the most per craft: Aspirant's Meditation Pool (Blacksmithing, 20 per craft), Tranquil Ink (Inscription, 1 per craft) and Umbral Ink (Inscription, 1 per craft).
Rune Etched Vial. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 34 other recipes (32 Alchemy and 2 Inscription); the most per craft: Crafter's Mark II (Alchemy, 5 per craft), Cosmic Healing Potion (Alchemy, 1 per craft), Crafter's Mark I (Alchemy, 1 per craft), Crafter's Mark III (Alchemy, 1 per craft) and Crafter's Mark IV (Alchemy, 1 per craft).
More Shadowlands Inscription recipes in the same skill range
- Ardenweald Hanging BasketsHouse Decor, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Aspiring Soul's ChairHouse Decor, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Broker's Hex TableHouse Decor, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Cartel Ta BookcaseHouse Decor, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Codex of the Still MindBooks & Scrolls, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Contract: Court of HarvestersContracts, learn at 1, grey at 90
- Contract: Death's AdvanceContracts, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Contract: Enlightened BrokersContracts, learn at 1, grey at 101
- Contract: The AscendedContracts, learn at 1, grey at 90
- Contract: The Undying ArmyContracts, learn at 1, grey at 90
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Luminous Ink cost 1 gold68 silver. Most of that is Luminous Pigment - 1 at 1 gold30 silver each, 1 gold30 silver, 77.4% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 1 gold76 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 2 gold95 silver, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 1 gold27 silver; the Auction House would keep 14 silver75 copper of a sale, leaving 1 gold12 silver. That is an estimated 66.8% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 11.6% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 16,107 units across 37 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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