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Luminous Ink

A Inscription recipe learned at Shadowlands Inscription 1 that crafts Luminous Ink from 3 reagents.

Reagents

Crafts

Luminous Ink24 gold
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Where it comes from
Auto-learnedShadowlands InscriptionLearned automatically with this skill line

Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 3 gold93 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed)
19 gold53 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price
24 gold70 silver
Auction House cut (5%)
1 gold23 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price
3 gold93 silver (+20%)
  • Evidence: 13 current listings holding 877 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 HouseUS region
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Cost per reagent

ReagentQtyEachCostShare
Luminous Pigment
Inscription · 3,165 on the Auction House
119 gold19 gold97%
Aerated Water
Other · 4,044 on the Auction House
148 silver48 silver2%
Rune Etched Vial
Other · 7,809 on the Auction House
15 silver5 silver0%
Total per craft19 gold53 silver100%

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 31 other recipes (Inscription).

Recipe category
Ink (Shadowlands Inscription)
How it is learned
Automatically with Shadowlands Inscription

Luminous Ink tooltip

Luminous Ink
Item Level 50
Trade Goods
“Crafted by players with the Inscription skill. Can be bought and sold on the auction house.”
Sell price: 10c

Luminous Ink: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 8% 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
24 gold70 silver
30-day low
13 gold51 silver Nov 4
30-day high
197 gold Oct 16
30-day median
26 gold90 silver
7-day median
26 gold89 silver
Hourly snapshots
693

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 36 other recipes (33 Alchemy and 3 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

Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Luminous Ink cost 19 gold53 silver. Most of that is Luminous Pigment - 1 at 19 gold each, 19 gold, 97.3% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 20 gold55 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 24 gold70 silver, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 5 gold17 silver; the Auction House would keep 1 gold23 silver of a sale, leaving 3 gold93 silver. That is an estimated 20.1% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 23.9% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 877 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.

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