RecipeInscriptionClassic Inscription

Midnight 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 12 gold66 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 18 gold
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 5 gold62 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 28 silver10 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price: −12 gold66 silver (-70%)

Evidence: 13 current listings holding 3,766 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 House1 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

Midnight Ink5 gold

Reagents

2Dusky Pigment9 gold

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Dusky Pigment Inscription · 6,946 on the Auction House	2	9 gold	18 gold	100%
Total per craft			18 gold	100%

About Midnight Ink

One craft takes 2 Dusky Pigment. Midnight Ink is itself a reagent in 9 other recipes (Inscription).

Recipe category: Ink (Classic Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Classic Inscription skill): Orange below 75 · Yellow 75 to 76 · Green 77 to 79 · Grey 80 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Midnight Ink tooltip

Midnight Ink

Item Level 10

Trade Goods

Sell price: 5s

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Midnight Ink: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 37% 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: 5 gold62 silver
30-day low: 10 silver Sep 3
30-day high: 16 gold88 silver Aug 24
30-day median: 8 gold99 silver
7-day median: 5 gold75 silver
Hourly snapshots: 682

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

Where the reagents come from

Dusky 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 Midnight Ink cost 18 gold.

Break-even is 18 gold94 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 5 gold62 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −12 gold38 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 28 silver10 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 12 gold66 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -70.3% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 3,766 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 →

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