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InscriptionShadowlands Inscription
Missive of Critical Strike
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 266 gold53 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 311 gold63 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 47 gold47 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 2 gold37 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −266 gold53 silver (-86%)
- Evidence: 25 current listings holding 629 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Inscription
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Shadowlands Inscription
- Item level
- 51
- Reagent slots
- 4
- Cast time
- 3.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
8Luminous Ink20 gold
2Umbral Ink72 gold96 silver
1Tranquil Ink5 gold56 silver
1Dark Parchment15 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luminous Ink Inscription · 1,591 on the Auction House · crafted by Luminous Ink (Inscription) | 8 | 20 gold | 160 gold | 51% |
| Umbral Ink Inscription · 8,647 on the Auction House · crafted by Umbral Ink (Inscription) | 2 | 72 gold96 silver | 145 gold92 silver | 47% |
| Tranquil Ink Inscription · 105,713 on the Auction House · crafted by Tranquil Ink (Inscription) | 1 | 5 gold56 silver | 5 gold56 silver | 2% |
| Dark Parchment Other · 14,938 on the Auction House | 1 | 15 silver | 15 silver | 0% |
| Total per craft | 311 gold63 silver | 100% |
About Missive of Critical Strike
One craft takes 8 Luminous Ink, 2 Umbral Ink, 1 Tranquil Ink and 1 Dark Parchment. Missive of Critical Strike is itself a reagent in 43 other recipes (Leatherworking, Tailoring, Blacksmithing and Jewelcrafting).
- Recipe category
- Optional Reagents (Shadowlands Inscription)
- Skill-up colours (Shadowlands Inscription skill)
- Orange below 85 · Yellow 85 to 91 · Green 92 to 99 · Grey 100 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Missive of Critical Strike tooltip
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Missive of Critical Strike: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 25% above 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
- 47 gold47 silver
- 30-day low
- 1 gold Sep 3
- 30-day high
- 500 gold Sep 13
- 30-day median
- 37 gold83 silver
- 7-day median
- 49 gold98 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 Ink. Made with Luminous Ink (Inscription, Shadowlands Inscription) from 1 
Luminous Pigment, 1 
Aerated Water and 1 
Rune Etched Vial. At lowest listed prices that makes one Luminous Ink for 20 gold38 silver, against 20 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 30 other recipes (30 Inscription); Soul Keeper's Spire takes the most, 22 per craft.
Umbral Ink. Made with Umbral Ink (Inscription, Shadowlands Inscription) from 1 
Umbral Pigment, 1 Aerated Water and 1 Rune Etched Vial. At lowest listed prices that makes one Umbral Ink for 62 gold58 silver, against 72 gold96 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 29 other recipes (29 Inscription); the most per craft: Glyph of the Wild Mushroom (Inscription, 24 per craft), Mark of the Gloomstalker Dredbat (Inscription, 24 per craft), Mark of the Midnight Runestag (Inscription, 24 per craft), Mark of the Regal Dredbat (Inscription, 24 per craft) and Mark of the Sable Ardenmoth (Inscription, 24 per craft).
Tranquil Ink. Made with Tranquil Ink (Inscription, Shadowlands Inscription) from 1 
Tranquil Pigment, 1 Aerated Water and 1 Rune Etched Vial. At lowest listed prices that makes one Tranquil Ink for 3 gold66 silver, against 5 gold56 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 17 other recipes (17 Inscription); the most per craft: Hollow Night Fae Shrine (Inscription, 25 per craft), Glyph of the Spectral Lupine (Inscription, 12 per craft), Glyph of the Spectral Vulpine (Inscription, 12 per craft), Tome of Maldraxxian Rituals (Inscription, 5 per craft) and Contract: Enlightened Brokers (Inscription, 3 per craft).
Dark Parchment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 28 other recipes (28 Inscription); the most per craft: Codex of the Still Mind (Inscription, 75 per craft), Newly Departed Codex (Inscription, 50 per craft), Tome of the Still Mind (Inscription, 25 per craft), Tome of Maldraxxian Rituals (Inscription, 10 per craft) and Crafter's Mark II (Inscription, 5 per craft).
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- Contract: Death's AdvanceContracts, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Contract: Enlightened BrokersContracts, learn at 1, grey at 101
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- Contract: The Undying ArmyContracts, learn at 1, grey at 90
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 4 reagents for one craft of Missive of Critical Strike cost 311 gold63 silver. Most of that is Luminous Ink - 8 at 20 gold each, 160 gold, 51.3% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 328 gold3 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 47 gold47 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −264 gold16 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 2 gold37 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 266 gold53 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -85.5% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 629 units across 25 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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