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InscriptionShadowlands Inscription
Missive of Mastery
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 205 gold8 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 251 gold40 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 48 gold75 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 2 gold43 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −205 gold8 silver (-82%)
- Evidence: 52 current listings holding 449 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
4Luminous Ink2 gold95 silver
6Umbral Ink38 gold99 silver
1Tranquil Ink5 gold56 silver
1Dark Parchment10 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luminous Ink Inscription · 8,818 on the Auction House · crafted by Luminous Ink (Inscription) | 4 | 2 gold95 silver | 11 gold80 silver | 5% |
| Umbral Ink Inscription · 52,135 on the Auction House · crafted by Umbral Ink (Inscription) | 6 | 38 gold99 silver | 233 gold94 silver | 93% |
| Tranquil Ink Inscription · 112,174 on the Auction House · crafted by Tranquil Ink (Inscription) | 1 | 5 gold56 silver | 5 gold56 silver | 2% |
| Dark Parchment Other · 22,862 on the Auction House | 1 | 10 silver | 10 silver | 0% |
| Total per craft | 251 gold40 silver | 100% |
About Missive of Mastery
One craft takes 4 Luminous Ink, 6 Umbral Ink, 1 Tranquil Ink and 1 Dark Parchment. Missive of Mastery 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 Mastery tooltip
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Missive of Mastery: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 19% 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
- 48 gold75 silver
- 30-day low
- 1 gold Sep 4
- 30-day high
- 500 gold Sep 13
- 30-day median
- 59 gold98 silver
- 7-day median
- 74 gold99 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 2 gold56 silver, against 2 gold95 silver 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 38 gold38 silver, against 38 gold99 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 gold67 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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Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 4 reagents for one craft of Missive of Mastery cost 251 gold40 silver. Most of that is Umbral Ink - 6 at 38 gold99 silver each, 233 gold94 silver, 93.1% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 264 gold63 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 48 gold75 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −202 gold65 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 2 gold43 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 205 gold8 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -81.6% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 449 units across 52 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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