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InscriptionPandaria Inscription
Origami Crane
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
No real market: too few listings for this price to mean anything yet.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 3 gold17 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 11 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 55 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 7 gold28 silver
No real market: only 9 units across 3 auctions region-wide. With this little supply the lowest listing is one asking price rather than a market rate, so treat the estimate above as arithmetic, not an opportunity; a buyer at that price is not established.
- Evidence: 3 current listings holding 9 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
- Pandaria Inscription
- Item level
- 32
- Reagent slots
- 2
- Cast time
- 3.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
1Light Parchment1 silver
4Ink of Dreams79 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Light Parchment Other · 662,041 on the Auction House | 1 | 1 silver | 1 silver | 0% |
| Ink of Dreams Inscription · 7,196 on the Auction House · crafted by Ink of Dreams (Inscription) | 4 | 79 silver | 3 gold16 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 3 gold17 silver | 100% |
About Origami Crane
One craft takes 1 Light Parchment and 4 Ink of Dreams.
- Recipe category
- Toys & Pets (Pandaria Inscription)
- Skill-up colours (Pandaria Inscription skill)
- Orange below 75 · Grey 75 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Origami Crane tooltip
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Origami Crane: 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
- 11 gold
- 30-day low
- 2 gold77 silver Sep 6
- 30-day high
- 49,999 gold97 silver Sep 10
- 30-day median
- 13 gold74 silver
- 7-day median
- 14 gold
- Hourly snapshots
- 686
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Light Parchment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 306 other recipes (295 Inscription, 8 Enchanting and 3 Engineering); Codex of the Clear Mind takes the most, 200 per craft.
Ink of Dreams. Made with Ink of Dreams (Inscription, Pandaria Inscription) from 2 
Shadow Pigment. At lowest listed prices that makes one Ink of Dreams for 50 silver, against 79 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 25 other recipes (24 Inscription and 1 Leatherworking); the most per craft: Runescroll of Fortitude III (Inscription, 10 per craft), Ghost Iron Staff (Inscription, 8 per craft), Rain Poppy Staff (Inscription, 8 per craft), Lucky Traveler's Bench (Inscription, 6 per craft) and Pandaren Wooden Table (Inscription, 6 per craft).
More Pandaria Inscription recipes in the same skill range
- Commissioned PaintingQuest, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Crafted Malevolent Gladiator's Medallion of TenacityTrinkets, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Crane Wing InscriptionShoulder Inscription, learn at 1, grey at 25
- Engraved Jade DiskQuest, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Ghost Iron StaffStaves & Off-Hands, learn at 1, grey at 55
- Glyph of Lesser ProportionGlyphs, learn at 1, grey at 20
- Glyph of Pillar of LightGlyphs, learn at 1, grey at 20
- Glyph of the Val'kyrGlyphs, learn at 1, grey at 20
- Greater Crane Wing InscriptionShoulder Inscription, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Greater Ox Horn InscriptionShoulder Inscription, learn at 1, grey at 75
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Origami Crane cost 3 gold17 silver. Most of that is Ink of Dreams - 4 at 79 silver each, 3 gold16 silver, 99.7% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 3 gold33 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 11 gold, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 7 gold83 silver; the Auction House would keep 55 silver of a sale, leaving 7 gold28 silver. That is an estimated 229.7% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 7.0% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 9 units across 3 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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