RecipeInscriptionClassic Inscription

Royal 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 one craft shows an estimated profit of 89 silver10 copper. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 2 gold89 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 3 gold98 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 19 silver90 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price: 89 silver10 copper (+31%)

Evidence: 38 current listings holding 2,464 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 House15 min 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

Royal Ink3 gold

Reagents

1Indigo Pigment2 gold89 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Indigo Pigment Inscription · 994 on the Auction House	1	2 gold89 silver	2 gold89 silver	100%
Total per craft			2 gold89 silver	100%

About Royal Ink

One craft takes 1 Indigo Pigment. Royal Ink is itself a reagent in 3 other recipes (Inscription).

Recipe category: Ink (Classic Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Classic Inscription skill): Orange below 170 · Yellow 170 to 174 · Green 175 to 179 · Grey 180 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Royal Ink tooltip

Royal Ink

Item Level 10

Trade Goods

Sell price: 5s

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Royal Ink: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 100% 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: 7 gold98 silver
30-day low: 10 silver Sep 3
30-day high: 195 gold3 silver Sep 5
30-day median: 4 gold
7-day median: 8 gold99 silver
Hourly snapshots: 677

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

Where the reagents come from

Indigo 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 Royal Ink cost 2 gold89 silver.

Break-even is 3 gold4 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 3 gold98 silver, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 1 gold9 silver; the Auction House would keep 19 silver90 copper of a sale, leaving 89 silver10 copper. That is an estimated 30.8% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 18.3% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 2,464 units across 38 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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