Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 265 gold15 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 493 gold90 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 799 gold
Auction House cut (5%): 39 gold95 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: 265 gold15 silver (+54%)

Evidence: 14 current listings holding 225 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Quality: Runed Writhebark comes in 3 quality ranks. This is the base comparison, rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result; your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide the rank you actually get, which this estimate does not model. Each rank’s lowest listing is in the rank table below.
Not included: the recipe also accepts 1 finishing reagent slot, which are not required and are left out of the cost.

Verified priceAuction House1 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Inscription
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Dragon Isles Inscription
Item level: 60
Reagent slots: 4
Cast time: 3.5 sec

Crafts

Runed Writhebark799 gold

Reagents

5Writhebark48 gold8 silver
1Flourishing Ink95 gold
1Chilled Rune91 gold
5Rousing Air13 gold50 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Writhebark Herb · 1,538 on the Auction House	5	48 gold8 silver	240 gold40 silver	49%
Flourishing Ink Inscription · 485 on the Auction House	1	95 gold	95 gold	19%
Chilled Rune Inscription · 39 on the Auction House	1	91 gold	91 gold	18%
Rousing Air Elemental · 1,205 on the Auction House	5	13 gold50 silver	67 gold50 silver	14%
Total per craft			493 gold90 silver	100%

About Runed Writhebark

One craft takes 5 Writhebark, 1 Flourishing Ink, 1 Chilled Rune and 5 Rousing Air. It is taught by Technique: Runed Writhebark, which needs Dragon Isles Inscription 15. Runed Writhebark is itself a reagent in 22 other recipes (Inscription, Leatherworking and Enchanting).

Recipe category: Reagents (Dragon Isles Techniques)
Skill-up colours (Dragon Isles Inscription skill): Orange below 20 · Yellow 20 to 24 · Green 25 to 29 · Grey 30 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Runed Writhebark tooltip

Runed Writhebark

Item Level 60

Trade Goods

“A sturdy piece of Writhebark fastened with a frosted rune. Crafted by players with the Inscription skill. Can be bought and sold on the auction house.”

Sell price: 2g 50s

How to learn Runed Writhebark

Technique: Runed Writhebark

Teaches: Teaches you how to craft Runed Writhebark.
Requires: Dragon Isles Inscription (15)

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Runed Writhebark quality ranks

Runed Writhebark comes in 3 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 260.

Rank	Item	Lowest listed price	Listings (US)
Rank 1	Runed Writhebark	799 gold	14 listings, 225 units
Rank 2	Runed Writhebark	469 gold	22 listings, 1,314 units
Rank 3	Runed Writhebark	…	no current listing

The crafting estimate above is the base comparison: rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result. Your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide which rank a craft actually makes, so a higher rank is never priced against rank 1 reagents here. Right now rank 1 lists above rank 2, so a craft that comes out at a higher rank is worth less at today’s listings, not more.

Runed Writhebark: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 35% 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: 799 gold
30-day low: 400 gold Sep 15
30-day high: 49,999 gold94 silver Sep 17
30-day median: 590 gold
7-day median: 560 gold98 silver
Hourly snapshots: 681

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

Where the reagents come from

Writhebark. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 48 gold8 silver, rank 2 58 gold40 silver and rank 3 66 gold65 silver. Also a required reagent in 23 other recipes (12 Alchemy, 7 Enchanting and 4 Inscription); Draconic Phial Cauldron takes the most, 80 per craft.

Flourishing Ink. Made with Flourishing Ink (Inscription, Dragon Isles Inscription) from 2 Shimmering Pigment, 1 Flourishing Pigment, 1 Draconic Vial and 1 Iridescent Water, 2 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Flourishing Ink for 44 gold76 silver, against 95 gold listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 95 gold, rank 2 72 gold and rank 3 57 gold6 silver. Also a required reagent in 17 other recipes (17 Inscription); the most per craft: Draconic Combatant's Emblem (Inscription, 10 per craft), Verdant Combatant's Emblem (Inscription, 10 per craft), Literature of the Green Dragonflight (Inscription, 6 per craft), Obsidian Combatant's Emblem (Inscription, 6 per craft) and Literature of the Blue Dragonflight (Inscription, 4 per craft).

Chilled Rune. Made with Chilled Rune (Inscription, Dragon Isles Inscription) from 1 Serene Ink and 5 Rousing Frost. At lowest listed prices that makes one Chilled Rune for 82 gold10 silver, against 91 gold listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 91 gold, rank 2 92 gold3 silver and rank 3 154 gold38 silver. Also a required reagent in 40 other recipes (40 Inscription); the most per craft: Illuminating Pillar of the Isles (Inscription, 8 per craft), Kinetic Pillar of the Isles (Inscription, 8 per craft), Weathered Explorer's Stave (Inscription, 5 per craft), Crackling Codex of the Isles (Inscription, 4 per craft) and Buzzing Rune (Inscription, 1 per craft).

Rousing Air. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 8 other recipes (3 Alchemy, 2 Enchanting, 2 Jewelcrafting and 1 Engineering); the most per craft: Aerated Phial of Quick Hands (Alchemy, 4 per craft), Scepter of Spectacle: Air (Enchanting, 3 per craft), Crafty Queen's Ruby (Jewelcrafting, 2 per craft), Empty Soul Cage (Jewelcrafting, 2 per craft) and Illusory Adornment: Air (Enchanting, 2 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 4 reagents for one craft of Runed Writhebark cost 493 gold90 silver. Most of that is Writhebark - 5 at 48 gold8 silver each, 240 gold40 silver, 48.7% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 519 gold89 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 799 gold, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 305 gold10 silver; the Auction House would keep 39 gold95 silver of a sale, leaving 265 gold15 silver. That is an estimated 53.7% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 13.1% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 225 units across 14 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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