Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 14 gold10 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 17 gold48 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price (each): 6 gold65 silver
Items per craft: 5
Listed value of one craft: 33 gold25 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 1 gold66 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: 14 gold10 silver (+81%)

Evidence: 11 current listings holding 917 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Items per craft: the game’s spell data creates 5 per craft, so the listed value of one craft is that many times the lowest listed price.

Verified priceAuction House1 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Inscription
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Cataclysm Inscription
Item level: 32
Reagent slots: 2
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Scroll of Intellect IX6 gold

Reagents

2Light Parchment1 silver
1Blackfallow Ink17 gold46 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Light Parchment Other · 780,358 on the Auction House	2	1 silver	2 silver	0%
Blackfallow Ink Inscription · 11,807 on the Auction House · crafted by Blackfallow Ink (Inscription)	1	17 gold46 silver	17 gold46 silver	100%
Total per craft			17 gold48 silver	100%

About Scroll of Intellect IX

One craft takes 2 Light Parchment and 1 Blackfallow Ink.

Recipe category: Scrolls & Research (Cataclysm Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Cataclysm Inscription skill): Yellow 1 to 4 · Green 5 to 9 · Grey 10 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Scroll of Intellect IX tooltip

Scroll of Intellect IX

Item Level 32

Consumable

Requires Level 30

Use: Increases the target's Intellect for 30 min. This effect counts as a Battle Elixir.

Sell price: 3s

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Scroll of Intellect IX: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 18% 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: 6 gold65 silver
30-day low: 4 gold45 silver Sep 12
30-day high: 49,999 gold98 silver Aug 26
30-day median: 8 gold8 silver
7-day median: 7 gold40 silver
Hourly snapshots: 690

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.

Blackfallow Ink. Made with Blackfallow Ink (Inscription, Cataclysm Inscription) from 2 Ashen Pigment. At lowest listed prices that makes one Blackfallow Ink for 10 gold, against 17 gold46 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 24 other recipes (24 Inscription); the most per craft: Gilnean Postbox (Inscription, 10 per craft), Gilnean Map (Inscription, 8 per craft), Felfire Inscription (Inscription, 4 per craft), Gilnean Wall Shelf (Inscription, 4 per craft) and Inscription of the Earth Prince (Inscription, 4 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Scroll of Intellect IX cost 17 gold48 silver. Most of that is Blackfallow Ink - 1 at 17 gold46 silver each, 17 gold46 silver, 99.9% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 18 gold40 silver per craft, 3 gold68 silver per item at 5 items a craft - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 6 gold65 silver, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 15 gold77 silver; the Auction House would keep 1 gold66 silver of a sale, leaving 14 gold10 silver. That is an estimated 80.7% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 10.5% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 917 units across 11 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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