Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 1 gold6 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 1 gold12 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price (each): 3 silver
Items per craft: 2
Listed value of one craft: 6 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 30 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price: −1 gold6 silver (-95%)

Evidence: 13 current listings holding 85 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 2 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: Classic Inscription
Item level: 21
Reagent slots: 2
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Scroll of Intellect V3 silver

Reagents

2Light Parchment1 silver
1Shimmering Ink1 gold10 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Light Parchment Other · 797,900 on the Auction House	2	1 silver	2 silver	2%
Shimmering Ink Inscription · 1,161 on the Auction House · crafted by Shimmering Ink (Inscription)	1	1 gold10 silver	1 gold10 silver	98%
Total per craft			1 gold12 silver	100%

About Scroll of Intellect V

One craft takes 2 Light Parchment and 1 Shimmering Ink.

Recipe category: Scrolls (Classic Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Classic Inscription skill): Orange below 265 · Yellow 265 to 269 · Green 270 to 274 · Grey 275 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Scroll of Intellect V tooltip

Scroll of Intellect V

Item Level 21

Consumable

Requires Level 21

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

Sell price: 1s 12c

Also a quest reward: Unfinished Business (Zangarmarsh).

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

The current lowest listing sits at 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: 3 silver
30-day low: 2 silver Aug 23
30-day high: 45,009 gold Sep 2
30-day median: 3 silver
7-day median: 3 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

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.

Shimmering Ink. Made with Shimmering Ink (Inscription, Classic Inscription) from 2 Silvery Pigment. At lowest listed prices that makes one Shimmering Ink for 2 gold, against 1 gold10 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 11 other recipes (11 Inscription); the most per craft: Glyph of Rising Tiger Kick (Inscription, 3 per craft), Glyph of Shackle Undead (Inscription, 3 per craft), Glyph of the Cheetah (Inscription, 3 per craft), Glyph of the Luminous Charger (Inscription, 3 per craft) and Research: Shimmering Ink (Inscription, 3 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Scroll of Intellect V cost 1 gold12 silver. Most of that is Shimmering Ink - 1 at 1 gold10 silver each, 1 gold10 silver, 98.2% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 1 gold17 silver per craft, 58 silver94 copper per item at 2 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 3 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −1 gold6 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 30 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 1 gold6 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -94.9% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 85 units across 13 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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