Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 47 gold94 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 48 gold4 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price (each): 2 silver
Items per craft: 5
Listed value of one craft: 10 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 50 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price: −47 gold94 silver (-100%)

Evidence: 9 current listings holding 132 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Outlier: the crafted item’s lowest listing is 97% below its 30-day median of 60 silver, so this estimate rests on a listing far below its usual level.
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: Classic Inscription
Item level: 13
Reagent slots: 2
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Scroll of Strength III2 silver

Reagents

2Light Parchment1 silver
1Jadefire Ink48 gold2 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Light Parchment Other · 797,900 on the Auction House	2	1 silver	2 silver	0%
Jadefire Ink Inscription · 581 on the Auction House · crafted by Jadefire Ink (Inscription)	1	48 gold2 silver	48 gold2 silver	100%
Total per craft			48 gold4 silver	100%

About Scroll of Strength III

One craft takes 2 Light Parchment and 1 Jadefire Ink.

Recipe category: Scrolls (Classic Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Classic Inscription skill): Orange below 175 · Yellow 175 to 179 · Green 180 to 184 · Grey 185 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Scroll of Strength III tooltip

Scroll of Strength III

Item Level 13

Consumable

Requires Level 13

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

Sell price: 1s 25c

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Scroll of Strength III: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 97% 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: 2 silver
30-day low: 1 silver Sep 14
30-day high: 45,098 gold Aug 25
30-day median: 60 silver
7-day median: 2 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.

Jadefire Ink. Made with Jadefire Ink (Inscription, Classic Inscription) from 2 Emerald Pigment. At lowest listed prices that makes one Jadefire Ink for 51 gold30 silver, against 48 gold2 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 11 other recipes (11 Inscription); the most per craft: Glyph of Crimson Banish (Inscription, 3 per craft), Glyph of Gushing Wound (Inscription, 3 per craft), Glyph of Hawk Feast (Inscription, 3 per craft), Glyph of Mighty Victory (Inscription, 3 per craft) and Glyph of Soulwell (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 Strength III cost 48 gold4 silver. Most of that is Jadefire Ink - 1 at 48 gold2 silver each, 48 gold2 silver, 100.0% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 50 gold56 silver per craft, 10 gold11 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 2 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −47 gold94 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 50 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 47 gold94 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -99.8% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 132 units across 9 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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