Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 1 gold3 silver. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 52 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price (each): 82 silver
Items per craft: 2
Listed value of one craft: 1 gold64 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 8 silver20 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price: 1 gold3 silver (+200%)

Evidence: 13 current listings holding 137 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 Strength V82 silver

Reagents

2Light Parchment1 silver
1Shimmering Ink50 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Light Parchment Other · 662,373 on the Auction House	2	1 silver	2 silver	4%
Shimmering Ink Inscription · 2,597 on the Auction House · crafted by Shimmering Ink (Inscription)	1	50 silver	50 silver	96%
Total per craft			52 silver	100%

About Scroll of Strength V

One craft takes 2 Light Parchment and 1 Shimmering Ink. Scroll of Strength V is itself a reagent in 1 other recipe (Blacksmithing).

Recipe category: Scrolls (Classic Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Classic Inscription skill): Orange below 270 · Yellow 270 to 274 · Green 275 to 279 · Grey 280 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Scroll of Strength V tooltip

Scroll of Strength V

Item Level 21

Consumable

Requires Level 21

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

Sell price: 1s 25c

Also a quest reward: Unfinished Business (Zangarmarsh).

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Scroll of Strength V is a reagent in

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Scroll of Strength V: 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: 82 silver
30-day low: 4 silver Sep 3
30-day high: 2 gold Sep 3
30-day median: 1 gold
7-day median: 1 gold
Hourly snapshots: 687

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 14 gold2 silver, against 50 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 Strength V cost 52 silver. Most of that is Shimmering Ink - 1 at 50 silver each, 50 silver, 96.2% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 54 silver74 copper per craft, 27 silver37 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 82 silver, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 1 gold12 silver; the Auction House would keep 8 silver20 copper of a sale, leaving 1 gold3 silver. That is an estimated 199.6% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 7.3% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 137 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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