Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 6 gold21 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 6 gold27 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: −6 gold21 silver (-99%)

Evidence: 77 current listings holding 122 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 House2 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Inscription
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Outland Inscription
Item level: 25
Reagent slots: 2
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Scroll of Strength VI3 silver

Reagents

2Light Parchment1 silver
1Ethereal Ink6 gold25 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Light Parchment Other · 662,373 on the Auction House	2	1 silver	2 silver	0%
Ethereal Ink Inscription · 1,184 on the Auction House · crafted by Ethereal Ink (Inscription)	1	6 gold25 silver	6 gold25 silver	100%
Total per craft			6 gold27 silver	100%

About Scroll of Strength VI

One craft takes 2 Light Parchment and 1 Ethereal Ink.

Recipe category: Scrolls & Research (Outland Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Outland Inscription skill): Orange below 15 · Yellow 15 to 19 · Green 20 to 24 · Grey 25 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Scroll of Strength VI tooltip

Scroll of Strength VI

Item Level 25

Consumable

Requires Level 25

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

Sell price: 2s 25c

Also a quest reward: A Job Undone (Zangarmarsh).

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Scroll of Strength VI: 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: 1 silver Sep 3
30-day high: 2 gold Sep 3
30-day median: 3 silver
7-day median: 3 silver
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.

Ethereal Ink. Made with Ethereal Ink (Inscription, Outland Inscription) from 2 Nether Pigment. At lowest listed prices that makes one Ethereal Ink for 13 gold88 silver, against 6 gold25 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 7 other recipes (7 Inscription); the most per craft: Aldor Bookcase (Inscription, 10 per craft), Glyph of Felguard (Inscription, 3 per craft), Glyph of the Sha (Inscription, 3 per craft), Research: Ethereal Ink (Inscription, 3 per craft) and Talon King's Totem (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 VI cost 6 gold27 silver. Most of that is Ethereal Ink - 1 at 6 gold25 silver each, 6 gold25 silver, 99.7% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 6 gold60 silver per craft, 3 gold30 silver 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: −6 gold21 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 30 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 6 gold21 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -99.1% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 122 units across 77 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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