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 gold77 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 16 gold27 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price (each): 2 gold
Items per craft: 5
Listed value of one craft: 10 gold
Auction House cut (5%): 50 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: −6 gold77 silver (-42%)

Evidence: 5 current listings holding 53 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 Versatility IX2 gold

Reagents

2Light Parchment1 silver
1Blackfallow Ink16 gold25 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Light Parchment Other · 662,041 on the Auction House	2	1 silver	2 silver	0%
Blackfallow Ink Inscription · 10,800 on the Auction House · crafted by Blackfallow Ink (Inscription)	1	16 gold25 silver	16 gold25 silver	100%
Total per craft			16 gold27 silver	100%

About Scroll of Versatility IX

One craft takes 2 Light Parchment and 1 Blackfallow Ink.

Recipe category: Scrolls & Research (Cataclysm Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Cataclysm Inscription skill): Orange below 10 · Yellow 10 to 14 · Green 15 to 19 · Grey 20 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Scroll of Versatility IX tooltip

Scroll of Versatility IX

Item Level 32

Consumable

Requires Level 30

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

Sell price: 3s

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

The current lowest listing is 50% below its 30-day median.

Now: 2 gold
30-day low: 2 gold Sep 19
30-day high: 15 gold61 silver Aug 22
30-day median: 3 gold98 silver
7-day median: 2 gold74 silver
Hourly snapshots: 686

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 14 gold, against 16 gold25 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 Versatility IX cost 16 gold27 silver. Most of that is Blackfallow Ink - 1 at 16 gold25 silver each, 16 gold25 silver, 99.9% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 17 gold12 silver per craft, 3 gold42 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 gold, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −6 gold27 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 50 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 6 gold77 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -41.6% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 53 units across 5 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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