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InscriptionDragon Isles Inscription
Serene Ink
Reagent cost, the crafted item's lowest listed price and the estimated profit at that price, from current US Auction House listings - recalculated every snapshot.
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 gold27 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 25 gold8 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 9 gold90 silver
- Items per craft
- 2
- Listed value of one craft
- 19 gold80 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 99 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −6 gold27 silver (-25%)
- Evidence: 23 current listings holding 882 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.
- Quality: Serene Ink comes in 3 quality ranks. This is the base comparison, rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result; your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide the rank you actually get, which this estimate does not model. Each rank’s lowest listing is in the rank table below.
- Not included: the recipe also accepts 2 finishing reagent slots, which are not required and are left out of the cost.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Inscription
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Dragon Isles Inscription
- Item level
- 60
- Reagent slots
- 4
- Cast time
- 3.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
2Shimmering Pigment5 gold40 silver
1Serene Pigment5 gold22 silver
1Draconic Vial7 gold50 silver
1Iridescent Water1 gold56 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shimmering Pigment Inscription · 5,261 on the Auction House | 2 | 5 gold40 silver | 10 gold80 silver | 43% |
| Serene Pigment Inscription · 11,323 on the Auction House | 1 | 5 gold22 silver | 5 gold22 silver | 21% |
| Draconic Vial Other · 1,333 on the Auction House | 1 | 7 gold50 silver | 7 gold50 silver | 30% |
| Iridescent Water Inscription · 17,886 on the Auction House | 1 | 1 gold56 silver | 1 gold56 silver | 6% |
| Total per craft | 25 gold8 silver | 100% |
About Serene Ink
One craft takes 2 Shimmering Pigment, 1 Serene Pigment, 1 Draconic Vial and 1 Iridescent Water. It is taught by Technique: Serene Ink, which needs Dragon Isles Inscription 1. Serene Ink is itself a reagent in 24 other recipes (Inscription).
- Recipe category
- Inks (Dragon Isles Techniques)
- Skill-up colours (Dragon Isles Inscription skill)
- Orange below 10 · Yellow 10 to 14 · Green 15 to 19 · Grey 20 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
- How it is learned
- Automatically with Dragon Isles Inscription
Serene Ink tooltip
How to learn Serene Ink
Technique: Serene Ink- Teaches
- Teaches you how to craft Serene Ink.
- Requires
- Dragon Isles Inscription (1)
More Inks recipes (Dragon Isles Techniques)
Serene Ink is a reagent in
- Alchemist's Sturdy Mixing RodInscription
- Azurescale SigilInscription
- Burnished InkInscription
- Chilled RuneInscription
- Contract: Iskaara TuskarrInscription
- Cosmic InkInscription
- Crimson Combatant's MedallionInscription
- Draconic Combatant's MedallionInscription
- Draconic Missive of DeftnessInscription
- Draconic Missive of PerceptionInscription
- Draconic Missive of the AuroraInscription
- Draconic Missive of the HarmoniousInscription
and 12 more recipes.
Serene Ink quality ranks
Serene Ink comes in 3 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 80.
| Rank | Item | Lowest listed price | Listings (US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank 1 | Serene Ink | 9 gold90 silver | 23 listings, 882 units |
| Rank 2 | Serene Ink | 13 gold | 21 listings, 486 units |
| Rank 3 | Serene Ink | 6 gold90 silver | 14 listings, 2,327 units |
The crafting estimate above is the base comparison: rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result. Your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide which rank a craft actually makes, so a higher rank is never priced against rank 1 reagents here. Right now rank 1 lists above rank 3, so a craft that comes out at a higher rank is worth less at today’s listings, not more.
Serene Ink: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 44% 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
- 8 gold42 silver
- 30-day low
- 5 gold75 silver Sep 10
- 30-day high
- 197 gold Sep 12
- 30-day median
- 15 gold
- 7-day median
- 9 gold95 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 681
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Shimmering Pigment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 5 gold40 silver, rank 2 6 gold85 silver and rank 3 11 gold22 silver. Also a required reagent in 2 other recipes (2 Inscription); Blazing Ink takes the most, 2 per craft.
Serene Pigment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 5 gold22 silver, rank 2 3 gold3 silver and rank 3 9 gold.
Draconic Vial. Made with Draconic Vial (Jewelcrafting, Dragon Isles Jewelcrafting) from 1 
Silken Gemdust, 1 
Rousing Fire, 5 
Fractured Glass and 5 
Draconic Stopper, 5 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Draconic Vial for 11 gold43 silver, against 7 gold50 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 7 gold50 silver, rank 2 10 gold and rank 3 13 gold94 silver. Also a required reagent in 34 other recipes (31 Alchemy, 2 Inscription and 1 Engineering); the most per craft: Aerated Phial of Deftness (Alchemy, 10 per craft), Crystalline Phial of Perception (Alchemy, 10 per craft), Steaming Phial of Finesse (Alchemy, 10 per craft), Aerated Mana Potion (Alchemy, 5 per craft) and Bottled Putrescence (Alchemy, 5 per craft).
Iridescent Water. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 34 other recipes (33 Inscription and 1 Engineering); the most per craft: Titanic Tyrhold Fountain (Engineering, 20 per craft), Cliffside Wylderdrake: Conical Head (Inscription, 8 per craft), Cliffside Wylderdrake: Red Hair (Inscription, 8 per craft), Cliffside Wylderdrake: Triple Head Horns (Inscription, 8 per craft) and Grotto Netherwing Drake: Chin Tendrils (Inscription, 8 per craft).
More Dragon Isles Inscription recipes in the same skill range
- Alchemist's Brilliant Mixing RodProfession Equipment, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Alchemist's Sturdy Mixing RodProfession Equipment, learn at 1, grey at 45
- Arcane Dispelling RuneArtisan Curios, learn at 1, grey at 60
- Azurescale SigilRunes and Sigils, learn at 1, grey at 65
- Blazing FortuneMysteries, learn at 1, grey at 30
- Bronzescale SigilRunes and Sigils, learn at 1, grey at 65
- Bundle O' Cards: Dragon IslesMysteries, learn at 1, grey at 75
- Buzzing RuneRunes and Sigils, learn at 1, grey at 45
- Chef's Smooth Rolling PinProfession Equipment, learn at 1, grey at 45
- Chef's Splendid Rolling PinProfession Equipment, learn at 1, grey at 100
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 4 reagents for one craft of Serene Ink cost 25 gold8 silver. Most of that is Shimmering Pigment - 2 at 5 gold40 silver each, 10 gold80 silver, 43.1% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 26 gold40 silver per craft, 13 gold20 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 9 gold90 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −5 gold28 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 99 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 6 gold27 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -25.0% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 882 units across 23 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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