RecipeInscriptionClassic Inscription

Shimmering 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 85 silver80 copper per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 1 gold96 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 1 gold16 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 5 silver80 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price: −85 silver80 copper (-44%)

Evidence: 47 current listings holding 15,405 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.

Verified priceAuction House17 min agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Inscription
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Classic Inscription
Item level: 10
Reagent slots: 1
Cast time: 1.5 sec

Crafts

Shimmering Ink1 gold

Reagents

2Silvery Pigment98 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Silvery Pigment Inscription · 77,694 on the Auction House	2	98 silver	1 gold96 silver	100%
Total per craft			1 gold96 silver	100%

About Shimmering Ink

One craft takes 2 Silvery Pigment. Shimmering Ink is itself a reagent in 11 other recipes (Inscription).

Recipe category: Ink (Classic Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Classic Inscription skill): Orange below 245 · Yellow 245 to 249 · Green 250 to 254 · Grey 255 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Shimmering Ink tooltip

Shimmering Ink

Item Level 10

Trade Goods

Sell price: 5s

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Shimmering Ink: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 38% 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: 1 gold16 silver
30-day low: 46 silver Aug 28
30-day high: 197 gold Aug 29
30-day median: 1 gold87 silver
7-day median: 1 gold23 silver
Hourly snapshots: 677

US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.

Where the reagents come from

Silvery Pigment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it.

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Shimmering Ink cost 1 gold96 silver.

Break-even is 2 gold6 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 1 gold16 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −80 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 5 silver80 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 85 silver80 copper at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -43.8% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 15,405 units across 47 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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