Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 13 gold40 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 34 gold97 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 22 gold70 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 1 gold13 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: −13 gold40 silver (-38%)

Evidence: 72 current listings holding 7,218 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 gives a number that varies from craft to craft, so the estimate counts one item.
Quality: Soul Cipher comes in 2 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 1 finishing reagent slot, which are not required and are left out of the cost.

Verified priceAuction House1 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Inscription
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Midnight Inscription
Item level: 70
Reagent slots: 5
Cast time: 3.5 sec

Crafts

Soul Cipher22 gold

Reagents

1Dusk-Shrouded Stone2 gold11 silver
1Munsell Ink12 gold90 silver
1Sienna Ink18 gold77 silver
1Mote of Pure Void22 silver
1Mote of Light97 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Dusk-Shrouded Stone Jewelcrafting · 5,883 on the Auction House	1	2 gold11 silver	2 gold11 silver	6%
Munsell Ink Inscription · 6,668 on the Auction House	1	12 gold90 silver	12 gold90 silver	37%
Sienna Ink Inscription · 4,855 on the Auction House	1	18 gold77 silver	18 gold77 silver	54%
Mote of Pure Void Other · 131,947 on the Auction House	1	22 silver	22 silver	1%
Mote of Light Other · 175,484 on the Auction House	1	97 silver	97 silver	3%
Total per craft			34 gold97 silver	100%

About Soul Cipher

One craft takes 1 Dusk-Shrouded Stone, 1 Munsell Ink, 1 Sienna Ink, 1 Mote of Pure Void and 1 Mote of Light. Soul Cipher is itself a reagent in 35 other recipes (Inscription).

Recipe category: Reagents (Midnight Techniques)
Skill-up colours (Midnight Inscription skill): Orange below 30 · Yellow 30 to 34 · Green 35 to 39 · Grey 40 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Soul Cipher tooltip

Soul Cipher

Item Level 70

Trade Goods

“A boundless rune crafted by players with the Inscription skill. Can be bought and sold on the Auction House.”

Sell price: 8g 28s

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Soul Cipher quality ranks

Soul Cipher comes in 2 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 725.

Rank	Item	Lowest listed price	Listings (US)
Rank 1	Soul Cipher	22 gold70 silver	72 listings, 7,218 units
Rank 2	Soul Cipher	68 gold10 silver	75 listings, 4,617 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.

Soul Cipher: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 16% below its 30-day median.

Now: 22 gold70 silver
30-day low: 19 gold Sep 11
30-day high: 50 gold67 silver Aug 22
30-day median: 26 gold95 silver
7-day median: 24 gold40 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

Dusk-Shrouded Stone. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 2 gold11 silver and rank 2 3 gold. Also a required reagent in 42 other recipes (34 Jewelcrafting, 4 Blacksmithing, 2 Enchanting and 2 Leatherworking); Replica Haranir Mural takes the most, 25 per craft.

Munsell Ink. Made with Munsell Ink (Inscription, Midnight Inscription) from 20 Powder Pigment, 10 Sanguithorn Pigment, 5 Mana Lily Pigment and 3 Thalassian Songwater, 2 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Munsell Ink for 20 gold33 silver, against 12 gold90 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 12 gold90 silver and rank 2 73 gold47 silver. Also a required reagent in 35 other recipes (34 Inscription and 1 Enchanting); the most per craft: Gilded Sin'dorei Quill (Inscription, 8 per craft), Sin'dorei Quill (Inscription, 5 per craft), Endless Codex of the Voidtouched (Enchanting, 2 per craft), Thalassian Competitor's Emblem (Inscription, 2 per craft) and Thalassian Competitor's Insignia of Alacrity (Inscription, 2 per craft).

Sienna Ink. Made with Sienna Ink (Inscription, Midnight Inscription) from 20 Powder Pigment, 10 Argentleaf Pigment, 5 Mana Lily Pigment and 3 Thalassian Songwater, 2 per craft. At lowest listed prices that makes one Sienna Ink for 35 gold33 silver, against 18 gold77 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 18 gold77 silver and rank 2 116 gold70 silver. Also a required reagent in 37 other recipes (35 Inscription and 2 Enchanting); the most per craft: Gilded Sin'dorei Quill (Inscription, 8 per craft), Sin'dorei Quill (Inscription, 5 per craft), Endless Codex of Blooming Light (Enchanting, 2 per craft), Endless Codex of Nature's Grace (Enchanting, 2 per craft) and Thalassian Competitor's Medallion (Inscription, 2 per craft).

Mote of Pure Void. Made with Transmute: Mote of Pure Void (Alchemy, Midnight Alchemy) from 10 Mote of Wild Magic and 2 Stabilized Derivate, 8 per craft. Also a required reagent in 45 other recipes (12 Tailoring, 8 Inscription, 7 Enchanting and 6 Alchemy); the most per craft: Darkmoon Dominion: Void (Inscription, 20 per craft), Enchant Tool - Ren'dorei Ingenuity (Enchanting, 20 per craft), Endless Codex of the Voidtouched (Enchanting, 20 per craft), Voidstone Shielding Array (Jewelcrafting, 20 per craft) and Arcanoweave Cloak (Tailoring, 12 per craft).

Mote of Light. Made with Transmute: Mote of Light (Alchemy, Midnight Alchemy) from 10 Mote of Primal Energy and 2 Stabilized Derivate, 8 per craft. Also a required reagent in 69 other recipes (19 Enchanting, 13 Leatherworking, 12 Tailoring and 10 Inscription); the most per craft: Darkmoon Dominion: Blood (Inscription, 20 per craft), Enchant Helm - Empowered Rune of Avoidance (Enchanting, 20 per craft), Enchant Shoulders - Silvermoon's Mending (Enchanting, 20 per craft), Enchant Tool - Sin'dorei Deftness (Enchanting, 20 per craft) and Endless Codex of Blooming Light (Enchanting, 20 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 5 reagents for one craft of Soul Cipher cost 34 gold97 silver. Most of that is Sienna Ink - 1 at 18 gold77 silver each, 18 gold77 silver, 53.7% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 36 gold81 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 22 gold70 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −12 gold27 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 1 gold13 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 13 gold40 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -38.3% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 7,218 units across 72 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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