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 gold86 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 63 gold86 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 60 gold
Auction House cut (5%): 3 gold
Estimated profit at that listed price: −6 gold86 silver (-11%)

Evidence: 67 current listings holding 435 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Quality: Thalassian Missive of Deftness 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 House2 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Inscription
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Midnight Inscription
Item level: 72
Reagent slots: 4
Cast time: 3.5 sec

Crafts

Thalassian Missive of Deftness60 gold

Reagents

2Munsell Ink12 gold98 silver
2Sienna Ink18 gold28 silver
1Lexicologist's Vellum25 silver
1Mote of Wild Magic1 gold9 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Munsell Ink Inscription · 8,028 on the Auction House	2	12 gold98 silver	25 gold96 silver	41%
Sienna Ink Inscription · 10,702 on the Auction House	2	18 gold28 silver	36 gold56 silver	57%
Lexicologist's Vellum Inscription · 16,293 on the Auction House	1	25 silver	25 silver	0%
Mote of Wild Magic Other · 421,608 on the Auction House	1	1 gold9 silver	1 gold9 silver	2%
Total per craft			63 gold86 silver	100%

About Thalassian Missive of Deftness

One craft takes 2 Munsell Ink, 2 Sienna Ink, 1 Lexicologist's Vellum and 1 Mote of Wild Magic. It is taught by Technique: Thalassian Missive of Deftness, which needs Midnight Inscription 50. Thalassian Missive of Deftness is itself a reagent in 9 other recipes (Blacksmithing).

Recipe category: Profession Stats (Midnight Techniques)
Skill-up colours (Midnight Inscription skill): Orange below 40 · Yellow 40 to 46 · Green 47 to 54 · Grey 55 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Thalassian Missive of Deftness tooltip

Thalassian Missive of Deftness

Item Level 72

Trade Goods

“Can be bought and sold on the Auction House.”

Sell price: 20g 46s

How to learn Thalassian Missive of Deftness

Technique: Thalassian Missive of Deftness

Teaches: Teaches you how to craft Thalassian Missive of Deftness.
Requires: Midnight Inscription (50)
Binding: Binds when picked up

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Thalassian Missive of Deftness quality ranks

Thalassian Missive of Deftness 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	Thalassian Missive of Deftness	60 gold	67 listings, 435 units
Rank 2	Thalassian Missive of Deftness	199 gold98 silver	52 listings, 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.

Thalassian Missive of Deftness: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 19% above 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: 60 gold
30-day low: 20 gold Sep 1
30-day high: 409 gold35 silver Sep 4
30-day median: 50 gold38 silver
7-day median: 42 gold54 silver
Hourly snapshots: 689

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

Where the reagents come from

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 18 gold38 silver, against 12 gold98 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 12 gold98 silver and rank 2 73 gold25 silver. Also a required reagent in 35 other recipes (34 Inscription and 1 Enchanting); Gilded Sin'dorei Quill takes the most, 8 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 33 gold18 silver, against 18 gold28 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 18 gold28 silver and rank 2 109 gold. 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).

Lexicologist's Vellum. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 35 other recipes (30 Inscription and 5 Enchanting); the most per craft: Endless Codex of Blooming Light (Enchanting, 50 per craft), Endless Codex of Nature's Grace (Enchanting, 50 per craft), Endless Codex of the Voidtouched (Enchanting, 50 per craft), Ren'dorei Postal Repository (Enchanting, 20 per craft) and Spellbound Tome of Thalassian Magics (Enchanting, 20 per craft).

Mote of Wild Magic. Made with Transmute: Mote of Wild Magic (Alchemy, Midnight Alchemy) from 10 Mote of Light and 2 Stabilized Derivate, 8 per craft. Also a required reagent in 88 other recipes (24 Enchanting, 16 Engineering, 13 Leatherworking and 12 Tailoring); the most per craft: Thalassian Alchemist's Mixcap (Leatherworking, 40 per craft), Thalassian Gemshaper's Grand Cover (Leatherworking, 40 per craft), Thalassian Herbtender's Cradle (Leatherworking, 40 per craft), Thalassian Hideshaper's Regalia (Leatherworking, 40 per craft) and Thalassian Ironbender's Regalia (Leatherworking, 40 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 4 reagents for one craft of Thalassian Missive of Deftness cost 63 gold86 silver. Most of that is Sienna Ink - 2 at 18 gold28 silver each, 36 gold56 silver, 57.3% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 67 gold22 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 60 gold, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −3 gold86 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 3 gold of a sale, so a craft loses 6 gold86 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -10.7% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 435 units across 67 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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