Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 12 gold77 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 59 gold22 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 48 gold89 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 2 gold44 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: −12 gold77 silver (-22%)

Evidence: 157 current listings holding 925 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 the Aurora 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: 72
Reagent slots: 4
Cast time: 3.5 sec

Crafts

Thalassian Missive of the Aurora48 gold

Reagents

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Munsell Ink Inscription · 5,815 on the Auction House	2	12 gold	24 gold	41%
Sienna Ink Inscription · 2,492 on the Auction House	2	17 gold	34 gold	57%
Lexicologist's Vellum Inscription · 59,706 on the Auction House	1	25 silver	25 silver	0%
Mote of Primal Energy Other · 162,260 on the Auction House	1	97 silver	97 silver	2%
Total per craft			59 gold22 silver	100%

About Thalassian Missive of the Aurora

One craft takes 2 Munsell Ink, 2 Sienna Ink, 1 Lexicologist's Vellum and 1 Mote of Primal Energy. Thalassian Missive of the Aurora is itself a reagent in 60 other recipes (Blacksmithing and Enchanting).

Recipe category: Combat Stats (Midnight Techniques)
Skill-up colours (Midnight Inscription skill): Orange below 35 · Yellow 35 to 39 · Green 40 to 44 · Grey 45 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Thalassian Missive of the Aurora tooltip

Thalassian Missive of the Aurora

Item Level 72

Trade Goods

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

Sell price: 20g 46s

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Thalassian Missive of the Aurora quality ranks

Thalassian Missive of the Aurora 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 the Aurora	48 gold89 silver	157 listings, 925 units
Rank 2	Thalassian Missive of the Aurora	187 gold53 silver	208 listings, 958 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 the Aurora: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 38% below its 30-day median.

Now: 48 gold89 silver
30-day low: 29 gold35 silver Sep 18
30-day high: 110 gold80 silver Sep 7
30-day median: 78 gold46 silver
7-day median: 60 gold
Hourly snapshots: 690

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 17 gold43 silver, against 12 gold listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 12 gold and rank 2 72 gold21 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 31 gold98 silver, against 17 gold listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 17 gold and rank 2 100 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 Primal Energy. Made with Transmute: Mote of Primal Energy (Alchemy, Midnight Alchemy) from 10 Mote of Pure Void and 2 Stabilized Derivate, 8 per craft. Also a required reagent in 77 other recipes (22 Enchanting, 12 Tailoring, 11 Alchemy and 9 Leatherworking); the most per craft: Rope Lynx Harness (Leatherworking, 40 per craft), Darkmoon Dominion: Rot (Inscription, 20 per craft), Enchant Helm - Empowered Blessing of Speed (Enchanting, 20 per craft), Enchant Shoulders - Amirdrassil's Grace (Enchanting, 20 per craft) and Enchant Tool - Haranir Finesse (Enchanting, 20 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 4 reagents for one craft of Thalassian Missive of the Aurora cost 59 gold22 silver. Most of that is Sienna Ink - 2 at 17 gold each, 34 gold, 57.4% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 62 gold33 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 48 gold89 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −10 gold33 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 2 gold44 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 12 gold77 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -21.6% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 925 units across 157 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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