Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 35 gold89 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 72 gold94 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 39 gold
Auction House cut (5%): 1 gold95 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: −35 gold89 silver (-49%)

Evidence: 88 current listings holding 750 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 Fireflash 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 the Fireflash39 gold

Reagents

2Munsell Ink17 gold99 silver
2Sienna Ink17 gold87 silver
1Lexicologist's Vellum25 silver
1Mote of Primal Energy97 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Munsell Ink Inscription · 15,914 on the Auction House	2	17 gold99 silver	35 gold98 silver	49%
Sienna Ink Inscription · 14,726 on the Auction House	2	17 gold87 silver	35 gold74 silver	49%
Lexicologist's Vellum Inscription · 19,842 on the Auction House	1	25 silver	25 silver	0%
Mote of Primal Energy Other · 290,544 on the Auction House	1	97 silver	97 silver	1%
Total per craft			72 gold94 silver	100%

About Thalassian Missive of the Fireflash

One craft takes 2 Munsell Ink, 2 Sienna Ink, 1 Lexicologist's Vellum and 1 Mote of Primal Energy. Thalassian Missive of the Fireflash 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 45 · Yellow 45 to 49 · Green 50 to 54 · Grey 55 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Thalassian Missive of the Fireflash tooltip

Thalassian Missive of the Fireflash

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 Fireflash quality ranks

Thalassian Missive of the Fireflash 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 Fireflash	39 gold	88 listings, 750 units
Rank 2	Thalassian Missive of the Fireflash	195 gold	108 listings, 1,015 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 Fireflash: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 2% below its 30-day median.

Now: 39 gold
30-day low: 15 gold42 silver Sep 18
30-day high: 114 gold68 silver Aug 27
30-day median: 39 gold93 silver
7-day median: 28 gold35 silver
Hourly snapshots: 691

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 68 gold43 silver, against 17 gold99 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 17 gold99 silver and rank 2 71 gold90 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 30 gold28 silver, against 17 gold87 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 17 gold87 silver and rank 2 96 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 Fireflash cost 72 gold94 silver. Most of that is Munsell Ink - 2 at 17 gold99 silver each, 35 gold98 silver, 49.3% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 76 gold77 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 39 gold, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −33 gold94 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 1 gold95 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 35 gold89 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -49.2% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 750 units across 88 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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