RecipeInscriptionClassic Inscription

Vanishing Powder

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 5 gold52 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 5 gold62 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 10 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 50 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price: −5 gold52 silver (-98%)

Evidence: 36 current listings holding 649 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 House1 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Inscription
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Classic Inscription
Item level: 7
Reagent slots: 1
Cast time: 1.5 sec

Crafts

Vanishing Powder10 silver

Reagents

1Midnight Ink5 gold62 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Midnight Ink Inscription · 3,975 on the Auction House · crafted by Midnight Ink (Inscription)	1	5 gold62 silver	5 gold62 silver	100%
Total per craft			5 gold62 silver	100%

About Vanishing Powder

One craft takes 1 Midnight Ink.

Recipe category: Clear Mind (Classic Inscription)
Skill-up colours (Classic Inscription skill): Orange below 90 · Yellow 90 to 99 · Green 100 to 109 · Grey 110 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Vanishing Powder tooltip

Vanishing Powder

Item Level 7

Miscellaneous

Use: Removes a glyph effect.

Sell price: 61c

Vanishing Powder: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 63% 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: 10 silver
30-day low: 1 silver Aug 30
30-day high: 46,000 gold1 silver Sep 5
30-day median: 27 silver
7-day median: 18 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

Midnight Ink. Made with Midnight Ink (Inscription, Classic Inscription) from 2 Dusky Pigment. At lowest listed prices that makes one Midnight Ink for 9 gold94 silver, against 5 gold62 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 9 other recipes (9 Inscription); Glyph of Lingering Ancestors takes the most, 3 per craft.

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Vanishing Powder cost 5 gold62 silver.

Break-even is 5 gold91 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 10 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −5 gold52 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 50 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 5 gold52 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -98.3% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 649 units across 36 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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