Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 69 gold5 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 164 gold5 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 99 gold99 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 4 gold99 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: −69 gold5 silver (-42%)

Evidence: 6 current listings holding 16 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: Vantus Rune: Liberation of Undermine comes in 3 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 2 finishing reagent slots, 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: Khaz Algar Inscription
Item level: 80
Reagent slots: 3
Cast time: 3.5 sec

Crafts

Vantus Rune: Liberation of Undermine99 gold

Reagents

5Shadow Ink4 gold90 silver
5Apricate Ink25 gold3 silver
2Viridescent Spores7 gold20 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Shadow Ink Inscription · 491 on the Auction House	5	4 gold90 silver	24 gold50 silver	15%
Apricate Ink Inscription · 91 on the Auction House	5	25 gold3 silver	125 gold15 silver	76%
Viridescent Spores Other · 8,067 on the Auction House	2	7 gold20 silver	14 gold40 silver	9%
Total per craft			164 gold5 silver	100%

About Vantus Rune: Liberation of Undermine

One craft takes 5 Shadow Ink, 5 Apricate Ink and 2 Viridescent Spores. It is taught by Technique: Vantus Rune: Liberation of Undermine, which needs Khaz Algar Inscription 35.

Recipe category: Runes (Khaz Algar Techniques)
Skill-up colours (Khaz Algar Inscription skill): Orange below 80 · Yellow 80 to 89 · Green 90 to 99 · Grey 100 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Vantus Rune: Liberation of Undermine tooltip

Vantus Rune: Liberation of Undermine

Item Level 80

Consumable

Requires Level 70

Use: Vantus Rune: Undermine

Sell price: 10g 60s

How to learn Vantus Rune: Liberation of Undermine

Technique: Vantus Rune: Liberation of Undermine

Teaches: Teaches you how to craft Vantus Rune: Liberation of Undermine.
Requires: Khaz Algar Inscription (35)
Binding: Binds when picked up

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Vantus Rune: Liberation of Undermine quality ranks

Vantus Rune: Liberation of Undermine comes in 3 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 565.

Rank	Item	Lowest listed price	Listings (US)
Rank 1	Vantus Rune: Liberation of Undermine	99 gold99 silver	6 listings, 16 units
Rank 2	Vantus Rune: Liberation of Undermine	11 gold71 silver	10 listings, 40 units
Rank 3	Vantus Rune: Liberation of Undermine	10 gold90 silver	11 listings, 130 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. Right now rank 1 lists above rank 2 and rank 3, so a craft that comes out at a higher rank is worth less at today’s listings, not more.

Vantus Rune: Liberation of Undermine: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 50% 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: 99 gold99 silver
30-day low: 99 gold99 silver Sep 19
30-day high: 2,846 gold97 silver Aug 23
30-day median: 200 gold
7-day median: 100 gold
Hourly snapshots: 692

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

Where the reagents come from

Shadow Ink. Made with Shadow Ink (Inscription, Khaz Algar Inscription) from 5 Orbinid Pigment, 5 Blossom Pigment and 20 Distilled Algari Freshwater. At lowest listed prices that makes one Shadow Ink for 17 gold95 silver, against 4 gold90 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 4 gold90 silver, rank 2 7 gold and rank 3 16 gold41 silver. Also a required reagent in 36 other recipes (35 Inscription and 1 Tailoring); Contract: Assembly of the Deeps takes the most, 25 per craft.

Apricate Ink. Made with Apricate Ink (Inscription, Khaz Algar Inscription) from 5 Luredrop Pigment, 10 Nacreous Pigment and 20 Distilled Algari Freshwater. At lowest listed prices that makes one Apricate Ink for 28 gold, against 25 gold3 silver listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 25 gold3 silver, rank 2 21 gold22 silver and rank 3 52 gold50 silver. Also a required reagent in 36 other recipes (34 Inscription and 2 Tailoring); the most per craft: Contract: Council of Dornogal (Inscription, 25 per craft), Contract: Hallowfall Arathi (Inscription, 25 per craft), Contract: The K'aresh Trust (Inscription, 25 per craft), Deal: Cartel Ba (Inscription, 25 per craft) and Deal: Cartel Om (Inscription, 25 per craft).

Viridescent Spores. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 46 other recipes (25 Enchanting, 13 Inscription, 4 Alchemy and 2 Leatherworking); the most per craft: Silver Tongue's Quill (Inscription, 20 per craft), Algari Missive of the Aurora (Inscription, 5 per craft), Algari Missive of the Feverflare (Inscription, 5 per craft), Algari Missive of the Fireflash (Inscription, 5 per craft) and Algari Missive of the Harmonious (Inscription, 5 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 3 reagents for one craft of Vantus Rune: Liberation of Undermine cost 164 gold5 silver. Most of that is Apricate Ink - 5 at 25 gold3 silver each, 125 gold15 silver, 76.3% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 172 gold68 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 99 gold99 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −64 gold6 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 4 gold99 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 69 gold5 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -42.1% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 16 units across 6 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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