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InscriptionDraenor Inscription
Volatile Crystal
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 11 gold70 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 16 gold68 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 5 gold24 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 26 silver20 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −11 gold70 silver (-70%)
- Evidence: 19 current listings holding 530 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Inscription
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Draenor Inscription
- Item level
- 44
- Reagent slots
- 1
- Cast time
- 3.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
12Cerulean Pigment1 gold39 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cerulean Pigment Inscription · 15,921 on the Auction House | 12 | 1 gold39 silver | 16 gold68 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 16 gold68 silver | 100% |
About Volatile Crystal
One craft takes 12 Cerulean Pigment. It is taught by Technique: Volatile Crystal, which needs Draenor Inscription 1.
- Recipe category
- Item Enhancers (Draenor Inscription)
- Skill-up colours (Draenor Inscription skill)
- Orange below 100 · Grey 100 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Volatile Crystal tooltip
How to learn Volatile Crystal
Technique: Volatile Crystal- Teaches
- Teaches you how to inscribe a Volatile Crystal.
- Requires
- Draenor Inscription (1)
- Binding
- Binds when picked up
Volatile Crystal: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 23% 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
- 5 gold24 silver
- 30-day low
- 1 gold15 silver Aug 24
- 30-day high
- 16 gold90 silver Sep 3
- 30-day median
- 6 gold77 silver
- 7-day median
- 6 gold
- Hourly snapshots
- 685
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Cerulean Pigment. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 16 other recipes (12 Inscription, 3 Tailoring and 1 Engineering); Laughing Tarot takes the most, 20 per craft.
More Draenor Inscription recipes in the same skill range
- Card of OmensCard, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Codex of the Clear MindTools, learn at 1, grey at 70
- Crystalfire SpellstaffStaves & Wands, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Etched-Blade WarstaffStaves & Wands, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Frostwall Elevated BrazierHouse Decor, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Impressive Weapon CrystalOptional Reagents, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Laughing TarotCard, learn at 1, grey at 5
- Ocean TarotCard, learn at 1, grey at 5
- Orcish Banded BarrelHouse Decor, learn at 1, grey at 100
- Orcish FenceHouse Decor, learn at 1, grey at 100
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Volatile Crystal cost 16 gold68 silver.
Break-even is 17 gold55 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 5 gold24 silver, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −11 gold44 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 26 silver20 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 11 gold70 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -70.2% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 530 units across 19 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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