Inscription Recipes - Cost to Craft & Profit

Inscription at current prices

Every figure is an estimate at current lowest listed prices: listings are asking prices, not sales. A craft is ranked here only when its finished item and every reagent have a current listing, the estimated profit survives Blizzard’s 5% Auction House cut, enough people are listing the finished item that its price is a market rather than one seller’s ask, and that lowest listing is within 3 times its own 30-day median.

57 of the 535 Inscription recipes clear that bar right now. Of the rest, 143 lose money at current prices, 15 show an estimated profit on a listing too thin or too far from its own 30-day median to rank and 320 have a reagent or an output with no current listing, so no estimate is claimed for them.

Ranked crafts

57of 535 recipes

Top estimated profit

911 gold69 silverone craft, after the cut

Typical ranked craft

42 gold38 silvermedian of the ranked list

No estimate

320a price is missing, so none is guessed

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 →

Where the money is

• Biggest estimated profitAlgari Missive of Deftness911 gold69 silver estimated, per craftmaterials 38 gold · keeps 91% of the listed value
• Keeps the most of its listed valueVantus Rune: Crucible of Storms246 gold23 silver estimated, per craftmaterials 10 gold · keeps 91% of the listed value
• Smallest material billUltramarine Ink20 silver55 copper estimated, per craftmaterials 7 silver · keeps 71% of the listed value

Best Inscription crafts right now

The 12 Inscription crafts with the highest estimated profit that clear the market bar, highest first. Listed value is the finished item’s lowest listed price times the items one craft makes; Break-even is the listed value that would cover the materials and the 5% cut; Keeps is the share of the listed value left after both. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Recipe	Crafts	Materials	Listed value	Break-even	Estimated profit	Keeps
Algari Missive of Deftness	Algari Missive of Deftness	38 gold88 silver	1,000 gold60 silver	40 gold92 silver	911 gold69 silver	91%
Draconic Missive of Multicraft	Draconic Missive of Multicraft	149 gold30 silver	850 gold23 silver	157 gold15 silver	658 gold41 silver	77%
Azurescale Sigil	Azurescale Sigil	303 gold98 silver	989 gold1 silver	319 gold97 silver	635 gold57 silver	64%
Cosmic Ink	Cosmic Ink	1,144 gold86 silver	1,800 gold (2 per craft)	1,205 gold11 silver	565 gold14 silver	31%
Contract: Valdrakken Accord	Contract: Valdrakken Accord	200 gold73 silver	738 gold79 silver	211 gold29 silver	501 gold12 silver	68%
Runed Writhebark	Runed Writhebark	370 gold25 silver	840 gold	389 gold73 silver	427 gold75 silver	51%
Algari Missive of Resourcefulness	Algari Missive of Resourcefulness	38 gold88 silver	480 gold54 silver	40 gold92 silver	417 gold63 silver	87%
Algari Missive of Finesse	Algari Missive of Finesse	38 gold88 silver	480 gold	40 gold92 silver	417 gold12 silver	87%
Draconic Missive of Finesse	Draconic Missive of Finesse	149 gold30 silver	555 gold	157 gold15 silver	377 gold95 silver	68%
Draconic Missive of Crafting Speed	Draconic Missive of Crafting Speed	149 gold30 silver	545 gold97 silver	157 gold15 silver	369 gold37 silver	68%
Contract: Unshackled	Contract: Unshackled	55 gold46 silver	350 gold	58 gold37 silver	277 gold4 silver	79%
Glyph of the Tides	Glyph of the Tides	150 gold71 silver	419 gold38 silver	158 gold64 silver	247 gold70 silver	59%