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.

32 of the 535 Inscription recipes clear that bar right now. Of the rest, 158 lose money at current prices, 25 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

32of 535 recipes

Top estimated profit

1,972 gold7 silverone craft, after the cut

Typical ranked craft

52 gold26 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 Crafting Speed1,972 gold7 silver estimated, per craftmaterials 111 gold · keeps 90% of the listed value
• Smallest material billUltramarine Ink28 silver estimated, per craftmaterials 29 silver · keeps 47% 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 Crafting Speed	Algari Missive of Crafting Speed	111 gold6 silver	2,192 gold77 silver	116 gold90 silver	1,972 gold7 silver	90%
Algari Missive of Perception	Algari Missive of Perception	111 gold6 silver	799 gold99 silver	116 gold90 silver	648 gold93 silver	81%
Glyph of the Spectral Lupine	Glyph of the Spectral Lupine	397 gold24 silver	973 gold99 silver	418 gold14 silver	528 gold5 silver	54%
Algari Missive of Resourcefulness	Algari Missive of Resourcefulness	111 gold6 silver	600 gold	116 gold90 silver	458 gold94 silver	76%
Glyph of the Tides	Glyph of the Tides	158 gold1 silver	474 gold53 silver	166 gold32 silver	292 gold79 silver	62%
Glyph of the Spectral Vulpine	Glyph of the Spectral Vulpine	397 gold24 silver	696 gold	418 gold14 silver	263 gold96 silver	38%
Chilled Rune	Chilled Rune	21 gold	266 gold61 silver	22 gold10 silver	232 gold27 silver	87%
Draconic Missive of Perception	Draconic Missive of Perception	281 gold21 silver	500 gold	296 gold1 silver	193 gold79 silver	39%
Algari Missive of Finesse	Algari Missive of Finesse	111 gold6 silver	299 gold61 silver	116 gold90 silver	173 gold56 silver	58%
Grimoire of the Abyssal	Grimoire of the Abyssal	318 gold1 silver	500 gold	334 gold74 silver	156 gold99 silver	31%
Glyph of Steaming Fury	Glyph of Steaming Fury	158 gold1 silver	268 gold95 silver	166 gold32 silver	97 gold49 silver	36%
Thalassian Missive of Perception	Thalassian Missive of Perception	61 gold28 silver	149 gold24 silver	64 gold50 silver	80 gold49 silver	54%