Inscription

Inscription

In addition to staffs and off-hand items, Scribes create glyphs, scrolls, cards, and other paper and book items with paper purchased from Trade vendors, and inks. Scribes automatically learn Milling, which turns herbs into pigments, and other Inscription abilities turn the pigments into ink. While Inscription creates many items, it’s best known for making Glyphs. Glyphs are class-specific recipes that enhance characters’ abilities. There are two types of glyphs: Minor and Major.

Inscription is an expensive Profession, unless you take Herbalism as well. Scribes need a Virtuoso Inking Set in their inventory to create many of their goods. The set isn’t expensive, and it never wears out. Keep one in your inventory and your character will be able to Inscribe anywhere in the world.

PRACTICING INSCRIPTION

Clicking the Inscription icon opens a menu of all the Inscription patterns you know. Milling turns five similar herbs into one of two types of pigments (most herbs have a common pigment result and an uncommon pigment result). You must have five of the same herb in order to Mill them for pigments. The herbs are used up, but you get the pigments necessary to create inks. Creating ink is a good way to skill up Inscription each time you learn a new type of ink.

MAKING MONEY AS A SCRIBE

The most common items a Scribe will sell are Glyphs. Although Warlords of Draenor automatically provides leveling players with a few basic Glyphs, there are many, many more that they can collect and learn. And although a Glyph is retained once it is learned, new players are leveling all the time, which means there’s usually a fairly steady demand for these items. In addition to Glyphs, Scribes can also craft Darkmoon Cards, which can be combined into Darkmoon Decks and turned in at the Darkmoon Faire for amazing trinkets. These Decks are usually in fairly high demand as well. And in Warlords of Draenor, Scribes will also be able to craft Cards of Omens. These Cards, when used, will be flipped over to reveal the fortune on the back, as well as a random amount that they will vendor for. Some Cards of Omens can vendor for up to 6,000 gold—but it’s a gamble to see which one you’ll get!

DRAENOR INSCRIPTION

Inscription on Draenor works in a slightly different way than on Azeroth. All herbs on Draenor mill into just one pigment: Cerulean Pigment. But your primary ingredients for creating glyphs and other items are War Paints. These items can be created through a daily cooldown, but they can also be created via Work Orders processed at the Scribe’s Quarters. Thus, if you have both the Scribe’s Quarters in your Garrison, and Inscription trained as a Profession, you’ll be able to craft glyphs, cards, and other items much more quickly.

Recipes learned in Draenor can be learned and created at skill level 1. However, there are also other methods of leveling Inscription quickly while you’re on Draenor. As you quest and complete content, you may find tattered bits of paper, paintings, scrolls, and cards that can be combined with Draenor hides or herbs and turned in to your Garrison, in exchange for Garrison Resources. There are also Uncommon and Rare versions of these items that don’t need repair; you can just take them to your Garrison to turn them in. When you do so, these items will also grant you skill points.

Glyph recipes can be learned by using the spell Research: Warbinder’s Ink. This spell uses two War Paints and some parchment, and will discover a glyph recipe that uses Warbinder’s Ink. The glyph recipes are randomly learned, but once you have learned every Draenor glyph recipe, the spell will then teach you a glyph that uses any lesser ink. This means you don’t need to farm for rare glyph recipes—you’ll learn them all eventually, with enough research!

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