Inscription FAQ Guide

If you’ve been keeping up with all the recent news regarding new professions and inscription then you may have seen some of these days, if not let’s review really quick. Here’s a quick FAQ on inscription so you can get caught up on all the recent news.

• Inscription 101 Information, inscriber’s create glyphs that they can sell to other players. These players put these glyphs into 1 of their 6 glyph sockets. These will augment various skills, abilities, spells, etc. for the playing, making them more powerful.
• Your 6 glyph sockets (which appear in a new spell book page) are split into 2 categories, 3 major and 3 minor glyphs.
• Check this page for a full compiled listing of all known glyphs, WotLK inscription glyphs
• Inscriber’s gather materials for the profession via “milling”. You mill a group of 5 herbs to extra inscription materials, just like jewelcrafters prospect ore.
• Here’s a break down of the level ranges for milling of herbs:
• Inscription 1: Bloodthistle, Earthroot, Mageroyal, Peacebloom, Silverleaf
• Inscription 25: Briarthorn, Bruiseweed, Strangelkelp, Swiftthistle
• Inscription 75: Grave Moss, Kingsblood, Liferoot, Wild Steelbloom
• Inscription 125: Fadeleaf, Goldthorn, Khadgar’s Whisker, Wintersbite
• Inscription 175: Arthas’ Tears, Blindweed, Firebloom, Ghost Mushroom, Gromsblood, Purple Lotus, Sungrass
• Inscription 225: Dreamfoil, Golden Sansam, Icecap, Mountain Silversage, Plaguebloom.
• Inscription 275: All Outland herbs
• Inscription 325: All Northrend Herbs
• Each of the above brackets creates the same inscription materials. For example, briarthorn and swiftthistle will breakdown into the same material since they are both within the level 25 bracket.
• Major glyphs augment combat skills
• Minor glyphs augment non-combat skills (IE, things that will not typically change the outcome of a fight)

If you are even remotely considering going inscription in the expansion now would be an ideal time to purchase your herbs. Currently most of the 1-275 herbs are going to be extremely cheap, so you can pick up everything you’ll need materials wise to easily level your inscription up to 375. If you wait till expansion comes out you might be paying a lot more.

Inscription 101 Guide

Inscription is the the new profession for World of Warcraft slated to be introduced when Wrath of the Lich King is released later this year. The profession will allow you to essentially enchant your skills, talents and abilities to further improve the potency of their effect. (ex. reduce cool down on AR, etc).

Using inscription is very simple. The inscriber will simply imbue a particular scroll with the various glyphs. These scrolls can then be sold and used by any one (note: enchanting works a similar way in the expansion). Now that we have these glyphs explained we need to go over how they can be used by players.

Every player, regardless of whether they have inscription or not, will have a new spell book page for these glyphs. You’ll be able to add and remove up to 6 glyphs to this page. These will be your 6 augmented spells / abilities that your inscription glyphs will give you an extra benefit. These 6 are split into 2 categories.

1. Three Lesser
2. Three Major

What defines each category is currently unknown, but I would imagine the level / effect associated with the glyph will have a large impact on it’s categorization. In order to get materials for these glyphs an inscriber must mill items from herbs, similar to the way jewelcrafters get materials via mining materials.

A few of these glyphs are already known, as they’ve appeared on the beta test server. Make sure to check those out here, inscription glyphs.