WOW: Inscription Guide

Inscription??
Added with patch 3.02, “Echoes of Doom,” the Inscription profession allows its practitioners, called "scribes," to improve the spells and abilities of players’ characters, such as ornamental a rogue's Backstab capacity to deal more damage to stunned targets, or allowing a priest’s Circle of Healing to heal one more target.

Scribes can also aid enchanters by permitting them to sell their enchantments directly on the Auction House, or help other characters by creating enhancing scrolls like Scroll of Strength.

All in all, inscription is a very useful profession for the benefits a scribe brings to his friends and himself. This profession can be chosen by any character of any race or class

Getting Started As A Scribe
In order to get started as a scribe, you must first learn the profession from one of the many Inscription trainers scattered across the worlds. In Azeroth, Horde and Alliance scribes can stop in at any of their faction's capital cities and ask a guard for guidelines to the nearest Inscription trainer. In Outland, aspiring and practicing scribes for the Horde should visit Neferatti in Thrallmar to difference of opinion up on their skills. Scribes among the Alliance should speak with Michael Schwan in Honor Hold in order to proceed in the art.

Scribes should visit their trainer often as they progress in the art of Inscription. Once he has surpassed his current trainer's skill, the trainer will tell him where to go for further study. Lastly, when getting ongoing as a scribe, a character should not neglect to procure a Virtuoso Inking Set from an Inscription Goods vendor. Without this item in his account, a scribe will be unable to progress in his craft!

The Lexicon of Power

You will find this mysterious floating book next to the inscription trainers. You can also ask the guards in any major city where to find the nearest Lexicon of Power. Whenever a character wants to inscribe a glyph onto his glyph sheet, whether it is one he bought from a scribe or made himself, he will need to be next to the Lexicon of Power in order to inscribe the glyph onto the glyph sheet of his spellbook. Inscribing the glyph works in much the same manner as adding a weapon coating, weightstone, or sharpening stone to a weapon in the character menu. But let’s learn a little more about glyphs.

Lastly, just as for enchanting or for gems, once a glyph is inscribe to the glyph sheet, it cannot be removed. However it can be overwritten with another glyph should the character wish to change his glyphs at a later date.

Glyphs: Major And Minor

Once a scribe has gathered his pigments, created his inks, and purchased his parchments, he can begin practicing his skill in scribing scrolls and glyphs. However, before a scribe can place a glyph on his spellbook or that of one of his friends, he should learn a little about the glyphs and the levels required to unlock them.

At level 15, a character's first Major and Minor glyphs are unlocked, allowing him to be enhanced by one Major Glyph and one Minor Glyph. At level 30, the character unlocks a second Major Glyph. Levels 50 and 70 bring him the last two Minor Glyphs and, at level 80*, he will unlock the final Major Glyph in his glyphs sheet.

*Level 80 will be attainable only after the release of Wrath of the Lich King.

Major Glyphs

Major Glyphs are glyphs which modify the mana cost, the cooldown, the duration of effect, or add an effect to a spell or ability. These glyphs, depending on the level, can require rare inks or expensive parchments, in addition to a higher level of Inscription.

If you want to see a complete list of the available glyphs, you can check them all in the Armory or go directly to this link.

Minor Glyphs

Inscription trainers will teach a promising scribe the skill "Minor Inscription Research." This skill can be used once per day to discover a Minor Glyph. Much as alchemists create potions, elixirs, or perform transmutes in order to discover new aspects of their profession, scribes will discover Minor Glyphs using this Research skill. Minor Glyphs can be used to enhance or modify a spell's effect or cost, but at a much lower degree than Major Glyphs. For example, one Minor Glyph for mages, Glyph of the Penguin, changes the effect of their Polymorph: Sheep spell to turn the target into a penguin.

As for Major Glyphs you can browse all available glyphs in the Armory.

Use of the Minor Inscription Research skill is currently the only method by which scribes can learn Minor Glyphs

Cards, Vellums, and Objects

While creating Major and Minor Glyphs is, perhaps, the most well-known ability a scribe possesses, scribes can also create Vellums which enchanters can use to cast their Armor or Weapon enchants upon, allowing them to sell enchants on the Auction House just as the other production professions can sell the results of their skills and labor. No longer will adventurers search in vain for the rare enchanter who, having overcome Morose and his friends, has mastered the Mongoose enchantment! And no longer will enchanters be condemned only to sell their skill when they can be physically present. With a Vellum, everyone benefits!

A scribe can also create small Darkmoon Faire decks from which they, or others, can get rewards. For more information about the Darkmoon Faire decks that scribes can create, check out our Darkmoon Faire rewards page.

Additional Information For Scribes

Gaining Levels In Inscription
Inscription up to the Artisan level (maximum skill 300) can be learned from:

* Feyden Darkin in Darnassus
* Jo'mah in Orgrimmar
* Elise Brightletter in Ironforge
* Poshken Hardbinder in Thunder Bluff
* Catarina Stanford in Stormwind
* Margaux Parchley in Undercity
* Thoth in The Exodar
* Zantasia in Silvermoon City

To learn Master Inscription (maximum skill 375), scribes must visit the following Outland trainers:

* Horde players should seek out Neferatti (Thrallmar, Hellfire Peninsula)
* Alliance players need to find Michael Schawn (Honor Hold, Hellfire Peninsula)

Inscribing For Fun And Profit
Beyond just scribing the Major Glyphs for characters, scribes can use their profession to earn gold. Here are some tips for how to maximize the profit from Inscription!

* Pick up herbalism: this will allow the scribe to gather his own herbs and create his own pigments. Also, scribes can sell pigments on the Auction House to those who did not pick up herbalism.
* Create Vellums: Enchanters will want vellums. These items will allow them to sell their enchants on the Auction House.
* Combo with Enchanting: if a scribe already has high level Enchanting, he can team up with an herbalist and sell his own enchants on the Auction House.
* Scrolls, scrolls, scrolls! Many high-end profession recipes require the use of level V scrolls to create items. As scribes can create scrolls whenever they like, this can supply a steady stream of income for them.
* Minor Inscription Research: Use this skill whenever it is available. Some of the Minor Glyphs are very highly sought-after!

WOW Wrath of Lich King

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Once More Unto The Breach
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Barbershop
Get a stylish new haircut for your trip to Northrend, or grow a beard to help keep your face warm in the cold climate. You can now modify select facial features in the recently opened barbershops around Azeroth and Outland.

New Profession: Inscription
You’ve had a few weeks to check out inscription in the Echoes of Doom patch, but there are still many glyphs and ingredients left to discover in Wrath of the Lich King. If you’d like to learn all there is to know about the new profession, head over to our new inscription page.

New Achievement
In addition to delving into the new quests, zones, and dungeons in Northrend, players will also be able to earn hundreds of new achievements in Wrath of the Lich King, along with new titles and other in-game rewards. Learn more on our achievements page.

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