WotLK Classic Inscription Guide

The Inscription profession in Wrath of the Lich King Classic is brand new to the whole game, so there’s a lot of information to cover. Our WotLK Inscription guide will help you learn about how to get started in Inscription including best-paired professions, finding profession trainers, ways to make early gold, and the basics of crafting items in Inscription from 1 to 450.

Inscription Profession Overview

So, let’s start from the basics. By Milling gathered Herbs into various pigments, converting those pigments to inks, and combining them with vendor-purchased Parchments, Wrath Classic scribes can create Glyphs, as well as shoulder enchants, offhand items, Darkmoon Cards, Enchanting Vellums, and other useful items.

Glyphs become available to players starting at level 15, and in WoTLK Classic they are divided into two types: Major Glyphs and Minor Glyphs.

• Major Glyphs introduce more substantial improvements to specific spells or abilities, such as Glyph of Judgement, which increases the Judgement damage by 10%;
• Minor Glyphs also modify spells, but the results may be purely cosmetic or may only introduce a small improvement. An example of a Minor Glyph that has some small utility is Glyph of Mend Pet which increases your pet’s happiness slightly by using Mind Pet spell; a cosmetic Minor Glyph is something like Glyph of the Penguin, which changes the Mage’s Polymorph form from a sheep to a penguin.

Every character has a Glyphs tab with their Talents, with six spaces for Glyphs – up to 3 Minor and 3 Major. These become available as you advance in levels, starting at Level 15:

• Level 15: 1 Major and 1 Minor Glyph
• Level 20: Add 2nd Major Glyph
• Level 50: Add 2nd Minor Glyph
• Level 70: Add 3rd Minor Glyph
• Level 80: Add 3rd Major Glyph

WotLK Inscription Bonuses and Benefits

Scribes can craft shoulder enchants for their own use:

Master’s Inscription of the Axe (+120 Attack Power and 15 critical strike rating)
Master’s Inscription of the Crag (+70 Spell Power and 15 critical strike rating)
Master’s Inscription of the Pinnacle (+60 Dodge Rating and 15 defense rating)
Master’s Inscription of the Storm (+70 Spell Power and 8 mana every 5 sec)

Everyone will need Glyphs in Lich King Classic, and Enchanters will want Armor Vellum and Weapon Vellum of various levels for the ability to sell their items.

And don’t forget about the Darkmoon trinkets:

• Darkmoon Card: Greatness
• Darkmoon Card: Illusion
• Darkmoon Card: Death
• Darkmoon Card: Berserker!

All these items are especially good for range/melee DPS classes. In all, the first Scribes with access to the highest-demand Glyphs through discovery will have an early gold-making lead on their competition.

This profession will not give you such a tangible increase in efficiency in raids or Arena compared to Engineering. So Inscription cannot be considered to be a BiS choice for any class. But it is still a good choice for fresh servers, a new expansion, and your alts, allowing you to get a sufficient amount of early gold.

Inscription as a way to gold making

During the pre-patch, you will be able to do Minor Inscription Research at 75 profession skill, it has a cooldown of 20 hours. Start researching, crafting, and auctioning them all the way to the start of the WotLK expansion.

• For 1x Minor Inscription Research you will need 1x Moonglow Ink and 2x Light Parchment.

Huge tip: you can research the Glyph only if you have the appropriate Inscription level. For example, if your Inscription is at level 125, you can use Minor Inscription Research and get a chance to research Minor Glyph (Inscription below 125), but not Glyph (Inscription around 150).

Together with the release of WotLK, more opportunities for earning early gold will be available to you, such as:

• Northrend Inscription Research – needs 385 skill and requires 3x Ink of the Sea, 1x Snowfall Ink, 5x Resilient Parchment;
• Darkmoon Card of the North – needs 400 skill and requires 6x Snowfall Ink, 3x Eternal Life, 3x Ink of the Sea, 1x Resilient Parchment.

Once these skills are achieved, start creating Glyphs and Darkmoon cards, the amount of your potential gold making will depend on your luck.

More profit will be given by an already assembled deck of cards and less profit will be given by selling individual cards for Darkmoon decks on auction.

WotLK Classic Inscription Leveling!

Get 450 level in a few days!

WotLK Inscription Trainers

Despite the fact that Inscription is a brand-new profession you can learn it even in WoW Classic Old World. So it won’t be a problem to find trainers in faction capitals, Outland starting zones, and sanctuaries.

Alliance Inscription Trainers:

• Apprentice-Artisan: Feyden Darkin, Darnassus, Craftsman’s Terrace
• Apprentice-Artisan: Thoth, Exodar, Crystal Hall
• Apprentice-Artisan: Elise Brightletter, Ironforge, Tinker Town
• Apprentice-Artisan: Catarina Stanford, Stormwind, The Mage Quarter
• Master: Michael Schwan, Hellfire Peninsula, Honor Hold
• Grand Master: Tink Brightbolt, Borean Tundra, Valiance Keep
• Grand Master: Mindri Dinkles, Howling Fjord, Valgarde

Horde Inscription Trainers:

• Apprentice-Artisan: Jo’mah, Orgrimmar, The Drag
• Apprentice-Artisan: Zantasia, Silvermoon City, Court of the Sun
• Apprentice-Artisan: Poshken Hardbinder, Thunder Bluff, Spirit Rise Pool of Vision
• Apprentice-Artisan: Margaux Parchley, Undercity, Apothecarium
• Master: Neferatti, Hellfire Peninsula, Thrallmar tower
• Grand Master: Adelene Sunlance, Borean Tundra, Warsong Hold
• Grand Master: Booker Kells, Howling Fjord, Vengeance Landing

Neutral Inscription Trainers:

• Grand Master: Tink Brightbolt, Dalaran, Scribe Sacellum

Inscription Approximate materials required

The following shopping list is for the minimum number of ingredients you will need to complete this leveling path. As you get into yellow difficulty levels (or worse, green), you may have more than one combine per skill level.

First of all, you will need some purchased items. You may need slightly more or slightly less of each item depending on your luck:

• 1x Virtuoso Inking Set
• 60x Light Parchment
• 85x Common Parchment
• 75x Heavy Parchment
• 175x Resilient Parchment

Also, you will need the minimum following herbs. You can use any combination of these herbs, as long as they are in multiples of 5 for Milling. Each five herbs can give you 2-4 pigments. The herbs called (Uncommon) will give you the best chance of getting the uncommon pigment in addition to the (Common) pigment:

Mill all of these herbs to create the necessary Pigments.

WotLK Inscription Leveling

Apprentice Inscription (1-75)

Journeyman Inscription (75-125)

Expert Inscription (150-225)

Artisan Inscription (225-300)

Master Inscription (290-350)

Grand Master Inscription (350-450)

That was everything you need to know about this brand-new profession and how to level Inscription in WotLK Classic. If this guide was useful to you, please let us know with feedback and good luck in your adventures!