Introduction to Inscription

The Inscription profession is a new and unique profession to Warcraft. The main product of Inscription are Glyphs which enhance existing spells in the game similarly to how talents do, however you'll see below that Inscription provides a good deal more. This profession is best paired with Herbalism since almost all recipies will utilize herbs as reagents.

If you are already familiar with the Inscription profession and want to get straight to leveling it quickly, read our Inscription Leveling Guide

Products of Inscription

These Inscription creations are available exclusively to those with the Inscription profession:

Glyphs Explained

Every character (including those without Inscription), have a Glyph Spell Pane in their spellbook. Each character can have a maximum of 3 Major Glyphs and 3 Minor Glyphs. Major Glyphs give significant upgrades and are on par with good talents. Minor Glyphs can be cosmetic in nature or give increased duration or mana cost reduction to spell abilities. Additionally, you can only apply Glyphs at a Lexicon of Power which are found next to Inscription Trainers. Replacing existing Glyphs will destroy them, fortunately most Glyphs are inexpensive to create. The 6 Glyph slots are unlocked as you progress in level:

• Level 15 - 1 Major Glyph and 1 Minor Glyph unlocked
• Level 30 - 1 additional Major Glyph unlocked
• Level 50 - 1 additional Minor Glyph unlocked
• Level 70 - 1 additional Minor Glyph unlocked
• Level 80 - 1 additional Major Glyph unlocked

Inscription Basics

Major Glyphs are learned from trainers while Minor Glyphs are learned only by discovery. When you reach 75 skill, you can learn Minor Inscription Research which lets you discover random Minor Glyphs. For the WotLK expansion, at 385 skill you can learn Northrend Inscription Research that will allow you to discover new Major Glyphs. Both these discovery processes have a cooldown of 20 hours for discovering new Glyphs.

Glyphs are produced by first Milling herbs into Pigments. The Pigments are then used to create Inks. Finally using Inks and Parchments (purchasable by Inscription Suppliers) you create Glyphs. The Milling ability is learned automatically when you learn Inscription. This ability will never give a skillup and each herb requires different skill levels to mill. Milling will produce 2-4 pigments. Higher level herbs in the same group class will produce 2-4 pigments and lower level herbs will produce 2-3 pigments. There is also a 15-25% chance that you will produce an uncommon pigment in addition to the 2-4 regular pigments.

You will also need to purchase a [Virtuoso Inking Set] as well as the various Parchments from Inscription Suppliers. You will find a supplier next to every trainer.

Inscription Trainers Locations

1-300 Trainers
	Elise Brightletter	(60,44) - Ironforge		Jo'mah	(56,46) - Orgrimmar
	Catarina Stanford	(49,74) - Stormwind City		Margaux Parchley	(61,57) - Undercity
	Feyden Darkin	(58,15) - Darnassus		Poshken Hardbinder	(28,20) - Thunder Bluff
	Thoth	(39,38) - The Exodar		Zantasia	(28,20) - Silvermoon City
1-375 Trainers
	Michael Schwan	(53,65) - Honor Hold Hellfire Peninsula		Neferatti	(52,36) - Thrallmar Hellfire Penninsula
1-450 Trainers
	Tink Brightbolt	(57,71) - Valiance Keep Borean Tundra		Adelene Sunlance	(51,53) - Warsong Hold Borean Tundra
	Mindri Dinkles	(58,62) - Valgarde Howling Fjord		Booker Kells	(79,29) - Vengeance Landing Howling Fjord
Professor Pallin - (41,36) - Dalaran (neutral NPC)