Inscription Leveling Guide

This Inscription Leveling Guide will show you the quickest and easiest way to begin leveling the Inscription profession in World of Warcraft.

Inscription was added to World of Warcraft in the 3.0 patch in 2008.  With Inscription you can make glyphs which yourself and other players can add to improve their  character with better efficiency, damage and many other things.  Inscriptionists can also make cards for decks such as the Demons Deck.  A really great added benefit of Inscription is that you can make Shoulder Enchants.

The best profession to combine with Inscription is Herbalism.  You will be needing a lot of herbs while leveling... and a stack of herbs can be VERY EXPENSIVE on the Auction House. So, if you want to save some gold while leveling your Inscription, pick up Herbalism.  You can find our World of Warcraft Herbalism Guide Here.

The first thing you'll need to do in our Inscription Leveling Guide is get training. Go to an Inscription Trainer in any of the major cities and learn Apprentice Inscription.  If you're not sure where the trainer is, just ask a guard and they'll point you in the right direction.

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You will be using [Milling] to mill 5 herbs for anywhere from 2 - 4 pigments.  Here's a list of what you can expect to get by Milling various herbs:

[Alabaster Pigment] - Bloodthistle, Peacebloom, Silverleaf, Earthroot
[Dusky Pigment] / [Verdant Pigment] - Mageroyal, Briarthorn, Swiftthistle, Bruiseweed, Stranglekelp
[Golden Pigment] / [Burnt Pigment] - Wild Steelbloom, Grave Moss, Kingsblood, Liferoot
[Emerald Pigment] / [Indigo Pigment] - Fadeleaf, Goldthorn, Khadgar's Whiskers, Wintersbite
[Violet Pigment] / [Ruby Pigment] - Firebloom, Purple Lotus, Arthas'Tears, Sungrass, Blindweed, Ghost Mushroom, Gromsblood
[Silvery Pigment] / [Sapphire Pigment]- Golden Sansam, Dreamfoil, Mountain Silversage, Plaguebloom, Icecap
[Nether Pigment] / [Ebon Pigment] - All Outland herbs.
[Azure Pigment] / [Icy Pigment] - All Northrend Herbs.

Just to note, there are a lot of other Glyphs and Scrolls available at different skill ranges with the same amount of materials needed. So where you see [Glyph of ...] for example, you can choose between more recipes that are orange to you and require the same amount of materials (maybe a scroll or inscription that would be beneficial to YOU :o)

1-75

 75 - 125

Learn Journeyman Inscription from your trainer.

  • 75 - 80 - 20 x [Midnight Ink] - 40 Dusky Pigment
  • 80 - 100 - Make any Glyph that is orange to you and requires 1 Midnight Ink. Glyphs turn yellow after 10 points here. When the recipe goes yellow, learn new recipes and choose another Glyph.

20 x [Glyph of....] - 20 Midnight Ink, 20 Light Parchment

  • 100 - 105 - 60 x [Lion's Ink] - 120 Golden Pigment
  • 105 - 120 - Make any Glyph that is orange to you and requires 1 Lion's Ink. Glyphs turns yellow after 5 points, then learn new recipes and choose another Glyph.

20 x [Glyph of ...] - 20 Lion's Ink, 20 Common Parchment

  • 120 - 125 - Make any Glyph that is YELLOW to you.  Yes, you read it right: YELLOW. Orange recipes require 2 Inks instead of one, so at this point it's better to make yellow recipes.

    7 x [Glyph of ...] - 7 Lion's Ink, 7 Common Parchment

125 - 200

Learn Expert Inscription from your trainer.

  • 125-133 - Turn all your [Burnt Pigment] into [Dawnstar Ink].  If you don't mill your own herbs and you don't have Burnt Pigment, you can just make any Glyph between 125-140 that is orange to you.
  • 133 - 141 - 8 x [Strange Tarot] - 8 Lion's Ink, 8 Dawnstar Ink, 8 Common Parchment
  • 141 - 150 - 13 x [Glyph of Lighting Bolt] - 26 Lion's Ink, 26 Common Parchment
  • 150 - 155 - 60 x [Jadefire Ink] - 120 Emerald Pigment
  • 155 - 175 - Orange Glyphs and Scrolls which requires 1 Jadefire Ink each.

20 x [Glyph of ...] - 20 Jadefire Ink, 20 Common Parchment

That concludes my Inscription Leveling Guide.  If you followed it, you should now be at 200.  You'll want to continue leveling up to 450. 

 
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