Inscription Guide 1-450

Welcome to Warcraft Tavern’s Inscription guide! In this guide, we’ll provide everything you need to max out your Inscription skill, from the materials required to the best recipes to follow.

Inscription is the newest profession in Classic, and was added to the game as part of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion. While this profession may not be the most competitive choice for PvP and PvE, it offers a lot of in-demand utility items that should sell consistently at the Auction House. With Inscription comes the addition of Glyphs into the game, these items modify your spells to improve damage, healing, or quality of life. Scribes can also produce Armor Vellum and Weapon Vellum — Enchanting uses these scrolls to store their enchants so that they can be sold in the Auction House.

Virtually all characters will want to max out their Sons of Hodir reputation to gain access to their powerful shoulder enchants — scribes can opt-out of this month-long grind, as the shoulder enchants they eventually craft are superior to the comparable Sons enchant. Finally, scribes are able to produce cards for the Darkmoon Decks, which can be turned in at the Darkmoon Faire for incredible trinkets. Most classes use these trinkets into Ulduar and therefore they can fetch thousands of gold in the early phases.

Inscription relies on pigments from Milling Herbs. Because of this, Herbalism is the go-to choice for a paired gathering profession. Scribes won’t have to worry about other materials, as everything else they need for their crafting can be purchased from vendors.

Required Materials

Below you can find the materials you’ll need to level from 1-450, as well as a few tips and things to keep in mind.

• Sometimes we will have to craft yellow recipes that don’t guarantee a level up on every craft, therefore the materials required are estimates, rather than exact figures.
• Specific recipes will require items you have previously crafted, so check the lists before getting rid of crafts!
• Some recipes aren’t taught by trainers, but instead are acquired from drops or vendors.

All of these things are accounted for in the materials listed below. Listed separately from the material list are those recipes not acquired from a trainer, but rather from a vendor or world drop.

Inscription Trainers

You can click on a Trainer’s name from the lists below to see its exact location. If you use TomTom, you can copy-paste the location and coordinates provided (after the name) to track down the trainer you need more easily. For example:

/way Orgrimmar 75.8 24.6

Milling

Milling your own pigment is an option when gathering the materials you need to train Inscription. In the table below, we’ve laid out all the herbs you need and the quantities required to get enough of the pigments we’ll use later. The value in the left column represents the total number of herbs required from this tier, so you can mix and match any of the herbs in the middle column to reach that total.

Training Route

Certain crafts need to be used later to further level up the profession. Other times, the materials can be bought from a vendor instead of the Auction House, or the crafting recipe is not acquired from a trainer. Some recipes turn yellow and as such do not have a 100% chance to level up your profession with every craft; this means some randomness enters the equation when it comes to materials. We indicate all of these situations with the following icons:

	Keep crafted items for later crafts.
	Buy material from the vendor.
	Bought Recipe.
	Craft amount depends on variance.

• Classic (1-290)
• Master (290-350)
• Grand Master (350-450)

Apprentice (1-75)

Materials

• 47 Alabaster Pigment
• 37 Light Parchment

Crafting

Level	Amount	Materials
1 – 18	17 Ivory Ink	17 Alabaster Pigment
18 – 35	17 Scroll of Stamina	17 Ivory Ink 17 Light Parchment
35 – 55	20 Moonglow Ink	40 Alabaster Pigment
55 – 75	20 Armor Vellum	20 Moonglow Ink 20 Light Parchment

Journeyman (75-150)

Materials

• 40 Dusky Pigment
• 25 Light Parchment
• 80 Golden Pigment
• 35 Common Parchment

Crafting

• For [Glyph of…] make any of the available orange glyphs for your corresponding skill level.

75-80	20 Midnight Ink	40 Dusky Pigment
80-90	10 [Glyph of…] Train 5 points and switch to an orange glyph.	10 Midnight Ink 10 Light Parchment
90-100	10 [Glyph of…] Train 5 points and switch to an orange glyph.	10 Midnight Ink 10 Light Parchment
100-105	40 Lion’s Ink	80 Golden Pigment
105-125	20 [Glyph of…] Train 5 points and switch to an orange glyph.	20 Lion’s Ink 15 Common Parchment
125-130	10 Dawnstar Ink	10 Burnt Pigment
130-145	15 [Glyph of…] Train 5 points and switch to an orange glyph.	15 Lion’s Ink 15 Common Parchment
145-150	5 Strange Tarot	5 Lion’s Ink 10 Dawnstar Ink 5 Common Parchment

Expert (150-225)

Materials

• 80 Emerald Pigment
• 40 Common Parchment
• 100 Violet Pigment
• 10 Heavy Parchment

Crafting

• For [Glyph of…] make any of the available orange glyphs for your corresponding skill level.

Level	Amount	Materials
150-155	40 Jadefire Ink	80 Emerald Pigment
155-175	20 [Glyph of…] Train 5 points and switch to an orange glyph.	20 Jadefire Ink 20 Common Parchment
175-180	20 Royal Ink	20 Indigo Pigment
180-195	15 [Glyph of…] Train 5 points and switch to an orange glyph.	15 Jadefire Ink 15 Common Parchment
195-200	5 Arcane Tarot	10 Royal Ink 5 Jadefire Ink 5 Common Parchment
200-205	50 Celestial Ink	100 Violet Pigment
205-225	20 [Glyph of…] Train 5 points and switch to an orange glyph.	20 Celestial Ink 10 Heavy Parchment

Artisan (225-290)

Materials

• 20 Ruby Pigment
• 45Heavy Parchment
• 40 Silvery Pigment
• 15 Sapphire Pigment

Crafting

• For [Glyph of…] make any of the available orange glyphs for your corresponding skill level.
• After 290, use up any additional Sapphire Pigment by making Ink of the Sky.

Level	Amount	Materials
225-230	20 Fiery Ink	20 Ruby Pigment
235-245	10 [Glyph of…] Train 5 points and switch to an orange glyph.	10 Celestial Ink 10 Heavy Parchment
245-250	5 Weapon Vellum II	5 Fiery Ink 5 Celestial Ink 10 Heavy Parchment
250-255	20 Shimmering Ink	40 Silvery Pigment
255-260	5 Scroll of Spirit V	5 Shimmering Ink 10 Heavy Parchment
260-275	15 [Glyph of…] Train 5 points and switch to an orange glyph.	15 Shimmering Ink 15 Heavy Parchment
275-290	15 Ink of the Sky	15 Sapphire Pigment

Materials

• 90 Nether Pigment
• 45 Resilient Parchment

Crafting

• For [Glyph of…] make any of the available orange glyphs for your corresponding skill level.

Level	Amount	Materials
290-305	45 Ethereal Ink	90 Nether Pigment
305-350	45 [Glyph of…] Train 5 points and switch to an orange glyph.	45 Ethereal Ink 45 Resilient Parchment

Materials

• 200 Azure Pigment
• 98 Resilient Parchment
• 20 Icy Pigment

Crafting

Level	Amount	Materials
350-355	100 Ink of the Sea	200 Azure Pigment
355-360	5 Scroll of Spirit VII	5 Ink of the Sea 5 Resilient Parchment
360-365	5 Scroll of Intellect VII	5 Ink of the Sea 5 Resilient Parchment
365-370	5 Scroll of Strength VII	5 Ink of the Sea 5 Resilient Parchment
370-375	5 Scroll of Agility VII	5 Ink of the Sea 10 Resilient Parchment
375-380	20 Snowfall Ink– Make all you can here.	20 Icy Pigment
380-385	10 Glyph of Focus	5 Ink of the Sea 5 Resilient Parchment
385-386	1 Northrend Inscription Research	3 Ink of the Sea 1 Snowfall Ink 5 Resilient Parchment
386-400	30 Any Discovered Glyph	30 Ink of the Sea 30 Resilient Parchment
400-405	5 Scroll of Stamina VIII	5 Ink of the Sea 5 Resilient Parchment
405-410	5 Scroll of Spirit VIII	5 Ink of the Sea 5 Resilient Parchment
410-415	5 Scroll of Intellect VIII	5 Ink of the Sea 5 Resilient Parchment
415-420	5 Scroll of Strength VIII	5 Ink of the Sea 5 Resilient Parchment
420-430	5 Scroll of Agility VIII	13 Ink of the Sea 13 Resilient Parchment
430-450	The best strategy for the final points is to do Northrend Inscription Research on cooldown.

Congrats on reaching 450 Inscription! We hope you enjoyed our guide, please leave any feedback in the comments section below!