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The How-To Guide for Powerleveling Inscription, Part 1

Aug. 6 1:40 PM by Mandifesto

The Wrath of the Lich King is introducing a boat load of new content to the World of Warcraft, and on that boat is a new profession: Inscription. We here at omgRPG have been spending our days putting this profession through its paces, all so we could bring you the skinny on what we've learned. First, there are currently 2 Inscription trainers, one at the Valliance Keep or Warsong Hold and one in Dalaran. Once you accept your Apprenticeship from the trainer, be sure to pick up a set of Scribe Tools. Next you'll want to pick up a truck load of Light Parchment, as this will serve as an equivalent to the Empty Vial you use to make low level potions with Alchemy.

Inscription is like Alchemy in another way: it requires herbs. In preparation for the beta I made sure to level up my herbalism to 375, and in doing so collected a supply of low level herbs. Most of your Inscription ingredients will come from Milling herbs, a process similar to Prospecting ore. This means you will need a crap ton of herbs in order to create the pomace you will use to make your inks. Milling does not currently increase your Inscription skill, but the skill level of the herb itself is tied to how high an Inscription skill is required to mill said plant. At the start of your Scribing you will begin by making scrolls, Stamina, Intellect, Spirit, etc. While not very useful if you're at level 70, these little scrolls may be good for low level characters, so I recommend passing them along to alts.

As with other professions, get what levels you can with the creation of ingredients before trying to make items as you will get better bang for your buck -- essentially double the points you can glean if you create ink until it's green or grey then use it to create items that are yellow or orange to you. Currently there are only a few items craftable with Inscription, and there is no way to progress beyond Expert. To find out the nitty gritty on the profession, we did our own research via beta testing, along with using El's Inscription to reference those things we hadn't already picked up on our own.

First before going into the specifics on what items to make to powerlevel the profession, lets give you a bit of a shopping list.

Supplies

• 1 x Scribe Tools purchased from Larana Drome in Dalaran. (5s)


• 100 x Light Parchment purchased from Larana Drome in Dalaran. (3c x 100 = 3s)

Herbs

• 100 x Peacebloom (5 stacks), harvested. (2s x 100 on AH = 2g)


• 400 x Earthroot (20 stacks), harvested. (15s x 400 on AH = 60g)

Leveling Inscription 1 to 125: Apprentice thru Expert

Once we're able to level past expert in Inscription, omgRPG will be sure to flush out the second part of this guide: getting from 125 to 450.

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