El's Inscription - World of Warcraft Inscription Guide // Training // Leveling 350-425

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  This page describes how to level your Inscription skill from 350 to 425. On this page:

  • Materials 350-425
  • Leveling 350-425
  • Trained Inscriptions 350-425
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Materials 350-425

To reach skill 425, you should mill 460 herbs (92 millings) that produce Azure Pigment/Icy Pigment. Any Northrend herb from: Adder's Tongue, Deadnettle, Fire Leaf, Goldclover, Icethorn, Lichbloom, Talandra's Rose, or Tiger Lily. You should gain at least 246 Azure Pigment and some Icy Pigment (the precise number of Icy Pigment is not important). As descibed below, the amount of herbs can be reduced (by about 40) if you spend a few weeks leveling up to skill 400 - by conducting regular Northrend Inscription Research, instead of making glyphs.

Recipes in this skill block use Resilient Parchment. You will need about 120 Resilient Parchment to reach skill 425.

The cost of vendor materials and trained recipes are quite high: The Resilient Parchment costs 50s each. Each trained recipe costs at least 5 gold. And Grand Master rank itself costs 35 gold.

Leveling 350-425

Leveling starts as normal, by making inks. Only Northrend materials are used in this section of the guide. If Outland herbs are plentiful (or much cheaper than Northrend herbs), make Ethereal Ink and produce glyphs between skill 355 and 360 (see Leveling 290-350).

At skill 385 you will learn Northrend Inscription Research. Like other Research, this has a cooldown. You must discover one major glyph at skill 385, which you will then use to level to 400. If you do not make a discovery, you must wait and try again: There is no other known way to reach skill 400!

You can reduce the amount of materials required by slowly leveling up to 400 by conducting Northrend Inscription Research, and not making any glyphs between skill 386 and 400. This requires 12 fewer Ink of the Sea, but costs 14 more Snowfall Ink, and takes 2 weeks!

Scribes without Cataclysm can raise their Inscription skill to 450, but a large amount of materials will be required:

• Between skill 425 and 440, there are no good leveling options:
  • Scroll of Agility VIII will increasingly rarely give skill-ups until it "goes grey" at 435.
  • Northrend Inscription Research goes green at 437 and grey at 450, but can only be used once every 20 hours.
  • The 2 off-hands, Faces of Doom and Iron-bound Tome also go green at 437 and grey at 450, so can be used to skill-up.
  • Darkmoon Card of the North is the only known recipe that remains yellow until 450, and so gives a reasonable chance of a skill-up. The reagents required are "farmable", but will still require a lot of effort.
  • Conduct Book of Glyph Mastery research. Glyphs discovered from Book of Glyph Mastery are yellow at 430, green at 435, and grey at 440. They use relatively small amounts of materials.
• Between skill 440 and 450, make Runescroll of Fortitude. This recipe is trained by Inscription trainers. It is yellow at skill 440, but remains green from 442 to 450. Each set of scrolls only requires 1 Snowfall Ink (and 5 Resilient Parchments).

Trained Inscriptions 350-425

Learn More

• Abilities and Master Inscriptions - Scribe abilities, and Master Inscriptions produced by Inscribers.
• Research - Introduces different types of Inscription research.
• Also in Training: Ranks, Raising Skill, Power-Leveling, Leveling 1-75, Leveling 75-100, Leveling 100-150, Leveling 150-200, Leveling 200-250, Leveling 250-290, Leveling 290-350, and Leveling 425-525.