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WoW Inscription - What's Inscription anyway?

Inscription is a new profession in Wrath of the Lich King. Inscribers create Glyphs which are enhancements to an individual's spells or abilities, Inscribes will also be able to make Vellum for enchanters to put their enchants on, this will enable enchanting scrolls to be traded, and sold on the AH. They can also make Scrolls and off-hands.

Inscription use herbs as main materials. When you learn Inscription, you will get a skill called Milling, which you can use to produce pigments from herbs similar like prospecting for Jewelcrafters. You will need Pigments to make Inks, Inks are needed to create Glyphs.

Every inscription recipe needs some kind of Ink, so if you want to level your Inscription, it's the best combined with Herbalism. Take a look at my Herbalism leveling guide if you want to level Herbalism.


Glyphs have three type:

Prime

  • These glyphs are designed to directly enhance core abilities you will use for your chosen specialization and are almost always percentage increases to damage or healing. However, they're sometimes more creative, such as Glyph of Hemorrhage.

Major

  • These glyphs usually enhance your abilities in other ways beyond simply increasing the damage. These enhancements are things like increased range, larger radius for AoEs, longer duration emergency buffs, increased threat generation, reduced resource costs of core abilities, etc.

Minor

  • These glyphs are typically fluff enhancements, commonly referred to as "quality of life" enhancements by the designers. They will do things like remove reagent costs, reduce resource costs of buffs, increase buff durations, etc.


Unlocking Glyph Slots

The levels in which you unlock glyph slots:

  • Level 25 - 1 Prime, 1 Major, 1 Minor
  • Level 50 - 1 Prime, 1 Major, 1 Minor
  • Level 75 - 1 Prime, 1 Major, 1 Minor.


Removing Glyphs

Players will need a special reagent to remove a glyph from their active set. Players below level 81 will be able to use Vanishing Powder, while players 81 and above will have to use Dust of Disappearance.

As the tooltip states, the powers to remove glyphs can also be made by scribes. Their recipes are:

Vanishing Powder - Midnight Ink x1
Dust of Disappearance - Blackfallow Ink x2

I tried to make this simple, so you can have a basic knowledge about Inscription. My Inscription leveling guide is finished now, all I can say it's the easiest profession to level so far.