Shadowlands Inscription Leveling Guide 1 - 100

This Shadowlands Inscription leveling guide will help you to level your profession from 1 to 100. The guide's primary focus is to show you how to level this profession, so if you are looking for more detailed information about Shadowlands Inscription, check out my Shadowlands Inscription guide.

Inscription is the best combined with Herbalism because you can save a lot of gold by farming the needed herbs, so check out my Herbalism leveling guide if you want to level Herbalism.

Shadowlands Inscription Trainer Location

You can learn Shadowlands Inscription from Scribe Au'tehshi in Oribos in the Hall of Shapes. (Coordinates: 38.1, 44.7)

Oribos is the new Shadowlands city hub for both factions. You will arrive there after you finish the Shadowlands intro quests, so you can learn the new profession recipes before you head out questing.

Scribe Au'tehshi

Milling and Pigments

Luminous Pigment, Umbral Pigment, and Tranquil Pigment come from milling any herb from Shadowlands.

Shadowlands Herbs:

Check out my farming guides if you want to farm any of these herbs:

Pigment rarity:

Leveling Shadowlands Inscription

Nightborne characters have +15 Inscription skill because of their passive Ancient History, and Kul Tiran characters have +5 from the trait Jack of All Trades. Any extra Inscription skill means recipes stay orange for more points. You can save a lot of gold by doing lower level recipes for more points.

You can buy Virtuoso Inking Set, Aerated Water, Dark Parchment, and Rune Etched Vial from Distributor Au'sha the Inscription supply vendor near your trainer.

1 - 25

Mill around 200 from any Shadowlands herb then turn all your pigments into Luminous Ink and Umbral Ink inks until you reach 25.

Milling won't give you skill points, you will only get skill points for making the inks.

Don't mill more herbs yet because you will unlock Mass Mill at 30 which will actually give skill points up to 65, unlike normal milling. Only mill just enough herbs so you can make Inks until you reach 25.

25 - 30

10 x Writ of Grave Robbing - 10 Luminous Ink, 10 Umbral Ink

You can also make 5 Tome of the Still Mind. It costs 3 times as much, but it's much more useful.

30 - 60

Use the Mass Mill spell in your spellbook and mill around 700 from any of these herbs:

60 - 75

Check how many Tranquil Pigment you got from milling, and mill more Nightshade until you have around 25 Tranquil Pigment

Turn all your Tranquil Pigment into Tranquil Ink.

75 - 86

Make Missives until you reach 86. They all require different amounts of Luminous Ink and Umbral Ink, so make sure you are not making all from one kind.

86 - 100

Darkmoon Card of Death will create a random Darkmoon Card from one of the four Darkmoon decks, and sometimes you will also get a blank card that can be used to craft a card from a specific deck.

Since getting a blank card is random, it will depend on your luck how many Darkmoon Card of Death you have to make. I recommend making around 10 Cards first, then use the Blank cards to gain more skill points, and then make more Darkmoon Card of Death until you reach 100.

10 x Darkmoon Card of Death - 70 Luminous Ink, 70 Umbral Ink, 10 Tranquil Ink, 10 Dark Parchment

Blank Cards