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Midnight Inscription Leveling Guide 1-100

This Midnight Inscription leveling guide will show you the fastest and cheapest way to level Inscription from 1 to 100. I'll cover the trainer location, a full shopping list, and the best recipes to craft at every skill level. I recommend checking the shopping list before you start so you can buy everything at once from the Auction House.

Inscription pairs best with Herbalism because you can farm all the herbs yourself instead of buying them. If you don't have Herbalism, you will need gold to buy herbs and inks from the Auction House.

If you're looking for a full overview of all Inscription recipes and knowledge sources, or want help picking a specialization, check out these guides:

Recipes & Knowledge Points Specialization Guide & Builds

Looking for the War Within version? TWW Inscription Leveling Guide

Inscription Trainer Location

The Midnight Inscription trainer is Zantasia in Silvermoon City. Talk to her to learn Inscription and pick up new recipes as you level up.

Silvermoon City
Silvermoon City
Zantasia
Zantasia

Shopping List

This is the list of materials needed to level Inscription to 100.

Leveling Midnight Inscription

1 - 20

Use Midnight Milling in your profession spell book to mill these herbs:

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Craft the inks in the same order as they are listed.

  • 11x Munsell Ink - 33x Thalassian Songwater, 220x Powder Pigment, 110x Sanguithorn Pigment, 55x Mana Lily Pigment
  • 12x Sienna Ink - 36x Thalassian Songwater, 240x Powder Pigment, 120x Argentleaf Pigment, 60x Mana Lily Pigment

Thalassian Songwater and Lexicologist's Vellum are sold by the Inscription supply vendor near your trainer.

Keep the inks, you will use them later.

Inscription Specializations

When you hit 25, you will unlock Inscription specializations. Be sure to learn Calm Hands as your first specialization! This will teach you the Thalassian Treatise on Inscription recipe that you will use for leveling later.

You'll eventually be able to learn all four specializations, so there's no need to worry about your initial choice. You'll need 50 skill points to unlock the second specialization, 60 for the third and 75 for the fourth.

I suggest checking out my Midnight Inscription Specialization Guide. It covers every specialization in detail with example builds to help you get started.

Midnight Inscription Specialization Guide and Builds

30 - 35

Craft these four for the first-craft bonuses.

35 - 42

In your Profession window, click Filter and tick "First Craft Bonus". This will only show recipes that still give the first-craft bonus.

First-craft everything in your profession book one by one. Skip crafting Thalassian Treatise on Inscription for now.

Equip the Hobbyist Scribe's Quill you just crafted.

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Now click the little red "X" in the Filter to clear your filters, and you will see all recipes again.

If you are already at 45, you can skip this part. If you are lower, craft more Treatises until you hit 45.

3x Thalassian Treatise on Inscription - 9x Lexicologist's Vellum, 3x Mote of Wild Magic, 3x Munsell Ink, 3x Sienna Ink

Don't use the treatise yet! If you put 10 points into the Calm Hands specialization later, you will get 2 knowledge instead of one. It's worth saving it until you decide on your specialization path.

45 - 51

Learn new recipes from the trainer, then craft these:

Then learn the Vantus Rune recipe from the trainer at skill 50 and craft one to get your first-craft bonus.

1x Vantus Rune: Radiant - 1x Soul Cipher, 2x Petrified Root

51 - 100

As you craft the Thalassian Treatise on Inscription, you'll start discovering Treatises for other professions (10 total). Both the Inscription Treatise and the other Treatises will continue to grant skill points all the way up to 100. First-craft each one as you discover it for the bonus skill.

Each Treatise costs 1x Munsell Ink, 1x Sienna Ink, and 1x Mote (Wild Magic for the Inscription Treatise, other Mote types for other professions).

Start with the Treatise on Inscription until you discover a useful recipe for your second profession or alts. Once you do, switch to crafting Treatises that you or your alts can actually use. Treatises are Warbound, so you can mail them to your other characters. I wouldn't recommend making all 60 from Inscription alone, as it would take over a year to use them all.

Buying inks from the Auction House is usually faster and cheaper than crafting them yourself from pigments. To reach level 100, you'll likely need to craft around 70 Treatises in total. The recipes will turn green for the last 10 points, so the exact number depends on your luck with skill gains.

Alternative for the last few points

The last few points can be a bit slow if you are unlucky with skill gains. If you have any weapon recipes unlocked from specializations, you can complete a few crafting orders instead. I'd recommend stopping at 91, 94, or 97. Each weapon recipe gives 3 skill points, so you only have to complete 1-3 of them.

All of these recipes require a Spark, a Bind on Pickup (BoP) crafting reagent that cannot be purchased from the Auction House. Since you can only obtain one Spark every two weeks, you should use the crafting order system to level with these recipes.

Item Recipe Source
Aln'hara Cane Specialization: Blueprints - Staves (5)
Aln'hara Pikestaff Specialization: Blueprints - Staves (15)
Aln'hara Lantern Specialization: Blueprints - Lamps and Lanterns (15)
Aln'hara Sprigshot Specialization: Blueprints - Bows (15)

Once you get the recipes from specializations, you can start looking for Crafting Orders.

Patron Orders

Fortunately, the new Patron crafting orders make leveling a bit easier. You will frequently receive epic weapon crafting orders, though you may not be able to complete some of them until you acquire more knowledge points.

These orders are player-specific, so other players can't complete them. Consider them like Personal Orders sent to you by NPCs. However, they are randomly generated, so it's not guaranteed that you will receive orders for recipes you can currently craft.

Public Orders

When you open the Crafting Orders tab, make sure to hit "Search" in the top left corner on the Public Orders tab, they won't load automatically. You probably won't see many crafting orders because players immediately complete them when they are posted.