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  World of Warcraft: Dragonflight

  Franchise:

  Warcraft

  Platform:

  PC

  Developer:

  Blizzard, Activision

  Publisher:

  Blizzard, Activision

  Genre:

  MMORPG

  Released:

  2022-11-28

Inscription in WoW Alpha Dragonflight

We've explored all there is regarding Inscription so far in the WoW: Dragonflight Alpha testing. Inscription is one of Dragonflight's crafting professions that will be affected by the new Crafting Orders system. This guide will continue to be updated throughout the Beta and Live versions of the game, so be sure to bookmark and come back at each update!

The first thing to note is of course, with the game currently being in Alpha phase, there will be much difference in the live version (we hope). This includes how the profession is working, as well as the screenshots we provide. Some interesting tidbits right now about how it is operating, which should hopefully be adjusted before the game goes live are:

• Currently, you can only mill 5 herbs at a time. In previous renditions of the game, you had a Mass Milling option to mill more at once.
• Once you finish milling those 5 herbs, the loot window opens, and you take the loot. You cannot "Create All" or batch-run more than 1 milling operation. The button exists to "Create All" but it stops after just one.

What do these mean? If at least one of these points does not get adjusted, milling may be more tedious than it has ever been. With this out of the way, let's get down to the facts.

Change Log

• 8-22-2022 - Updated In-Game Images to new UI for specializations

Resourcefulness, Inspiration, and Skill Explained

Within each profession in WoW: Dragonflight, you will have terms that affect your crafting efficiency. Resourcefulness, Inspiration, and Skill all affect your crafting outcome at one time or another. These can be increased through your skill level as well as your specializations as you level them up. When we explore specializations later in this guide, you will learn more about how to increase these stats. These terms and the new specializations are all part of the new Profession Revamp for Dragonflight!

Here is an example of what each term means. Let's assume you currently have 5% of each stat for Resourcefulness and Inspiration, and 70 Skill.

• 5% Resourcefulness: You have a 5% chance to use fewer tradeable reagents than the recipe calls for, each time you craft.
• 5% Inspiration: You have a 5% chance to craft this recipe with bonus skill. This means that you may be able to craft a higher quality of this item than you normally would, increasing the stats on that item.
• 70 Skill: Increases the quality this recipe is crafted at. As you gain more skill, you will craft higher quality crafts that will be more valuable and effective.

Some other stats will factor into your crafting depending on the items you are making:

• Recipe Difficulty: If a recipe difficulty is 100, it means you need at least 100 skill to craft the next level higher of the craft.
• Crafting Speed: Decreases the crafting speed by a certain %.
• Multicraft: Gives you a % chance to craft multiple items.

Where Does Each Inscription Pigment Come From?

There are 5 pigments you can get from milling herbs in WoW Dragonflight. Currently, every herb gives Shimmering Pigments, plus one other pigment. They also have approximately a 10% chance to yield certain Awakened reagents. Hochenblume is the exception in regards to pigments, as it will give 2 Shimmering Pigments of potentially different qualities.

These are the herbs and the correlating pigments they give:

What is the Drop % of Awakened Ingredients from Milling?

After much testing, we have some indication of the drop chance of Awakened Fire, Frost, Air, and Earth. The drop chance does not appear to have any difference between quality of herbs. When we changed the herb quality from 1 to 3, there was no noticeable difference in chance to obtain an Awakened reagent.

The percentages always hovers around 10%. We tested and milled through each herb over 1000 times each (5000 herbs each) on quality rank 1 and again on quality rank 3, and in every scenario, the amount of the corresponding Awakened reagent hovered between 9% to 11%.

Archiving Specialization - Darkmoon Cards & Sigils

In order to unlock the ability to craft Darkmoon Cards through the Darkmoon Booster Pack, and to unlock Darkmoon Deck Boxes and Sigils, you will need to start your specialization in Archiving. As you increase your Archiving skill and its subsequent specializations, you will find crafting speed and efficiencies will become more optimized.

In addition to the cards and sigils, you will want to utilize the Draconic Treatise on Inscription to help increase your knowledge of the Dragon Isles Inscription. This will add specialization points for you to spend on increasing your skill points and resourcefulness in Archiving activities.

Here is a listing of the recipes unlocked when you specialize in Archiving:

Trinkets

• Darkmoon Deck Box: Dance
• Darkmoon Deck Box: Inferno
• Darkmoon Deck Box: Rime
• Darkmoon Deck Box: Watcher

Dragon Isles Mysteries

• Darkmoon Booster Pack

Runes and Sigils

• Jetscale Sigil
• Bronzescale Sigil
• Emberscale Sigil
• Sagescale Sigil
• Azurescale Sigil

Profession Specialization

• Draconic Treatise on Inscription

Rune Mastery Specialization

The Inscription Rune Mastery Specialization offers 5 avenues of increasing your efficiencies in Inscription in Dragonflight. Each of these choices will help increase Resourcefulness, Inspiration, Skill, Multicraft Chance, or Crafting Speed.

Here are the choices within Dragon Isles Inscription: Rune Mastery:

• Rune Mastery: 40 Points - Improve at the art of Inscription and utilizing various reagents, gaining +1 Skill per point in this Specialization.
• Perfect Practice: 30 Points - Craft items more effectively, gaining +1 Skill per point in this Specialization.
• Infinite Discovery: 30 Points - Become a more inspired Scribe, gaining +1 Skill per point in this Specialization.
• Understanding Flora: 20 Points - Improve at milling various herbs in the Dragon Isles, gaining +1 Resourcefulness per point in this Specialization.
• Flawless Inks: 20 Points - Improve at crafting various inks used in Inscription, gaining +1 Inspiration per point in this Specialization.

Runebinding Specialization

The Runebinding specialization states that it "allows you to specialize in binding powerful runes into your equipment used in both professions and combat, as well as crafting the most powerful equipment to take down the strongest foes the Dragon Isles has to offer".

The skills within the specialization increase your skill amount as well as all of the other modifiers we saw in Runemastery. Runebinding also allows you to unlock the ability to craft the Scribe's Resplendent Quill (Profession Tools) and the Weathered Explorer's Stave (Staves).

Here are the choices within Dragon Isles Inscription: Runebinding:

• Runebinding: 30 Points - Improve at the art of Inscription and utilizing various reagents, gaining +1 Skill per point in this Specialization.
• Woodcarving: 30 Points - Improve at binding complete runes into staves and profession tools, gaining +1 Resourcefulness per point in this Specialization.
• Profession Tools: 20 Points - Become an expert at crafting various profession tools, gaining +1 skill per point in this Specialization.
• Staves: 30 Points - Become and expert at crafting various Staves, gaining +1 Skill per point in this Specialization.
• Runic Scripture: 30 Points - Improve at binding complex runes into staves and profession tools, gaining +1 Inspiration per point in this Specialization.
• Codexes: 30 Points - Improve at binding complex runes into various codexes, gaining +1 Skill per point in this Specialization.
• Fauna Runes: 20 Points - Become an expert at deciphering runes associated with Dragon Isles fauna, gaining +1 skill per point in this Specialization.
• Vantus Runes: 20 Points - Become and expert at binding extremely powerful runes that empower you to down the mightiest foes the Dragon Isles have to offer, gaining +1 Skill per point in this Specialization.

Inscription Recipes from Dragon Isles Trainers

Now that we have covered the specializations, let's take a look at all of the other recipes you will be able to obtain directly from the trainer. You will find these recipes as you level up your Dragon Isles Inscription, before you unlock the specializations' goodies.

Milling

• Dragon Isles Milling

Dragon Isles Inks

• Cosmic Ink
• Burnished Ink
• Blazing Ink
• Flourishing Ink
• Serene Ink

Dragon Isles Reagents

• Runed Writhebark
• Warm Rune

Dragon Isles Missives

• Draconic Missive of the Fireflash
• Draconic Missive of the Harmonious
• Draconic Missive of the Quickblade
• Draconic Missive of the Feverflare
• Draconic Missive of the Peerless
• Draconic Missive of the Aurora

Runes and Sigils

• Vantus Rune: Vault of the Incarnates
• Buzzing Rune
• Chirping Rune
• Howling Rune

Profession Equipment

• Alchemist's Sturdy Mixing Rod
• Chef's Smooth Rolling Pin
• Scribe's Fastened Quill

Scrolls

• Illusion Parchment: Chilling Wind
• Illusion Parchment: Love Charm
• Illusion Parchment: Shadow Orb
• Illusion Parchment: Spell Shield

Dragon Isles Mysteries

• Blazing Fortune
• Flourishing Fortune
• Serene Fortune

Final Thoughts

There we have it, that is all we currently know about Inscription in WoW: Dragonflight. As new information comes to light or changes, this will continue to be up-to-date with the latest and greatest information. There is clearly much room for improvement in the profession from a quality control aspect, as we look at the descriptions of some of the text in these specialization choices.

There is a lot of repetitiveness and seemingly more complexity than there needs to be. All in all, the crafts made with Dragon Isles Inscription are in line with how we have seen this profession in the past, with some cool new features to boot.

Get ready to spam mill your herbs and mass create your Darkmoon Booster Packs!