Garrison: Scribe's Quarters Guide (WoD 6.2)

Table of Contents

• 1. Main Perks
• 2. Description
• +3. Unlocking the Scribe's Quarters
  • 3.1. Unlocking the Scribe's Quarters, Level 1
  • 3.2. Unlocking the Scribe's Quarters, Level 2
  • 3.3. Unlocking the Scribe's Quarters, Level 3
• +4. Work Orders
  • 4.1. Unlocking Work Orders
  • 4.2. Increasing Yield
  • 4.3. Increasing Queue Size
  • 4.4. Cost Comparison Between Work Orders and Inscription Recipe
• +5. Resident Scribe
  • 5.1. For Scribes
  • 5.2. For Non-Scribes
• 6. Extra Perk from Follower
• 7. Changelog

The Scribe's Quarters is a Small Garrison building that Scribes and Non-Scribes can use to craft Draenor-specific Inscription recipes.

While we explain, in this article, how to unlock all levels of the Scribe's Quarters, you may be interested in our guide to unlocking all the Garrison buildings. We also have a guide to leveling Inscription in Draenor.

For Scribes, the main perk of the Scribe's Quarters is that it allows you to create a maximum of 12x War Paints per day, in addition to the 10x you can already craft with War Paints (less with an Inscription skill lower than 700). These extra Paints are really useful, because they allow you to craft more Draenor recipes, which means you make more money off the Auction House and you level up Inscription to 700 faster. The Scribe's Quarters is also where you buy your Draenor-specific Inscription recipes.

For Non-Scribes, the main perks of the Scribe's Quarters is that you can mill herbs and that the resident Scribe can craft most of the Draenor-specific Inscription recipes for you.

Level	Cost	Perks
Level 1	150x 50x 1 hour	Allows the production of Inscription items and work orders.
Level 2	300x 100x 1 hour	Allows followers with the Inscription trait to work here, granting a unique bonus. Also allows up to 14 work orders at one time.
Level 3	500x 300x 1 hour	Allows up to 21 work orders at one time.

In this section, we are going to tell you how to unlock the Scribe's Quarters, Level 1, 2, and 3.

The Scribe's Quarters Level 1 is unlocked when you upgrade your Town Hall to Level 2.

Scribes can build this building with a Town Hall Level 1, because they have a chance to loot Mysterious Satchel (Alliance) and Illegible Sootstained Notes (Horde). This item drops from humanoid mobs around Draenor and starts a quest line that eventually rewards the plan to build the Scribe's Quarters, Garrison Blueprint: Scribe's Quarters, Level 1, and Draenor Inscription, which teaches basic Draenor recipes that can be used to level up the profession.

If you are a Scribe and the quest item does not drop for you, then you can buy your Draenor Inscription for 100 from the Scribe at your Scribe's Quarters, after upgrading your Town Hall to Level 2.

Garrison Blueprint: Scribe's Quarters, Level 2 is sold by the blueprint vendor at your Garrison once you reach level 96 or once you complete your Talador Outpost. You can buy it with 750 . You can also buy it from the blueprint vendor in Ashran without restrictions with an Outpost Building Assembly Notes, which can only be obtained twice, once when questing in Gorgrond and once when questing in the Spires of Arak. so the purpose of this Below, you will find the Alliance and Horde vendors.

Vendor	Faction	Location	Cost
Sparz Boltwist	Alliance	Garrison, next to Architect Table	750
Kinkade Jakobs	Alliance	Ashran, next to Flightmaster	1x Outpost Building Assembly Notes
Rezlak	Horde	Garrison, next to Architect Table	750
Torgg Flexington	Horde	Ashran, next to Flightmaster	1x Outpost Building Assembly Notes

Garrison Blueprint: Scribe's Quarters, Level 3 is a reward from completing the Working More Orders achievement, which requires you to complete 250 Work Orders at your Garrison. This achievement is account-wide.

Once you complete the achievement, the blueprint is not directly handed over to you. You still need to buy it from Sparz Boltwist (Alliance) or Rezlak (Horde) for 1,000 .

Work Orders are unlocked with your Scribe's Quarters Level 1 and allow you to create War Paints. A Work Order takes 4 hours to complete and transforms 2x Cerulean Pigments into 1x War Paints (2x with a level 100 follower assigned to the Scribe's Quarters). This means that you can complete a maximum of 6 Work Orders per day for a total yield of 6 to 12 War Paints.

When you first build the Scribe's Quarters on a character, the resident Scribe at the building gives you Your First Inscription Work Order. To complete it, talk to the Scribe's Assistant and give the required 2x Cerulean Pigments. The small box outside the Scribe's Quarters should activate immediately and you can loot the Inscription Work Order that you need to turn in to complete the quest. Doing so rewards you with 5x War Paints.

After upgrading the Scribe's Quarters to Level 2, you can assign a follower with the Inscription trait to work at the Scribe's Quarters. The higher the level of your follower, the higher the chance that the Work Order will generate 2 War Paints instead of only 1. With a level 100 follower, you are guaranteed to get 2 War Paints.

While working at the Scribe's Quarters, your follower receives experience for every Work Order completed.

You can queue up to a certain number of Work Orders, depending on your Scribe's Quarters' level (7 at Level 1, 14 at Level 2, 21 at Level 3).

Having a Storehouse Level 3 increases the maximum number of Work Orders by 15, which means a maximum of 22 Work Orders at Level 1, 29 at Level 2, and 36 at Level 3.

Being able to queue more Work Orders does not increase your yield, but it does allow you to let more time pass before you have to go back to the Scribe's Quarters to refill your queue of Work Orders.

War Paints costs 10x Cerulean Pigments and produces between 4 and 10 War Paints, depending on your Inscription skill. Below level 600, you only produce 4. Between level 600 and 700 the yield slowly increases to reach 10 at level 700.

Work Orders cost 2x Cerulean Pigments and produce between 1 and 2 War Paints. With no follower or a level 90 follower, you produce only 1. The closer your follower is to 100, the higher the chance that the yield will be 2. With a follower level 100, you always produce 2.

If you have enough Cerulean Pigments, then you should keep the Work Orders queue full and use War Paints every day. If you do not, then you need to give priority to the method that will create the most War Paints. The idea is that if your follower's level is closer to 100 (from 90) than your Inscription skill is to 700 (from 600), then you should prioritise Work Orders. For example, if your follower's level is 95 and your Inscription skill is 640, go for Work Orders first. If your follower's level is 94 and your Inscription skill is 650, go for War Paints first.

The Scribe at the Scribe's Quarters interacts with you in one of two ways, depending on whether or not you have the Inscription profession.

Buying the Draenor Inscription recipes from the Scribe in your Scribe's Quarters is the only way to obtain them. Each recipe costs a number of Secrets of Draenor Inscription. You can make one of these items every day using the Secrets of Draenor Inscription Inscription recipe, which costs 2x Cerulean Pigments. The table below lists all of the recipes you can buy and the amount of Secrets of Draenor Inscription it costs to buy them.

Recipe	Cost
Draenor Inscription	100
Technique: Volatile Crystal	1x Secret of Draenor Inscription
Technique: Crystalfire Spellstaff	1x Secret of Draenor Inscription
Technique: Etched-Blade Warstaff	1x Secret of Draenor Inscription
Technique: Warmaster's Firestick	1x Secret of Draenor Inscription
Technique: Shadowtome	1x Secret of Draenor Inscription
Technique: Mystical Crystal	5x Secret of Draenor Inscription
Technique: Glorious Crystal	5x Secret of Draenor Inscription
Technique: Darkmoon Card of Draenor	5x Secret of Draenor Inscription
Technique: Inferno Tarot	5x Secret of Draenor Inscription
Technique: Molten Tarot	5x Secret of Draenor Inscription

For Non-Scribes, the Scribe in your Scribe's Quarters can craft most of the high-end Draenor Inscription recipes, except for Crystals (re-roll stats), item upgrades, Warbinder's Ink (used to research new glyph recipes), Glyph recipes, and War Paints (which can be obtained only through Work Orders). Crafting an item through your Scribe costs exactly the same quantity of materials it does when a regular Scribe crafts it. Some of the recipes are locked until you reach a certain level with the Scribe's Quarters (see table below).

Recipe	Unlock Level
Draenic Mortar*	Level 1
Card of Omens	Level 1
Savage Tarot	Level 1
Laughing Tarot	Level 1
Ocean Tarot	Level 1
Darkmoon Card of Draenor	Level 2
Shadowtome	Level 2
Etched-Blade Warstaff	Level 2
Crystalfire Spellstaff	Level 3
Warmaster's Firestick	Level 3

* Draenic Mortar allows you to mill Draenor herbs to obtain Cerulean Pigments.

In addition to increasing your yield of War Paints, your follower allows you get some Gold out of your extra Cerulean Pigments. It does that by letting you craft Draenor Merchant Order once per day. Doing so costs 4x Cerulean Pigments and 2x Light Parchments and creates 2 random Partial Receipts from amongst:

• Partial Receipt: Book of Troll Poetry;
• Partial Receipt: Chainmail Socks;
• Partial Receipt: Druidskin Rug;
• Partial Receipt: Flask of Funk;
• Partial Receipt: Gently-Used Bandages;
• Partial Receipt: Invisible Dust;
• Partial Receipt: Pickled Red Herring;
• Partial Receipt: Tailored Underwear;
• Partial Receipt: True Iron Door Handles.

When you have 2 of the same partial receipts, you can combine them to randomly create a Small Merchant Order, a Merchant Order, or a Large Merchant Order, which you can sell for Gold (the higher the quality, the higher you can sell the item).

• 24 Feb. 2015: Mentioned that followers working at the Scribe's Quarters now gain experience for each completed Work Order.
• 14 Nov. 2014: Clarified requirements for Level 2.
• 13 Nov. 2014: Mentioned that unlocking Level 1 requires a Town Hall Level 2, except for Scribes who can build Scribe's Quarters Level 1 with a Town Hall Level 1. Also added Draenor Inscription to the list of items sold by the Scribe at the Scribe's Quarters.

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