Inscription Guide for Midnight

Being a scribe allows you to create Darkmoon Cards, which can also be awarded as random loot from enemy NPCs. These can be turned into Decks once you have all the cards in your inventory, producing trinkets like Darkmoon Deck: Hunt. While these are not particularly powerful trinkets, they can be converted by scribes into powerful embellishment versions of themselves, such as Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt.

Besides this new business, Inscription will still be responsible for Vantus Runes for the raids, such as Vantus Rune: Radiant, reputation contracts, such as Contract: The Hara'ti, secondary stat fixing Missives, such as Thalassian Missive of the Feverflare, Off-Hands, such as Aln'hara Lantern, Staves, such as Aln'hara Cane, Bows, such as Aln'hara Sprigshot, and multiple reagents, such as Soul Cipher.

They can also craft profession gear, such as Gilded Alchemist's Mixing Rod, and new Thalassian Treatises to improve profession knowledge weekly, such as Thalassian Treatise on Inscription.

If you are a Horde player, Nightborne will grant you +5 skill points, while Alliance players can be Kul'Tiran for +2 skill points.

Inscription can make great use of all four stats, but you might want to focus on specific stats with different Inscription specializations. We go into detail with Inscription stats and the gear you can use to boost them in the specialized guide below:

Increasing your skill in Midnight is done by crafting items that grant skill points as usual, but in order to be efficient we recommend trying to get as many first-craft bonuses while leveling Inscription as possible, with the specific items to aim for while leveling varying depending on what material costs are like at the time you are leveling and their current sale price.

Milling will also give skill increases up to 20 skill, which is a good way to progress as long as you remember to prioritize first crafts as you go.

A simple way to level Inscription once regular recipes stop giving skill is to unlock the Calm Hands tree, in order to unlock the Thalassian Treatise on Inscription. By crafting it or any other learned treatise, you will have a high chance to learn other treatise recipes, and treatises give 1 skill per craft all the way to 100 while being quite cheap to craft!

You will be able to track all weekly and one-time sources of profession knowledge with Myu's Knowledge Points Tracker, which has been converted to an addon in Midnight!

There are also eight treasures around the world that you can loot to gain up to 24 extra knowledge. You can find them all easily in-game with the aforementioned addon.

Using the crafting interface, you can mill all herbs of a type on your inventory automatically over time as if you were crafting items in a batch.

Also, as it can often be confusing, here is the information on what each herb type mills into and what ink can be produced from the pigment:

• Tranquility Bloom mills into Powder Pigment, which is used for all inks;
• Mana Lily mills into Mana Lily Pigment, which is also used for all inks;
• Argentleaf mills into Argentleaf Pigment, which is used for Sienna Ink;
• Sanguithorn mills into Sanguithorn Pigment, which is used for Munsell Ink.

Investment into higher quality herbs and / or milling and inking related talents will result in higher quality pigments / inks, as well as higher chances of saving materials along the way and faster milling and ink crafting.

We recommend starting by investing into the Calm Hands tree, in order to unlock the Thalassian Treatise on Inscription, which is a great way to gain profession skill and knowledge at the same time! Knowledge spent on this tree works towards building your crafting stats, making you more efficient at doing all Inscription crafts.

The best second specialization for you depends on what your goals are. The Darkmoon Curiosity tree unlocks the ability to create four types of cards, which have trinkets and Sigils associated with them:

Item	Type
Darkmoon Dominion: Void	Trinket
Darkmoon Sigil: Void	Sigil
Darkmoon Dominion: Hunt	Trinket
Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt	Sigil
Darkmoon Dominion: Blood	Trinket
Darkmoon Sigil: Blood	Sigil
Darkmoon Dominion: Rot	Trinket
Darkmoon Sigil: Rot	Sigil

Besides unlocking the crafts listed above, investment into the tree and its sub-nodes grants massive skill bonuses when creating these items, but it can be worth unlocking without any point investment, as you will be able to unlock one trinket or Sigil of your choice right away, and that would be a great target for getting started with Concentration usage early!

Alternatively, in order to be able to produce all the reagents, inks, and pigments necessary for Inscription crafts in the most efficient manner, you might want invest into the Perfected Products tree, which improves efficiency and skill when doing those crafts, and also Missives, Vantus Runes, and Contracts this time around.

Last but not least, the Blueprints tree improves your skill and efficiency at creating combat and profession gear, with the left side focusing on Staves, Bows, and Off-Hands and the right side focusing on the three types of profession tools Inscription can do for itself, Alchemy, and Cooking.

Unfortunately the amount of points needed to maximize each of these individual tools is extremely high, making it a very expensive path with little actual gain at the end, but investing early into items used by many players such as the caster staff or off-hand is likely to pay off handsomely in trade chat commissions from combat-focused players!

Ideally, Inscription allows you to convert cheap materials into expensive runes, missives, Darkmoon Sigils and end game gear and profession tools. You will also be able to produce treatises to increase your own knowledge and that of other players through the crafting orders system.

The commodity nature of some of its crafts implies it is very likely that the consumable market will quickly get loaded with runes and missives that are only marginally more expensive than the materials used to create them, but Inscription has a lot of depth within its talent trees, and different crafters will have different markets to explore.

Until you fully max out skill, gear, and knowledge for your desired crafts, you will be reliant on Concentration to get maximum ranks out, which can quickly be exhausted every day, so make sure to create some alts to increase your production cap while it is still very profitable to do so! Even later on those can still be useful as they will be able to create maximum rank items more cheaply than the guaranteed method, which requires full maximum Rank reagents.

We have a specialized guide for Midnight gold-making below, which contains a gold-making tier list and goes deeper into techniques and habits for successful gold making, as well as websites and addons that can help you on your journey!