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Monday, July 28, 2008
Inscription for bloody beginners
As promised, I explored the new Inscription profession in the WotLK beta. First thing to say is that it isn't finished yet. You can level it up to 125, and then the trainer only has one more recipe for skill level 250, but you can't reach that because you don't have the intermediate recipes. Obviously a lot of recipes still missing. From the promised recipes to modify spells there is no sign yet.
So, what is Inscription? Inscription is the tradeskill to make scrolls. You can make the regular stat-buffing scrolls, but also some special scrolls like the Scroll of Recall, which works like a second hearthstone. Useful! Furthermore you can make blank scrolls for enchanters, on which the enchanter can then place his weapon or armor enchanment and thus make it portable. This finally allows enchanters to put their enchants on the auction house, which is a huge improvement.
The first recipes use Peacebloom and Silverleaf, the basic herbs from the newbie zones. The recipes after that use pomace, for example Alabaster Pomace. The pomace is made with a new skill, milling, which you get when you learn inscription. It works just like prospecting for jewelcrafting: You click milling, then you click a stack of herbs, you lose 5 of the herbs, and gain 2 to 3 pomace. There are less different pomace than there are herbs, so Peacebloom, Silverleaf, Mageroyal all give Alabaster Pomace from milling. Finally a good use for those more common herbs nobody needs.
The pomace is turned into ink, and the ink plus parchment gives a scroll. The parchments are available at the inscription goods vendors. For Alliance I found the grand master inscription trainer in Valiance Keep in the Borean Tundra (you get there by boat from the new Stormwind Harbor), but the inscription goods vendor was in the mage tower at Amber Ledge. There was both a vendor and a trainer at Dalaran, but the trainer didn't seem to be working yet, although that was difficult to say with the horrible lag that place still has.
It is hard to say yet whether Inscription will be useful, as it is yet in a very unfinished state. But I'm looking forward to exploring it some more in some later build.
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"Inscription is the tradeskill to make scrolls"
You forgot that incription can make scrolls which permanently modifies spells. So you can make something which adds 3% crit to your fireball for example.
Its not all about scrolls here there is more planned :)
You forgot that incription can make scrolls which permanently modifies spells. So you can make something which adds 3% crit to your fireball for example.
Its not all about scrolls here there is more planned :)
Blizzard seemed to have misused the term Pomace here. According to Wikipedia it means "the solid remains of olives, grapes, or other fruit after pressing for juice or oil." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomace)
Not the remains of herbs after milling (grinding)... oh well, I guess we'll just have to learn to live with the inaccuracy :P
Not the remains of herbs after milling (grinding)... oh well, I guess we'll just have to learn to live with the inaccuracy :P
@ Solidstate: Dictionary.com claims that it has a secondary definition meaning "any crushed or ground, pulpy substance". I only know this because I had to look it up for my own write-up on the topic (very similar to Tobold's, cause, well, there isn't much to comment on so far).
Anyway, it's important to note that pomaces allow you to homogenize your herb crop. It doesn't matter if you have 20 of one herb or 5 each of four herbs, you get the same number of pomaces out of em. Most zones are going to serve up more than one herb at a time, so that's a big deal.
Also, there may only be three fully implemented recipes, but they're all pretty significant; scroll of recall (15 minute hearth-scroll) and scrolls of portable weapon and armor enchants (readily craftable by your level 10 herb/ins alt). So far, I'm liking the profession.
Anyway, it's important to note that pomaces allow you to homogenize your herb crop. It doesn't matter if you have 20 of one herb or 5 each of four herbs, you get the same number of pomaces out of em. Most zones are going to serve up more than one herb at a time, so that's a big deal.
Also, there may only be three fully implemented recipes, but they're all pretty significant; scroll of recall (15 minute hearth-scroll) and scrolls of portable weapon and armor enchants (readily craftable by your level 10 herb/ins alt). So far, I'm liking the profession.
Its a fantasy setting, Blizzard can make pomace mean whatever the hell they want. Muahahahahaha...
Anyways, my initial impressions of inscription lead me to believe it is a sad collection of CORE FUNCTIONALITY that other crafting professions have needed since launch. Sellable scroll enchants was recommended in beta and all but ignored by developers.
I think Wrath will be a good expansion, but I am continually worried about the additions to the game filling holes with "new stuff" instead of plugging the holes with what is already there. It really screams of the age old, fix it in the expansion instead of now, routine of older games.
Anyways, my initial impressions of inscription lead me to believe it is a sad collection of CORE FUNCTIONALITY that other crafting professions have needed since launch. Sellable scroll enchants was recommended in beta and all but ignored by developers.
I think Wrath will be a good expansion, but I am continually worried about the additions to the game filling holes with "new stuff" instead of plugging the holes with what is already there. It really screams of the age old, fix it in the expansion instead of now, routine of older games.
Inscription looks to be a good deal more useful than jewelcrafting, so I have to give it a tentative thumbs-up.
A method for enchanters to sell their services as products is way overdue. Using another tradeskill to enable it was a very clever idea.
A method for enchanters to sell their services as products is way overdue. Using another tradeskill to enable it was a very clever idea.
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: 28/7/08 16:33
: 28/7/08 16:33
Sellable scroll enchants was recommended in beta and all but ignored by developers. [..] I am continually worried about the additions to the game filling holes with "new stuff" instead of plugging the holes with what is already there.
That’s a really good point, Heartless_. It does seem like a lot of *new* Wrath content is either of the “fix it in expansion” or “more of the same”
varieties.
That’s a really good point, Heartless_. It does seem like a lot of *new* Wrath content is either of the “fix it in expansion” or “more of the same”
varieties.
My question is how does the enchanter get their enchant onto a scroll? Will they have to have the inscription skill themselves?
This is an important question for me - I don't want my 70 mage to have to decide whether to give up high level tailoring or high level enchanting.
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This is an important question for me - I don't want my 70 mage to have to decide whether to give up high level tailoring or high level enchanting.
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