Inscription

Inscription is a new profession introduced with the Wrath of the Lich King expansion. Inscriptionists create items, called glyphs, which can be used to augment a characters powers. These glyphs are added to a special tab on the character's Talent interface window. Each character can have three major glyphs and three minor glyphs at level 80.

Inscription is unusual because a character cannot just learn all the recipes of their trade through class trainers and item drops, but also has an skill called "Minor Inscription Research", which has a 20 hour cooldown. This means that it will take a minimum of 1200 hours (or 50 days) to learn every minor glyph.

Inscriptionists use herbs to create the basic ingredients for their wares. A stack of five herbs is milled to create a pigment.