So my inscription is currently stuck at 70ish. The only things I can use to level now are staves, codexes, and darkmoon deck upgrades. I am not specced into the deck upgrades. Anyone have advice on some recipes that can help me level it up, whether they be BOE, reputation, etc…?
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This is general advice for anybody in this situation.
Filter your Prof UI by “Has Skill Up” and “Show Unlearned”, and scroll down to the unlearned recipes. That’s all of them. Most profs don’t have terribly many.
Click through them till you can find one that you can afford to make. Can pretty much ignore recipes with Sparks or Mettle or Awakened Order or purple crystals. That won’t leave many at all. Maybe none.
If you find one, hover over the Recipe Unlearned text on the info panel and see how to get it.
For Inscription specifically, Chef’s Splendid Rolling Pin is the only realistically spammable recipe at that skill level. It needs Valued Artisan’s Consortium rep, and still costs about 11k per combine and can’t be sold on the AH. You could work order one for each of your alts of course. It’s pretty grim.
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Agree with the advice below in the rolling pin being the only spammable rec, but also in being prohibitively expensive to use in levelling up from 65 to 100. My suggestion would be to wait for 10.0.5 to be released and hope that an additional skill up mechanism is added in that update, either in the form of a new rec and/or significant cost reduction for each rolling pin to make that route viable (i.e. cost less than 300K to get to max skill).
It’s free to craft if you gather the mats yourself. So it’s not prohibitively expensive at all to do.
I’ve used this method on my tailor already. Got the chef hat and fishing hat and went across all my alts and sent orders. Then made fishing hats to DE since they’re an enchanter too. A quick 20-25 skill ups and I’m at 95 now (that’s where you really get stuck and most things that guarantee a skill up take sparks.) Once I unlock the rolling pin recipe I’ll do the same and then set up more orders on my enchanter and DE them.
People find altarounding work orders “grim?” I love it. I’m not dependant on anyone but me and my squad of alts.
My main’s a tailor, and the rolling pin isn’t really comparable to the tailoring hats in terms of material costs. The rolling pin costs 12 runed writhebark (which itself costs 5 writhebark and some other valuable mats) and 30 draconium ore. To get from 75 to 100, you’re looking at over a thousand writhebark and several hundred other mats. Yes you can farm that yourself, but that’s very time consuming.
There is no new skill-up mechanism in the patch notes yet, but they are reducing spec threshold from 25/50/100 to 25/50/75 (for 4-spec profs, 25/50/75/100 down to 25/50/60/75). While this doesn’t help skill up, it helps you specialize enough to craft things at meaningful ranks (r4 with proc to r5 at the highest ilvl). Beyond this point, additional skill mostly sees its use in stuff that you have not specialized in.
With all due respect tailoring (for which the mats are simple to farm/buy) and inscription are night and day in terms of the cost and/or time sink required to skill up those last 35 points. By way of comparison we are talking about ~25K if everything is bought on the AH for tailoring vs ~350K for inscription.
Yes, but we can hope that the devs realise why so many scribes are stuck under 70 and decide to actually do something about it.
With all due respect. Gathering writhebark isn’t a task that’s insurmountable to the point where you’re being forced to purchase mats to level up.
It’s maybe a few hours of gathering. And if you’re that concerned with leveling your profession as fast as you possibly can then you’ll put the effort into doing so.
You’re trying to speak to me as though i’m not about to do it myself. Which is quite interesting.
To make 20 rolling pins, at the cost of 12 runed writhebark each…is a heck of a lot more than a couple hours of gathering…you are saying you get 600 writhebark a day? I simply do not believe you.
just costs you part of your soul everytime you use have to with writherbark for a rune.
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Hard to tell if you are trolling, but for reference the mat requirements for 35 rolling pins are as follows (with current US/OCE AH unit prices listed for reference):
- 1,050 draconium ore (28g)
- 2,500 writhebark (145g)
- 400 bubble poppy (74g)
- 210 awakened air (400g)
- 210 awakened frost (158g)
- 420 draconic vials (5g)
- 420 irridescent water (1g)
Since the increase to the glowing titan orb spawn rate no other profession comes anywhere near to inscription in terms of the cost / time sink required to skill to max without the aid of crafting orders.
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Just a friendly reminder that setting fire to a pile of mats worth 500k that you gathered yourself, and setting fire to a pile of mats worth 500k that you paid for, costs exactly the same - 500k.
Anybody saying otherwise is either trolling or doesn’t know the first thing about economics and either way can be safely ignored.
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For me the return just isn’t there in many cases. I enjoy M+ and raids, as well as the socialization of my guild. Farming non-stop just doesn’t appeal to me. I’ll be satisfied if I don’t make max for quite a while but just wanted some advice. I think the economics of professions have been massively messed up since BFA when they started making less desirable profession items, require extremely expensive mats. If the mats for something cost 2 or 3x the price of the item they make, then something isn’t right.
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The way WoW professions work in the current (and previous) iterations, the mats will always cost more than most of the crafted items they make. There are two (or maybe more) components to this:
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The “leveling” component in-game creates demand for mats but supplies the economy with crafted items that nobody values. This inflates the cost of mats with little effect on the prices of crafted items that people actually want.
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If a particular crafted item is in demand, the mats price will rise if crafters flock to craft the said item. If you’re producing another less popular item with the same mats, you can get forced out of business. E.g. High demand for phials drive up writhebark’s price, runed writhebark becomes so expensive that scribes may go out of business.
As long as there are multiple professions sharing the same mats and one of them is wayyy more in-demand than others, then the situation is inevitable.
Its rough out there. Im stuck at 71. I tried recrafting my own staff and got no skill up. I might try again as I have been told it works. Other than that I can make very expensive BoP profession tools. The drake customizations are green but way too expensive for maybe getting a point. And BoP again.
I assume the idea was that people would put in orders for staves or darkmoon decks but we know how thay played out.
I can try to put in orders for max inspiration tools and accesories and hope that they can push me to rank 4. Even then, id have to pimp staves in trade chat for points.
Its hard but thats ok. Its a game, i like to figure it out. A simple fix would be to just make all the profession tools boe
It does but the odds are poor. I have recrafted a Blacksmith Toolbox 5 times for only one skillup and others have reported even worse skillup rates for recrafts.
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Ouch. Its cheaper than making profession tools at least lol