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by Natalie Mootz 
Sep 18th 2008 at 4:25PM
One thing I know is this: the 8962 beta patch which downloaded last night is not going to be the last beta patch we see. How do I know this? Because there are still no Warrior, Death Knight, or minor glyphs available to train yet. Yes, I know what some websites are reporting about Death Knight glyphs, but I assure that these glyphs are not at the trainers. The lack of clear information on the topic is making it interesting to be a scribe on the beta servers. (And by "interesting" I mean "lame.") While I'm standing in front of the trainer looking at the list of available glyphs, people on the Trade channel are calling me an idiot because I have no DK glyphs because they read about them. (Lolwut?) But my graphic for this post is my proof. They're not available yet, people!I've leveled up to Expert on Inscription and I'm an oink away from Artisan. I have been selling my glyphs for measly sums merely to cover the cost of materials. Who are these people trying to sell a stack of Peacebloom for 500G?? Do they not understand that (a) you can't buy anything useful with your beta money anyway and (b) you can't keep your money when Wrath goes live? Can they back off their greed for, I don't know, 10 minutes to let the Inscription profession work out its kinks? And what's with the enchanters? I put a stack of vellum out there for 1 silver and nobody wants it? Obviously, enchanters are not making scrolls for us to test out. (The scrolls you see on the auction house are from scribes, by the way, not enchanters.) I've been able to purchase one whole enchantment on the beta -- some kind of shiny spellthread for my pants -- at the lovely cost of 599 gold. But that was WAY back two patches ago. Since then I haven't seen any enchantment scrolls available at all. If you want free glyphs, mail or whisper Sligger on the US Northrend beta server. And if you want to send me free herbs, may Elune bless you!
Lastly, I leave you with a mystery. On the table next to the Inscription trainer in Undercity, there is a floating book which is called "Lexicon of Power" when you mouse over it. You can't intereact with it otherwise. A Scribe standing next to me suggested that maybe it's like an Anvil or a Mana Loom, but the currently available inscription recipes don't mention a need for it. I guess we'll have to wait for the next patch.
Filed under: Warrior, Herbalism, Enchanting, Items, Expansions, Making money, Enchants, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich King, Inscription
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
gen Sep 18th 2008 9:08PM
I had many stacks of herbs in my bank when my character was copied to the test realm so that's how they travelled.
I saw the insane prices at the AH and sold mine for humanely reasonable prices.
Brawndo Sep 18th 2008 5:45PM
I gave up testing Inscription when I ran out of Mageroyal. The overwhelming majority of all Glyphs require one Mageroyal to make. Enterprising farmers have figured this out, and it makes Mageroyal all but impossible to find in the wild because it's all farmed out - it's all up on the auction house for as much as 500g *apiece*.
Of course, Scribes are getting in on the action too, selling basic glyphs for 500g each as well. It's pretty ridiculous and not conducive to testing. Unless they're testing whether it's wise to make 90% of recipes for your profession all use the same mat. In which case, I'll go out on a limb and say no, that's not wise. :)
Natalie Mootz Sep 18th 2008 6:05PM
Hi Brawndo, I agree about the stupidness of the Mageroyal situation. Fortunately, this latest patch fixed that error and now you only need one ink and one type of parchment for each glyph. So the price of Mageroyal will not skyrocket when Wrath goes live -- don't worry about hording it!
Cowbane Sep 18th 2008 6:17PM
Here's an idea: This is beta, the main point is to TEST the content. What do they do with everything else such as talents respecs and stuff? sell for 1c. To kill the beta problem? Have a BGM just spawn a couple hundred peaceblooms and put them on AH for 1c and keep doing it.
Cholesterol Sep 18th 2008 6:34PM
I have a horde character on northrend at the moment who has 385ish enchanting, and around 1k gold. I believe your alliance, but if you'd like to try the neutral AH or something I can test out anything you need enchanting wise. My second profession is mining so unfortunately I can't send you any herbs. Sorry. Just leave me an e-mail if you want to sell me something or vis versa.
Cholesterol Sep 18th 2008 6:36PM
Sorry I just reread some comments, you are horde. Send me a whisper in game. "Cholesterol" if you need me for enchanting testing.
David Sep 18th 2008 6:34PM
The amount of mis-information here is incredible.
First, that leg "enchant" is not from enchanting its from tailor.
Second, the reason no enchanters buy the scrolls is because they are broken and do not work currently.
Finally the reason herbs have been so overinflated is because people who copy over bunches of herbs skill up to the cap and then sell of the rest. You need cash to test out most of the tradeskills so yes the prices are overinflated precisely because the gold has no value.
Arkkis Sep 18th 2008 6:35PM
On the server I'm playing on in the PTR, glyphs are going for 1999g on the AH. And its all from one guy with a few reasonably prices glyphs here and there from others
Shadiix Sep 18th 2008 6:43PM
On Northrend (Beta) (Alliance) my druid is 350 inscription, about 400 enchanting, and I've noticed one thing... You can't put high level enchants on the current vellum and the other enchant scroll. These scrolls are currently lower than level 35 so the enchants requiring an item of level 35 can't be enchanted to them. That could explain there being no enchants on the AH.
Darkharmony Sep 18th 2008 7:51PM
Natalie I agree with pretty much everything you mentioned. One thing I did want to bring light to is that the vellum you were talking about doesn't get purchased for one reason. It's pretty well useless right now. It's not a high enough item level that the top tier enchantments can be put on it. Only the really low ones can.
As for those saying that all scribes are selling glyphs for 500g. Nope not me, for one if you get me the mats I'll make it free. And if not then just keep a look out for the 10g ones that I put up. I'm not here to make a fortune I just want them out of my inventory and in to someones spell book.
Caustik Sep 18th 2008 8:05PM
Just one question : is there any inscription "recipes" requiring some BC reputation?
(might seem odd, but who knows...)
Darxide Sep 18th 2008 9:52PM
its hard to tell if blizzard would do something like that Caustik. i doubt they would put inscribing recipees that required old world rep to get to. the only thing i would guess is that they implement some recipees here and there from normal venders. all the rep runs will happen in northrend.
as for the skyrocketing prices, the reason blizzard did that is to help testing with it. the herbalism and inscribing go hand in hand, blizzard wanted to see how well they went with each other, so they still make you grind the herbs (albet low lvl ones to make it easy).
and as far as the total douches who ninja all the herbs/glyphs off the AH and sell them for 2k gold a piece, i just wish they could be reported in some way and banned from the PTR.
Thomas Jespersen Sep 19th 2008 2:03AM
Yeah, those Beta AH prices!
Last I checked on the EU Beta Realm there were glyphs being sold for 100 gold each. They only required like a handful of low level herbs to make. I promptly made a lot of glyphs and put them up for 4 gold each instead :)
Blizkin Sep 19th 2008 2:30PM
I have recently reached 355 Inscription and thats as far as we can get right now since the latest build. The next Ink I need requires pigment from Northrend herbs. I am a bit disappointed in how Blizzard is putting out this next patch prior to WOTLK. When we get the patch we will be able to top off around 355 and we can see 2 more tiers of Glyphs we will be able to make but will not be able to until Northrend. Just feels sloppy IMO. I do hope they add better tarot cards as the items we get from these ones do not seem worth the effort to me. Tip: Don't try to sell Glyphs in Trade Channel. You get a million whispers and figuring out which herbs make which pigment and which inks, while people are asking you questions gets really crazy. Just put em up on the AH. So what do you all think we should sell Glyphs for whe it goes live. I agree that really high prices is lame but we need a baseline.
Alavan Sep 29th 2008 7:15PM
The Lexicon of Power is required for ANYONE to equip glyphs, this is in order to keep people from changing glyphs in the middle of a raid I guess.