The Inscription Profession

Something we haven't heard much about yet is the inscription profession that will be introduced in Wrath of the Litch King. This completely new profession will allow you to augment your spells and abilities and assist you with some more cosmetic issues. In essence inscriptions are enchants for your sells and abilities. The inscription profession will create Glyphs of which each player can have six. These glyphs will reside in each players spell book under a new tab. Glyphs will come in two categories, major of which you will have four and minor of which you will have two.

Major glyphs will allows you to alter your spells and abilities for example increase the crit chance of an Backstab or add a small dot component to a spell. Minor glyphs will provide more cosmetic improvements for example removing the need for a spell reagent.

The materials needed to make these glyphs is also a bit of a gray area. Apparently one of the inscriptions recipes seen so far uses Peacebloom leading to a conclusion it might be herbalism based. I would maintain that this is still speculation though.

I find this new profession intriguing and will continue to try and provide more information about it.

This information is based on the Wowwiki article, forum blue post, the Wotlk Alpha site and an Euro Gamer article. Image from The Ancient Egypt Site.