Inscription n CataFollow

This profession is a huge cog in Cata, how glyphs fit and mesh with talents and skills could be huge. Yet next to nothing is know about what Inscription changes will happen for Cata.

We know a thing called medium glyphs will likely exist and not much else.

I'm insanely curious how Inscription will play out in Cata. Has anyone heard any good gossip?

The only gossip I've heard is that glyphs may become like talented spells - once you learn it, you remember it forever. This would effectively, in my humble opinion, make inscription like engineering is now - next to impossible to make money with. If that's what going to happen, I'm going to make copies of every glyph for all of my toons, learn them, then drop inscription for something more useful like another transmute spec alchemist.

They seemed kind of "after thoughtish" when they first came out, like they wanted a new tradeskill and just slapped something together real fast - I think the real effort was put into archeology.

I don't like the fact that your biggest moneymaker is just setting up someone else to make more money. If you're an enchanter selling enchants, then you're going to mark up the price of the enchant to cover your costs of vellum, and you might even mark it up beyond the vellum price, meaning the scribe would be left out of even more gold.

I made some money early on in inscription, but ever since they released dual talents, I've made next to nothing. I've enjoyed having a character to make my own glyphs, but that's about the only benefit I have to inscription. That is why I'm currently leveling inscription on a lesser played toon, so that I can drop it on my main.

Yeah they haven't included anything in the beta so far about glyphs. Supposedly some glyphs are not currently working as intended because of other changes that have been made, but as far as I can tell mine are working just fine on my priest.

I don't think anyone knows for sure at this point.

What I read (and I can't find the post now to point to it) was that glyphs would effectively become like bags. You, as a character, would have glyph slots that you could fill...just like now.

Once you buy a glyph, you keep it and can swap it out for other glyphs that you buy. Swapping out a glyph would not destroy it. You'd bank/bag it somewhere until you needed it again.

No one ever said, that I know of, that you could buy all your class glyphs and use them like spells.

Now, that said, that's not a bit like it is now and many might find that sort of market alarming.

On the other hand, no one that I know of with tailoring is complaining about the bag market. My tailoring alt sells them pretty much at will.

So we'll just have to wait and see. All of the above was from really early on in the info dumps from Blizz.

EDIT: To clarify, I meant they would be a lot like bags as a market. You can swap bags out now all you want but why would you want to if it's not an upgrade. There are real reasons to swap one glyph for another even now.

SECOND EDIT: Just saw this this morning from the latest build...

Glyphs

* All glyphs are now found in the spellbook of each class on beta servers. Ultimately, classes will learn glyphs as "spells" and will only have to buy the glyph once to definitely learn it and swap it at any time.

Note the line about swapping which implies that the number of glyphs active will be limited (since there will apparently be a need to swap them).
Edited, Aug 14th 2010 7:51pm by Moanique

Edited, Aug 15th 2010 1:59pm by Moanique

I think that buying a glyph once and using it forever is a pretty big change from buying a stack of glyphs to carry around and having to burn them as you swap them out.

I'm a 62 in the game though so the idea of spending 200-400g (more or less) on a stack is sort of mind-boggling as far as maintenance goes. I realize that there are 80's around with thousands in the bank and not much to spend it on for which this would be a trivial thing.

Depending on how glyphs pan out in the end, I think this stands a decent chance of having a profound effect on leveling.

Part of my argument was about the impact on the economy of inscriptionists.

who carries stacks and burns through them ?!

anyway. How likely is this to raise the price of glyphs? given the one time use and known forever thing?

If you have to obtain a new copy of each glyph to fill up your "glyph book" at the start of cata, prices for them will absolutely skyrocket. I'm stockpiling about 20 copies of each glyph now while material prices are low, for personal use and selling on the release day.

Yes, but i plan on selling mine in he first day to the people who are desperate for them. It's obviously not going to be a sustainable business, more of a fire sale :P

If anyone relisted 90% of the glyphs at 1 copper less than the ah they would make... 1 copper

{Edit] Wrong word use.

Edited, Sep 28th 2010 6:51am by killsinheels

People havent mentioned yet but a reagent [made from inscription] is needed to change glyphs. Vanishing powder is needed each time you want to change a used glyph slot. It stacks [from what i see] in 20's.

people will want to switch glyphs around depending on the situation and such, meaning a steady income for inscription.

Edited, Oct 2nd 2010 12:45pm by Tenjen