Retail Inscription — Midnight 1–100

Retail · Midnight
Updated 21 October 2026

Learn Midnight Inscription from Zantasia in Silvermoon City. This expansion has its own 1–100 skill bar; older expansion skill does not need to be leveled first.

Counted Inscription route

This route moves from milling and trainer tools into Treatises. It does not require first-crafting every trainer recipe. Keep those optional first crafts in a separate Knowledge budget.

Skill stage	Action / count	Ingredients per attempt	Batch budget
1–20	About 24 milling attempts	10 eligible Midnight herbs	240 herbs; keep the resulting pigments
20–30	About 7 Faunatender’s Baton crafts	8 Azeroot; 1 Thalassian Songwater	56 Azeroot; 7 Songwater
30–80	50 Thalassian Treatise on Inscription	1 Munsell Ink; 1 Sienna Ink; 1 Mote of Wild Magic; 3 Lexicologist’s Vellum	50 of each ink and mote; 150 vellum
80–90	Budget 15 Treatises	Same recipe	15 of each ink and mote; 45 vellum
90–100	Budget 25 Treatises	Same recipe	25 of each ink and mote; 75 vellum

Required unlock: at Inscription skill 25, choose Calm Hands to learn the Inscription Treatise. Milling and late Treatise counts vary with yellow/green skill-up luck. Stop each stage at its target; do not finish the displayed batch merely to match the table.

Shopping budget with finished inks

For the listed starter steps and 90 Treatises, budget 240 herbs, 56 Azeroot, 7 Thalassian Songwater, 90 Munsell Ink, 90 Sienna Ink, 90 Mote of Wild Magic and 270 Lexicologist’s Vellum. Buy Songwater and vellum from supplies vendors. Subtract existing stock. If you mill Azeroot, keep the 56 needed for batons separate from the milling allowance.

Make the inks instead: count output, not just crafts

Recipe	Reagents per craft	Base output
Munsell Ink	3 Songwater; 20 Powder Pigment; 10 Sanguithorn Pigment; 5 Mana Lily Pigment	2 ink
Sienna Ink	3 Songwater; 20 Powder Pigment; 10 Argentleaf Pigment; 5 Mana Lily Pigment	2 ink

To make 90 of each ink at the base yield, craft each recipe 45 times. Replace the two finished-ink entries with 270 additional Songwater, 1,800 Powder Pigment, 450 Sanguithorn Pigment, 450 Argentleaf Pigment and 450 Mana Lily Pigment. Including the batons, Songwater totals 277. The original 240 herbs are not a guarantee of that pigment basket: deduct the pigments actually obtained, then buy or mill for the shortfall.

These two shopping approaches are alternatives. Do not purchase both 90 finished inks and the ingredients to make those same inks. Making inks while they still award skill can also reduce your later baton or Treatise counts. Multicraft and Resourcefulness can save materials, but the budget does not assume either.

Refill and distribute intelligently

Ten extra Inscription Treatises cost 10 of each ink, 10 Wild Magic motes and 30 vellum. To self-make those inks, five crafts of each ink use 30 Songwater, 200 Powder Pigment and 50 each of the three colored pigments. A character can study only one Treatise per profession per week, so crafting ninety does not grant ninety immediate Knowledge. Consider useful orders for alts or other players, and first-craft other profession Treatises when discovered; their mote type can differ.

Route estimates: Wowhead Inscription route. Direct recipe records: Munsell Ink, Sienna Ink, Inscription Treatise. Checked 21 October 2026.

Materials and farming guides

References: WoW-Professions