Starting Out: The Miller Tells His Tale
As we’ve mentioned before, Herbalism is the complementary profession for Inscription, which means that if you want to get into it, you’d best save up a bunch of herbs now. With the herbs, you’ll be primarily making pomace and ink in order to create various scrolls.
You start by using Peacebloom and Silverleaf to make basic inks, Ivory and Silver, respectively. Those will go yellow at 15, green at 32, and gray at 50. You’ll also be able to make your first item, a Scroll of Stamina, which uses 2 Ivory Ink and 1 piece of Light Parchment. That recipe goes yellow at 40 and green at 52. You’ll also be able to make scrolls of intellect and spirit starting at 15 skill. Scrolls of Intellect will take Silver Ink, while you’ll use both Ivory and Silver inks for Scroll of Spirit.
At 30 skill, you’ll learn Milling. Milling is similar in function and form to Prospecting. It grinds 5 herbs into a pomace which is then used to make high level inks — the higher your inscription skill, the higher the level of herb you can grind. Mageroyal, Earthroot, Silverleaf, and Peacebloom apparently all give Alabaster Pomace, while Briarthorn gives Dusky Pomace. Milling can also give out random mushrooms, which I suppose are at least slightly more useful than Copper Powder. Once you’ve done some Milling, you can use the Alabaster Pomace to make Moonglow Ink.
