What does it cost to level Inscription right now?

37.6kg in reagents at today's EU auction prices, over about 137 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 37.6kg.

Where do these numbers come from?

The skill thresholds are read from the game client data for build 12.1.0.68914. The prices are the region-wide auction house, refreshed every few minutes; these are the snapshot taken at 20:31 UTC.

Why does the route change when I reload?

Because the prices did. The cheapest recipe for a stretch of skill is whichever one's reagents are cheapest at that moment, and that moves through the day.

Profession leveling · Dragon Isles Inscription · EU · prices as of 20:31 UTC

Inscription leveling 1 → 100 · Dragon Isles Inscription

37.6kg in reagents over about 137 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 37.6kg.

Start skill

Trainer recipes only

Recipe names carry the colour the profession window gives them: orange is a point every craft, yellow is three in four, green is one in four.

Before the first craft — buy it all at once

One trip to the auction house. Vendor lines are cheaper from the profession vendor than from the board.

ReagentNeedEachTotal

Cosmic Ink×50238

11,900

×5011,900

Runed Writhebark×25390

Glittering Parchment×3803

Shimmering Pigment×3268

×3221

Serene Pigment×161

×1619

Total37,631

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 15

Orange→Yellow

Serene Ink

needs the recipe itemfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 16 crafts.153

per skill point10

Iridescent Water×16

Shimmering Pigment×32

Serene Pigment×16

Draconic Vial×16

Step 2 · Skill 15 → 20

Orange

Serene Fortune

needs the recipe itemfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 5 crafts.70

per skill point14

Glittering Parchment×5

Iridescent Water×10

Serene Ink×10

Step 3 · Skill 20 → 65

Orange→Green

Glyph of the Heaved Armament

needs the recipe itemfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 55 crafts.825

per skill point18

Glittering Parchment×275

Step 4 · Skill 65 → 72

Yellow

Vantus Rune: Vault of the Incarnates

needs the recipe itemfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 10 crafts.1,789

per skill point255

Burnished Ink×20

Chilled Rune×10

Step 5 · Skill 72 → 75

Green

Sagescale Sigil

specializationfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 6 crafts.1,564

per skill point521

Awakened Earth×6

Flourishing Ink×6

Burnished Ink×12

Step 6 · Skill 75 → 85

Green

Vantus Rune: Vault of the Incarnates

needs the recipe itemfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 40 crafts.7,156

per skill point715

Burnished Ink×80

Chilled Rune×40

Step 7 · Skill 85 → 100

Orange

Crackling Codex of the Isles

specializationfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 5 crafts.26,072

per skill point1,738

Awakened Air×25

Glittering Parchment×100

Cosmic Ink×50

Runed Writhebark×25

Chilled Rune×20

Skill 100 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Vantus Rune: Vault of the Incarnates5050

Glyph of the Heaved Armament551

5555

Capped at what the market takes in 3 days, so a route never pretends to sell hundreds at once.

Back in your pocket37,589

What's worth crafting with Inscription right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Inscription right now?: 37.6kg in reagents at today's EU auction prices, over about 137 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 37.6kg.
Where do these numbers come from?: The skill thresholds are read from the game client data for build 12.1.0.68914. The prices are the region-wide auction house, refreshed every few minutes; these are the snapshot taken at 20:31 UTC.
Why does the route change when I reload?: Because the prices did. The cheapest recipe for a stretch of skill is whichever one's reagents are cheapest at that moment, and that moves through the day.

A first craft pays Knowledge, not skill, so it is shown as a badge and left out of the craft count. Vendor reagents are priced at the lower of the vendor and the auction house.