What does it cost to level Inscription right now?

40.6kg in reagents at today's KR auction prices, over about 128 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 40.6kg. 84% of the route is priced

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 19:27 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 · Shadowlands Inscription · KR · prices as of 19:27 UTC

Inscription leveling 1 → 130 · Shadowlands Inscription

40.6kg in reagents over about 128 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 40.6kg. 84% of the route is priced

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

Total40,581

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 60

Orange→Yellow

First Flower

trainer

About 61 crafts.9,625

per skill point163

First Flower×1220

Step 2 · Skill 60 → 110

Orange→Green

Fae Revel Masque

needs the recipe item

About 67 crafts.30,956

per skill point619

Skill 110 → 130

Every recipe over this stretch has a reagent nobody is selling right now, so it is left out of the totals.

Skill 130 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

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

Back in your pocket40,577

What's worth crafting with Inscription right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Inscription right now?: 40.6kg in reagents at today's KR auction prices, over about 128 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 40.6kg. 84% of the route is priced
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 19:27 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.