What does it cost to level Inscription right now?

14.7kg in reagents at today's TW auction prices, over about 99 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 14.7kg. 91% 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 19:54 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 · Khaz Algar Inscription · TW · prices as of 19:54 UTC

Inscription leveling 1 → 110 · Khaz Algar Inscription

14.7kg in reagents over about 99 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 14.7kg. 91% 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

Shadow Ink×14740

5,880

×1475,880

Boundless Cipher×8050

Codified Greenwood×4443

1,925

×441,925

Crystalline Powder×1081

108

×108108

Total14,713

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 37

Orange→Yellow

Transcribe: Ascension

specialization

About 39 crafts.1,560

per skill point43

Shadow Ink×39

Step 2 · Skill 37 → 40

Yellow

Hasty Alchemist's Mixing Rod

trainerfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 2 crafts.275

per skill point91

Codified Greenwood×4

Boundless Cipher×2

Step 3 · Skill 40 → 90

Orange→Yellow

Algari Treatise on Mining

trainerfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 54 crafts.7,128

per skill point142

Crystalline Powder×108

Shadow Ink×108

Boundless Cipher×54

Step 4 · Skill 90 → 100

Orange

Vagabond's Torch

specializationfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 4 crafts.5,750

per skill point575

Writhing Sample×80

Boundless Cipher×24

Codified Greenwood×40

Skill 100 → 110

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

Skill 110 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Hasty Alchemist's Mixing Rod219

239

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

Back in your pocket14,673

What's worth crafting with Inscription right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Inscription right now?: 14.7kg in reagents at today's TW auction prices, over about 99 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 14.7kg. 91% 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 19:54 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.