Ivory Ink, Making or buying?Follow

I assume that you're a Scribe (Inscription), as nobody else needs Ivory Ink for anything.

To make ink, simply do the following:

1). Open your Inscription craft window, this will display a list of things you can make.
2). Scroll down to Ivory Ink.
3). Note that an Ivory Ink takes 1 Alabaster Pigment.
4). Mouse over the Alabaster Pigment, it will tell you that it is commonly milled from Peacebloom, Silverleaf, or Earthroot.
5). Gather or buy from the AH, 5 of either of those.
6). Use your Milling Ability (found in the Professions tab of your spellbook) to mill 5 (it must be 5) of the aforementioned herbs to obtain some Alabaster Pigment.
7). Make sure you buy a Virtuoso Inking Set; you cannot make ink without it (you only need buy one; just keep it in your inventory and don't accidentally sell it). These are normally sold from an Inscription Supplies NPC, which is usually located near the NPC that taught you Inscription in the first place.

Every time you use your Milling ability, you will spend 5 herbs to gain pigment, which pigment you get depends on what herbs you mill (each pigment tells you what herbs they come from in your Inscription Craft Window).

Edited, Jun 17th 2011 9:34pm by Lyrailis

You'd think that, but you underestimate pure greed.

On both servers I play on, Moon Guard and The Scryers, I've commonly seen the flowers going for 5g+ a stack. Seriously. They take <5 minutes to gather 1 stack.

Not so Cheap when someone doesn't have Lv85 alts...

Scribes are in competition with alchemists as they level and they also compete with other professions for some resources (e.g. wildvine). Depending on who is leveling, you may find the AH less useful than you would want.

It is a good idea to take herbalism to reduce the amount of money you'll need. Besides, Lifeblood may not be the best HoT in the game, but it is still nice to have.

And don't forget the haste from it as well.

First toon on a server? Just starting out? No funding from high level mains? Take up 2 gathering professions and sell everything. In the higher levels and when you have money then start a profession you want in the long run. With high levels just buying everything off the AH to level their lower alts it's a great time to be a newbie. My friend just starting out the game for the very first time made 1k in less than a week with just doing 1 gathering profession. No hand me downs, no funds from friends/guild/higher mains, starting from absolute zero.

Well, see, this was before 4.0. I don't recall ever have Chim Shot, or it healing before 4.0... or maybe I just have bad memory.

After 4.0, I haven't actually leveled my hunter, beyond doing Cooking/Fishing/JC quests.

Hello Everyone:

Thanks for all of the help.

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There might be one or two that I missed, but I'm pretty sure every glyph I make to sell takes 3 ink. Plus, glyphs people commonly skill-up on are always getting dumped on the AH (on my server) for 10g or less.

Leveling, I can understand not having glyphs. Not past a day or two at 85, though. You get so much gold from questing, if you avoid buying over-priced greens and blues off the AH it should be easy to buy at least the 9 glyphs you need for your main spec.

Even 200g for a glyph isn't that bad when you compare it to cut gems. And you can blame Blizzard for making glyphs one-time purchases and tripling the amount of ink in the recipes. Where scribes might sell 50 glyphs a day (or a lot more), now I sell maybe 8 or 10.

I made over 4k doing Hyjal, Vashj'ir and Deepholm. There's no excuse not to have every glyph slot filled with a proper glyph when you hit cap. The only exception is if you couldn't find a scribe to make one, and the AH was empty.