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Today for the first time since I picked up Inscription on release, my Inscriptionist didn't learn a Minor Inscription when I did my daily Minor Inscription Research.

I was sad, but realized there must be some end to the discoveries some day, and I guess today is it, until new minor glyphs are introduced to the game in future content patches.

I went and looked online to find information about this, because if I've experienced it, others have too, and surely they've talked about it. And they had.

Here's what I found, a post on the World of Warcraft forums, by Lobotomy of Frostmane. I repost it here so it won't be lost when the post expires on the forums:

My background: I have 6 chars with Inscription. 3 are level 5 with 75/75, one is level 17 with 75/75, a level 22 with 118/150 and a level 35 with 300/300. The reason for that was to be able to get as many minor glyphs as fast as possible, and since my only investment was herbs to get up to 75 and leveling a char to 5 it was an easy choice for some fast moneymaking.

Yesterday I found that four of my chars didn't discover anything. I checked what they had discovered, and it was the exact same thing on all chars, and what they had discovered was everything that could be made with Midnight Ink and nothing else. I then looked at my level 22 char that had 100+ Inscription, but hadn't learned Lion's Ink at 100, and saw that it had discovered 6 extra glyphs that didn't need Midnight Ink, but Lion's Ink instead.

Today I took the level 17 char that didn't get a discovery last night, learned 75+ Inscription, leveled it to 100 and discovered a minor that needed Lion's Ink. I also tested on one of the 75/75 chars and then they didn't discover anything today either.

What this means is that the minor glyphs you can discover is limited by the inks you can learn. Or more specifically, by your skill level. Discovering something seems to be a 100% chance, I didn't get any fails in 22 days on any of the 6 chars before 4 of them had discovered everything they could discover. When you get to a new main ink skill level, the new amount of glyphs you can discover is added to the old pool of possible discoveries.

So, if you want to make a discover alt, these are the minor glyphs you can discover at different skill and character levels:

75 Midnight Ink (minimum char level 5)

Class Glyphs

Mage Arcane Intellect / Frost Armor / Slow Fall / Penguin
Hunter Mend Pet / Possessed Strength / Revive Pet / Scare Beast
Priest Fading / Fortitude
Paladin Blessing of Might / Blessing of Wisdom / Lay on Hands
Warlock Drain Soul
Warrior Battle / Bloodrage / Charge / Thunder Clap
Rogue Blurred Speed / Pick Pocket
Druid Wild / Thorns

100 Lion's Ink (minimum char level 10)

Class Glyphs
Mage Fire Ward / Frost Ward
Priest Shackle Undead
Paladin Blessing of Kings / Sense Undead
Shaman Ghost Wolf / Water Breathing / Water Shield
Warlock Kilrogg / Unending Breath
Warrior Mocking Blow
Rogue Distract / Pick Lock / Vanish
Druid Aquatic Form / Unburdened Rebirth

150 Jadefire Ink (minimum char level 10)

Class Glyphs

Hunter Feign Death
Priest Levitate / Shadow Protection
Paladin Wise
Shaman Astral Recall / Renewed Life / Water Walking
Warlock Curse of Exhaustion / Enslave Demon
Druid Challenging Roar / Dash

200 Celestial Ink (minimum char level 20)

Class Glyphs
Hunter Pack
Rogue Safe Fall

300 Ethereal Ink (minimum char level 35)

Class Glyphs

Warrior Enduring Victory
Death Knight Blood Tap / Corpse Explosion / Death's Embrace / Horn of Winter / Pestilence / Raise Dead

350 Ink of the Sea (minimum char level 50)

Class Glyphs

Priest Shadowfiend
Warlock Souls
Druid Typhoon (added around 3.0.8 patch)

So a level 5 alt with 75/75 inscription can discover a total 22/60 minor glyphs, and many of them are very good sellers too. If you level the char up to level 10 and get 100+ inscription you can discover 16 more minor glyphs, and if you max it at 150 with the level 10 you can discover 11 more glyphs.

So a level 10 char with 150/150 inscription can discover 49/60 minor glyphs, which is most of the good ones(but no DK ones). Considering about half of them sell easily on AH for good profit, taking inscription on a low level alt or leveling one or two to lvl 10 just to do this is a good investment.

NOTE: With each content patch, Blizzard slips in new Glyphs here and there. This list may not be completely accurate anymore but is a good reference just the same

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1. Sneeeeeaaaaaky Blizzzardzes (AKA: New Minor Glyphs Available)
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