Inscription



Inscriptions are a type of salvagable weapon upgrade. They were introduced with the release of the Nightfall campaign and replace some of the inherent weapon modifiers used in the Prophecies and Factions campaign, which are not salvagable.

Inscriptions can only be salvaged from, and added to, items found in the Nightfall Campaign, Eye of the North Expansion, items from the end chest of the Factions elite missions: The Deep and Urgoz's Warren, or items from the Hall of Heroes chest.

Acquisition
There are no traders or crafters for inscriptions, you can obtain them through loot or other players.

You can salvage an inscription from any drop that has one. The inscription is a guaranteed salvage with Expert Salvage Kits, though the item has a chance of being destroyed in the process.

Inscriptions have an intrinsic value of 25 gold when sold to a merchant so it is generally worth using an Expert Salvage Kit to salvage the inscription from a cheaper object and selling it separately. An Identification Kit can also be used to reveal the actual value of the inscription. The difference is often higher than the cost of identifying the inscription.

Usage
To attach an inscription to a weapon double-click on the inscription (the mouse pointer appearance will change), then click on the item that you want to attach it to.

The target item must be of the designated type given in the description. Furthermore, it must have an inscription slot. This slot can either be free (in which case the description reads: "Inscription: None") or in use by another inscription. In the latter case, the old inscription will be overwritten. If you want to keep the old inscription, you may salvage it to free the slot at the risk of the target item being destroyed.

Inscriptions that read "Reduces on you by ..." apparently must be equipped at the time the condition is applied.

Note: Items from Prophecies, Factions, and the Realms of the Gods have not been converted to the new system, which means they never come with an inscription slot! With the exception of items dropped from a chest at the end of an elite mission in Factions.

Note: Certain armors from Prophecies and Factions have had the insignia removed and a slot added.

List of Inscriptions
The following is a list of all available inscriptions, sorted by bonus effect:

Skill bonuses
See also Weapon upgrades:
 * Adept Staff Head (HCT spells of item's attribute)
 * Swift Staff Head (HCT spells)
 * Wand Wrapping of Quickening (HSR spells)
 * Wand Wrapping of Memory (HSR spells of item's attribute)

Inscription trivia
Most, if not all, of the names of the inscriptions are suspected to be references to popular culture. However it is not known which reference is intended, and most of these inscriptions could be a reference to more than one definite source.