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This is only a sample of what Inscription can bring.

I've read that some "scripts" could add stunning or bouncing effect.

Blizzard doesn't want Inscription to be only the enchants-for-spells.
They want it to be a profession providing alternate effects that won't increase/reduce your/your opponent damage/heal but add a side effect to give more gameplay possibilities.

Yeah, I thought they stated explicitly at Blizzcon that +dmg inscriptions wouldn't exist because then its 99% of the time the obvious choice.

i think you misread the tooltip, it says "spells can only have one inscription", so it will work like enchants.

First - why draw any assumptions from the one example of Inscription that we've seen? It's like seeing a bluejay and saying "lame, all birds are blue?".

Second, IIRC, Blizzard has made a point of saying that the profession will create /objects/ that then provide the inscription, rather than the character with the profession personally inscribing a given spell. (Don't ask me how that would work.) So if you're leveling a rogue, and this is the only thing that's orange for you, you just make a bunch of them and sell them on the auction house.

I wouldn't be surprised if the profession was only available starting at lvl 275 or so, like Death Knights will only be available starting at 50 or so.

It says it permanently inscripts fireball. :/
Also, they said it will work like enchanting, and they are adding the thing you described to enchanting as well, so it seems logical to conclude that inscripting will have both options too. And I meant it was lame in that this implies that I won't be able to say, add a frost slowdown to a fireball attack.

We don't have any information about this at the present, so all we can do is guess. I'm thinking that inscriptions will be static, and you'll have to pay each time you change them.

Inscriptions are like scrolls with permanent effects, so being a melee class shouldn't be a problem lore-wise as those classes already use scrolls of strength/agility and so on to affect themselves.

One other thing is, if there are multiple ranked inscriptions for each spell, then this is multiplied by all the classes -- so either there will be _lots_ of inscriptions, or they will only apply to a few spells per class?

Personally I was thinking that there would be a decent number of "general" inscriptions that would work on large groups of abilities, like melee or aoe, and then a few that would only be for specific abilities (and would likely be more powerful/rare).