WoW Forever Mage Scrolls: Comprehension and Research Explained

Comprehension is new in WoW Forever: a minor tradeskill that only Mages get. At level 6 a Mage trainer teaches Comprehend Scroll, the spell that deciphers a scroll, and learning it adds Comprehension to your skill list.

The skill starts at 1 and climbs by 1 for every scroll you decipher, up to 300. Each tier of scrolls asks for a Comprehension skill and a character level, so the list opens up as your Mage levels.

A tier opens when your Comprehension and your character level both reach its line in the table.

The Scroll of Wit is left out of the table: 1 guide puts it in tier 4, and another gives it no tier.

Undeciphered scrolls are random drops. They turn up in the loot of the mobs you kill, while questing and on dungeon runs.

Until a Mage deciphers it, a scroll tells you nothing about its effect. Comprehend Scroll turns it into a usable item, and each successful read is a point of Comprehension.

Imbue scrolls put magic on your weapon. Imbue Lesser Flame, for example, adds damage to your Fire spells. Familiar scrolls summon a small companion that follows you, and the Rat and Frog familiars raise your Intellect.

Attack scrolls cast a spell of their own: Cryoblast deals Frost damage to a group of enemies at once. The rest are utility scrolls, from Confuse Beast and Rebuke Elemental to Khadgar’s Unlocking.

Library books start a 2nd system. Turn in your 1st library book and you learn Research, which gives your Mage the Study ability.

Study uses up 1 Light Feather and works only inside a library, such as the one in Stormwind for the Alliance or in Undercity for the Horde. You can cast it once an hour, and it leaves you a Bundle of Scrolls, a random set of scrolls that come already deciphered.

Since those scrolls need no reading, they add nothing to Comprehension. Study is a supply of scrolls to use, and deciphering the scrolls you loot stays the way to raise the skill.

Tier 4 asks for level 46, so most of the scroll list opens on the road to 60. Our leveling route takes the quests plus 1 clear of every dungeon, and both drop scrolls. With 1 booster it runs 12 hours a day, 10 to 14 days in all.

For 60 in 5 to 7 days, 2 boosters take turns on your character around the clock, on the same route and the same hours of play. Talents, races and the class route are on our WoW Forever Mage guide, and the travel spells on our Mage portals guide.