The Wrath of the Lich King expansion introduced the Inscription profession, allowing for the creation of spell augmentations called Glyphs. While this was nothing less than a smashing success with veterans of the game, new players were left with yet another item to scratch their heads over.
I think that newbies have more than enough details to sort out on their own when starting out in WoW, and so I thought I’d peel away some of the guesswork by showing everyone the glyphs I used when leveling my new fire mage.
Glyph of Fireball – This is the number one choice for your first major glyph. Fireball is your main damage spell for most of the leveling process, and will always make up a good chunk of your damage. This glyph will increase your chance to crit with Fireball by 5%, but will remove the damage over time part of the spell. This tradeoff ends up balancing in your favor by a wide margin. Pick this one up ASAP.
Glyph of Improved Scorch – This glyph is the next item on your shopping list. It instantly applies a full stack of the Improved Scorch debuff, giving you an opportunity to make full use of it outside of a group for once! Getting an extra 5% critical strike chance right off the bat is a no-brainer.
Glyph of Frostfire Bolt – Since you don’t unlock your last major glyph until level 80, I figured it would make sense to allocate it to one of your strongest spells at level 80. 2% damage and 2% critical strike chance makes this spell even more useful than it already is.
And that’s it. Those are the glyphs that helped me get from 1-80. If you’re looking to get the talent build I used you can check out the link below.
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