The Inscription profession was introduced to the game with the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, and players gained the abilities to modify their spells and abilities using the Glyphs created by this profession. This went over very well with people who had been playing the game for a long time and had a good idea of how these things worked, but new players were left scratching their heads in confusion.
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 easily your best choice for a first major glyph. Fireball is your bread and butter spell for leveling, and composes a great deal of your damage. The glyph adds an extra 5% chance to crit in exchange for removing the decidedly weak damage-over-time component of the spell. This is a more than fair trade. Pick it up and slot it as soon as you can.
Glyph of Improved Scorch – This is the next glyph to take. It makes your Scorch ability apply a full stack of the Improved Scorch debuff, giving you an extra 5% crit from the get-go. Considering you usually can’t Scorch 5 times outside of a group setting, this glyph is a pretty sweet deal.
Glyph of Frostfire Bolt – You don’t unlock this last glyph slot until 80, so I personally allocate it to what I feel is the strongest of our endgame spells, Frostfire Bolt. Augmenting it with an extra 2% damage and 2% crit makes it even more of a beast than it already was, so it’s not a tough choice in my opinion.
That’s all folks. Those are the glyphs that got my fire mage from level 1 to level 80. If you want to see the talent build I used, you can check out the link I’ve included below.
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