Fire Mage Leveling Glyphs
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 – 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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Nice site man, picked up a couple nuggets here…can’t wait for Cataclysm, I read a rumor that it’s going to be coming out Nov 2010, however with Blizzard you never know :/
I agree with your choice: Fireball is a must.
Is there a reason why you didn’t use Glyph: Molten Armor? It increases your crit rating for all of your spells. In my opinion that`s better than just enhancing one spell (scorch) especially if you won’t use the spell more than once per fight.
Cool site. I agree as well, must use Fireball. I have also found that Frostfire Bolt is very good when you get to the higher level, I think 75 is when you can use it. It does some really good damage!