Introduction
The general idea behind the new profession Inscription is the creation of Glyphs.
Glyphs enhance your characters spells and abilities.
There are 6 Glyph slots: 3 Major Glyph slots and 3 Minor Glyph slots.
Only 5 are usable at this time, the sixth slot will open when WoTLK is released.
Glyph List for Shamans, Warlocks and Warriors
Shaman
Major Glyphs:
Glyph of Earthliving Weapon: Increases the chance for your Earthliving weapon to trigger by 5%.
Glyph of Fire Nova Totem: Increases the radius of Fire Nova Totem’s effect by 2 yards.
Glyph of Flame Shock: Increases the duration of your Flame Shock ability by 6 seconds.
Glyph of Flametongue Weapon: Increases spell critical strike chance by 2% while Flametongue Weapon is active.
Glyph of Frost Shock: Increases the duration of your Frost Shock by 2 sec.
Glyph of Healing Stream Totem: Your Healing Stream Totem heals for an additional 20%.
Glyph of Lesser Healing Wave: Your Lesser Healing Wave heals for 20% more if the target is also affected by your Earth Shield.
Glyph of Lightning Bolt: Reduces the cost of your Lightning Bolt ability by 10%.
Glyph of Lightning Shield: Increases the damage from Lightning Shield by 20%.
Glyph of Strength of Earth Totem: Your Strength of Earth Totem also grants 1% melee and ranged critical strike chance.
Glyph of Water Mastery: Increases the passive mana regeneration of your Water Shield spell by 30%.
Glyph of Water Shield: Your Water Shield has 3 additional charges.
Glyph of Windfury Weapon: The attack power bonus on the additional attacks granted by Windfury Weapon is increased by 40%.
Minor Glyphs:
Glyph of Astral Recall: Cooldown reduced by 2.5 min.
Glyph of Renewed Life: Reincarnation increases all stats by 5% for 1 min.
Glyph of Water Walking: Reagent cost removed.
Glyph of Water Breathing: Reagent cost removed.
Glyph of Ghost Wolf: Regenerates an “additional” 1% of your maximum health every 5 seconds.
Glyph of Water Shield: Increases the number of bubbles by 1.
Warlock
Major Glyphs:
Glyph of Banish: Increased the duration of your Banish by 5 seconds.
Glyph of Corruption: Your Corruption spell has a 4% chance to cause you to enter a Shadow Trance state after damaging the opponent. The Shadow Trance state reduces the casting time of your next Shadow Bolt spell by 100%.
Glyph of Fear: Increases the damage your Fear target can take before the Fear effect is removed by 20%.
Glyph of Health Funnel: Increases the chance you’ll resist spell interruption when channeling your Health Funnel spell by 100%.
Glyph of Healthstone: You receive 30% more healing from using a healthstone.
Glyph of Imp: Increases the damage done by your Imp’s Firebolt spell by 10%.
Glyph of Searing Pain: Increases the critical strike bonus of your Searing Pain by 20%.
Glyph of Shadow Bolt: Reduces the mana cost of your Shadow Bolt by 10%.
Glyph of Shadowburn: Increases the critical strike chance of Shadowburn by 20% when the target is below 35% health.
Glyph of Succubus: Increases the duration of your Succubus’s Seduction by 3 seconds.
Affliction by 0.2 seconds.
Glyph of Voidwalker: Increases your Voidwalker’s total Stamina by 20%.
Minor Glyphs:
Glyph of Curse of Exhaustion: Increases the range of your Curse of Exhaustion by 5 yards.
Glyph of Drain Soul: Your Drain Soul ability occasionally creates an additional soul shard.
Glyph of Enslave Demon: Reduces the cast time of your Enslave Demon spell by 50%.
Glyph of Kilrogg: Increases the movement speed of your Eye of Kilrogg by 50% and allows it to fly in areas where flying mounts are enabled.
Glyph of Souls: Your Ritual of Souls ability no longer requires a soul shard.
Glyph of Unending Breath: Increases the swim speed of targets affected by your Unending Breath spell by 20%.
Warrior
Major Glyphs:
Glyph of Barbaric Insults: Your mocking blow also Taunts the target.
Glyph of Cleaving: Reduces the rage cost of Cleave by 5.
Glyph of Execution: Your Execute ability deals damage as if you had 10 additional rage.
Glyph of Hamstring: Your Hamstring ability has a 10% chance to immobilize the target for 5 sec.
Glyph of Heroic Strike: You gain 10 rage when you critically hit with Heroic Strike
Glyph of Overpower: Adds a 50% chance to enable Overpower when your attacks are parried.
Glyph of Rapid Charge: Reduces the cooldown of your charge ability by 20%.
Glyph of Rending: Increases the duration of your rend ability by 3 sec.
Glyph of Revenge: After using Revenge, your next heroic strike costs no rage.
Glyph of Sunder Armor: Your Sunder Armor ability affects a second nearby target.
Glyph of Sweeping Strikes: You generate 30 rage over 12 sec when you use your sweeping strikes ability.
Glyph of Whirlwind: Increases the number of targets your whirlwind hits by 1.
Minor Glyphs:
Glyph of Battle: Increases the duration of your battle shout by 1 min.
Glyph of Blocking: Increases your block value by 10% for 10 sec after using Shield Slam.
Glyph of Bloodrage: Reduces the health cost of your Bloodrage ability by 50%.
Glyph of Charge: Increases the range of your Charge ability by 5 yards.
This is Part 3 of my 3-Part Glyph Guide.
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Thanks, will edit itThanks, will edit it already, just in case I’d forget :p
Oh also in patch 3.0.3 it’sOh also in patch 3.0.3 it’s going to increase the duration of flame shock by 6. But as of now it is still 3.
Wrong glyph info :PJust something I noticed, “Glyph of Flame Shock: Increases the range on your Flame Shock ability by 10 yards.” (Actually increases duration of flame shock ability by 3 seconds). 😛