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3.1 Glyphs for MagesFollow

#1 Feb 24 2009 at 2:18 PM Rating: Good
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Glyph of Ice Lance -- Your Ice Lance now causes 4 times damage against frozen targets higher level than you instead of triple damage. (Old: Increases the range of your Ice Lance by 5 yards)
Glyph of Ice Armor -- Your Ice Armor and Frost Armor spells grant an additional 50% armor and resistance. (Old: 20%)
Glyph of Deep Freeze *new* -- Increases the range of Deep Freeze by 10 yards.
Glyph of Living Bomb *new* -- The periodic damage from your Living Bomb can now be critical strikes.
Glyph of Arcane Barrage *new* -- Reduces the mana cost of Arcane Barrage by 20%.
Glyph of Mirror Image *new* -- Your Mirror Images gain the Winter's Chill talent, granting their Frostbolt spell a 100% chance to apply the Winter's Chill effect, which increases the chance spells will critically hit the target by 1% for 15 sec. Stacks up to 5 times.
Glyph of Ice Barrier *new* -- Increases the amount of damage absorbed by your Ice Barrier by 30%.

Cheers,
Zornov
(2v2 partner is mage had to check these out) :P
#2 Feb 24 2009 at 4:22 PM Rating: Good
nothing special for arcane mages that would be worth taking over the current glyphs as it stands.
#3 Feb 24 2009 at 6:09 PM Rating: Decent
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the ice lance glyph IS the way Blizzard decides to make shatter do more without touching ice-lance for PvP? The higher level target condition means the glyph is meant for bosses. Kinda touch and go for it as it only comes into play for boss fights.

the living bomb glyph is drool... this would make it very attractive to spec frost as sub and FFB as main.
#4 Feb 25 2009 at 6:05 AM Rating: Good
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the living bomb glyph is drool... this would make it very attractive to spec frost as sub and FFB as main.


What would you give up for it in FFB, though?

Improved Scorch? Probably not, unless you *always* run with someone else to put it or Winters Chill up.

FFB? Not likely.

Molten Armor? Eh...maybe? But you'd be giving up 3% crit on FFB as a result, which doesn't *feel* like a good thing.

I'll wait for the theorycrafters to run the numbers, but it doesn't seem like something to get really excited over right now. I could of course be totally wrong.
#5 Feb 25 2009 at 7:52 AM Rating: Good
Imp scorch actually has a chance to be dropped. It would depend on warlock spec as their change to Imp Shadowbolt will also give the +% crit debuff (and it is being nerfed to 5% from 10% btw).
#6 Feb 25 2009 at 7:43 PM Rating: Decent
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I am kinda leaning towards the replacing Molten Armor glpyh.

Living Bomb ticks criting should count into hot streak (the explosion at the end counts) which given the way RNG is will give Hot Streak more of a chance to be up.
#7 Feb 26 2009 at 3:12 PM Rating: Good
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I've been looking at the Imp scorch glyph myself. We normally run with 2-3 mages so I don't need to keep a constant scorch stack up.
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