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 feel that new players have way too much of a learning curve to get by at the moment without tossing something new into the mix, so I'm going to strip away some of the guesswork by telling you the glyphs my fire mage used for leveling.
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 unlock this one at 80, and if you love Frostfire Bolt as much as I do, this one is a very easy choice. This one adds 2% damage and 2% crit chance, which turns Frostfire Bolt into even more of a brutal spell.
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.
I feel that new players have way too much of a learning curve to get by at the moment without tossing something new into the mix, so I'm going to strip away some of the guesswork by telling you the glyphs my fire mage used for leveling.
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 unlock this one at 80, and if you love Frostfire Bolt as much as I do, this one is a very easy choice. This one adds 2% damage and 2% crit chance, which turns Frostfire Bolt into even more of a brutal spell.
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.
About the Author:
Coleman Engelford is a WoW player and author of Mage with levelinging Guide, a site geared towards to helping mages with leveling in WoW.