Shaman Glyphs Look Fun
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Juggynaut on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 13 Comments Tags: Enhancement, Restoration, Shaman, elemental, glyphs, wotlk, wrath of the lich king
Juggynaut on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 13 Comments Tags: Enhancement, Restoration, Shaman, elemental, glyphs, wotlk, wrath of the lich king 
Every time I read something new about Wrath of the Lich King, I can't help but get a little more excited for it. I recently came across a list of Shaman glyphs from the current beta build. What are glyphs? They are customizations for your character that will alter the way certain abilities work in some way. The example I like to give is that druids will be able to make their bear form look like a polar bear. Fun, right? Well, looking good is one thing, but check out what glyphs have been uncovered for the best class (shaman for those of you who don't know).- Glyph - Water Shield - Your Water Shield has 3 additional charges.
- Glyph - Chain Heal - Your Chain Heal heals 1 additional target.
- Glyph - Lesser Healing Wave - Your Lesser Healing Wave heals for 20% more if the target is also affected by your Earth Shield.
- Glyph - Earthliving Weapon - Increases the chance for your Earthliving weapon to trigger by 5%.
- Glyph - Healing Wave - Your Healing Wave also heals you for 20% of the healing effect when you heal someone else.
- Glyph - Mana Tide - Your Mana Tide Totem grants an additional 1% of each target's maximum mana each time it pulses.
- Glyph - Earth Shock - Reduces the global cooldown triggered by your Earth Shock ability by 1 sec.
- Glyph - Frost Shock - Increases the duration of your Frost Shock by 2 sec.
- Glyph - Strength of Earth - Your Strength of Earth Totem also grants 1% melee and ranged critical strike chance.
- Glyph - Windfury Weapon - The attack power bonus on the additional attacks granted by Windfury Weapon is increased by 40%.
- Glyph - Stormstrike - Increases the nature damage bonus from your Stormstrike ability by an additional 8%.
- Glyph - Flame Shock - Increases the range on your Flame Shock ability by 10 yards.
- Glyph - Lightning Shield - Increases the damage from Lightning Shield by 20%.
- Glyph - Chain Lightning - Your Chain Lightning strikes 1 additional target.
- Glyph - Fire Nova Totem - Increases the radius of Fire Nova Totem's effect by 2 yards.
- Glyph - Flametongue Weapon - Increases spell critical strike chance by 2% while Flametongue Weapon is active.
- Glyph - Totem of Wrath - Your Totem of Wrath also grants 1% spell haste.
- Glyph - Lightning Bolt - Reduces the cost of your Lightning Bolt ability by -10%.
- Glyph - Earth Elemental Totem - Reduces the cooldown of your Earth Elemental Totem by 3 min.
- Glyph - Fire Elemental Totem - Reduces the cooldown of your Fire Elemental Totem by 3 min.
- Glyph - Healing Stream Totem - Your Healing Stream Totem heals for an additional 20%.
Now, all of those are pretty awesome, and it will be hard to choose which six to have inscribed (you can have two of each type: minor, lesser and major). I'll leave the theorycrafting to those smarter than myself and just look at the ones that jump out at me. Resto shaman always get love, but adding a fourth target to chain heal would be awesome. Healing wave healing myself while I heal others? Another win. My current love, enhancement, should see huge boosts from an additional 40% AP bonus on Windfury, and strength of earth totem becomes even more buffed by adding an additional 1% physical crit chance. That's on top of the agility it's already getting in WotLK! And of course my rekindled love in Wrath, elemental, is not forgotten. An additional target for chain lighting is situational, but will be fun! A 2% spell crit bonus with flametongue, the new elemental imbue of choice, is much appreciated, as is the extra 1% spell haste for Totem of Wrath. Stacked with the Wrath of Air totem haste, casters will love shaman. It will be difficult to pick glyphs for Juggynaut, but I can't wait!
Reader Comments (13)
Reading those Shaman ones, and looking at the ones for my two classes (Druid & Paladin)... OMFG AWESOME.
I can tell what tradeskill my Deathknight will be picking up... lol
I love how some resto shaman love gets added. An additional target for chain heal = heal everyone exept yourself in a 5 man instance! That is awesome =D I havent read much about Earthliving but at least it will be better than flametounge lol
If you can change your forms as a Druid, then I have a lot of leveling to do with my level 2 Drood that's been parked on the proverbial bench.
Where can I look at other glyphs like these for Paladins and Hunters and even warrior.... those are my 3 classes.
Thanks
Out of the glyphs available for the classes, the shaman ones are really exciting to me. Can't wait to try them out personally and see how they stack up.
I can't wait to start working on this when Wrath of the Lich King finally comes out!
Where did you find this info? I'd love to see whats available for the other classes.
There are a lot of Wins for Enh Shamman..., now i question myself..., why the heck did i level a Druid since i love shammans so much? u.u...
We as Druids need a way to change the ugly tree form, raiding with 3/4 Resto Druids is like a forest healing, lol.
I have never rolled a Shaman into high levels, but i think i will now :]
Restoration is getting some awesome buffs.
That 4th hit to chain heal is not that good actually.. 4th jump heals only for 12.5% of the initial amount, while LHW and HW will get a 20% healing bonus.
i think shamans r the best but there cooldowns on spells are so bad i wish it would be faster
Shamans in 25 man raids use chain heals more then LHW or HW so the 4th jump of chain heal is VERY good, probably better then the 20% on LHW and HW. Also chainheals scale a lot more with +healing then LHW and HW.
Ok so looking at this i read of this:
Glyph - Lightning Bolt - Reduces the cost of your Lightning Bolt ability by -10%.
So what i'm seeing from this is that your lightening bolt spell cost 10% of your base mana, BUT the glyph reduces the cost by 10%.
So the only thing i can think of is that your lightening bolt will cost 0 mana.
Dos anyone else have feedback about this?
@chris
As far as i can see, it takes 10% off the cost of the lighning bolt, and therefore costs 1% less than your total mana.
So the lightning bolt cost a total of 9% of base mana instead of 10%