About Glyphs

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The Frost Mage’s Water Elemental spell has 7 Glyphs on the 8.2 PTR.

Glyph of the Unbound Elemental
Glyph of Evaporation
Glyph of the Tides
Glyph of Storm’s Wake
Glyph of the Dark Depths
Glyph of the Cold Waves
Glyph of Steaming Fury

On total, the Mage Class as a whole has 12 Glyphs.

The Rogue Class as a whole has four.

Glyph of Disguise
Glyph of Flash Bang
Glyph of Blackout
Glyph of Burnout

Something is not quite right.

Even if you remove the 7 Water Elemental Glyphs from Mages they are still on top of Rogues!

I’m not saying everybody should have the exact same amount of Glyphs, but it also doesn’t feel right that you can fit 3 Rogue Glyph collections in one Mage Glyph collection.

Everybody should get more Glyphs. The Glyph system is terribly below it’s potential. But the people with few Glyphs should get even more.

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My favorite glyphs are the DH one with the torn wings and the SP one that changes your pet. Can’t believe i’m agreeing with a Mortis post, but I think glyphs should be expanded.

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points to nearby rogue WHAT ARE YOU HIDING?!

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I agree that everyone should have as many options as possible with glyphs, in case of mages WE, since the models are already there…

But it’s pretty bumming to see the same class getting multiple glyphs at once while others linger in underwhelming ones.

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I don’t even use my Elemental. Yay.

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Same. One of my lowbie mage alts, I’m gonna try using the elemental, but on my higher level mages, I always use Lonely Winter on frost.

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There is this annoying issue that Game Developers need to deal with which is Silloute Recognition. Essentially everything needs to be recognizable at a glance in any game where the player needs to be able to know “Ok, XYZ is happening”.

I think that’s the big fear that Blizzard has when it comes to adding more glyphs to other classes, not saying that it’s invalid but it’s also admittedly frustrating when some classes just don’t have anything obvious they can change. Bubbles is easy, it’s just tints on the same model (even though I REALLY want to just use a Pandarian one but thats besides the point…)

Other classes absolutely deserve to have more Glyphs. I just can’t think of anything you can really do with Rogues that would be impactful.

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Suggestions for fun:
Glyph of poisoned daggers - makes daggers drip poison, sizzles when it hits the ground
Glyph of Shadow Sneak - turns the environment hazy while making targets appear more vibrant
Glyph of Backstab - extra target animation - target staggers and knife is visible in back until stun ends.
Glyph of Lockpicking - adds a lockpicking animation to lock picking
Glyph of Many Pouches - Add two usable belt pouches (1 slot per) to rogues belt
Glyph of Apply Poison - Poisoned blade duration increased by 50%
Glyph of Vendetta - gives your character red glowing eyes until Vendetta or the target dies

IDK, glyphs can be pretty much anything right?

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Let’s go with this.

There are several Demon Skins that Warlocks could use on their minions, but they can’t because they aren’t available as Glyphs.

They could also recolor a lot of spells to make them different.

(I so want a purple Chaos Bolt lol)

For Rogues, the biggest outliers, we could have:

Glyph of Hiding in the Shadows: Your stealth ability now shows you darkened by shadows instead of transparent.

Glyph of the Axe Thrower: Your poisoned knife is replaced with a throwing axe.

Glyph of Red Hatred: Applying Vendetta to a target makes your eyes glow red.

Glyph of Guns: Your pistol shot now uses a random gun from your bags.

Glyph of Evasion: Dodging an attack while evasion is active leaves an afterimage.

Glyph of Low Blow: Replaces your Kidney Shot with a low blow.

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I’m still upset they screwed with the original glyphs. Glyphs can be such a huge cosmetic deal and Blizz does nothing with them. Seriously, glyphs can fix most cosmetic flaws and make them somewhat useful again. Ugh, Blizz just sh!@s and p!$ses on everything I find fun.

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Would be cool to turn the felguard into a Shivarra, and the succubus into a satyr instead.

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My input

PRIEST
[Glyph of the Faithful]: Your Smite appears more appopriate to your race’s faith. (It changes to race specific spells like Starshards, just cosmetically)
[Glyph of Shadowfloat] Your Levitate spell appears more appropriate for shadow priests

DRUID
[Glyph of the Serpent] Your travel form resembles a snake
[Glyph of the Forest Protector] Changes your Moonkin form to Dryad / Keeper of the Grove
[Glyph of Feydragon] Changes your Flight form to resemble a faerie dragon
[Glyph of Shivrallah] Changes your cat form to resemble a Saberon
[Glyph of the Pack] Worgen only. Changed your cat form to resemble a Feral Worgen
[Glyph of the Constellation] Change your Moonkin form to appear as the caster form (no blue tint) but with a constellation glowing above their head;

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Indeed… there are thousands of ideas floating around that Blizzard can use for new glyphs… many of which are readily available in game already even…

Druid Glyph of Nature’s Wrath - return of green Wrath Bolts

Priest Glyph of Shadowy Shields - gives your shield spell a darker more shadowy appearance

Warlock glyphs if differently colored demons - a collection of glyphs that change the skin for your demons to use one of the various other color options seen in game on the same type of demons

Various classes glyphs of differently sized pets - a collection of glyphs to enlarge or shrink your classes active pet

Priest glyph of Elune - gives your light based spells a more silvery blue appearance

Priest glyph of Shadows - makes your light based spells more shadowy in appearance

Priest glyph of vengeful light - changes your shadow spells to appear as light instead

Druid glyph of an’she - a solar version of Glyph of the Stars.

Mage glyph of water Bolts - thaws out your frost Bolts

Mage glyph of unstable arcana - gives Your arcane spells a crackling effect that becomes more unstable with each Arcane Charge you have

Mage glyph of arcane orbs - your arcane charges now create orbs of arcane power that hover around you

Paladin & Priest glyph of Holy flames - Replaces your light with golden flames (an’she’s light)

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The only thing they know how to do, apparently, is make water elemental glyphs.

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Seems these Water Elemental Glyphs reference this being the Sea Expansion…

We all need more Water Glyphs not just Mages though…

Maybe Warlocks should have their Fire Spells replaced with Felwater Spells, Monks use Watery Blue versions of their spells, etc.

By the way does anyone have a screenshot on what the 3 new Water Elemental Glyphs(Cresting Wave Elemental, Steam Elemental and the Dark Depths Elemental) look like?

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Oh god please not that… I read it in the voice. It’s burned in my brain :face_vomiting:

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I’ve been looking for them. I have not been finding lol

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Mission accomplished. :grin:

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Hahahahha… “Sewerlock”!

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Dunno but it shouldn’t be a secret. People should be able to know if they want to get the glyph or not.