I’ve recently been pushing through TBC as an Arcane Mage and enjoying it quite a bit. Decided to check out retail’s version, and I was a little disappointed to find that Arcane Blast didn’t have very impressive VFX, when everything else has such a visual improvement.
After leveling through some dungeons, I noticed quite a few Vanilla and TBC enemies use an ability called Arcane Bolt. It looks exactly like old Arcane Missiles, but only sends out one volley after a short cast time, rather than a channel for multiple volleys.
I propose an Arcane Bolt glyph be added that changes Arcane Blast to look like a single wave of Arcane Missiles. This would be a nice callback to the old Arcane Bolt ability, and would add an alternative VFX for Arcane Blast for anyone who doesn’t care for the flash of purple that it is currently. Plus, who could say no to more Arcane Missiles?
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Anything to make Scribes useful. Count me in.
Even if the last thing mage needs is more Glyphs. 
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I would definitely like some cosmetic glyphs for a bunch of spells.
In particular, my warlock has always been destruction, in honor of a guildie who taught me how to warlock when I was a new player (I was so new I didn’t know a lot of class and mechanic knowledge was gained from 3rd party sites) and I loved the way the old Chaos Bolt looked, sounded, and felt. I hate the new Chaos Bolt effect, which doesn’t arc and looks awkward when it departs your character.
I also prefer past iterations of Wrath for druids and Lightning Bolt for shammies, although the new ones I don’t hate like I hate my warlocks Chaos Bolt.
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We had a glyph idea thread the other day, this would have been a good one for it.
I don’t really play arcane but that sounds great, I remember Arcane Blast’s standard animation being pretty lackluster… like ⅕ of an Arcane Explosion. On the other hand even vanilla’s Arcane Missles animation is cool.
Well, ideally the glyph would use the new Arcane Missiles animation, but I’d take even the vanilla Missiles over modern Blast.
It needs to hit instantly. Right now, depending on your covenant, you have to have a certain Haste level and/or be close enough to the boss to land Arcane Barrage inside your burst window, which makes or breaks your damage.
As much as I generally prefer cosmetic ideas, Arcane Blast hitting immediately is fairly important. If it travels very, very quickly, I could get behind it.
It would be a purely cosmetic option. Keep Blast hitting instantly, but give it a new animation.
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