Mage Glyphs

Visual glyphs I’d like to suggest, my reply on a recent reddit post:

  1. Glyph of the Cosmic Wanderer - teleportation spells are now void-themed, void portals
  2. Glyph of the Concentrated Flames - blue fire spells
  3. Glyph of the Cold Seas - frost spells are now more watery, utilizes the modern portal animation
  4. Glyph of the Frozen Abyss - frost spells are now shadow-tinted
  5. Glyph of the Blessed Traveler - teleportation spells are now holy-themed, Vindicaar portals, yellow fire spells
  6. Glyph of the Archaic order - arcane spells are now colored white
  7. Glyph of the Shadow Flames - purple, black, or white fire spells
  8. Glyph of the Fire Elemental - Water elemental changes to fire spec, irrespective of the Frost player spec
  9. Glyph of the Arcane Elemental - Water elemental switches to arcane spec, dealing arcane damage irrespective of the player Frost spec
  10. Glyph of the Burning Familiar - arcane familiar switches to fire spec
  11. Glyph of the Winter sphere - arcane familiar switches to frost spec
  12. Glyph of the Fumes - fire spells now always leave traces of smoke
  13. Glyph of Stardust - Frost spells now have sparkles and more swirly (Queen Elsa’s ice spells, maybe)
  14. Glyph of the Winter Companion - changes the water elemental to an icy elemental
  15. Glyph of the Champion - arcane spells now channel the power of Azeroth herself
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I would love to see glyphs spec specific. like frost being in ice form how the pvp talent that replaces icy veins. fire being in a semi combustion look.

surprised that is not present for us. Boomkins get astral form!

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Glyph of Phoenix Flames which gives back the little floaty orbs from Legion

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I’d actually like to have a glyph that leaves an image of a phoenix after teleporting like for Kael’thas when he ports out of castle nathria after the encounter.

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Glyph of Frostbolt - gives old frostbolt animation back

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I’ve wanted stuff like this forever but sadly it’s never going to happen in WoW. Unless of course Kotick finally gets his way and they add a cash shop to the game that sells this sort of stuff. The only games that put in the time and resources into this kind of customization are sandbox ARPGs.

That said, there is absolutely zero reason why basic customizations to armor beyond the current transmog system aren’t implemented. Being able to change the colors of armor via a dye system has become an MMO staple with WoW being the only dinosaur refusing to implement it. Frankly, the only reason I can think of for why they have not implemented it yet is because 2/3 of the entire transmog collection is WoW is made up of recolors. If they implemented a dye system they’d actually have to put some effort into creating different visuals, lol.

The lack of spell recolors is even harder to defend because they’ve had the technology to do it ages ago as evidenced by Warlocks’ green fire and it’s a feature that has no drawbacks. It will only make players happy. But I guess that will go against Blizz’s current ideology, lol.

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Fun customization? how dare you suggest something so preoposterous. Cant you see people will complain about “readability”

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Glyph of Arcane Wonders - Arcane Spells become more sapphire blue.
Glyph of Norgannon’s Prowess - Arcane spells become more grandeur and styish. Showing off your knowledge!