Best Glyphs For Leveling a Mage - Make Sure You Choose the Best Glyphs For Your Fire Mage

Best Glyphs For Leveling a Mage - Make Sure You Choose the Best Glyphs For Your Fire Mage

The Wrath of the Lich King expansion introduced the Inscription profession, allowing for the creation of spell augmentations called Glyphs. While this was nothing less than a smashing success with veterans of the game, new players were left with yet another item to scratch their heads over.

Well, I'm of the opinion that newbies have more than enough guesswork to fret over when starting out in this game, and as such, I'd like to help out by passing along the major glyphs I used to level my most recent character, a fire mage.

Glyph of Fireball - This is easily your best choice for a first major glyph. Fireball is your bread and butter spell for leveling, and composes a great deal of your damage. The glyph adds an extra 5% chance to crit in exchange for removing the decidedly weak damage-over-time component of the spell. This is a more than fair trade. Pick it up and slot it as soon as you can.

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 - Since you don't unlock your last major glyph until level 80, I figured it would make sense to allocate it to one of your strongest spells at level 80. 2% damage and 2% critical strike chance makes this spell even more useful than it already is.

There you have it. Those are the glyphs that took my fire mage from 1-80. If you would like to see the talents I used, here's my personal mage leveling build that I used to level up.