Sign up. Upcoming changes to glyphs in patch 4. Holisky Sponsored Links. In this article: breaking , cataclysm-glyphs , glyphs , glyphs-cataclysm , patch In the upcoming 4.
This update features a host of changes including the addition of a new glyph tier, the transition of glyphs from consumable items to permanent spells, and a more streamlined user interface. In its Prime Glyphs will now be separated into three different tiers: minor, major, and prime. Prime - Prime glyphs will typically provide direct increases to damage or healing throughput. Major - Major glyphs will typically augment spells and abilities to offer additional utility.
Examples of major glyphs include Glyph of Silencing Shot, which will cause a hunter to instantly gain 10 focus when successfully silencing an enemy's spell cast, and Glyph of Ice Block, which will reset the cooldown on Frost Nova every time a mage uses Ice Block. Minor - Minor glyphs will typically provide players with additional convenience or cosmetic changes. Teach a Man to Glyph In addition to the glyph tier changes, glyphs will also be transitioning from single-use items to permanent spells that a player can learn.
While the item from which a glyph will be taught will still be consumed on use, once a glyph is learned, a player will always have access to it. This functionality will feel very similar to the current mechanic that allows players to learn certain recipes and patterns from item drops. Despite these changes, activating a glyph will more or less function as it does now. To activate a glyph, players will simply need to select the desired glyph from their list of known glyphs and then click on the appropriate tiered slot.
Dust to Dust With the transition from single-use items to permanent spells, the process for switching activated glyphs has been slightly altered. Similar to activating a learned glyph, players will need to select the new glyph from their list of known glyphs and then "place" it on top of the old glyph. While this process will not destroy the old glyph as it does at present, it will require a new reagent, Dust of Disappearance, which can be purchased from Inscription vendors or be crafted by scribes.
As a precaution, the following dialogue will also appear before a glyph is exchanged: Players will be given the opportunity to confirm the exchange or cancel out of it. Please note that the old glyph will not be permanently lost; it will simply be deactivated.
Gotta Catch'em All To complement each of these changes, the glyph UI window has been completely redesigned. All glyphs will now be organized in the glyph panel according to their tier minor, major, or prime and, much like how class spells and abilities display in the trainer window, will be sortable by "Already Known," "Unavailable," and "All Glyphs" categories.
Players will also be able to search for glyphs using keywords and results will populate under each corresponding collapsible tier. To access the new glyph UI, players will need to open up the Talent pane default: N and then click on the "Glyphs" tab. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm will destroy Azeroth as we know it; nothing will be the same! Visit our Cataclysm news category for the most recent posts having to do with the Cataclysm expansion.
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At level 80 you won't be able to get either perseverance or master shapeshifter, so you might as well go for some of the less useful talents in the tree - like Stampede and Fury Swipes. You could consider taking King of the Jungle instead if you have 4pT10 , but I wouldn't bother - and definitely don't if you don't have 4pT Otherwise it's about as cookie-cutter as you can get; there are almost no talents in the bear arsenal that are nice to have, and most of the skipped talents are either entirely for cats or are super weak for bears.
Glyph of Rip right now you literally only have two prime glyphs for bears, so might as well. Glyph of Maul substitute Glyph of Rebirth for this if you like. Double stamina trinkets are likely not a bad idea if the armor nerf on gear continues. Do consider getting non-'tank' rings and amulets as well for dual use; they'll have as much stamina as the tanking jewelry, and should be good options. As an example, the often hated Seal of Many Mouths is probably going to be one of the better pieces you can get.
Remember that you'll be losing 10 expertise right off the bat, so replacing that should be up on your list; while things won't parry haste, it will be good to keep threat high. Similarly, Sindragosa's Cruel Claw should rival some of the better tanking necks out there. Gemming should almost certainly be stamina, since it now provides both health and some mitigation via vengeance -fueled Savage Defense.
On reforging: haste is the least useful stat for bears given how GCD-focused they are; while it does increase rage income, it won't do so insanely well. As a result, you should consider reforging all the haste you can into mastery or dodge. If you really need to, get expertise or hit, but try to get pieces that have that instead.
For raiding, Bears are actually in a pretty decent spot. Their threat has been rebalanced significantly and mangle proccing off of lacerate combined with mauls every 3 seconds and very high frontloaded swipe threat and lacerate threat puts bears in a good spot. Savage Defense in a weird, backwards way ends up scaling with bosses Reforging helps bears quite a bit, and all that extra stamina on agility pieces gives bears tons of options they didn't have before. Skull bash even acts as a mini-charge of sorts, and the cooldowns are significantly better than they were.
If you were tanking at a high level before, I think you'll be in great shape to tank now. Similarly to bears, as a cat you can't get master shapeshifter, so those points have to go into the feral tree. This time, though, there are a lot more options. This build focuses more on utility and survivability, picking up Nurturing Instinct and Furor and skipping Predatory Strikes. In fact, that's the only dps-related talent that was skipped, and it was skipped because at level 80 you will have an absurd crit rate and don't need the boost to ravage.
The rotation hasn't changed at all, though the length of some of the buffs have. At level 80 it should be absurdly easy to maintain a rotation, given how fast you are with haste.
Not the best options for DPS in the major glyph categories, but hopefully these will change soon. In terms of gear, you won't have any armor pen - you'll be swimming in crit and haste. As I state below consider going for agility, since you can reforge to haste. Because of that, the Arpen trinkets lose value compared to Herk or WFS, since you'll have such high crit rates anyway.
DBW is still kinda awesome because of the trigger, however. For reforging, you can't reforge to agility, so consider reforging to either haste or mastery. My money's on haste, but this is one of those things I'll have to test and retest. Numbers are still not remotely set in stone for ferals, so this is likely to change some. My gut feeling is that if the 4. I'm not sure they're a reasonable option for any hardcore raiding at this point.
Hopefully they fix things a bit more. Posted by Kalon at AM. Labels: 4. Newer Post Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments Atom. Subscribe To ThinkTank! Posts Atom. Comments Atom. Gear weighings Bears post-heroic Bears pre-heroic Cats. Contact information Drop me a line somewhere on the blog! ThinkTank bio This blog was created to explore the various theorycrafting, strategic and philosophical viewpoints of playing a tank class in World of Warcraft.
He is not as hardcore as many but spends a lot of time thinking about WoW, and randomly rants about it now and then. He played formerly on the Argent Dawn EU server and was a founding member of Fire and Blood Quel'Dorei before joining Casually Serious, a guild devoted to hard core progression on only 8 hours of raiding time a week. He is a devoted husband, father, and when he has the time programs software.
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