gnomeDK – Your Pink Haired Guide to All Things Death Knight

Glyphs are spell and ability enhancements that can be created by inscription, the new WotLK profession. Since inscription was introduced in patch 3.0.2 last week there are probably some inscribers in your guild already skilled up to around 365. If not your realm’s auction house is sure to be stuffed with glyphs.

You can get all the details on glyphs from WoWWiki.

Since glyphs are available already you know what that means… we get to squirrel away more stuff before expansion! That reminds me, Blizzard you are welcome for the sudden increase in bank storage purchases.

So let’s get down to it and look at the glyphs available to death knights now. Keep in mind there are more glyphs than these, but we’re limited to the ones created by 375 skill or lower until after expansion.

Major Glyphs

• [Glyph of Blood Strike]
• [Glyph of Rune Tap]
• [Glyph of Vampiric Blood]
• [Glyph of Frost Strike]
• [Glyph of Icy Touch]
• [Glyph of Unbreakable Armor]
• [Glyph of Bone Shield]
• [Glyph of Death Grip]
• [Glyph of Death Strike]
• [Glyph of Plague Strike]
• [Glyph of Scourge Strike]
• [Glyph of the Ghoul]

Minor Glyphs

• [Glyph of Blood Tap]
• [Glyph of Pestilence]
• [Glyph of Horn of Winter]
• [Glyph of Corpse Explosion]
• [Glyph of Death?s Embrace]
• [Glyph of Raise Dead]

From 55 to 69 we can use two Major Glyphs and two Minor Glyphs. Given your talent build options during those levels I suggest going with two of these:

• [Glyph of Death Strike]
• [Glyph of Plague Strike]
• [Glyph of the Ghoul]

And two of theses:

• [Glyph of Death?s Embrace]
• [Glyph of Pestilence]
• [Glyph of Raise Dead]

[Glyph of Horn of Winter] is also an option, but not until level 65.

At level 70 you can add a third Minor Glyph. You’ll have a lot more freedom with your talent build by then so pick the one that compliments your build best. There should also be some higher skilled inscribers around so we can take a look at new glyphs as well. Keep in mind you can easily replace your current glyphs with new ones. At level 80 you get a third Major Glyph.