Getting Acquainted With Death Knight Glyphs
Due to the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, the Death Knight Glyphs have become a hot commodity on WoW. The hardest thing for a player to decide is which one will suit their toon the best. Unfortunately we don’t have all the answers for you, but the good news is we can definitely give you a short guide on what each glyph can do during game play. All you will need to do is match a few of these glyphs up with the way your Death Knight has been built.
The Short List
We understand part of the hysteria around World of Warcraft is not knowing what is going to come next. This being said, we’re going to give you a short list of Death Knight glyphs available to help your game. Since we have no way of knowing if you utilize Blood, Frost, or Unholy the most, we’ll mix it up a little bit. Hopefuly you’ll be able to use several of these and test them out until you get the best combination available.
Glyph of Death & Decay (Major) – If you use the DD spell religiously, then you will enjoy adding this glyph to your repertoire. It will allow you to gain an additional 20% damage when used.
Glyph of Chains of Ice (Major) – One of our favorites, the Chains of Ice will gain 144 to 156 damage. This will be increased by your attack power so it’s important to have your AP at the highest level.
Glyph of Bone Shield (Major) – This is a must ability to use, but the glyph itself isn’t very potent. The thing it does is give you two additional charges. Granted, if this is something you constantly use it may help, but not a necessary glyph for everyone.
Glyph of Blood Strike (Major) – We definitely recommend starting out with something like the Blood Strike Glyph. Almost everyone uses this during battle. Adding the glyph will give your Death Knight twenty percent more damage than normal to snared targets.
Glyph of Blood Tap (Minor) – Normally when you use the Blood Tap it will cause damage to your Death Knight. However, if you add this minor glyph to your list, you won’t incur any damage from it again.
Glyph of Death Grip (Major) – Probably our favorite in this short list, the Death Grip has to be the most popular Death Knight ability. When you place this in your glyph area, you can kill anyone that gives honor or experience and replenish this ability. This means there won’t be a cool down period.
Glyph of Blood Boil (Major) – When you need to slow one of your enemies down, you might want to have the extra help from the BB glyph. Having the extra 5 seconds it slows them will help in tight situations.
Glyph of Frost Strike (Major) – The only way we can see someone using this is if you constantly use the Frost Strike ability. If so, then the glyph will reduce your Death Knight’s Runic Power by eight.
Looking for Elite Glyphs?
Even though the list above is short, they are the most talked about in the World of Warcraft community in the beginning. However, as your Death Knight progresses, so will the use of various other Death Knight glyphs in the game. Whether it’s the Raise Dead glyph (no more reagent), Pestilence, Obliterate, or even the Horn of Winter ability (increases time by 1 minute), you will know what you need. In the end, most of these will make your Death Knight much better.
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2 Comments
Rogue Macros on July 24th, 2010
Love the Death Grip glyph. WOuld be very annoying. That’s why i love it. Blood boil glyph, very useful to slow casters down and fast rogues.
admon on March 19th, 2009
for blood dps dks, the best glyphs would be obliterate, blood strike (since most bosses will have a movement impairing effect on them, just not affected by it), and dancing rune weapon (after the patch).
though from the looks of it, obliterate will become obsolete to death strike for blood after the patch so glyph of obliterate will most likely be replaced by glyph of the ghoul(since blood is leaning more towards getting a perma ghoul)