The Inscription profession was introduced to the game with the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, and players gained the abilities to modify their spells and abilities using the Glyphs created by this profession. This went over very well with people who had been playing the game for a long time and had a good idea of how these things worked, but new players were left scratching their heads in confusion.

I feel that new players have way too much of a learning curve to get by at the moment without tossing something new into the mix, so I’m going to strip away some of the guesswork by telling you the glyphs my fire mage used for leveling.

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 - I picked this one up next, and I suggest you do the same. It applies a full stack of the Improved Scorch debuff, which means you’ll actually get to take advantage of it without being in a group! An extra 5% chance to crit is a pretty easy call.

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, my personal mage leveling build that I used to level up can be found on my website at the link included below.