Sunshine, Luxypie and Rainbows: Shaman

Sunday, July 21, 2013

5.4 Shaman Glyphs

Patch 5.4 is introducing a whole bunch of new glyphs to the game, major and minor. As my Shaman is a Scribe, she is pretty excited about learning and creating new glyphs for everyone but also at some of the new Shaman glyphs!

New Major Glyphs

Glyph of Eternal Earth: Lightning Bolt now has a chance to add a charge to the Shaman's active Earth Shield. This cannot cause Earth Shield to exceed 9 charges.

Glyph of Purging: Successfully Purging a target now grants a stack of Maelstrom Weapon.

New Minor Glpyhs

Glyph of Astral Fixation: Astral Recall now takes the Shaman to their capital's Earthshrine.

Glyph of Compy: Hex now transforms enemies into a Compy.

Glyph of Elemental Familiars: Summons a random Fire, Water, or Nature familiar. Familiars of different types have a tendency to fight each other.

Glyph of Flaming Serpent: The Shaman's Searing Totem now resembles Vol'jin's Serpent Ward.

Glyph of Lingering Ancestors: Resurrecting someone with Ancestral Spirit causes a ghostly ancestor to follow them around for a short time.

Glyph of Rain of Frogs: Allows the Shaman to summon a rain storm of frogs at a targeted location.

Glyph of Spirit Raptors: Spirit Wolves are replaced with Spirit Raptors.

Glyph of Spirit Wolf: Ghost Wolf can be now be used while the Shaman is a ghost.

Major Glyphs Changes

Glyph of Chaining now increases the cooldown on Chain Heal by 2 seconds, down from a 4 second increase.

Glyph of Cleansing Waters now heals the target for 5% of the Shaman's maximum health (up from 4%).

Glyph of Fire Elemental Totem now reduces the cooldown and duration for Fire Elemental Totem by 50%, up from 40%.

Glyph of Frost Shock now reduces the cooldown of Frost Shock by 2 seconds.

Glyph of Grounding Totem now increases the cooldown of Grounding Totem after reflecting a harmful spell by 20 seconds (down from a 35-second cooldown increase).

Glyph of Riptide reduces the initial direct healing of Riptide by 75%, down from a 90% reduction to healing.

What am I most excited about?

Glyph of Compy: Hex now transforms enemies into a Compy.

A COMPY?! Of course I want my Hex target to be a tiny dinosaur, my froggies are so small Navi never sees them and tells me to CC my target!

Glyph of Astral Fixation: Astral Recall now takes the Shaman to their capital's Earthshrine.

YES! It was just a few nights ago that there was mention of my poor Shaman getting a raw deal with the guild perk to reduce the hearth time. Now my Astral Recall will take me somewhere other than my hearth destination! Who need mages?

Glyph of Elemental Familiars: Summons a random Fire, Water, or Nature familiar. Familiars of different types have a tendency to fight each other.

Can't wait to try this out! Fighting familiars!? Hopefully they fight with the mage familiars!

Glyph of Rain of Frogs: Allows the Shaman to summon a rain storm of frogs at a targeted location.

This sounds fun and useless but I can't have them all active at one time, so I will try this out for awhile but I can see the others taking over from my current minors; Glyph of Astral Recall, Glyph of the Spectral Wolf and Glyph of Totemic Encirclement.

None of the Major Glyph changes are too exciting for Elemental. I do like the reduced cooldown on Fire Elemental Totem though.

You know what would be super awesome? With the addition of Raptors to Hex and Glyph of Spirit Raptors. Ghost Raptor in place of Ghost Wolf!