Druids get polar bear form in Wrath with new Glyph list

by Matthew Rossi Jul 29th 2008 at 12:25AM

The fine folks at MMO Champion have a small preview of the new talent calculators and, even more interesting, how the Inscription ability will work to change our abilities with glyphs. The majority of the new glyphs previewed so far seem to be for druids as of this posting (but who knows what the future may bring) but the one for mages, Glyph of the Penguin, seems extra awesome to me.

Empowers a Minor Glyph to cause your Polymorph: Sheep spell to turn the target into a baby penguin.

Not only does this suggest that the days of learning separate poly spells for turtles, pigs and so on are gone, it's a cool way to help bring variety to a standard ability. Of course, since the vast majority of glyphs are for druids, we're seeing a lot more straigtforwardly useful ones, like Glyph of Frenzed Regeneration and Glyph of Shred, but Glyph of the White Bear looks pretty cool as a possible harbinger of what's to come: imagine a whole host of such glyphs for each and every druid form? Glyph of the Black Lion, anyone?

This suggests a lot of potential for personalization in the new Inscription profession. Anything you're looking forward to? I hope the ones for warriors are as cool, myself.

Tags: Druid, Glyph, Inscription, Mage, Poly, Polymorph, Shapeshift, wrath-beta, wrath-of-the-lich-king

Filed under: Druid, Mage, Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, News items, Wrath of the Lich King, Inscription

Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)

Jen Aug 4th 2008 8:21PM

It'd be nice if they fixed cat form for female tauren druids to well not be a male lion? Please?

Balius Jul 29th 2008 5:54AM

I can't even imagine anything interesting for rogues...I have a feeling that inscription might make me sad.

Juneau Jul 29th 2008 5:56AM

Awesome!

Khass Jul 29th 2008 6:05AM

**** YEAH! *glee*

Alveredus Jul 29th 2008 8:21AM

Here's hoping for a warrior glyph that turns us into a cat in Berserker stance and a bear in Defensive stance.

Free druid without a reroll, at least visually, and it might cut back on complaints about warriors being "boring".

Better yet, make us a Worgen in Berserker stance. I mean, the Kirin Tor are experts in the Were-Worgen. It's a demanded race. Unlimited costume buffs are demanded. People claim warriors are visually "boring".

C'mon! Make my Berserker stance perma-Worgen form!

Code9 Jul 29th 2008 9:43AM

Oooh, or worgen-form when you pop berzerker rage? /drool

Silverrealm Jul 29th 2008 12:14PM

ZOMG WANT!!!

Silverrealm Jul 29th 2008 12:15PM

ZOMG WANT!!!

jwbowyer Jul 29th 2008 8:23AM

Very Awesome, hope they have many different types for each form, giving druids a large variety of animals. I would go as far as changing the druid quests at the beginning so that you could get different ascetic forms, and based upon the one you choose the quest would be different.

Andrew Jul 29th 2008 8:33AM

Who called it? Look back on the preview of Inscription?

Glyph of the Frozen North: Changes your (Dire) bear form to use a Polar Bear model.

I had the name wrong, but the effect was spot on!

Anyway, Inscription looks intriguing.

Andrew Jul 29th 2008 8:44AM

Admittedly, it wasn't much of a stretch to imagine...so it's not a great prediction...

Joker Jul 29th 2008 11:26AM

I'm guessing that you could probably change how your pets look as a warlock too. This should do a lot for character customization at least initially. It also works well for Blizz because now instead of having to do changes to unpopular skin models they can just put it in Inscription.

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