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Posted June 2nd, 2009 by Mem

WOW Hunter Glyphs

GLYPHS for HUNTERS

You may be just starting your journey into 5-man instances, plowing your way through Naxxramas, or exploring the unknowns of Uldaur. No matter what you are doing, choosing the right glyphs to go with your spec is just as important as selecting the correct gems and enchants for your gear, and not doing so will be painfully obvious when reviewing the meters at the end of a raid.

This guide will offer a list of all major and minor glyphs currently available to the hunter class, and will also offer suggestions on what glyphs are most desirable for each spec.

MAJOR GLYPHS

Glyph of Aimed Shot	Use: Reduces the cooldown of your Aimed Shot ability by 2 seconds
Glyph of Arcane Shot	Use: Your Arcane Shot refunds 20% of its mana cost if the target has one of your Stings active on it
Glyph of Aspect of the Viper	Use: Increases the amount of mana gained from attacks while Aspect of the Viper is active by 10%.
Glyph of Bestail Wrath	Use: Decreases the cooldown of Bestial Wrath
Glyph of Chimera Shot	Use: Reduces the cooldown of Chimera Shot by 1 sec
Glyph of Deterrence	Use: Decreases the cooldown of Deterrence by 10 sec
Glyph Disengage	Use: Decreases the cooldown of Disengage by 5 sec
Glpyh of Explosive Shot	Use: Increases the critical strike chance of Explosive Shot by 4%
Glyph of Explosive Trap	Use: The peridodic damage from your Explosive Trap can now be critical strikes
Glyph of Freezing Trap	Use: When your Freezing Trap breaks, the victim's movement speed is reduced by 30% for 4 sec
Glyph of Frost Trap	Use: Increases the radius of the effect from your Frost Trap by 2 yards
Glyph of Hunter's Mark	Use: Increases the attack power bonus of your Hunter's Mark by 20%
Glyph of Immolation Trap	Use: Decreases the duration of the effect from your Immolation Trap by 6 sec, but damage while active is increased by 100%
Glyph of Kill Shot	Use: Reduces the cooldown of Kill Shot by 6 sec
Glyph of Mending	Use: Inceases the healing done by your Mend Pet ability by 40%
Glpyh of Multi-Shot	Use: Decreases the cooldown of Multi-Shot by 1 sec
Glyph of Rapid Fire	Use: Increases the haste from Rapid Fire by an additional 8%
Glyph of Raptor Strike	Use: Reduces damage taken by 20% for 3 sec after using Raptor Strike
Glyph of Scatter Shot	Use: Increases the range of Scatter Shot by 3 yards
Glyph of Serpent Sting	Use: Increases the duration of your Serpent Sting by 6 sec
Glyph of Snake Trap	Use: Snakes generated by your Snake Trap take 90% reduced damage from the area of effect spells
Glyph of Steady Shot	Use: Increases the damage delt by Steady Shot by 10% when your target is afflicted with Serpent Sting
Glyph of the Beast	Use: Increases the attack power bonus of Aspect of the Beast for you and your pet by an additional 2%
Glyph of the Hawk	Use: Increases the haste bonus of the Improved Ascept of the Hawk effect by an additional 6%
Glyph of Trueshot Aura	Use: While your Trueshot Aura is active, you have 10% increased critical strike chance on your Aimed Shot
Glyph of Volley	Use: Decreases the mana cost of Volley by 20%
Glyph of Wyvern Sting	Use: Decreases the cooldown of your Wyvern Sting by 6 sec

Minor Glyphs

Glyph of Feign Death	Use: Reduces the cooldown of your Feign Death spell by 5 sec
Glyph of Mend Pet	Use: Your Mend Pet spell increases your pet's happiness slightly
Glyph of Possessed Strength	Use: Increases the damage your pet inflicts while using Eyes of the Beast by 50%
Glyph of Revive Pet	Use: Reduces the pushback suffered from damaging attacks while casting Revive Pet by 100%
Glyph of Scare Beast	Use: Reduces the pushback suffered from damaging attacks while casting Scare Beast by 75%
Glyph of the Pack	Use: Increases the range of your Aspect of the Pack ability by 15 yards

Beast Mastery

Glyph of Steady Shot
As a BM hunter Steady Shot makes up a large portion of your damage. That being the case boosting that damage by 10% is obviously a very, very good idea. Make sure you keep Serpent Sting up at all times in order to take the best advantage of this glyph and you will be sure to notice an improvement in your dps.

Glyph of Bestial Wrath

This glyph is a must have for any BM hunter. When you activate Bestial Wrath it not only increases your pets damage by 50%, but add in The Beast Within and you also get 10% added to your damage and your mana cost of all spells reduced by 20%. Now take 20 seconds off the cooldown, add Longevity, and you have nothing short of a BM hunters wet dream.

Glyph of Serpent Sting

This glyph makes a lot of sense to have especially if you have Glyph of Steady Shot in place. The longer Serpent Sting is active, the time you have to use Steady Shot without wasting a cooldown period refreshing Serpent Sting. Having this glyph should easily buy you enough time to get off 2-3 extra Steady Shots, and we all know every extra shot counts.

Marksman

Glyph of Serpent Sting
This may seem like a bad glyph choice as it only increases the duration of Serpent Sting, and MM hunters never have to reapply their stings thanks to Chimera Shot. However, Chimera Shot instantly deals 40% of the damage done by your Serpent Sting, 40% of the damage of a 21 second Serpent Sting is quite a bit higher then the damage of a 15 second Serpent Sting.

Glyph of Kill Shot

Even without the Sniper Training ability of Suvival hunters, this is still a very useful glyph for Marksman, especially anticipating longer and longer boss fights that Ulduar and beyond present.

Glyph of Chimera Shot

This glyph reduces the cooldown of Chimera Shot by 1 second. Chimera Shot being one of the prize shots of MM hunters makes it easy to see why reducing the cooldown of this would be a good thing. If you also choose to use the Serpent Sting glyph mentioned above it will further increase the usefulness of having this shot on a shorter cooldown.

Survival

Glyph of Explosive shot
The reason for choosing this glyph is easy enough to see, as Explosive Shot is the choice shot for a Survival hunter and should be used at every cool down. Increasing the critical strike of the shot with this glyph is just a good idea and will give you the chance to do more damage every time you use it.

Glyph of Kill Shot

As guilds move deeper and deeper into Uldaur bosses are progressively gaining more health. This of course means that bosses will be staying at 20% and lower for longer periods of time making Kill Shot something that you will want to be using. So it makes sense that you would want to use this glyph which will reduce the cool down from 15 seconds to a more reasonable 9 seconds. Survival hunters have another perk to using this glyph as they have Sniper Training which increases the critical strike chance of Kill Shot by 15%.

Glyph of Serpent Sting
Survival hunters should use this glyphs for pretty much the same reasons listed for BM hunters above. The glyph increases the duration of Serpent Sting by 6 seconds allowing you to cast extra Steady Shots/Explosive Shots before having to reapply

You may have noticed by now that minor glyphs are mysteriously missing from the list. The truth is no matter what spec you choose your minor glyphs will be the same as the choices are very limited, only 6 compared to the 27 major glyphs available. Out of those 6 there are a few that stand out:

Glyph of Mend Pet

This glyph means that you never have to carry around food for your pet ever again. If your pet gets unhappy just Mend Pet!

Glyph of Revive Pet
Useful for when your pet dies during a boss fight. The faster you can get your pet back up the more damage you and your pet can do.

Glyph of Feign Death

Like most dps classes hunters are constantly trying to push their damage to the next level. Being able to Feign Death more often means you should almost never pull the boss and bring the wrath of your raid leader down on you.

Remember, regardless of if you are killing General Gjarngrin in Halls of Lightning or finally getting that first kill of XT-002 Deconstructor, glyphs are an important enhancement to aid you on your journey through the World of Warcraft. As always in the end it is the player and what works for them that matters, so don't be afraid to experiment because that is the key to being the best player you can be.