Mage glyph changes in patch 5.0.4

When the new 5.0 patch flips over on Aug. 28, will you be ready with glyphs? Blizzard is recycling old glyphs instead of making new spell IDs and charring old ones. Some glyphs are staying the same, some are new, but some share IDs with old Cataclysm glyphs.

Below is our list of new or changing glyphs for mages. This is not a list of changing tooltips, just which glyphs you ought to have if you want to automatically have the new glyphs when the patch flips over.

Mages have no new glyphs but seem to be the masters of musical glyph chairs, namely Icy Veins and Cone of Cold. If you currently have both, you will have both, so get both just to be sure.

Glyphs that are changing into new majors:

• Arcane Power becomes Arcane Explosion

• Arcane Blast becomes Arcane Power

• Frost Armor becomes Armors

• Fireball becomes Combustion

• Icy Veins becomes Cone of Cold

• Mana Shield becomes Counterspell

• Ice Barrier becomes Deep Freeze

• Living Bomb becomes Fire Blast

• Frostfire becomes Frostfire Bolt

• Cone of Cold becomes Icy Veins

• Mage Armor becomes Mana Gem

• Blast Wave becomes Remove Curse

• Dragon's Breath becomes Spellsteal

• Deep Freeze becomes Water Elemental

Glyphs that are changing into new minors:

• Slow Fall becomes Arcane Language

• Conjuring becomes Conjure Familiar

• Molten Armor becomes Crittermorph

• Arcane Barrage becomes Illusion

• Arcane Missiles becomes Loose Mana

• Pyroblast becomes Momentum

• Arcane Brilliance becomes the Porcupine

• Armors becomes Rapid Teleportation

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