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Comment by theholychicken

I would like to note that you CANNOT stack several glyphs of the same type to increase the effect. Upon attempting to inscribe a duplicate Glyph at the Lexicon of Power you recieve the message:

"That Glyph is already inscribed in your spellbook."

Comment by 258417

With patch 3.0.9, having this glyph is the only way to get off a Pom-AP-Pyro off. AP has a 15 sec shared cooldown on pyro so with this glyph you have 3 more seconds to cast your POM-Pyro while AP is active.

Comment by 383504

Actually increasing the time arcane power is up by 3 seconds doesn't permit to make a PoM spell, because PoM doesn't get a 15 sec cd, simply it goes on CD as the Arcane blast buff is still up. If you remove it rightclikking, PoM turn it available (unless it was on cd when you activate arcane power).
So, 3 seconds are like 2 more spell tossed out, but i don't like it too much. Arcane glyphs are pretty bad compared to fire and frost glyph :P

Comment by 667084

So does this glyph mean you can spam blink, mirror image and mana shield, or does it reset the cooldown?

Comment by 410689

This looks like it has real potential to turn the tables. Casting Arcane Power with a macro that casts Blink, Mana Shield, and Mirror Images at one time sounds insane (if all are available).

Blink provides distance.

Mana Shield offers some defense (along with damage and a possible knockback if specced into Incanter's Absorption).

Mirror Images may provide some confusion and huge damage potential if you are still wearing 4pt10.

And last but not least, you've casted Arcane Power...

Comment by 315792

Hmmm will have to test something... can you cast Mirror Image, then Arcane Power and another Mirror Image straight away effectively giving you 6 copies of yourself and stacking damage buff of 2x18%= 36% dmg from T10?

Comment by 719709

To make this as simple as I can, this glyph is useful for PVE, but VERY useful for PVP

This will allow you to instantly cast 3 spells at once without triggering any global cooldown. Casting these three spells (assuming you can cast all 3) would usually require 4.5 seconds with the gcd.

For PVP, assume you are in trouble. Using a macro, you can instantly blink away, cast mirror image, and put up mana shield, essentially giving arcane mages an "oh sh*t button" :)

Comment by TheRealAlas

Pretty much a waste of a Glyph - a macro such as:

/cast Arcane Power
/cast Mirror Image
/cast Mana Shield

Will NOT work.

I tried this glyph and I fail. However, it does reset the GCD... kinda, you just can't use it in a macro.

Comment by 258153

Still currently broken

However I did use the following simple macro and I was able to cast all four spells with only two GCDs. Odd...

/castsequence Arcane Power,Blink,Mana Shield,Mirror Image

Comment by Myhv

Totally broken right now, not just unusable in macros. Even having Blink, MS and MI on 1, 2 and 3 will not allow you to use the at the same time. Not to mention they all trigger GCD anyway.

Comment by Oxalus

Despite the patch notes containing two references to this, it's still broken. From the notes:

Arcane Power now has its tooltip updated when Glyph of Arcane Power is active.
Glyph of Arcane Power should correctly reduce the global cooldown of Blink, Mana Shield, and Mirror Image to 0.

That should allow the following macro to work:

#showtooltip
/cast Arcane Power
/cast Mana Shield
/cast Mirror Image
/use Mana Gem

The tooltip is updated as they say, but the macro stops after Mana Shield, just like it always has.

This is a real shame, because this is a big part of an arcane mage's standard rotation and as gimped as arcane is right now, we could really use any kind of boost.

Here's hoping blizz gets on the ball with this soon.

Comment by 799662

just found out how to make the macro with mana shield!

/castsequence Mana Shield
/cast Arcane Power
/cast Mirror Image
/cast Mana Gem
/cast Insignia of the Earthen Lord
/cast Lifeblood(Rank 8)

thats my macro but it works with mana shield... thats the point

Comment by 633171

I figured out how to make this right, thanx to nkboy2 for a little macro inspiration :)

The best try I've had is this:

The Arcane Power spell has to be active when you cast your macro for this to work, as the tooltip of this glyph clearly states. When Arcane Power is active use the following macro:

/castsequence Mana Shield
/cast Mirror Image
/cast Blink

You can also bind other stuff to this macro such as
/cast Mana Gem
/use Vicious Gladiator's Badge of Dominance
but I prefer having one macro for the glyph-of-Arcane-Power-trick, and one macro for gem/trinket.

Comment by 338957

The macros below have been tested. They work.
Use Glyph of Mirror Images.
The glyph is not bugged.
Mirror Image and Mana Shield are not included in the first tap, because they aren't off the gcd until after the first tap.

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Double-tapping this macro will instantly buff Arcane Power, Mana Gem, and Mirror Image, and cast Arcane Blast. The third tap will buff Mana Shield and cast another Arcane Blast. The 4th through 7th taps will cast Arcane Blast. The 8th tap will do nothing, so you'll have to switch back to your regular Arcane Blast button after 3-7 taps of this one.

#showtooltip Mirror Image
/castsequence reset=30 Arcane Power, Mirror Image, Mana Shield, Arcane Power, Arcane Power, Arcane Power
/castsequence reset=30 Mana Gem, Arcane Blast, Arcane Blast, Arcane Blast, Arcane Blast, Arcane Blast, Arcane Blast

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Double-tapping this macro will instantly buff Arcane Power, Mana Gem, Mirror Image, Mana Shield, and your trinkets, and cast Arcane Blast. The 3rd through 6th taps will also cast Arcane Blast.

#showtooltip Mirror Image
/castsequence reset=30 Arcane Power, Mirror Image, 13, 13, 13
/castsequence reset=30 Mana Gem, Mana Shield, 13, 13, 13, 13
/castsequence reset=30 13, Arcane Blast, Arcane Blast, Arcane Blast, Arcane Blast, Arcane Blast
/use 14

Note: I tested this only where the first trinket has an on-use effect and the second trinket doesn't.

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Comment by 392424

For a moment I had visions of Warsong, carrying the flag at level 85 & blinking end to end :)))))))))

Comment by PriestessAur

In Mists of Pandaria this glyph has changed.

Old
Glyph of Arcane Power: While Arcane Power is active the global cooldown of your Blink, Mana Shield, and Mirror Image is reduced to zero.

New
Glyph of Arcane Explosion: Increases the radius of your Arcane Explosion by 5 yards.

Comment by 1016991

Ok for those who were confused like I was.
This glyph does work.

But remember it resets the GLOBAL COOL DOWN e.g. resets the 1 seconds between spamming your buttons.
It does not reset your the Cool down of Mirror Image (3 minutes) or Blink (15Seconds) or Mana Shield (12 Seconds)

So if you're choosing to use all three spells Mirror Image, Blink and Mana Shield after casting Arcane Power then this glyph is only good for saving you 3 seconds.

So you can use a macro like this

/castsequence reset=120 Arcane Power, Arcane Blast, Mana Shield, Mana Gem, Mirror Image, Arcane Blast

Arcane Power = reset GCD
Arcane Blast, just a random spell to set off the GCD.
now you'll can spam the buttons crazy without waiting 1 sec in between the spells between Arcane Blast and Arcane Blast.

If I added Blink in there then I'll save 3 to 4 seconds worth of GCD waiting.

Hope that makes sense

:)

Comment by gyuuula

This glyph changed. It increase arcane explosion range to 15 yard. In pve, you can hit more targets or from a little farther, while in PvP it is excellent to break rogue's (and druid's) stealth.

Comment by 835245

In my experiences in high rated bg pvp, as of patch 5.4.2, this glyph is pretty much a requirement while playing on any map that requires spinning the flag to prevent capping. Since this game is pretty much all about CC'ing anymore, you sometimes cant be as close to the flag as you want at all times. 5 yards can be a win saver!

Mages are currently the ideal class to spin the flag. Arcane explosion will never have u run out of mana, and theres no cooldown so its infinitely spammable.

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Glyph of Arcane Explosion

Item Level 25
Major Glyph

Requires Level 25

Use: Permanently teaches you this glyph.

Increases the radius of your Arcane Explosion by 5 yards.

Max Stack: 20

Sell Price: 1

Glyph of Arcane Explosion

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