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Glyphing a prot warrior

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From: Urbin
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 22:00
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I just dinged 25 and logged to my Scribe in order to make all warrior glyphs
he knows (all but 5 and those can only be learnt at higher levels, so no
rush).

Picking the prime glyph was easy: Shield Slam for 10% extra damage

Picking a minor was slightly harder: 
- Battle Shout 2 -> 4min duraiton and 50% larger radius
  it's cooldown is 1min, so it can already be perma-applied
  it's radius in 5-mans so far wasn't a problem
- Furious sundering: 10 instead of 15 rage, 15 rage hasn't been a problem
  yet
- enduring victory: increasing the victory rush window by 5 sec
  I chose this so I can use it on a new pull even if it takes a little
  longer until the pull (though cheaper sundering sounds good, too)

But picking a major glyph, boy, this hasn't been as hard for any other
class, there are so many good ones.
- Cleaving: hitting 3 instead of 2 targets would be nice for tanking
- Sunder armour: hitting 2 instead of 1: same
- long charge and rapid charge: both would be nice come level 29 and
  charging in combat and def stance
- resonating power and thunder clap: nice for aoe tanking
- victory rush: increased healing, great for soloing

In the end, as I am currently mainly tanking and as thunderclap has worked
well as it is, the decision came down to Cleaving or Sunder Armour. I might
not be doing things right but I've only really used sunder up to 3 stacks
(didn't this used to be 5 stacks?) on bosses and sunder mobs on which I lost
aggro. Should I be sundering every mob on every pull? At the moment I use
Shield Slam, Rend, Thunderclap and Cleave on trash groups. Based on this I
figured that the glyph of Cleave was best to get.

Still, rather too many good glyphs then too few :-)

Any comments on my thoughts on Cleave vs Sunder are welcome.

Cheers
Urbin

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