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Comment by jalei

Well, saves you some time and mana.
Turns this buff into an hour long buff on the caster.

Comment by Beldex

Could you put the glyph on, cast thorns, then take the glyph off? And still keep the hour long buff. Would be worth having the glyph around if it does.

Comment by 57857

For those of us who love thorns and kept 3 pcs of Cenarion...

"Damage dealt by Thorns increased by 4 and duration increased by 50%."

Would that give us 90 minutes, or is the set bonus applied before the glyph?

Comment by 105588

Does the hr.-long cooldown only work if you selfcast, or does it work if any Druid casts it on you?

Comment by 178874

Nice glyph that makes keeping thorns up less of a hassle, but it has one annoying flaw: It overwrites thorns cast by any other druid with brambles, even though their thorns are much more powerful (even on a feral druid with no SP).

Comment by 297161

This glyph seems helpful to a feral tank, I won't have to pop out every ten minutes to rebuff myself anymore, so no more waste of any rage i have left over.

Me thinks i'll use it

Comment by GreatePier

IMO, this glyph has its best use for those still levelling.

When doing instances/raids, only the Tank(s) should have Thorns and Thorns scale with Spellpower, one of the stats a tank doesn't need. So basically, if there's a resto/bala druid in your group, his thorns are going to do you far more good than the fact that you only need to cast it once per hour.

If you are thinking of dropping one minor glyph for another, this would probably be a good choice for dropping

Edit on account of the new patch

This glyph probably works best for druids that actually arent tanking themselves. Thorns really help tanks hold agro on packs, so if you're not tanking, put it on the tank and keep it up. Just see it as a mobile AoE DoT that scales with the intended targets' attackspeeds. If you are tanking, you probably wont need this Glyph as IMO it's doubtful you'll reapply it every 20 seconds, but it's still good you'll be able to. If you end one trashpack with <10 rage, reapply, go back to bear and all you lost is 2 GCD in exchange for some nice damage and threat.

Im not much for PvP myself, but it seems that this Glyph allows Resto Druids to deal some mad damage to melee classes if they're not careful...

Comment by 392562

As a leveling Moonkin Druid, one of the most infuriating annoyances was trying to reapply thorns only to be given a message that "A more powerful spell is already active". I would suggest any leveling druid to pick this up. It won't make you level faster but it definitely is a quality of life improvement.

Comment by 502984

While this glyph was probably intended as a leveling tool for boomkin/restos, I've found the thorns do persist on talent spec changes (both duration and power) and a little trick to get use out of this while tanking. If you're dual specced feral/spellcaster and you've glyphed this on your spellcaster spec, you can switch to that spec, cast Thorns on yourself (make sure you're in spellcaster gear first), and switch back to feral spec. While not terribly convenient, the thorns will do a lot more damage and you can feel pro tank in your long duration, super spikey thorns.

Comment by 258919

For bear tanks, nothing is more annoying than seeing your buffs dropping when you have a hefty amount of rage to start the next pull with. Plus having to shift out to reapply Thorns is just plain annoying in any scenario. Given that this is a minor glyph, it's worth getting, especially for levelling druids.

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Glyph of Thorns

Item Level 11
Minor Glyph

Requires Level 15
Use: Permanently teaches you this glyph.

Increases the duration of your Thorns ability by 50 min when cast on yourself.

Max Stack: 20

Sell Price: 1

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