Glyph of Icebound Fortitude bug fix incoming
by Eliah Hecht 
May 16th 2009 at 9:00AM
Tanking Death Knights, don't buy those Glyphs of Icebound Fortitude just yet. The glyph is meant to make Icebound Fortitude a little more potent in PvP, where a DK is unlikely to have much defense on. But apparently (and this is news to me), there was a bug where it was giving benefits even to def-capped DKs, and thus many people were picking it up for PvE use.
As always happened eventually, Blizzard has spotted the bug, and they're going to be hotfixing it soon. The glyph will still keep its intended effect; PvP DKs will not see a change, most likely. But now I'm curious: what was the glyph doing for tanks? Was it adding 10% onto IBF at all times, or something?
Filed under: Death Knight, Inscription
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Eamara May 16th 2009 9:10AM
Yep, that's exactly what it did. So if you had enough defense to make IBF give 45% reduction, the glyph boosted it to 55%. Was pretty amazing for PvE, and I'm kind of sad that it was a bug after all. Ah well. Back to glyph of death strike for me.
Archerion May 16th 2009 11:52AM
As a Frost DK Tank, i've gotta say that the bug was pretty useful. A Warrior bud of mine and I were having a discussion about this very same topic yesterday: that IBF was a bit overpowered for a cooldown. Blizzard said that in 3.1 they were turning DK's away from "Cooldown Tanking", so this hotfix really doesn't surprise me. At the same time tho, it does make IBF slightly less useful. Given the other bonuses to it, i.e. T 7.5 set bonus, Guile of Gorefiend talent, it still is a very useful cooldown, and the nerf wont make it completely un-useable.