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Comment by Hemfive

Ok I found it: you can learn this only by Minor Inscription Research
https://www.wowhead.com/cata/spell=61288
cooldown 20 hours, like all other minor glyphs.

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 172997

With the change to happiness why does this glyph still grant it. There are two different hunter glyphs that give pet happiness that are absolutely worthless. Pets no longer have happiness or loyalty or if they do i haven't seen any icon showing their happiness recently.

Comment by Ramirez

Thats why glyph not working. Thanks for the info

Comment by turi

nice glyph.
its not like theres something better out there...

Comment by 654830

Now glyph of lesser proportion. Went from being the new BiS glyph to sucking, bad.

Comment by 788786

So they start off by giving us absolutely no mechanic changes, but a very nice cosmetic change. Then they reverse the cosmetic change to make it completely unappealing.

I can already tell 4.1 is going to be fun for hunters...

Comment by Drahken

Don't use this on your seagull pet. It might shrink so small, it'll disappear right out of existence!

If you use a pet biscuit on a Rustberg Seagull companion, it's actually bigger than a hunter pet seagull already. This glyph only makes it worse.

Comment by Tripster

I guess the purpose of this is just so that your pet is harder to target? Not much point in that, as players always go for the hunter. And plus, if you're looking for smaller pets, the choice of pet probably matters more than this glyph (fox vs, say, gorilla).

Comment by Yaushee

I think you missed the point of that glyph... Ever played a melee gnome with a T-rex (or other large pet) hugging the back of a small boss? You can't see a thing :P
No more if your hunter is so kind to take that glyph! Huzzah!

Comment by MintySinty

"Slightly reduces the size of your Pet."

...ssssssssssssssssseriously?

Comment by Hyperlynx

I must be the only one who thinks the smaller pet thing is awesome.

Comment by Daeolt

For anyone reading this in the future,

This glyph used to be Glyph of Mend Pet when pets had a happiness system (unhappy = less damage, neutral = normal, happy = more). It's use was that every time you used Mend Pet it would also restore some happiness. So you could just spam this and not worry so much about not having food with you.

With patch 4.1 the happiness system was removed and pet damage now acts as if the pet is always happy. Because of this, this glyph was announced to be changed to a glyph that increases pet size, only to be corrected to become a glyph that lowers pet size.

Maybe later they'll add the original glyph (that is, one that increases pet size). Being a Tauren, my pets always seem a bit small compared to me. =(

Comment by Janettie

This glyph isn't terrible, but aside from practical use in raids, I can't think of any time where I'd want my pets to be smaller by choice. Greater proportion had more use in PVP and was more desirable as a cosmetic choice.

The only reason I can imagine Blizzard made it lesser proportion would be because they believed greater proportion would be imbalanced in PVP. Which is ironic, but I won't get into that here.

Comment by hannibalektr

It's like asking for a smaller pecker, makes no sense.

A waste of digital wow space. I dont know why anyone would want a smaller pet, every hunter I know wants a BIG pet (including most women) and all hunters I've talked to are bummed when you tame them and they shrink (including most women). Remember when T-rex tame first came out and they stayed large? That was friggin awesome. This glyph is friggin weak and ghey. The funny thing is that hunters are nerfed, the gear sets for hunters are visually ghey (mulock looking PVE and the PVP is crap too), now they want to make our pets look less intimidating. The size shrink can not be in any way a PVE or PVP advantage. This is a pointless glyph that will soon be changed or removed completely, or they will come up with some reason why you'd need it that none of us are aware of.

Comment by 815136

This glyph is long overdue for hunters who use flying pets such as Birds of Prey, Carrion Birds and Bats.

Assuming the player uses a third person view with the camera immediately behind their character, flying pets can be a real annoyance since the jumbo sized bat or bird flaps its wings nearby every second, which not everyone finds entirely pleasant.

Sure, many hunters prefer larger pets, specifically pets that move around on the ground, and especially Beastmaster hunters. However, for hunters who don't rely on pets much such as Marksmanship hunters, a smaller pet is a lot comfier to deal with and doesn't draw as much focus from the hunter either, thus allowing the player to show off their armor or weapons without an enormous flying beast nearby to hog all the glory.

That said, I really don't see why they wouldn't add a Glyph of Larger proportion too, though I imagine that might have something to do with the dual glyphs then becoming "mandatory minor glyphs," which is something the devs moved away from with the latest major revamp of the glyph system.

Comment by 827563

The one issue I had with the glyph change was that if a hunter had been using Glyph of Mend pet before the patch, it was automatically replaced by this, meaning having to spend money on removing it from the slot just to have regular sized pets.

On a side not, we can hope that Blizzard do indeed put in another minor glyph to slightly increase the size.

Comment by 76098

Surprised no one has mentioned, but the glyph in game has a typo. Currently it reads "Glyph of Lesser Proprotion." I kinda like it that way :)

Comment by 5409

I find it highly probable this a temporary solution that does something but nothing that will affect gameplay. I'm sure they are going to play around with sizes.

Comment by 810544

I dont understand why you would want to make your pet smaller :P i go around with either a devilsaur or a rhino i want them nice and big :D i hope they add another glyph to increase pet size even if only a little it would make me feel so happy when i use bestial wrath on a gnome :P

Comment by aislingual

From a psychological perspective, if your pet is this small harmless-looking fox (even with bestial wrath) nibbling on someone, they are far more likely to take on the mindset of "ignore the annoying pet while killing the hunter!" despite taking large amounts of damage from it.

If they see a really big red dinosaur biting and jumping on them they'll instead think "kite the pet like crazy while killing the hunter!" which sucks as BM.

Comment by aspectofthedork

For those who don't need to compensate for something.

Comment by 974378

I'm not sure if this is because of the glyph or not, but I've noticed my mount is smaller than other people's too. Just a little bit... Could this be a side effect of the glyph?

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