Guild Wars 2

Did anyone see this happen during the invitational? For anyone that doesn’t know what I’m talking about, triple-capping the Fire shrines gives your team a buff that lets you walk on lava and use the lava pools inside the keep to move about faster. Can enemies use this against you?

I’ve seen mixed feedback on the nature of these shrines and their buffs, but if the Fire one lets enemies bypass keep defenses entirely, I feel like it has some solid strategic considerations. Earth is up there, too, though air feels like the least seriously useful.

The shrines buffs only apply to the team that actually owns the keep. Attackers that take the shrines don’t get these buffs themselves, they only deny them to the defending team.

You can get a 5 min buff from a shrine when you capture it, no?