Guild Wars 2

So it’s been bugging me for rather a while now that some glyphs take the element for their attunement-based effects at the end of casting, while others do this at the start. This means that if you switch attunements from, say, earth to fire while casting a glyph, the Glyphs of Elementals/Glyph of Elemental Harmony will summon a fire elemental/grant you might, but the Glyph of Storms/Glyph of Renewal will call up a sandstorm/revive three allies. I can’t remember what the Glyph of Elemental Power took as the relevant attunement but that’s not relevant anymore.

I’ve gotten used to how they work but I’m irked by the inconsistency. I’m also rather curious as to how folks feel about the different ‘choices’ of attunement – I feel that I’d rather they all took the ending attunement for effects, but haven’t put much thought into how that would affect builds that regularly use our glyphs.

Glyph of Elemental Power used to be end attunement as well. And to be honest, I use that effect a lot during my gameplay. Sometimes I change my mind which effect I want midcast and then switch. Sometimes it just saves time (get that spell casting, I’ll change attunement later). It can be a downside when you’re already working on your next move while the glyph is still casting (happens to me occasionally). But I do prefer the way it works now. Makes for faster gameplay as you don’t have to sit in an attunement waiting for a spell to cast. But that goes for normal spells too. Why cast Meteor Shower in Fire when you can switch attunement midcast to Water (for Fury and an Ice Spike/Frozen Ground)?.

The elite glyph also does not trigger a boon if you have that traited.

Bluefox.9580:

The elite glyph also does not trigger a boon if you have that traited.

Yeah, they should really fix that. But then again, if I’d took that trait it’d be for Glyph of restoration mostly anyway.