Guild Wars 2

Hey guys I just try out the glyph build… just curious do anet buff the glyph of lesser elemental?

ty in advance

They aren’t buffing the Elementals (at least not in the preview). They’ve only added a skill for each elemental just like Necromancer’s minions. So you can press it and the Elemental will attack with it.

Which in a way, it’s a buff, as you’ll be able to trigger them when you need them, instead of having your elementals waste it at random.

where can i see the preview …. ty guys

The change to the summoning glyphs is a double edged sword.

It is a buff for the active player, who chooses skills wisely depending on the situation. After Sept. 9th you can control the special ability of the summon, which currently is random.
It is a nerf for the lazy player, as you have to activate the skill manually. If you don’t do that at all, because “you forgot”, the summon will lose potential, because now the AI uses it pretty much on recharge, so no extra punch is really wasted, but sometimes used inappropriately.

You can see the preview on twitch TV (ready up episode 20, about 22 min in the broadcast) and dulfy has a summary up as well.

Let’s not undervalue good buffs because “lazy players exist”. Active skills are more healthy to this game, specially for the competitive side (pvp and wvw) than mindless passive procs and pets that play the game for you.

Being able to trigger a 6k heal whenever you want, every 15 seconds, will be simply great.

Dude, it’s a HUGE buff. It changes a ton for the Elementalist. We can actually use on-elite runes now, with these new activated elite abilities for Elemental pets.

Wish they made it so you could perma keep up the pets =/

Neko.9021:

Dude, it’s a HUGE buff. It changes a ton for the Elementalist. We can actually use on-elite runes now, with these new activated elite abilities for Elemental pets.

That’s not how that works.

They trigger on the summon, not on the skill use. At least for necro that’s how it works.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Neko.9021:

Dude, it’s a HUGE buff. It changes a ton for the Elementalist. We can actually use on-elite runes now, with these new activated elite abilities for Elemental pets.

That’s not how that works.

They trigger on the summon, not on the skill use. At least for necro that’s how it works.

The activated ability of Flesh Golem can trigger an on-elite-skill-rune proc. I tested this in the Mists.

Neko.9021:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Neko.9021:

Dude, it’s a HUGE buff. It changes a ton for the Elementalist. We can actually use on-elite runes now, with these new activated elite abilities for Elemental pets.

That’s not how that works.

They trigger on the summon, not on the skill use. At least for necro that’s how it works.

The activated ability of Flesh Golem can trigger an on-elite-skill-rune proc. I tested this in the Mists.

The on elite runes have their own internal cooldowns right? otherwise this will be so nerfed

Otherwise very happy with the change

emikochan.8504:

Neko.9021:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Neko.9021:

Dude, it’s a HUGE buff. It changes a ton for the Elementalist. We can actually use on-elite runes now, with these new activated elite abilities for Elemental pets.

That’s not how that works.

They trigger on the summon, not on the skill use. At least for necro that’s how it works.

The activated ability of Flesh Golem can trigger an on-elite-skill-rune proc. I tested this in the Mists.

The on elite runes have their own internal cooldowns right? otherwise this will be so nerfed

Otherwise very happy with the change

They do but nothing else ele has is even close to 45 sec cd this may be where ele 1v1 with Rune of Lyssa.

Good, very good buff!

glyph of storms seems a regular buff, may be good for lightning storm, i hope the other skills like lightning storm from Lightning Hammer get the buff too

elemental minions not so much since their damage is low, only earth elemental kinda worth for tanking, may be water elemental for healing asuming he is not geting killed before that

and only those glyphs, thats lame

chris.6583:

glyph of storms seems a regular buff, may be good for lightning storm, i hope the other skills like lightning storm from Lightning Hammer get the buff too

Note than in the balance video he was using berserker gear and 6 points in air for a good number of weak spot procs

I put berserker gear in italics in my last sentence because I couldn’t manage to reproduce the stats that he had in the video! He had 14,225 HP, I can get close to that, but I have not found the right combination to reproduce it exactly. Could someone help?

Zelyhn Lekovitch.2867:

chris.6583:

glyph of storms seems a regular buff, may be good for lightning storm, i hope the other skills like lightning storm from Lightning Hammer get the buff too

Note than in the balance video he was using berserker gear and 6 points in air for a good number of weak spot procs

I put berserker gear in italics in my last sentence because I couldn’t manage to reproduce the stats that he had in the video! He had 14,225 HP, I can get close to that, but I have not found the right combination to reproduce it exactly. Could someone help?

Follow up on this: base stats have increased by 10 points at level 80, with a new total of 926 instead of 916.

Thanks to Lord Kuru for pointing this out