Guild Wars 2

I meant to ask this during beta when it probably would have had a better chance of actually being seen, but what’s up with the glyph visuals?

All the Elementalist glyphs cast an actual visible symbol / glyph in the air when using them. A nice little touch to differentiate them a bit more from other skill types, I think. I’m quite fond of it, simple but unique.

And it seems like they started to do that same concept with the Druid glyphs, since Alignment has that effect as well. It would certainly make sense if they did, since in functionality they’re almost nothing like Elementalist glyphs, so the visuals should match at the very least. Something has to tie them to the other glyph skills in the game, if not the functionality then at least the visual flair.

But none of the other Glyphs have it. Why not? Most of them do still have the character wave their hand in front of themselves as if casting a glyph, it’d be perfect to just put the visual there as well.