Guild Wars 2

Why is Equilibrium chosen over Invigorating Flow?

I am constantly energy starved these days so rarely am I in a fight with energy over the threshold to do damage. and even when I am, the damage on the tooltip seems small. The heal appears to be less than the regular stream from Invigorating Flow, even if you are changing legends on CD.

I’m obviously missing something as it is in the meta and not so long ago there was a lot of complaining about the skill on the pvp forums

For burst damage.

Burst damage with Glint. Using a different legend makes it hard to activate the damage, but since Glint doesn’t use energy its pretty easy to do the damage every time

Hooglese.4860:

Burst damage with Glint. Using a different legend makes it hard to activate the damage, but since Glint doesn’t use energy its pretty easy to do the damage every time

I’m missing something here. How does using Glint make it any easier than compared to the other Legends?

Unlike the other stances, Glint utilities just have upkeeps, not flat energy costs. As long as you don’t go over 5 upkeep points, Glint’s utilities cost 0 energy to use, leaving you with >50 almost all the time. (The only time losing energy is likely to happen is at the very start of the match when you’re boon-sharing with all facets up, or if you go to AoE CC with the elite and you get interrupted)

Does anyone have a feel for the effect radius of this skill? For either the heal or the damage?

Xernth.8561:

Does anyone have a feel for the effect radius of this skill? For either the heal or the damage?

Before somebody rips me a new one on here calm down….I actually am making a video on explaining all of this this week. To answer your question its about the same as hydro weapon swap.

Is using sword #2 on CD a DPS loss over Equilibrium? Because with glint’s upkeeps + sword #2 I can never be over 50% energy.

Maintaning “5 pips” upkeep while in Glint is unlikely to happen, and while its more difficult its totally posible to legend swap with +50 energy with every legend. Anyway, as it has been said its just used for extra bursting with weapon swap procs.