Glyph of Elemental Power

Glyph. Inflict conditions on your next few strikes based on your attunement. Each strike deals increased damage. — In-game description

Glyph of Elemental Power

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Glyph

Training cost

4 Hero points

Game link

API

5506

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25  

Glyph of Elemental Power

Glyph. Inflict conditions on your next few strikes based on your attunement. Each strike deals increased damage.

 Damage Increase: 25%

 Burning (3s): 393 Damage

 Burning (10.5½s): 197 Damage

 Chilled (2s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

₄ Vulnerability (5s): +4% Incoming Damage, +4% Incoming Condition Damage

 Bleeding (6s): 132 Damage

 Number of Strikes: 5

 Duration: 25 seconds

 Breaks Stun

— In-game description

Skills

Skill				Description
Glyph of Elemental Power			25	Glyph. Inflict conditions on your next few strikes based on your attunement. Each strike deals increased damage.
Glyph of Elemental Power			25	Glyph. Inflict conditions on your next few strikes based on your attunement. Each strike deals increased damage.
Glyph of Elemental Power			25	Glyph. Inflict conditions on your next few strikes based on your attunement. Each strike deals increased damage.
Glyph of Elemental Power			25	Glyph. Inflict conditions on your next few strikes based on your attunement. Each strike deals increased damage.

Related traits

Fire

• Burning Precision — Burning you inflict has increased duration and your critical hits gain a chance to inflict burning.
• Pyromancer's Training — Your fire-weapon skills gain reduced recharge. Deal increased strike damage to burning foes.
• Blinding Ashes — Inflict blindness on foes you burn. This trait can only affect the same enemy once per interval.

Air

• Inscription — Gain boons upon casting a glyph based on your attunement.

Earth

• Serrated Stones — Bleeding you inflict has increased duration. Deal increased damage to bleeding foes.

Water

• Piercing Shards — Vulnerability you inflict has increased duration. Deal increased strike damage to vulnerable foes. Damage bonus is doubled while attuned to water.

Weaver

• Elemental Pursuit — Gain superspeed when inflicting inhibiting conditions on enemies.

Notes

Bugs:

• The damage increase is only displayed at the skill overview, but not on the four attuned skills. However this is just a visual bug, the increased damage application is working properly.
• Applying stacks on top of each other of the same type causes one to decay resulting in 4 stacks instead of 5.
• At some point during or after 2012, this skill's visual and audio effects were removed.

• The determined condition does not change when swapping attunements and affects any source of direct damage.
• Effect ends upon entering the Downed state.

Gallery

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  Render of the animation from prior to release.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 28, 2023	Reduced the cooldown from 30 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP and WvW.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Increased cooldown from 25 seconds to 30 seconds. Reduced burning duration from 3 seconds to 1.5 seconds
February 06, 2018	In addition to its previous effects, this glyph now also increases outgoing damage by 25% for each strike. Fixed an issue that prevented this glyph from losing stacks when enhanced attacks were blocked, blinded, or evaded.
May 16, 2017	Reduced recharge to 25 seconds. Now gives 5 charges instead of using a 5-second cooldown interval. Decreased duration to 25 seconds. Reduced burning duration to 1 stack for 3 seconds. Changed crippled condition to 1 stack of bleeding for 6 seconds. Changed weakness condition to 4 stacks of vulnerability for 5 seconds.
October 20, 2016	Fixed a bug that allowed striking a downed enemy to activate this ability’s effect with no internal cooldown. Reduced the weakness applied from 6 seconds to 3 seconds.
October 19, 2016	Fixed a bug that caused this ability’s effect to have an unintentional reduced cooldown.
October 18, 2016	The trigger chance of this ability has been increased from 25% to 100%. Weakness duration has been reduced from 6 seconds to 3 seconds. Internal cooldown can now be shared between elementalists. This ability will no longer apply conditions to nonenemies.
July 28, 2016	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to have separate recharges between attunements. The earth portion of this skill will now be appropriately reduced when traited with Inscription. This skill will no longer set Glyph of Renewal on full recharge.
April 19, 2016	This skill now has new icons for each attunement for better visibility.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: This skill now applies 2 stacks of burning for 3 seconds when used in fire attunement.
September 30, 2014	Updated the description to indicate that the condition application chance works for all spells rather than just spells of a specific element.
April 15, 2014	Added a skill fact to indicate the recharge when the skill triggers its effect.
June 25, 2013	This skill is now a stun breaker.
April 30, 2013	Added a skill fact to indicate the percent chance.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Glyph of Elemental Power has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.