The underrated skill thread.

If Glimmer of Light sucks so much maybe they should make it 0 activation time, 0 recharge.

totally missing the point. it would still suck after the fact, LOL :P

It doesnt suck, it just isnt as useful as other elites.

It is basically an elite orison of healing with about 1.75x the healing, but other elites simply do a far better job.

I would say that Glimmer of Light is on the same level as Shield of Regeneration and Boon Signet. Yes all of them can work and make decent builds, but other elites are still better.

Healing Burst is better then Glimmer, it heals for more and also does a little AoE healing. Im not sure about this, but do the AoE heals from it benefit from divine favor? If not then it should do.

Extinguish. I use it on my MM if he has a free skill lot.

Every darn skill in game. Even the Meta skills XD

yeah, skills don't suck, they're just bad relative to all the other skills in the game.

edit: SoR can actually save someone.

ahhhh.... an extra 30 Satisfaction extracted from pvxwiki.... mmmmmm..... tasty.....

Please though, give me some more paper scissor stone examples of when Glimmer is bad.

Maybe you would say Orison is better because Arcane Thievery has just randomly hit your Glimmer of Light, therefore Glimmer sucks, those types of conditional justifications are at there very best, obvious and obviously pointless, and at worst, +10 satisfaction for me.

PvE is easy.

Hehehehe. Okay, seriously, where do you see those examples?

But whatever, have your satisfaction for being pwetty snowflake.

I use glimmer all the time in RA simply because its daze resistant. If you get dazed wile getting pounded no mending touch or WoH will save you because you will never get it casted. Of course i know a real pvp er is so 1337 he never ever gets dazed or even has to cast a single spell. That's why they all use shields even wile HB'ing in pve.

However glimmer loses some points for being really easy to divert.

The only thing glimmer is good for is healing my smiter on my ranger hero when I run Rragars...

Really unless you're getting attacked by 2 or more mesmers, you shouldn't get your stuff diversioned.

Watch the mesmer, the real problem with diversion is that it forces you to sac skills or not cast.

I hope you're not suggesting that those guys have actually died at some point, because I assure you then when they're PMing you about how awesome they are and how much you suck, it's because IT'S TRUE.

You know it's true because they use the word "noob".

God forbid anybody actually PLAY guild wars as opposed to living it or farming it.

"Why have you brought a bonder into RA?"
"I've not done it for ages... wanted some fun and entertainment"
"noob. Bring meta or uninstall guild wars"
"... you DO know this is a game right?"
"noob. uninstall guild wars"


or my personal favourite
"Why have you brought something that doesn't synergise with my build into RA, don't you know I'm pro and you should be bringing the things that work with me to make me look better?"
"Is that a trick question?"
"noob. uninstall guild wars"

So anyway, I think I'm going to start bigging up Blessed Light next, I've not seen that in any meta... that'll get the meta bed wetters bed wetting.

It's not a case of running meta builds, if it works by all means use it.

The problem comes with people bringing builds into RA that don't work, yes it's RA but not everyone enjoys lying on the ground after 30 seconds because their monk has healing breeze and orison.

I would agree with Strength of Honor, I often look for a smiter to throw it in with Judge's Insight so I can smash everything on my way with my warrior

Someone needs to learn the difference between PLAYING the game and being a tool for the fun of it.

There is no issue in playing the game in a way you want to.
There is an issue in playing the game in a sub-par fashion and then refusing to acknowledge that it's sub-par.

Let's try and keep it on topic lol. If you wanna make a WoH vs glimmer thread then do so.

As for topic, this isn't actually an underrated skill, but more of where its placed that makes it undesirable i guess. I decided to split my ranger heros attributes from pure mark/exp, to mark/exp/blood magic and put bloodn ritual on her. Now I has barrage ranger without having to bring Eve to power mah healers! Very fun!

I read your post. It didn't seem relevant. Do you have sufficient popularity with the mods on this forum to make troll posts and get away with it then?

Feel free to respond to the words that were written as opposed to the words that you only wish were written. In your own time of course.

There is a big difference between using skills that are quite simply worse than other choices and using skills that go about things in a different way.

Unless you're running Glimmer with both Selfless and Divine Spirit so you can REALLY spam it there is absolutely 0 reason to take i over WoH, HB or UA.
But something like Fevered Dreams so you can have some fun with AoE conditions instead of been a boring, unimaginative tool and using Sabway 24/7 like its the only build that can possibly do anything is not 'sub-par'.