Glyph of Elemental Power

Glyph. Unleash elemental energy around yourself. Its effect will differ based on your attunement. — 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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0.5½  25  

Glyph of Elemental Power

Glyph. Unleash elemental energy around yourself. Its effect will differ based on your attunement.

 Fire Attunement: Burn enemies.

 Water Attunement: Remove conditions from allies.

 Air Attunement: Daze enemies.

 Earth Attunement: Grant barrier to allies.

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 240

 Breaks Stun

— In-game description

Skills

Skill				Description
Glyph of Elemental Power		0.5½	25	Glyph. Unleash elemental energy around yourself. Its effect will differ based on your attunement.
Glyph of Elemental Power		0.5½	25	Glyph. Unleash elemental energy around yourself. Its effect will differ based on your attunement.
Glyph of Elemental Power		0.5½	25	Glyph. Unleash elemental energy around yourself. Its effect will differ based on your attunement.
Glyph of Elemental Power		0.5½	25	Glyph. Unleash elemental energy around yourself. Its effect will differ based on your attunement.

Effects

•   Fire Attunement: Inflicts ₃ Burning (6s) on up to five nearby enemies.
•   Water Attunement: Removes 3 conditions from up to five nearby allies.
•   Air Attunement: Inflicts  Daze (2s) on up to five nearby enemies.
•   Earth Attunement: Grants  Barrier to five nearby allies.

Related traits

Air

• Inscription — Gain boons upon casting a glyph based on your attunement. Gain resistance when attuning to air.

Notes

Anomaly:

This skill lacks the red line that appears when out of range of a targeted enemy that other skills have, presumably due to its previous function not being an attack.

Gallery

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  Render of the animation from prior to release.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 27, 2025	Fixed an issue that prevented this skill from going on full cooldown when interrupted.
June 24, 2025	This skill has been reworked. Unleash elemental energy around you with its effect differing per attunement.
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.