Glimmer of Light

Glimmer was never good. It was used before people figured out that LoD was the undisputed king of Monk elites.

If you use Glimmer now it's because you haven't gotten the memo yet. I suppose I should use "good" in quotes, since it's all in comparison with other stuff. During the beta test weekend for nightfall, glimmer had a stronger heal than it does now, and that was also before people used LoD commonly, so I suppose it was *better* than it is now.

From my experience it completely disintigrates all your energy due to excessive usage and orison is replaced by [skill]words of comfort[/skill] these days, my final point is as elite I still prefer [skill]word of healing[/skill] much more conveniant imo Agreed although LoD is great as well.

Assuming that 8 people are below 80%. One piece of advice I was first given as a monk when I started playing one was that unless they're below 80% health, they don't need healing. Ever since then I've seen Healing Prayers, not as keeping the red bars full the whole time, but by "managing" the red bars. Using this idea, LoD clearly wins, as you're only healing people below 80% health anyway.

One great use we did find for Glimmer of Light is, if you use Healer's Boon, followed by Holy Haste, you can hit "/dance" and cast Glimmer on yourself without stopping. So if you're ever in a dance-off, Glimmer is the way to go.

One piece of advice I was first given as a monk when I started playing one was that unless they're below 80% health, they don't need healing. Ever since then I've seen Healing Prayers, not as keeping the red bars full the whole time, but by "managing" the red bars. Using this idea, LoD clearly wins, as you're only healing people below 80% health anyway.

One great use we did find for Glimmer of Light is, if you use Healer's Boon, followed by Holy Haste, you can hit "/dance" and cast Glimmer on yourself without stopping. So if you're ever in a dance-off, Glimmer is the way to go. Both Healer's Boon and Glimmer of Light are elites
Glimmer of Light was good at the release of Nightfall, same as many other skills that took the nerf bat, even though it was never overpowered in any way...
now the Healing Prayer line in general sucks, the only 2 skills worth taking are LoD and GoH in some situations maybe the new Heal Condition or whatever its called too but I dont have EotN and dont plan on buying it, 3 campaigns are enough already...

Both Healer's Boon and Glimmer of Light are elites We used Arcane Mimicry for that

Glimmer is not drastically bad for an elite because, in today's Interrupt Wars, it very rarely suffers to an interrupt ranger or even a Migraine mesmer. It has a purpose to be a quick, spammable and moderate heal which are all attactive attributes.

The problem is that it is outshined by other elites with more potential and utility and Glimmer doesn't 'fit' in PvP. It's actually run on split monks in GvG.

It's actually run on split monks in GvG. It's fairly weak on split monks as well because of the weakness in the healing prayers line for skirmishes.

Overpowered. You can pretty much heal them for a decent amount, remove a hex, a condition, AND prot the next hit, all for 5 energy? The removal/prot is conditional.
The only way to remove whatever thing is to have your target under both a hex and a cond. If it has only conds, it does nothing. If it has only hexes, it does nothing. If target got debuffed (as often in spikes), it does nothing.

The question is: would you use it in this state instead of Light of Deliverance?
Personnally, even with the "overpowering" I did, I would not, cause I would need an additionnal Heal party spammer then.

Buffing GoL!
Glimmer of light:
Enchantment
5 NRJ, 1/4 cast 3 recharge
Target ally is healed for 15...62 health. If he has a condition, he loses one hex. If he has a hex, he loses one condition. If he is enchanted, th enext damage against him is reduced by 5...53 damge. ... and make Healing viable with something other than LoD on, essentially, a prot bar?
Heresy!