Rune/Sigil changes and Guardian

Edit: Patch finally dropped: http://dulfy.net/2018/11/13/gw2-nov-13-game-update-patch-notes/

DH Speed God WvW Build

High uptime on swiftness means you can kite a lot (you will have a movement speed buff of 66% - they buffed rune of speed). You will have an OOC movement speed buff of 25%. Cleansing has been buffed in PvE, it now removes 3 condis. Energy can be swapped to Air if you feel like you won't need the extra dodge. You can change cleansing as well to energy... Just food for thought

Edit #2: Rune of the Centaur may be viable for WvW and PvP... Use your heal skill OOC to get an easy 15 seconds of swiftness. If you're using LoW, you'll have a 5 second downtime on swiftness and if you're using Purification, you'll have a 9 second downtime. Using only one sigil of agility will help maintain swiftness during combat by a lot. My main gripe with swiftness and DH is that if it gets corrupted/removed we're SOL until our heal skill is back

Edit #3: Rune of the Pack looks like it was nerfed? Doesn't reapply every 20 seconds?

~~This will be extremely strong for full-melee DH. You'll essentially be able to run a valkyrie's amulet and burst once every 10 seconds. Tether someone for +30% damage, see if you can apply aegis with shield 4, weapon swap to GS (agility + vision), and WW is going to easily hit 15k in 0.4 seconds. ~~

Edit: Never mind, a dev clarified that these new sigils won't be coming to pvp. Still though, this means they'll be available in wvw which is a secondary worry.

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@"mrauls.6519" said:That will be amazing for power Guard most likely. Can't wait to see what happens. In case you missed it:http://dulfy.net/2018/11/06/gw2-introducing-rune-sigil-salvage/

I run Core Guard and with ret up, my crit chance is 100%, and I have pretty much 100% uptime on ret :open_mouth:

Still, interesting change. I'm always happy to see crafting expand.

@"mrauls.6519" said:I have high hopes for the sigil changes next week. Sigil changes = a balance change in a way. The new sigil of intelligence will make ALL attacks crit for 3 seconds... Holy Jesus Christ. That will be amazing for power Guard most likely. Can't wait to see what happens. In case you missed it:http://dulfy.net/2018/11/06/gw2-introducing-rune-sigil-salvage/

Core guardian runs 100% critic, so does all power builds in PvE. It looks like a cool Sigil but I do not see a use for it on most classes.

@otto.5684 said:

@"mrauls.6519" said:I have high hopes for the sigil changes next week. Sigil changes = a balance change in a way. The new sigil of intelligence will make ALL attacks crit for 3 seconds... Holy Jesus Christ. That will be amazing for power Guard most likely. Can't wait to see what happens. In case you missed it:

http://dulfy.net/2018/11/06/gw2-introducing-rune-sigil-salvage/

I was trying to be inclusive, but I really hope this helps out power DH in a way xD

Core guard doesn't have a burst issue.Overkill is a waste of potentially useful stats, what sigil do you trade in for it?

If the sixth rune in Dwayna means 10% more base healthpool it is kind of lame but if it is 10% more health on top of base+vitality it becomes more interesting.

I like this rune at a first glance, looks very nice on my celestial firebrand.

(1): +25 Healing(2): +10% Regeneration Duration(3): +50 Healing(4): +20% Regeneration Duration(5): +100 Healing(6): +10% Maximum Health; regeneration you apply is 20% more effective.

@Turkeyspit.3965 said:

@"mrauls.6519" said:That will be amazing for power Guard most likely. Can't wait to see what happens. In case you missed it:

http://dulfy.net/2018/11/06/gw2-introducing-rune-sigil-salvage/

@alchemist.6851 said:

@Turkeyspit.3965 said:

@"mrauls.6519" said:That will be amazing for power Guard most likely. Can't wait to see what happens. In case you missed it:

http://dulfy.net/2018/11/06/gw2-introducing-rune-sigil-salvage/

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Righteous_Instincts = 50%https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Radiant_Power = 10%My gear = 40%

Because of the Virtues trait line, activating F1 grants retaliation (and sets your target on fire) and thanks to Radiance trait line, Virtue of Justice (F1) is reset whenever a mob dies, providing almost effortless retaliation uptime. And for when your target happens to not be on fire, if you're in a group, chances are you are getting hit with fury from some source, so again you're crit capped.

As a rule you also get retaliation from GS 4, and if you use G3 through your symbol which is a light field, you get retaliation from the light aura (https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Light_Aura) you create by using a leap finisher - all helpful for when you're fighting a boss and can't get a kill to reset your F1.

@Brutaly.6257 said:If the sixth rune in Dwayna means 10% more base healthpool it is kind of lame but if it is 10% more health on top of base+vitality it becomes more interesting.

I like this rune at a first glance, looks very nice on my celestial firebrand.

(1): +25 Healing(2): +10% Regeneration Duration(3): +50 Healing(4): +20% Regeneration Duration(5): +100 Healing(6): +10% Maximum Health; regeneration you apply is 20% more effective.

It should take vitality into account like divinity runes do.

The change to Balthazar is solid for PvE. Everything else is kinda no impact. I was hoping for a change to Lynx, since the vast majority of guardians builds in sPvP use it, and aside from the 25% movement speed it is a bad tune. No change :/

Rune of Speed looks so juicy. I'm thinking about dropping my double energy sigils and replacing them with agility... and replacing travelers rune with speed... 66% movement speed with swiftness? Whaaat...

@"mrauls.6519" said:Rune of Speed looks so juicy. I'm thinking about dropping my double energy sigils and replacing them with agility... and replacing travelers rune with speed... 66% movement speed with swiftness? Whaaat...

I thought the same for my core guard retaliation running GS (air/agility) and SW/FC (agility/blood) together with speed rune, any other potential synergies from a wvw roaming perspective?

@Bheowulf.4572 said:

@"mrauls.6519" said:Rune of Speed looks so juicy. I'm thinking about dropping my double energy sigils and replacing them with agility... and replacing travelers rune with speed... 66% movement speed with swiftness? Whaaat...

Air and Blood definitely became more reliable with this patch as well. Since you'll be slow OOC with core guard, use a staff to give you swiftness before moving, then swap back to GS. Sigil of cleansing got buffed in PvE/WvW (3 conditions instead of 1 removed!).

Nothing else caught my eye - I was mainly focused on how movement speed runes/sigils changed.

Speed is probably going to get nerfed... it's pretty ridiculous.Defender is probably going to be nerfed... pretty insane on warriors with shield 5 and DH VoC, etc...New Sanctuary is meh... works only on certain heals. Doesn't work with litany damage healing.Torment is crazy on a mirage as they apply torment so easily.

I saw the change as well the change regarding the cleansing sigil... might change a bit my power rev (sao weak against condis). Any other thoughts regarding core guard and/or DH in wvw roaming? I have always used runes which were providing +25% mvt speed but now is it still the way to go? Or maybe a more dmg oriented set of runes with the risk of being kited?

Dat defender rune doe...time to ditch Durability.Trapper got unnerfed, might also be a fun rune to use again.

@"Blasino.3128" said:Speed is probably going to get nerfed... it's pretty ridiculous.Defender is probably going to be nerfed... pretty insane on warriors with shield 5 and DH VoC, etc...New Sanctuary is meh... works only on certain heals. Doesn't work with litany damage healing.

Yeah I saw defender and thought "hmm, finally a use for Shelter" lol.

I too am hoping Speed gets nerfed because I can already tell it's going to make certain classes crazy

@Bheowulf.4572 said:I saw the change as well the change regarding the cleansing sigil... might change a bit my power rev (sao weak against condis). Any other thoughts regarding core guard and/or DH in wvw roaming? I have always used runes which were providing +25% mvt speed but now is it still the way to go? Or maybe a more dmg oriented set of runes with the risk of being kited?

Running the risk of being kited is never a good thing. I suggest running Traveler or Speed in WvW. The only way I would suggest you run something else is if you can afford the 25 percent movement speed utility food

Edit: Centaur Rune may work for core

Which utility food are you referring to? Thx

@"Bheowulf.4572" said:Which utility food are you referring to? Thx

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Writ_of_Masterful_Speed

@Turkeyspit.3965 said:

@alchemist.6851 said:

@Turkeyspit.3965 said:

@"mrauls.6519" said:That will be amazing for power Guard most likely. Can't wait to see what happens. In case you missed it:

http://dulfy.net/2018/11/06/gw2-introducing-rune-sigil-salvage/

thank you! this is very informative.. i can’t help but notice shield 5 heal skill doesn’t grant retaliation but instead sword 1 does with radiance trait

Speed + Retreat is basically perma superspeed in sPvP. Speed runes are going to get nerfed 100% though, so really there wasn't anything in this patch that had any lasting change to DH.

Rune of Torment is currently bugged and heals every time you apply any condition. DH has access to a ton of vulnerability so you can make some gimmick builds using this rune atm