Demonoid.6301

This is in regards to Virtuoso using Guardian Rune. There's a 2 second ICD (not that it matters given aegis isn't spammed as much as you think) on that rune so it isn't doing much even if you had permanent aegis. It isn't even an AoE burn. The rune is losing you around 300 condition/power damage other runes could give so you sit at 1,200 condition damage. The stat tradeoff is a bit of healing power which doesn't help Chaos Mesmer hardly at all compared to Inspiration Mesmer. The toughness is nice I guess, but given how little virtuoso takes direct hits in succession then I would say it has poor value. For what, a burn? You will apply a burn tick of around 400 whole damage if you successfully trigger the condition to gain the application. Given the rune is 1 whole second of burning it can be seen to not only pair poorly with condition duration bonuses but also play a poor role in covering other conditions. Then you realize you have no movement speed increase at all just to apply a single condition that struggles to do as much damage as a weakened auto attack on a single target. Sorry, but you should be more worried about how often Virtuoso will be bypassing blocks and reflects after this patch.