Sahne.6950 Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 (edited) These are the only runes that ever see play. Maybe your occasional Rune of the Eagle at some point... but thats about it. I think its time to buff some of the others to get a bit of diversity. There is runes that make no sense whatsoever... looking at you Exuberance! The next "Big Patch" is mayb a good time to think about amulett and rune diversity to spice pvp up a bit. Edited June 21, 2022 by Sahne.6950 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crab Fear.8623 Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 (edited) 1 minute ago, Sahne.6950 said: are there other runes? 90% of builds use one of these runes, with your occasional Fighter rune and maybe Lynx if someone is missing swiftness.... but thats it. I think its time to buff some of the others to get a bit of diversity. There is runes that make no sense whatsoever... looking at you Exuberance! I imagine that the devs theorycraft potential problems when they make the runes, but mostly everyone wants to run the highest dps amulet with some vitality and a little everything else. i play zerk/scholar...lmao Edited June 21, 2022 by Crab Fear.8623 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sahne.6950 Posted June 21, 2022 Author Share Posted June 21, 2022 2 minutes ago, Crab Fear.8623 said: I imagine that the devs theorycraft potential problems when they make the runes, but mostly everyone wants to run the highest dps amulet with some vitality and a little everything else. i play zerk/scholar...lmao yeah scholar / Eagle might see play when someone tries to go for max dps... but even that is rare nowadays. almost all powerbuilds use Berserker/Divinity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Multicolorhipster.9751 Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 Careful. Depending on who thinks about it, looking at runes might mean seeing a few more getting deleted outright. For real though I agree. Some of them feel very dated for today's pvp and could use some updates. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuma.1503 Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 The first one that comes to mind is Radiance on Heal Tempest. A few of them see niche use on Offmeta builds. Ice on Condi Rev Svanir on Elementalist (chill immune build) Herald on Prot Holo Balthazar or Forge on burning builds Flock on off meta supports (The non-shout variety) If some of these builds got some love we'd see rune diversity increase as well. We definitely need more rune options in PvP though. More amulets as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downstate.4697 Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 Anet dont like runes and sigils that make or break builds. Trapper rune existing for as long as it did was surprising Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JunkJunk.8971 Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 Orr is great for Condi buids Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahkeus.8243 Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 People will always pick the strongest rune and they can't all be strong. There's a limit to how many are meta, which is why you see certain ones on most builds, but the other options aren't far behind. It's pretty much always been this way in the best of times or with a shorter list of runes in the worst of times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anjo.6143 Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 I play power valk and condi scavenger very often Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shao.7236 Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 Evasion, Aristocracy, Melandru, Adventurer are sometimes used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rider.6024 Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 baelfire isnt bad but no meta builds call for it really, I am a big fan of flame legion w destroyer amy on my eles and guards, again not meta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newholiday.8103 Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 I still use rune of speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulkas.2576 Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 I like speed on any rev spec cause we have almost 100% swiftness uptime. im tempted to try adventurer with vindicator for the endurance boost. I actually ran exuberance with valk amulet for a little while! It gave me slightly more crit or power than divinity did, I don’t recall which stat it boosts. but most of the time I run divinity. I wish there was a more power specific rune with 10% health bonus. I think the rest are all condi/healing runes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoftFootpaws.9134 Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 (edited) Runes are actually pretty good, its sigils that are bad. For any given build you have maybe 2-3 sigil options, and in most builds at least one slot will always be dedicated to some type of cleanse. PvP build options are overall quite bad compared to WvW (though I wish I had Demolisher stats there..). It gives the illusion of creating balance by restricting powercreep, but all it really does is hurt diversity and turn entire matches into predictable copypasta, which makes balance worse rather than better since what works best-in-slot will almost always come out on top. True balance is when you have enough noise to make adaptability the determining skill factor. Edited June 22, 2022 by Hannelore.8153 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulkas.2576 Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 Yeah, runes seem decent, for sigils I haven’t used anything other than cleansing/purging/energy/intelligence/exposure and so far in this meta it’s only been cleansing/energy or purging/energy on both weapon sets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalmTheStorm.2364 Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 Rune of Vampirism is underrated. Arguably better than Divinity for something like warrior or WB when you don't need the condi/expertise/concentration, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadnir.5038 Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 Did people stop using runes of the pack? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guirssane.7082 Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 You forgot Trapper... AH NOT ANYMORE KEKW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shion.2084 Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 Out of interest.... is there a reason rune of Battle isn't considered.... I run it and exposure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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