Guild Wars 2

Feel free to post what you would like to be seen done with the rune revamp. Here is one example I made my self.

If any set gives that much boon duration, it’s time to just remove runes. :S

There’s actually some pretty clear patterns to how they are rearranging the former (2) bonuses. You’re not going to see boon duration on every step – that’s just a given. On the set they decide will be the go-to Rune for boon durration you will almost certainly see~

(1) 25 of a stat
(2) +5% boon duration.
(3) 50 of a stat
(4) +10% boon duration and another benefit.
(5) 100 of a stat
(6) +15% boon duration and another benefit.

I hope they do not forget about Superior Rune of the Sunless. Tequila sunrise is crying over his horrible rune.

I believe they’ll have a “boon duration” set, although I doubt they’ll have something that gives +45% general boon duration. That could easily invalidate boon-specific runes like runes of Dwayna or runes of strength. Very lackluster to get +45% might duration when you can get +45% general boon duration.

I also don’t feel they’ll give it to the runes of the water, but we’ll have to see. I’m a little worried at what they might do to rune of the water as I have an engineer build that is really reliant on the current functionality.

A general boon duration rune set would probably be in the realm of a 25-30% bonus instead of a 45% bonus, unless perhaps the boon duration runes had absolutely no secondary benefits aside from boon duration (and maybe some stats or something).

We’ve seen the new Rune of Strength (+45% might duration) and with the glimpse of the Rune of the Monk we know that general boon duration runs as I described above at least for the (2) and (4) set bonuses. The (6) could be 20% but it’s far more likely that under the new paradigm 30% boon duration for a full set is where its at (and no amount of mixing and matching will come close).

dietzero.3514:

I hope they do not forget about Superior Rune of the Sunless. Tequila sunrise is crying over his horrible rune.

I’m really really hoping that those runes will do something like:

1. +25 Power
2. -5% damage taken from world bosses or dungeon bosses.
3. +50 Power
4. When downed during a world boss encounter, gain +20% healing received for 5 seconds.
5. +100 Power
6. +5% damage done during world boss encounters and against dungeon bosses.

Basically, a boss-event focused runeset.

I only hope they won’t remove the 25% movement speed from Traveler and Speed. Reason I’m worried is that for instance Monk seemed to have their original 6th effect replaced by something else entirely (10% Heal Effectiveness instead of AoE Aegis on Elite use).